1963 is a comic book by esteemed author Alan Moore. It has technically never been finished, as the complete package was originally intended to comprise six issues and an 80pg Annual, of which only the six issues have been printed, by Image. The comics also contained adverts for '1963 1/2', which never surfaced either. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Alan Moore Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton, England) is a British writer most famous for his work in comics. ... Image of a bellybutton. ...
The six issues hark back to the heyday of comics (in particular,the early Marvel Comics), and feature spoof adverts on the rear covers - in a manner to be repeated with a twist by Moore and Kevin O'Neill in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The six issues are called: Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ... Kevin ONeill can be Kevin ONeill, the comics illustrator Kevin ONeill, the basketball coach Kevin ONeil, the music drummer: see The Honeydrippers: Volume One. ... The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin ONeill, published under the Americas Best Comics imprint of DC Comics. ...
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Alan's concept was simple: let's produce six individual but interrelated comic books as if they had been written, drawn, and published in 1963 (a seminal year for our generation of comic book readers: the flowering of Marvel, the peak of the DC Silver Age of superheros).
Even the comic book ads of the era would be lovingly recreated and parodied, absolutely true to the era we were evoking.
In its own odd way, 1963 was a landmark in the 1990s superhero scene and in the history of Image Comics.
1963 is a six-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore in 1993, with art by his frequent collaborators Steve Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch; other contributors included Dave Gibbons, Don Simpson, and Jim Valentino.
The six issues hark back to the Silver Age of American comics (in particular, the early Marvel Comics), and feature spoof advertisements on the rear covers—in a manner to be repeated with a twist by Moore and Kevin O'Neill in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Moore's homage to Marvel clichés included fictionalizing himself and the artists as the "Sixty-Three Sweatshop", describing his collaborators in the same hyperbolic and alliterative mode Stan Lee used for his "Marvel Bullpen"; each was given a Lee-style nickname (Affable Al, Sturdy Steve, Jaunty John, etc.—Veitch has since continued to refer to himself as "Roarin' Rick").
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