Gracias por borrar esa horrible imagen de mi mente

Alan Moore, 1986:

*** 27 años después***

Grant Morrison, 2013:

Vivito y co(u)leando :3

...This vision. La voie... la Vérité... La vie.

Hoy me siento tan tan tan feliz de haber llegado a un final sabiendo que nunca nunca comprometí mis ideales ni mis valores por chuparle el culo a personas que uno sabe que no valen nada, que son inmorales y que no tienen el menor sentido de sensibilidad humana.
Siento que lo logré. Soy un vikingo! Llegué al final Alan! No me comprometí y soy feliz, no me siento mal, no me siento culpable, no le hice daño a nadie y lo tengo todo! Tengo nuevos amigos que me quieren por lo que soy y a los que puedo respetar. Personas que me sonríen de verdad y a las que le tengo confianza! Si quería un título es éste, el de respetar a las personas por lo que son y estar en un ambiente bello. El de no tener que serrucharle el piso a nadie por ego, el de hacer valer a las personas por lo que son y no por cochinadas superficiales.

Gracias Alan, soy feliz, soy libre! No estoy encadenado a la codicia ni a un ambiente de odio que es un pequeño cancer en un país hermoso. :D No lo hubiera hecho de no haber sido por usted T___T Gracias donde sea que esté. Ojalá que su vida sea increiblemente hermosa. Gracias por todo.

Yo sé que esto no es tumblr pero cui bono

Donde duerme el horror y Swamp thing Annual #55

 Editado el ocho de junio:
Meh. Ya ví Donde duerme el horror y me arrepiento de haberla mencionado en este post . Para mí es una estafa y creo que la culpa la tiene Oscar Castillo. Fui con tres amigos a burlarnos por hora y media y a la hora cumplida los tres ya nos queríamos ir. Da vergüenza y tristeza tener una pelicula nacional tan mala, es ofensivo. Creo que con una edición de verdad la pelicula hubiera sido un corto pesimo de media hora.

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Esta pagina me cambió un poco la forma de pensar en la vida y me costó un monton volver a encontrarla.
En la historia Swamp Thing (el protagonista) está en el infierno y el Caos es una especie de huracan/gusano gigantesco que habla y se esta comiendo al "inframundo" y al cielo.
Entonces varios superheroes pelean contra la cosa esa y el gusano los escupe. Despues se traga a Swamp Thing y él en lugar de pelear comienza a hablarle sobre una charla que tuvo con el Parlamento de los Arboles.
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En CR se estrenó Donde el duerme el Horror, una peli de "suspenso" que se ve pesima desde largo y ha tenido criticas super negativas.
Tío Alan Moore me enseñó que a diferencia de los tipicos clichés de terror como las brujas y los zombies en la vida cotidiana hay problemas que si son de pesadilla, como el derrame de petroleo en el golfo de Mexico que ya es casi del tamaño de Tiquicia o las chiquitas a las que les amputan el clitoris en Africa y Europa. Nadie le tiene miedo ya a la pata de mono o a las pseudo japonesas palidas o a las copias quemadas de The Shining. Sería mas tuanis hacer un terror mas articulado con la vida real.

ALAN MOORE

"El miedo es una manera segura de matarse."

-Liz Tremayne en Swamp Thing #55

"Anything of value in our lives whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship, will always start with such a leap (a huge risk). And in order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of suceeding.
You have to do these things completely purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust or result are the purest actions that we shall ever take."

-Alan Moore

Sobre los superheroes y U.S.A

No es algo nuevo pero si tal vez una visión desde una perspectiva mas Tercer mundista de los superheroes.

Leía hace unos minutos el discurso que daba "Baracko Bama" defendiendo la guerra en Irak al recoger el Premio Nobel, y la idea absurdisima que tienen los Estados Unidos de que son unas especie de "tatas" q tienen que cuidar a todo el mundo (quien los nombró no sé... yo no) .

El discurso a veces me parece muy similar al que daría Superman en un comic o G.I.Joe, y es muy parecido a los que recuerdo oir del coco George W. Bush. Lo que me hace pensar que quizás esta es una idea que puede haber influido en el fenomeno del Superheroe en ese país.

Y de las ideotas tambien que puedan haber hecho que ese genero sea irrepetible en otros paises a excepcion de -sorpresilla- Inglaterra.

Lo digo sobretodo porque yo he oido hablar a Tío Alan Moore sobre teorias de que la creacion de los superheroes se debe a la superioridad armamentista de U.S.A, por ejemplo. Pero nunca sobre éste tema.

FB005: Oh Gordito Alan

Jun 22, 2008 9:27 PM

TJKC: I hear all the time from people who say that all the super-hero stories have been told, that they're done; that these stories and ideas can only be fresh once.

