Alan Moore | Batman: The Killing Joke and Watchmen creator on Imagination (Part 2)

This is part 2 of an exclusive How To Academy event. Watch part 3 here: Few figures make such a seismic impact on their artistic medium that they transform its reputation from childish pulp entertainment to a vital and exhilarating creative form, capable of exploring the great mysteries of metaphysics, science, and the human spirit – but Alan Moore is one. Coming together with sculptor, performance artist, novelist and poet Brian Catling, this conversation will restore your faith in the power of art to transform life. Brian Catling was born in London in 1948. He is a former Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School, Oxford, and is an acclaimed performance artist and sculptor. His Vorrh trilogy is followed this year by Earwig, which is being filmed by Lucile Hadžihalilovic. On Youtube, Brian has been featured on The Centre for Fiction, SFF180, GOldmark Gallery, PPermaculture Magazine and John Rogers. Alan Moore, born in Northampton in 1953, is a writer, performer, recording artist, activist and magician. His comic-book work includes Lost Girls (2009) with Melinda Gebbie, From Hell (1991) with Eddie Campbell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (for which he won a Bram Stoker Award in 2000) with Kevin O’Neill. He has worked with director Mitch Jenkins on the Show Pieces cycle of short films and on forthcoming feature film The Show, while his novels include Voice of the Fire (1996) and his epic Jerusalem (2016). He lives in Northampton with his wife and collaborator Melinda Gebbie. On Youtube, Alan has been featured on Wisecrack, AlanMooreVids, Alan Moore Archive, The Top Comics, John Higgs, faberandfaber, Lex Records, Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood, Channel 4 News, Crack Magazine, ComicTropes, Nottingham Contemporary, Go! El monitor geek, Matt Draper, AlloCine, Comic Book Girl 19, Cartonist Kayfabe and Rapid Trailer. Robin Ince is the co-presenter of Radio 4’s multiple award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage. He spent 2019 appearing across the world in the Universal tour with Brian Cox – travelling from LA to Oslo, Wellington to Aberdeen and ending up in Reykjavik after shows at the 02 and Wembley Arena. Robin co-wrote How to Build a Universe (part 1) with Brian Cox and his most recent book is I’m a Joke and So Are You, a book about why we become who we become and how we deal with it. He has spoken at TED and TEDx, has featured on BBC Radio 4 and Richard Herring’s podcasts on topics as far reaching as Creationism and Wonder, to Ricky Gervais and Chaos, and is the founder of The Cosmic Shambles Network.