I’m immensely saddened by the death of Ed and I pray for his family through this difficult time. Watching your videos have introduced me to many different cartoonist that wouldn’t be on my radar and has inspired me countless times in my dreams of being an artist. RIP Ed, no one can replace you

Your channel is like a free college education on comic writing and art!

Before I even listen to this I can still name my favorite quote from these invaluable essays: “Don’t be cool. Like EVERYTHING.” Ladies & Gentlemen, Alan Fucking Moore!

Thanks for sharing this; just bought a copy. I’m going to do my best to let this book’s seed take root & evolve my writing into something worthy of Moore’s guiding hand.

this and "Yuggoth Cultures" tpb are almost a 2 volume set. (lots of good interviews and non-HPL short work in there)

Nice vid, though they mentioned Alan talking a little bit about watchmen at the end of the book, yet I didn't hear them talk about what he said about it. Good vid guys! I think this vid should be in the Moore playlist.

Haven't read this in years. Good to see it covered here!

I was having a debate with myself the other day that a lot of people who point out plotholes that don't exist in jojo do so because in anime it's harder to go back and see where it was setup, and when you read the manga and you don't understand something, almost everytime I flipped pages back I could instantly see where it was set up. It's good to see someone else thought of the same thing

Really liked this one, very deep. It's cool, talking about writers now, love this

I have no clue how I never knew about Alan Moore putting out this book.

Great way to finish my weekend!

The first video I ever watched on this channel. Keep up the good work Jim and Ed

Ed's Patreon: www.patreon.com/edpiskor Jim's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blacklight poster: bit.ly/TMNTJimRugg

The first story arc of American Flagg would be a great deep dive, also Chaykin's Time2

He's got that The Show thing coming up, gx

Hey guys you probably won't read this but as a long time comic artist and writer who has never actually done anything with it, (however that's finally about to end, thanks to you too inspiring me!), So blah blah blah blah yeah you guys are great, yeah how awesome, yeah what a fantastic channel blah blah blah. All those things however, are true. And I just can't help repeat it what a great, awesome, fantastic channel the two of you have created! You guys are so personable humble and approachable, that watching one of your shows is really like sitting down with a couple of friends. Anyway keep it up and don't stop anytime soon! Also Ed, Red room, completely and utterly horrible, disgusting, lowest common denominator gore! Which means it couldn't be any better!

have you guys done "The Courtyard" "Neonomicon" and "Providence"?

Yes, please bring on some more American Flagg vids!

14:07 I think the word your looking for is verisimilitude.

When you mentioned that Alan studied a lot to write Swamp Thing (28:00) you say that he did it before starting to write the actual script, and that "this is his own proactivity, he doesn't get paid for that". I just wanted to comment that this is not entirely true for writers. Don't know if it was different in the 80's, but I'm pretty sure Alan didn't get paid an hourly rate, but a pre-arranged budget for the whole project. Maybe he got paid per issue, I don't know, but when you calculate how much to charge someone for your work, you know that you have to keep in mind the research hours, the writing hours, and the back and forth with the editors for corrections.

Another cool book on writing is “Manga in Theory and Practice. The Craft of Creating Manga” by Hirohiko Araki the creator of Bao and Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure. It’s more or less the same approach where he’s self aware of his style and reminds the reader that his word isn’t law. He skips describing and listing the tools he uses just how Alan Moore says in his book that using the same typewriter as him isn’t going to magically make you a better writer. Overall, less dogmatic approach to describing what makes fun storytelling, getting out of your comfort zone, trying new things when you get too comfortable etc etc. It’s an awesome read.