ST206 Cosmic Swamp Thing and Moore's Legacy

Writing for Comics: Moore's craft in his own words

The 1985 essay, written mid-run, read against the pages it was written beside.

About 150 minutes.

Reading for this lesson

Required Alan Moore's Writing for Comics Alan Moore the whole book, forty-eight pages

The 1985 essay and the 2003 afterword.
Optional The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21: "The Anatomy Lesson" Alan Moore (writer), Stephen Bissette (pencils), John Totleben (inks), Tatjana Wood (colours), John Costanza (letters) the whole issue

Re-read from ST201 as the essay's best example.

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