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Preview Alan Moore’s Fashion Beast!

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While comic-book leg­end Alan Moore was cre­at­ing hunky, nude and blue Dr. Man­hat­tan for Watch­men in the 1980s, he was also work­ing on a movie script about a queer cross-dresser. Engaged by punk pio­neer Mal­colm McLaren, famously the man­ager of The Sex Pis­tols and New York Dolls, Moore crafted the 1985 screen­play for Fash­ion Beast, a gender-bending take on Beauty and The Beast set in a dystopian future.
Sadly, it was never filmed.
Now, almost 30 years later, Fash­ion Beast has been dusted off and adapted by writer Antony John­son and artist Facundo Per­cio as a ten-issue comic-book lim­ited series from Avatar Press.
Says Moore of the adap­ta­tion:
“Since Mal­colm McLaren first sug­gested that I write a screen­play based on his notion of mar­ry­ing the strange and iso­lated life of Chris­t­ian Dior with the fable Beauty and the Beast, I’ve often won­dered what such an unlikely con­cept would have looked like had it been prop­erly realised. Now, albeit in a dif­fer­ent medium, I finally get to find out…
It’s an odd tale, in its sub­ject mat­ter and in the mode of its telling, and I like to think that Mal­colm would be very pleased to see another of his star­tling and incen­di­ary ideas brought so intrigu­ingly into existence.”

 

Above, check out a pre­view of Fash­ion Beast #1. In it, we meet pro­tag­o­nist Doll Seguin, a cross-dressing coat-check girl and night­club per­former who (not coin­ci­den­tally) dances to McLaren’s trib­ute to New York’s drag-ball scene, “Deep in Vogue.”
And check out McLaren’s video bellllllow.


The Mindscape of Alan Moore

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Comic book leg­end Alan Moore has trans­formed the Amer­i­can comic book indus­try. He has writ­ten sto­ries for Bat­man and Super­man and many of his works have been trans­formed into Hol­ly­wood movies. He lives in Northamp­ton, Eng­land where he grew up.

He has pro­duced many crit­i­cally acclaimed and pop­u­lar comic book series, includ­ing Watch­men, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. In a way he is the man behind the Guy Fawkes mask as it became pop­u­lar thanks to David Lloyd’s illu­tra­tion for the V for Vendetta comic book. His book ‘Lost girls’ explores the sex­ual fan­tasies of three fig­ures from chil­dren lit­er­a­ture, Alice from Alice’s Adven­ture in Won­der­land, Dorothy from the Wiz­ard of Oz and Wendy from Peter Pan.

You can read here: “BEHIND THE PAINTED SMILE” An Essay by Alan Moore on the cre­ation of “V for Vendetta”

He has been drag into the main­stream by the suc­cess­ful movie adap­ta­tions that have been made of his work. Though accord­ing to Mr. Moore he has dis­tance him­self as much as pos­si­ble from those films because they have got absolutely notht­ing to do with his books even though he has never seen any of these movies.

“Next to Philip K Dick, Alan Moore may just be Hollywood’s favourite ideas man.”   That is accord­ing to an arti­cle in The Gur­dian regard­ing a series of “occult, noir flecked” short films titled Show Pieces that Alan Moore is work­ing on with direc­tor Mitch Jenk­ins.

The first install­ment, enti­tled Act of Faith was recently shot in Lon­don. The sec­ond piece, Jimmy’s End, will be filmed in Northamp­ton later this summer.

So, while we wait for all the install­ments of Show Pieces to come out, we can watch the fol­low­ing doc­u­men­tary about Alan Moore: