阿兰·摩尔

阿兰·摩尔（英语：Alan Moore，1953年11月18日—），英国漫画作家、小说家、短篇小说作家、电影剧本作家、音乐家、漫画家。出生于英格兰中部的北安普顿郡，他在漫画界的作品令其闻名遐迩，包括广受好评的图画小说《守护者》、《V怪客》和《来自地狱》（From Hell）。凭借《守护者》这部图形小说获得雨果奖。

他还写过小说《烈焰之声》（Voice of the Fire），在配乐散文诗表演《The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels》中上演独角戏和诗朗诵。该配乐散文诗表演曾出过CD专辑。

作为一名漫画作家，摩尔是首批将文学艺术和形式主义感情，以及大胆复杂的题材和成人主题应用到主流媒体中的作家之一。

他的作品深受很多人的影响，包括威廉·巴勒斯（William Seward Burroughs，美国“嬉皮”文学大师，“垮掉的一代”的旗手之一）、托马斯·品钦（Thomas Pynchon，美国60年代后现代派文学中以“黑色幽默”为艺术特点的著名作家）、罗伯特·安东·威尔逊（Robert Anton Wilson，美国小说家，未来学研究家）、伊安·辛克莱（Iain Sinclair，英国作家，电影制片人）、“新浪潮”科幻小说家迈克尔·穆尔考克（Michael Moorcock）和恐怖小说作家克里夫·巴克（Clive Barker）。而在漫画领域所受的影响包括威尔·艾斯纳（Will Eisner，美国最伟大的漫画家之一，以他的名字命名的漫画奖被誉为漫画界的奥斯卡奖）、哈维·柯兹曼（Harvey Kurtzman，美国著名杂志《Mad》的创始人。）、杰克·科比（Jack Kirby，美国漫画界的宗师级主笔）和布莱恩·塔尔伯特（Bryan Talbot，英国著名漫画家、作家）。

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comics including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? and From Hell. He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language. Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed.

Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as 2000 AD and Warrior. He was subsequently picked up by DC Comics as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America", where he worked on major characters such as Batman (Batman: The Killing Joke) and Superman ("Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"), substantially developed the character Swamp Thing, and penned original titles such as Watchmen. During that decade, Moore helped to bring about greater social respectability for comics in the United States and United Kingdom. He prefers the term "comic" to "graphic novel". In the late 1980s and early 1990s he left the comic industry mainstream and went independent for a while, working on experimental work such as the epic From Hell and the prose novel Voice of the Fire. He subsequently returned to the mainstream later in the 1990s, working for Image Comics, before developing America's Best Comics, an imprint through which he published works such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the occult-based Promethea. In 2016, he published Jerusalem: a 1,266-page experimental novel set in his hometown of Northampton, UK.

Moore is an occultist, ceremonial magician, and anarchist, and has featured such themes in works including Promethea, From Hell and V for Vendetta, as well as performing avant-garde spoken-word occult "workings" with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

Despite his objections, Moore's works have provided the basis for several Hollywood films, including From Hell (2001), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), V for Vendetta (2005) and Watchmen (2009). Moore has also been referenced in popular culture and has been recognised as an influence on a variety of literary and television figures including Neil Gaiman and Damon Lindelof. He has lived a significant portion of his life in Northampton, England, and he has said in various interviews that his stories draw heavily from his experiences living there.