Alan Moore interviewed on Get Fresh

[MegaCrabclaws]

Gaz Top - what a cocksucker.

[TheEmptySki]

Kids should read Watchmen. Let them know that the world isn't full of rainbows and happy. Maybe, they won't elect idiotic politicians and shill for banks...

[mackishstyle]

@TheEmptySki

I tried to read the watchmen, I couldn't understand a word and put it down then moved on.

[123fk]

6 pple are fuckers

[SomeBoredGuy94]

alan moore has a rockstar swagger to him in this interview

[CorvidBlight]

Swamp thing holding a rotting skeleton on a saturday morning kids show? The 80's had SOME things going for it.Now kids, go out and buy Watchmen.

[LDP060681]

@CorvidBlight the 80s were the best from start to finish.

[theif26]

ahh the mullet the great disaster of the 80's

[000spacecadet]

excellent stuff...been looking for whole episodes recordings online,pretty sure it was get fresh that my mate was on when he was interviewed with his ferrets,if anyone recalls that? and if someone out there has the recording would be sweet to see it.

[Ex0dus111]

wow the interviewer had no idea about comic books.

[Vaultboy101]

Battle of the ludicrous hairstyles. It must be annoying having to constantly brush the hair from your eyes.

[patrickbad]

I once had a mullet and it was fantastic looking. In the 80's we rocked and had the best time. Unlike today where everything is dark and cold, then dark and cold was in fantasy and comics, now eerily it is all too real.

[crackbinge]

There is some fancy equipment in the background. I wonder if they're PCs or Macs?

[jenni4ash]

The interviewer has a wig made of a skunk!

[hanshotfirst1138]

God, he's young here isn't he?

[boxant]

that mullet..... it .... is ... amazing...

[wikiporno]

That guy has the most hardcore mullet in human history.

[TheOriginalBoman]

don't Mr Moore look like Billy Connelly?

[absinthezombies]

Haha, very true

[markvtos]

Watchmen? Pfffft. That'll never take off....

[PDoodly044]

this man is like the best

[subfighter316]

hmmm...I've heard of this Watchmen before. I wonder if it's any good......

[hitmanlover]

oh its excllent probly the best book alan moore wrote. have you seen the movie watchmen ? the book is way better ten the film the film was good but the book beats it by alot

[subfighter316]

I was joking around. I've read Watchmen plenty of times.

[edcerc]

i might like the league better

[hitmanlover]

oh yea you agree with you

the new one comes out soon on april 29 vol 3 Century

[beerasaurus]

SUPER MULLET

[ConcorX]

it looks like it could eat somebody

[VariedInterest]

Yet he's a vegetarian...

[Kitsua]

Wow. Get Fresh - that takes me back.

Even more enjoyably, it's a surprisingly good interview.

Alan Moore is a Genius.

[variousthings]

Top 10's artist posted one of Alan Moore's scripts from that series online a while ago (don't know where it can be found now, though). Judging by the brief shot of a script in this clip, it's good to know his text layout hasn't changed much in the intervening years. :-)

[Chodeinthewhole]

HOW!

[LordMoriya]

LOL.

"THAT Watchmen book..."

[comicbookfanboy]

The Mulltet! The god awful mullet. Just like the one I had when I was 13.

[Steveaux]

I love the fact that the history hadn't set in yet and they're just so "oh matter of fact" about mentioning the release of one of the most groundbreaking series of all time.

[mbaileyyyy]

alan moore is smart with an insightful immagination but he's such a fuckin weirdo.

[RN22689]

Only adds to his being awesome

[whiteheartmovies]

mbaileyyyy - Name ONE famous person (alive or dead) that is insightful and imaginative but NOT #a fuckin weirdo# . . . (id say #peculiar# or #intriguing#).

Being creative and thinking differently comes with the weirdo package. Look at all the great creators of original music, art, literature, philosophy and inventions that kind of wisdom doesnt come from the minds of #normal# folk.

[retread01]

That's not a mullet. That's a way of life, like Buddhism and/or Nazism.

[Aitrus233]

Is it just me, or does Alan Moore seem a bit more chipper in this vid than he does today?

[Taors]

The psychedelics probably really mellowed him out.