ALAN: Yeah, so then you have to go to the trouble of actually going and making something else fresh. It is a bit of work and I can understand how a lot of creators these days don't really seem to be prepared to do it. They'd rather wait for somebody else to do the innovation and then jump aboard because that is much easier.
It's much safer in terms of your career. If you wait for somebody else to prove that it works and then jump aboard, you'll probably get more out of it in terms of profits—and so will your characters—than the actual person that did the innovation ever did. You could carry on doing stories about super-heroes forever. There's still new cowboy stories to be written. If anybody disbelieves it, they should pick up the works of Cormac McCarthy and try picking up Blood Meridian and see if that's not a new way to tell a cowboy story. I do get a little tired of hearing people saying that everything is done that can be done.
"All the great innovations were in the past." What kind of culture would we have if everyone always thought like that? Certainly people have been thinking like that for a long time. I'm sure that ever since any form of art or music began there's always been a huge crowd of people thinking, "Well, that's it, really," thinking, "How could we ever top this?"
And then somebody comes along who doesn't believe that and doesn't buy into that—doing something which is completely revolutionary and changes everything around, and then everyone is euphoric for however long it takes for the buzz to wear off, and then they say, "Well, now all the great ideas have been had.
There's no possibility of anything in the future"; which I think is a weak and defeatist attitude. I think that any creator worth their thoughts should not be believing that there is a point further down the highway, but trying to reach it.
Creativity or the advance of any medium is like one of those old Warner Brothers cartoons, where you'll have a railroad train running across the desert with Daffy Duck having to chop up the railroad train itself in order to lay tracks in front of the train. I don't know if you are familiar with the particular cartoon image I've got in m'head: Sort of laying tracks in front of you where there are no tracks, which is a giant leap of faith.
You have to first believe that there is something in front of you, then you have to do your best to actually reach that point rather than say, "We've reached the very edge of creativity because I can't think of anything to do. Therefore, I will decide that the entire humanity has reached the edge of creativity just because I've given up," which is a very cowardly and defeatist attitude. If only more artists could grab the medium by the horns in the way that Jack Kirby did and sort of decide that they are going to make up their minds whether we've reached the end of ideas and whether there might be a few more in there. My basic position is that ideas are infinite, limitless, but it just depends whether we're prepared to do the work to actually bring them in. Whenever you get creators talking about some inherit fall or failure in the medium or in any particular genre, they are mainly talking about their own flaws and failings in their own creativity. You can't blame the medium:
"I guess there weren't that many super-hero ideas. I guess that we've used them all up." It reminds me of the ancient Greeks when they were coming up with all these myths in the first place. The world of ideas is inexhaustible and infinite. You just have to find them, which an awful lot of people are not prepared to do. They'd rather let someone like Jack Kirby do all the hard work and mining and the back-breaking; mining an industry for thirty or forty years and then the nuggets that he happens to throw to the surface always find them and they put a new spin on them.
They don't want to do the hard work themselves. This is not a blanket condemnation of the whole industry. I think it's fair to say there are a number of people in the industry who are much happier sort of working with stuff that's already been placed, rather than to try and build up their creative muscles and do some of that work themselves. But that's just my own particular feeling I'm sure."I hate the movie industry [because] if I make a bad comic, it does not cost a hundred million dollars, which is the budget of an emergent small third world African nation. And this is money that could have gone to alleviating some of the immense suffering in this world but has instead gone to giving bored, apathetic, lazy, indifferent Western teenage boys another way of killing 90 minutes of their interminable and seemingly pointless lives." -Alan Moore (Nevins, 277)

Jeff: if you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the air and you´ll hit someone guilty dice:yo tengo los huevos para hacer en donde sea

Jeff: if you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the air and you´ll hit someone guilty dice:d los cojones!

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Here comes Alan Moore (again)

Some new excerpts:

1. Comics don’t work as films.

“The main reason why comics can’t work as films is largely because everybody who is ultimately in control of the film industry is an accountant.

And this is why a film is going to be a work that’s done by dozens and dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of people.

They’re going to show it to the backers and then they’re going to say, we want this in it, and this in it... and where’s the monster?”

2. Hollywood is full of idiots.

“We had one particularly dense Hollywood producer say, ‘You don’t even have to do the book, just stick your name on this idea and I’ll make the film and you’ll get a lot of money – it’s… The League Of Extraordinary Animals! It’ll be like Puss In Boots!’ And I just said, 'No, no, no. Never mention this to me again.'”

3. Comics are better than blockbusters.

“There is more integrity in comics. It sounds simplistic, but I believe there is a formula that you can apply to almost any work of modern culture...

The more money that’s involved in a project the less imagination there will be in the project, and vice versa. If you’ve got zero budget, you’re John Waters, you’re Jean Cocteau, you’re going to make a brilliant film.”

6. The modern American comics industry is ideologically flawed.

“Back when I wrote Watchmen I still trusted the viperous bastards, I had a different feeling about American superhero comics and what they meant.

I’ve recently come to the point where I think that basically most American superhero comics, and this is probably a sweeping generalisation, they’re a lot like America’s foreign policy.




America has an inordinate fondness for the unfair fight.




That’s why I believe guns are so popular in America – because you can ambush people, you can shoot them in the back, you can behave in a very cowardly fashion. Friendly fire, or as we call it everywhere else in the world, American fire.




If you’re up there in the stratosphere so that everything on the ground looks like ants, it might be insurgents, it might be an Iraqi wedding party, it might be some English soldiers.



There’s that beautiful bit of dialogue from the cockpit video when they say, “You’ve just bombed a load of Brits.” Their pilots say, “Woah, dude, we’re going to jail.” This is the Iraq war, not Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure!



I believe that the whole thing about superheroes is they don’t like it up them. They would prefer not to get involved in a fight if they don’t have superior firepower, or they’re invulnerable because they came from the planet Krypton when they were a baby.



I genuinely think it’s this squeamishness that’s behind the American superhero myth. It’s the only country where it’s really taken hold. As Brits, we'll go to see American superhero films, just like the rest of the world, but we never really created superheroes of our own.

I ♥ Alan Moore

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I think we have a problem in that we live in a materialist society — I don't mean "everybody's a bread-head, man", I mean that we believe that the material world is the only one that's important, the only one that exists. Despite the fact that believing that requires thinking, and science can't actually explain how we think. It's the ghost in the machine, forever outside the province of science. You can't reproduce a thought in an empirical laboratory experiment, so you cannot properly talk about thought. Thought is a supernatural event which we all experience every minute of the day.

-Alan Moore on magic for Mustard comedy magazine