Whether you think he's the greatest of all-time or feel he's the most overrated single writer in the history of comics. The man wrote very little. How did he keep himself financially afloat with such a small catalogue of books?
Did he make money off the Watchmen movie?
>inb4 Moore cucks give opinions of him and insults at me without answering the actual question posed.
He's written exceptionally more than most authors ever do, what are you talkong about
Enough to live comfortably for 40+ years?
He retired 5 years ago with LoEG. And made/published a book, a series and writing course.
Welfare
he comes from humble beginnings and probably values other things in life than amassing stuff or posh holidays
Well 1. He's actually written a shit-ton of material over the years. That's just wrong
2. While there's all sorts of controversy around him losing the rights to Watchmen he does (or at least did) still get royalties from sales of the graphic novel. Keep in mind Watchmen's one of the highest selling graphic novels in the history of the medium.
3. He still lives in Northampton which I assume isn't as expensive as somewhere like London
4. He famously refuses to take any money from film adaptations of his work, gifting his percentage of the royalties to whoever his co-collaborators were. So no, no money off the shitty Watchmen movie, or V for Vendetta, or League of Extraordinary Gentleman
i believe he took the check for the From Hell movie, though he didn't like the end result
You might be right, his whole "I'm not even going to accept money from these movies," thing only started with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I do know he didn't see From Hell though.
lol
well you know affable al moore could hate it without seeing it
>small catalogue of books
Black person how much do you think this man has written in his lifetime?
>The man wrote very little.
This is from Wikipedia so it's probably really innacurate and missing a ton of shit but even if so, he seems pretty prolific to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore_bibliography
He got paid EXTREMELY well in the 90's.
He recently had some online writing class series that he was probably paid a good chunk of money for.
How do you cross the street without dying?
He's done so much things for so many publishers since the 80s that he probably makes enough cash to live comfortably for the remaining of his life. Maybe not stupidly rich, but to cover his bills and go around doing his crazy magic stuff.
He has written an enormous amount. He makes money on his writing. It is enough to live comfortably for 40+ years. And he refuses payment for adaptations.
>Rob Liefeld was paying Alan Moore $20,000 dollars every single week when he was working for Image. Who knows how much he pulling in altogether.
>he gets residuals off of Watchmen and his prior work
>they have cut him a check whenever they want to adapt his work into TV/film
>he just signed a big 5 book publishing deal with Bloomsbury
Dude is definitely pulling in some dough. Definitely enough to live his modest lifestyle
He was also teaching private writing courses for a while and they were expensive. But in terms of Watchmen royalties I read once he refuses to cash those checks out of principle.
he refuses checks from the movies but he probably still takes royalties from book sales
1963 also sold well and netted all the contributors a decent chunk of change
It's weird that no matter how much it's pointed out that he refuses the money for all film/tv adaptations, people still think he makes money from film/tv adaptations.
>not some serial villain
How the frick do they have "serial villains" when they have real life villains? What even would a "serial villain" in the Watchmen world look like?
Well they don't anymore. There were briefly real-life villains like Moloch in the 40s but they pretty much disappeared after the 40s and the heroes found themselves fighting actual drug dealers and mafia figures. It says so in the Under the Hood bits.
a "Republic serial villain", i.e. a movie villain
Action comics and some superhero comics happened In watchmen. The divergence between worlds happened a little later
How do we have villains in war movies and shows like Cobra Commander and Bennett (Commando) when we've got real life war criminals?
"Republic serials" were awful B movies.
Don't you dare shittalk Republic Serials. They gave us such classics as The Mysterious Doctor Satan, Deadwood Dick, and The Adventures of Captain Marvel.
He probably got his house for 50p through right-to-buy (he'll never stop hating Thatcher for the wrong reasons though). Once you remove rent/mortgage you can get by with very little money.
I very much doubt he bought a council house
In Voice of Fire he mentions living either in the same house or neighbourhood he grew up in, I don't remember
also, see
I don't live in a council house (or the UK myself) but I wouldn't mind living where I grew up forever, regardless of money, there's other luxuries I'm interested in
He gives out tossjobs under the bridge of the A45 for 15 quid a pop. A great deal if you can get it. For an extra tenner he'll explain the real meaning of Rorshach's character to you.
He still gets royalties from the comics he has written. Watchmen, Killing Joke and V For Vendetta still sell really well.
He lives modestly
He teaches writing courses
He also has written several books.
He apparently wrote that Deep One rape comic because of tax issues.
Even considering he was tricked by both DC and Fleetway he could probably live off from Swamp Thing, Watchmen and and VfV royalties forever, specially given that he apparently lives in either an inherited home or some cheap english brickhouse nightmare, his main expenses are lovecraftian porn and hashish
>some cheap english brickhouse nightmare
It's this.
You can see how tiny it is here.
but where did he dig his magic cave
He wasn't really tricked by DC. He knew what he signed it's just Watchmen kept selling and has never gone out of print. And it's not like DC artificially is in print either it's constantly on best seller lists to this day. Not that DC hasn't screwed people over in the past but the reality is no one expected Watchmen to become what it is. And since Watchmen contracts have changed to prevent it from happening again.
> it's just Watchmen kept selling and has never gone out of print
How fricking naive do you even have to be to believe this shit, Watchmen essentially quickstarted the tpb model. DC tricked him, no publisher had ever kept a comic in publication indefinitely up to that point, regardless of sales.
He makes royalties off of some of his other comics, he's written a few novels and he was running a magazine for a while. He's almost 70 now though and is mostly retired and spending time with his grandchildren. One of his daughters is a writer.
Is his daughter's work any good?