[KingDukas]

Back in the day when Mullets were still legal...

[onetthome]

No, I do not agree with the court's decision, failing to take reasonable action to prevent a serious crime, like the murder of a child, should be considered aiding and abetting. Especially if it is your daughter, whom you have a legal responsibility to protect. It was well within the father's ability to restrain his wife, to protect his daughter. Anything less should be considered aiding and abetting manslaughter.

[nowareroom]

the hair! both of them.

[sevenoneeyedmidget]

Now thats a mullet

[Long23]

Cheer up - DC published the original "Watchmen", so don't sulk at them, especially as they went 20 years without turning it into a "bullshit movie" (you never know, it might be allright).

And actually, I still can't differentiate comic books from superheroes - are the books the ones without capes and masks?

[Dshotinthefacepirate]

That was kinda embarrassing to watch... the interviewer was sooo the kinda p.c.-kids-show-presenter and he's interviewing Alan Moore. Ha ha! thanks for uploading.

[davet247]

Did Gaz top just tell all the little kids of the 80's to go out and read Watchmen??!! I can just imagine the next day in the playground, kids talking about Rorschach splitting dogs heads open and silk specter shagging night owl!

[Superfreaxx]

@davet247

Yeah and The Comedian shooting a pregnant woman dead, knowing that the unborn baby is his own child.

[Sedalb]

Mr. Moore has a bitchin' beard. I LOVE IT!

[lavverlylad]

This is from UK Saturday morning kids' show 'Get Fresh - it took place inside a spaceship that "landed" in a different part of the country every week. As well as Gaz, here, Gilbert - a runny-nosed punk alien puppet was the other host. It was on about 1986-87.

[Spartan54232]

hes the opisite of david hayter

[Quidam]

Interesting....

[atombat]

I wish Gilbert would've interviewed him instead. Green snot monster verses Green swamp monster.

[goldenryano]

the inviewer's mullet is the shit. alan moore is pretty crazy looking too like rick rubin or karl marxs.

[TheLedge84]

Hmmnn...the producers were thinking, ooh lets have a comic guy on the show, the kiddies will love that. Moore writes intelligent comics...for adults. I hope they dont fuck up the Watchmen film, seriously. Official trailer on line 17.07.08, be in on the joke.

[loveupskirts]

goddamn GAZtop I HATE THAT MOTHERF*CKER, MAN I REALLY HATE THAT BITCH. THERE IS SOME FOOTAGE ON YOUTUBE, ILOOKED HIM UP. HE IS A TRUE BITCH PUNK PRISON BITGCH. alan moore is the king however.

[GJOnSpeed]

Thank you

[Nathannate4]

showdown of the hairdos!

[zappedchicken]

EPIC MULLET

[Rosalinde70]

Gaz was soooo cute. I met him on Werchter '85, he kissed my cheeks and i haven't washed them since :-)

[burlearth]

your arse cheeks.

[sexyme93]

holy fuck does the interviewer have fucked up hair

[schwoogie78]

that my friend is THE MULLET.....buisness up front party in the back

[fluorophoric]

You fail it Sexyme93.

[enterkramer]

Ha! You can tell that Alan Moore was thinking.. "Why am I on this thing?!" I was pretty amazed at how genial he was with the Get Fresh guy. I don't think I would be able to put up with pandering to his questions in such a genuinely nice manner. Al, whatta guy!

[diamondback2099]

you have to remember that this show was a saterday morning kids show and going into the deeper meanings of Alan Moore's work would have been wasted perhaps at least some people would have gone out and read the books after seeing this

[emptyhighways]

just a note, i'm surprised at how many negative comments that have nothing to do with alan moore's subject-matter there are here. Ppl are arguing about hair??? LOL!

[lucasaccardo]

The interviewers is a dumbass, but you've got to respect that mullet.

[sonicwingnut]

That is an awesome mullet.

[Pragjag]

Excellent - Moore gives intelligent aswers to ignorant questions and does the interviewers job for him.

[FraterO]

Yeh right! theyr encouraging the kids to buy a real rude & violent comic lol brill

[quintaldo]

Moore writes like an occultist, that's all.

And you're born one, so the fact that he turned to occultism in the 1990's doesnt change a thing.

