Much of the metaphysical speculation in From Hell can be attributed to Moore's embrace of gnosticism, which takes a more central role in his other work, most notably his comic series Promethea.

Set in a chat-show studio in the 1980s, it focuses on Moore's comic and personal relationship with Peter Cook and how their careers took off after the split of the partnership.

This was Alan Moore's second re-invention of a comic book character, the first being Miracleman.

Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

Examples of this include alien dialogue in comic strips and graphic novels ( such as Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the Valérian and Laureline series ).

* Jay and Silent Bob made a cameo in issue # 79 of Terry Moore's long-running comic book Strangers in Paradise.

* The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: In Volume II of Alan Moore's comic, the Snow Queen's palace is featured in the New Traveller's Almanac.

James Sallis praised Lust Lizard, saying that Moore's novel provides " all the best comic writing, something beyond jokes, caricature, spinning plates and crazy-tilt towers, something intangible that vanishes whenever we try to look directly at it: some sense, perhaps, that we're still able to rescue from the ever-increasing detritus of our culture a decent, simple humanity.

He briefly appears in a 2002 issue of Alan Moore's comic book series Promethea entitled " The Wine Of Her Fornications " where he is one of the adepts in the " city of pyramids " in Moore's version of the Binah sphere of the Tree of Life and is watched over by John Dee.

Regarding the first claim, the series is, by Moore's own admission, didactic: " there are 1000 comic books on the shelves that don't contain a philosophy lecture and one that does.

Cornelius appears in the second part of Alan Moore's three-part comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century.

Adams later said that writer Elliot Caplin, brother of Al Capp and Jerry Capp, offered Adams the job of drawing a comic strip based on author Robin Moore's The Green Berets, but that Adams, who opposed the war, suggested longtime DC Comics war-comics artist Joe Kubert, who landed that assignment.

Throughout most of its history the studio has published many comic book titles in continuity with each other ( the Wildstorm Universe ), as well as a wide variety of unrelated, creator-driven titles such as Ex Machina, Kurt Busiek's Astro City and Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line.

Greyshirt is a comic book character in Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, published by Wildstorm ( a subsidiary of DC Comics ), under the America's Best Comics imprint.

A thinly-veiled version of Emma Peel appears in Alan Moore's comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, as the young " Emma Night ", daughter of industrialist Sir John Night, where she shares a mutual attraction with " Jimmy ", of whom her paternal " Uncle Hugo " disapproves.

The original strip, originated by Dave Donaldson, written by Steve Bright and mostly drawn by John Geering until his death in 1999, is essentially a parody of Superman with shades of Captain Marvel and his British twin, Marvelman and occasionally other Silver Age characters, while also combining comic slapstick with a heavy dose of eccentric British humour similar to Alan Moore's contemporary work on Captain Britain.

In Alan Moore's and Ian Gibson's comic book series The Ballad of Halo Jones, the Rat King was a weapon of war, a super-intelligent collective of five rats with entwined tails who were able to communicate via a computer terminal.

The club also appears in Nicholas Meyer's novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier graphic novel, the computer game Sherlock Holmes-Case of the Rose Tattoo, the Dark Horse Comics Predator: Nemesis comic, and in the short story " Closing Time " from Neil Gaiman's collection of short fiction Fragile Things.

* Fury ( Image Comics ), a superhero in Alan Moore's comic book 1963

Dupin makes a guest appearance in the first two issues of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I ( 1999 ) comic book, helping to track down and subdue the monstrous Mr Hyde ( who is living secretly in Paris after faking the death described in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ).

* A team of comic book characters found in Alan Moore's Watchmen

* Randolph Carter appears in " Allan and the Sundered Veil ", a serialized prose backup in the first six issues of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book as well as in " The New Traveller's Almanac ".

Despite the initial reviews, The Man Who Haunted Himself is now considered a very underrated film, and the role is considered one of Moore's finest performances among his fans.

In Moore's own words: " The whole gig was a bit of a blur ( as live performances often are ).

Moore's more recent performances, however, reflect an updated version of " Candy " which is infused with elements of rock and blues instead of being straight bubblegum pop.

" Moore's character was initially intended to be a divorcée, but as divorce was still controversial at the time, and the network was afraid viewers might think that Mary had divorced Rob Petrie, Laura's husband on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the premise was changed to that of a single woman with a recently broken engagement.

Alan Moore's additional information about the Swamp Thing's origins did not contradict or change any of the events depicted in the character's previous appearances, but changed the reader's interpretation of them.

This speech style was also the influence for Julianne Moore's character's ( Maude Lebowski ) accent in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski and is parodied by the speech teacher played by Kathleen Freeman in the film Singin ' in the Rain.

Similarly, in the version shown in theaters, when Bo Derek's character puts on Ravel's Boléro, she says that it's the perfect music to " fuck " to, whereas the version shown on television substitutes " make love " for " fuck ", while retaining Moore's character's startled reaction to hearing his idealized woman casually swearing.

On December 25, 1951, a bomb exploded in Moore's house, killing him and his wife, Harriette.

His wife is Stella, Mrs. Moore's daughter from a second marriage.

; Stella Moore: Mrs. Moore's daughter and Fielding's beautiful younger wife.

Moore's wife was American and he had lived for several years in the USA.

Not all the latter were comfortable with a working day that started at 7 a. m. Moore's wife ( and political adviser ) Sheila had clashes with civil servants and Moore was privately warned that she did not understand the British way of doing things.

Moore's main activity during his hiatus was a trip around the world with his wife.

* Anya Claus, wife of Dudley Moore's Santa in Santa Claus: The Movie

* Haven's Venezuelan Island ( aka Gene Moore's wife / Claudia )

Moore's wife is supportive of the movement, and explains to Moore he cannot be everyone's father, and that he is hardly being a father to Ariel.

Hal Moore's wife, Julia Compton Moore, followed in the wake of the deliveries to widows in the Ft. Benning housing complex, grieving with the wives and comforting the children, and attended the funerals of all the men killed under her husband's command who were buried at Fort Benning.

Ella Niven is the wife of George Niven ( Tom Moore's old CIA friend ).

In 1972 Blegvad visited Moore in Hamburg and, along with Moore's girlfriend ( and soon to be wife ) Dagmar Krause, Moore ( guitar, keyboards ), Blegvad ( guitar ) and Krause ( vocals ) formed the avant-pop trio, Slapp Happy.