Some Notes: Fandom, Fanzines, and the Small Press
(Notes on my article published in Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman put out by Smoky Man to celebrate Moore's 70th birthday in November 2023.) The book is available to purchase from Amazon UK here.
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The first issue of David Hathaway-Price's Fanscene (2018) contains two pieces by Moore, 'Duplicator Days' and 'Fantime'. It also includes a list of Moore's earliest work, complied by Ewan Brownlow. You can download Fanscene for free, here.
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The 1983 interview with Moore from Lew Stringer's Fantasy Express #5 had an amazing cover by Alan Davis. More information about it on Lew's website.•••
Letters from Moore to my Infinity fanzine can be found in #6 and #8 and his article on Arcade runs across issues #6 and #7. Scans of the are available on David Hathaway-Price's Fanscene fanzine archive.
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Information about early fanzines in which Moore's work appears is also available on John Freeman's Down the Tubes.
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'Captain Airstrip One' by Moore, Chris Brasted and Smuzz (SMS) was published in Mad Dog #10 in 1985 and can be read online here.
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Moore found out about fandom through Steve Moore's publicity in Odham's Fantastic magazine(first issued published in 1967). Further information about the comic here.
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It's fairly certain that by dint of his "Non-attending registered member" status, Alan would have received a copy of the 1968 convention booklet with the wonderful cover by Jim Baikie.
Captain Airstrip One
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Eleven issues of Marvel UK's The Daredevils were published over the course of 1983 and included numerous fanzine review by Alan Moore, including a rave review of Eddie Campbell's Dapper John strip.
The image here is a from the expanded digital collection Dapper John I edited and which was published by Panel Nine.
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