Like swamp thing is the perfect shaman. you dont invent this kind of stuff, you carry it in your fiber.

[quintaldo]

i had long hair like that, and i used to put it back into place all the time too. Aint that faggy posing and self-consciousness.

[theannoyingbird]

I also hate how Gaz Top says: "Coloured in." When most colourists nowadays take great leaps at adding realistic shade.

[scottkicksyou]

What is this "Watchmen" thing? Sounds...

[uu119816]

i wonder if "watchmen" will do ok?!

[Ashloomis]

I think Alan Moore's take on Swamp Thing was much less realistic and much more silly. It's sort of conceivable for someone to become a plant like mutant, but Alan's stuff was way out there. But by the same token, Alan's ideas were much more interesting and imaginative and he told better stories with them than he could have with the Wein version of Swamp Thing.

[fatorson1]

I agree.but Moore has a tendency to take established characters and turn them 360 degrees,his Batman was as influential as Frank Millars in my opinion,but I wish he would once more give us some HUGE EPIC on going saga in the vain of WATCHMAN,HALO JONES orV,his ABC stuff is quality but we need the old Moore story telling back again.

[Ashloomis]

He didn't change established characters, he took them to their logical conclusions. A good example is "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" Superman still acted like Superman, and Brainiac still acted like Brainiac but since Moore was allowed to give the story a final ending he took the story where it would probably go in real life based on the character's personalities. It was the same with Watchmen, but this time with superhero archetypes.

[fatorson1]

Fair point,but he did COMPLETELY change both MIRACLE MAN and most of all SWAMP THING

[bodnotbod]

Heh! Gaz Top meets a man that's sitting there thinking "I conjured a demon last night."

[theannoyingbird]

yeah, But it was in the 1990s that he became an occultist.

[Mrster]

Well... It can't be filmed in 1987, since Watchmen hadn't come out yet? :)

[theannoyingbird]

Watchmen was published in 1986.

[skinwalkerxxx]

alan moore was really much less scary on this vid than he is now. By then he still could have been a chick magnet. Now he looks like the God of Trees.

[fatorson1]

ALAN MOORE IS GOD!!! not just the greatest comic book writer to ever put pen to paper,but the best storyteller of any genre,and by GOD!!! I got goose bumps when that Mulleted tosser!! said"and you're next thing coming out is WATCHMAN"this "thing" along with Frank Miller was to change the way we all looked at comics i.e they aint just for kids.Moore and Miller still dazzles us all theses years on.

[sksmithy00]

FINALLY, someone with sense! I completely agree.

[areptilebelow]

Agree all up and down and all over the place.  A couple more Alan Moores and comics will start being taught in college classrooms, like they should be.

[graelignites]

Too late, The Ultimates already is part of the curriculum in English 120 at North Dakota State University, and I'm sure many others.

[areptilebelow]

I know it's taught in some places... I mean, Art Spiegelman taught a class at my university last year. But it ought to be more widespread.

[romxxii]

wow, the Ultimates. You think they'd have at least chosen anything by Alan Moore or Denny O'Neil, or Grant Morrison.

[imaasslivewithit]

i know my school has a "exploring the graphic novel class for grades 11-12, a good sign if you ask me.

[Mrster]

Check that interviewer's hair!

Alan Moore rocks!

[ImMeH]

haha yor right, tht guys livin in th wrong decade. an i thort moor lookd out of place lol

[666Nukes]

The Watchmen's THE shit! Best story. I think Grant Morrisson portrayed Flex Mentallo after Alan Moore in his Doom Patrol's Down Paradise Way book.

[joshsowords]

Wasn't Flex Mentallo suppose be to Charles Atlas?

[oggendoggen2]

If Alan Moore and Alex Ross got together, they would create the most awesome graphic novel of all time.

[s0uperp00p]

Well I don't know if they ever met, but "Supreme" had skethes by Alex Ross.

[grev022]

why oh why oh why wasn't he interviewed by gilbert the alien on this show? doh

[Masakione]

ACtually he looks pretty normal. without all that hair:"D

[Masakione]

Alan Moore looks like a freak:D But his comics are genious, he changed the word "comic" forever.

