Here are excerpts from an interview with Comics Heroes magazine where Moore says he’s done with comics:
“If I didn’t want to be associated with Marvel comics before they were bought by Walt Disney, then I certainly don’t want to be associated with them afterwards. Disney, much like Marvel, has not produced anything that I’ve thought was attractive since well before The Jungle Book.”
“I very much doubt it would be possible for anybody to come up with a comic like Watchmen today and have it accepted or nurtured by one of the big companies – that isn’t going to happen. because, frankly, I think that Watchmen probably caused as many problems for the big companies as it rewarded them financially.”
“I haven’t read a comic in years but I’ve not been tempted to. Other than those by friends and loved ones I’ve not seen anything that has made me want to pick up a comic book. It looks like it’s stuck in the late eighties and early nineties and its just going to be a cycle of that material. So I tend to suspect that it was probably only me and, and a number of collaborators. who were actually interested in pushing things forward.”
“I belatedly came to realise that the comics industry does not want progress. In fact it isn’t capable of it.”
Moore also states that he hasn’t read a new comic in years. With that the case, I’m sure his opinion here is particularly valid.
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