[Ashloomis]

He looks more like a hippy to me.

[Aristagoras]

Look at that hair. Not that of the esteemed Alan Moore, but the host. It terrifies me.

[digipirate]

Watchmen was sooooooooooo good.

[cdowg187]

I still say, Watchmen in my opinion is the greatest graphic novel of all time.

[digipirate]

I wish Steve McNiven would do over the art though, that would be cool to see. no?

[DarkPascual]

AMEN...Alan Moore is pure genius. I´m a big fan of manga style, but Moore and guys like Gaiman and Miller are awesome...I really hope that don´t make the Watchmen movie, they only will ruin it...

[WolfSnake77]

It would seem that andykarate never read "Watchmen", "Sin City", "Road to Perdition", or even "A History of Violence". How in the world is "A History of Violence" a kids comic ?

[andykarate]

Comics are for KIDS !

GROW UP !!

[PaulJBrown]

When will you have something intelligent to say?

[waffleypie]

Yeah, I'm sure a child would enjoy the murder and attempted rape scenes in Watchmen. Not all comics are for kids. Get your facts straight matey.

[DarkPascual]

Of course, because kids sure will understand the Watchmen or Evangelion plot...Since a long time, comics and manga stop being for kids...

[quintaldo]

morons think they will look wise and mature if they act like the stereotype.

wise people reckognize wisdom when they see it, and guess what? it is everywhere.

Moore is an author. He could be playwright, novelist, anything. He's as deep as any author. That's what draws mature people to his comics.

[xxayfa88xx]

WOW,Alan Moore before he was disenfranchised with media,comics and life!

[bonrocker]

Who doesn't like a crazy anarchist warlock who writes comics?

[comichero]

Who is this sad Zero Prick interviewing Moore? What a dickhole..

I thought Moore would be a douchebag too - in love with his own hype: admittedly this is a good interview, but Any time the guy sells his stuff to be filmed, he then says they're shit, and he doesn't agree with any of the changes, or "hollywood Scene' - whatta fucking hypocrite. He sells out, and then spits on those who buy his product. And FYI: Watchmen WASN'T that good..

[infest8]

Moore doesn't own the stories that he writes. The rights reside with DC or whoever the publisher happens to be. They make the decision to make the movies, they don't need Moore's permission or input.

[comichero]

Actually, that ISN'T correct. But thanks for playing..

[infest8]

Oh? What's not strictly true?

[TheKeyOfC]

Stop MAKING an ass of yourself, comichero.

[chromo48]

Might be the case with just a DC or Marvel title, but not always the case with Vertigo (Publisher of V) or Darkhorse. I know Vertigo's part of DC, but they do offer creator rights to own at times. I don't know what the particulars were with V.

[infest8]

I'm pretty sure that with "V . . ." he was under a work for hire agreement. I know that with "Watchmen" Moore had a clause in the contract stating the rights would revert to him once it was no longer in print, but it's never gone out of print.

[chromo48]

Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure Moore got more than a page rate for "V", but probably gave up rights to the title after 'selling' it to DC. It's just hard to understand giving up the rights to your own book. Of course, these were the days before the big, creator friendly indy publishers arrived like Image and Darkhorse.

[infest8]

Exactly, but also because historically this is how the process goes.

[petersardines]

V was originally written for a British comic called Warrior which folded before the story finished. DC comics bought the rights and hired Moore and Lloyd to finish the story, but the terms of the contract were pretty shitty. All the rights to use the characters went to DC

[chromo48]

How is that selling out? Please explain.

[wookie72]

Fine. Name a better comic than Watchmen. (personally, I prefer From Hell, but name something by another writer that was better)

[bogux]

Frank Miller's Ronin was pretty good IMO

[wookie72]

Ronin was a major leap for production values and for graphics (at least for American comics; he got a lot from European comic artists like Moebius) but I don't think the story was nearly as involved or as complex as Watchmen.

[petersardines]

You forgot to mention refusing all the royalties. Oh and he hasn't had any say in these movies being made

[Paloogin]

Now, as someone who only knows of Alan Moore from the blurbs on the back of comics and his views regarding his books being made into films, this interview is a very pleasant surprise. I thought he'd be a real arsehole, but it turns out he's pretty nice. Nice vid.

[NemFX]

Anyone notice the Superman symbol on his tie?

[ChaosAndAnarchy]

thats a funny juxtaposition of alan moore's wild hair and beard and he's wearing a suit.

[doubleaamazin]

Alan is a fucking madman!!

[diablomonkeyboy]

Gaz Top is the man. mullet love brigade!

[misfitsfiend17]

That interviewer has a KICK ASS MULLET. Bahahaha

[donovanfrost]

Amazing!

[franzy878]

"So this new Watchmen thing, what's that all about?"

ROFLMAO

[Dibrini]

Man, I thought of this guy as the type who would never do a televison interview, every picture of him is the same one! Thanks for posting this.

[Vortex42]

A little bit of history! Thanks for that.

[Diamonddavej]

Oh my Glycon, look at all the hair!

[benjaminveal]

Alan Moore IS Swamp Thing!

[quintaldo]

exactly!

my thought!

[23JM23]

Alan Moore's hair & beard - 1

Gaz Top's mullet - 0

Moore goes through to the next round.

[Hyperkid37]

Oh man! That's the first time I've ever heard Alan Moore's vocie. Thank you for posting it.

[ChaosAndAnarchy]

haha gotta love the mullet and the BLEEP BLOOPEY hokey space computer sounds in the background.

[Woodman1977]

Moore looks like John Thompson's rubbish American scientist character from The Fast Show. Whereas 'Gaz Top' just looks like a c*ck!

[sabinotube]

Yes, he looks gay just like Miracleman . And yeah, the interviewer seems stupid.

[ChaosAndAnarchy]

holy fuck look at that mullet!

[AmorphousTom]

This is beautifully charming. One wonderful thing is how Gaz Top's journalistic approach to comics in general and Alan Moore in particular is somehow so much less patronising than almost all modern mainstream media's. Comics not being 'not for kids anymore' and instead being 'for bloody sophisticated kids' seems much more enlightened, somehow.

[popeugenfastpunk]

hairy chap... his gestures remind me of jack sparrow lol

great writer!

[Xicano82]

Alan Moore should let his hair grow out.

[litrium87]

What's gay about the way he pulls his hair back? Is there a "straight" or "manly" way of pulling hair back? Cause if so, let me know.

[quintaldo]

dont pull it back all the time, it shows over-self-consciousness. If you're self conscious, why have woodsmen hair?

lol yeah jack sparrow, only johnny depp played it gayly on purpose.

[GeorgePedrosa]

The interviewer is so stupid I can't even believe.

[DoidimaisBrasil]

It cuts in the middle!

[DarkAlewhiskers]

Great Vid.

This is history...1987 when all things changed.

Mullet head has no idea he's talking to our present day Shakespeare.

Alan Moore is genius... plain and simple.

[Malikahala]

Man he looks kind of gay when he brushes his hair back

[stalin9]

Lol @ Gareth Jones hair. I loved this show. I seem to remember they showed the cartoon Centurians on it.

[pressgang]

Ahh Gaz Top Gareth Jones so doesn`t like being called that anymore, As we found out when we spotted him in london and followed him around for about 20 minutes before he hailed a cab and shot off, As we fell about in a fit of laughter, Well he deserves it as he is knobbing violet Berlin

[josswhedon692]

hes so charismatic

[HashToker]

wow, i really wanted to pay attention but that guys mullet is just too shocking.... Thanks (whoever) for making this available :)

[SHickson06]

Nobody can call themselves a true comic fan if they haven't read "Watchmen".

[morelly]

lol im glad im not called a comic fan. but ive read watchmen. no big deal

[IAMNOTHUMAN]

What is this "Watchmen" thing? Something about clock makers?

[MisterSix]

No, it's about gay dogging.

[8caulfield]

ALSKJALSKAJLSAJLSAKJ XD

yeah man, yeah...

[megamonsta]

OMG i forgot all about that mullet

[crgn]

How brillianly cyclical the interweb is! That's my video! Wher are the bits with Gilbert, though, Moore was just a sideshow.

[MisterSix]

The other bits with Gilbert (the skits and an interview with Captain Sensible) can be seen by looking at my other videos.