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Alan Moore and Steve Moore's "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic" Gets Sale Date

Top Shelf Productions and Knockout Ltd. have revealed when fans can finally get their hands on Alan Moore and Steve Moore's The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.

Featuring art from Kevin O'Neil, John Coulthart, Steve Parkhouse, Rick Veitch, and Ben Wickey, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic has been in development for nearly 20 years. The book is filled with "illustrated instructional essays, activity pages, biographies of the great sorcerers, and forbidden knowledge sure to tantalize even the most disillusioned of adults into believing in magic once again." (Top Shelf Productions)

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic goes on sale in October 2024.

(Image via Top Shelf Productions - Cover of The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic)

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Alan Moore and Steve Moore's long-awaited magnum opus, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, coming October 2024

Alan Moore and Steve Moore's long-awaited magnum opus, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, coming October 2024 #books #magic

Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Ltd have announced the publication date of the long-awaited The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic. Born of the longstanding creative partnership between legendary writer Alan Moore and his creative and magical mentor Steve Moore (no relation), this celebration of magic and the occult has been meticulously under development for nearly two decades and is…

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Top Shelf will release of Alan Moore’s ‘The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic’ in October

The grimoire promises ‘endless necromantic fun for all the family.’

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R.I.P. KEVIN O’NEILL

I was saddened today to read that British artist Kevin O’Neill has passed away. He was 69.

I remember first encountering O’Neill’s unique artwork in the mid-1980s, in a series of British comic series repackaged and sold in the US by Quality Communication (labelled as Quality Comics - not the Golden Age publisher!).  Most of O’Neill’s work was on a book titled Nemesis the Warlock.

O’Neill also worked on one of his frequent collaborations with writer Alan Moore for a story in the 1986 Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2.

This story was controversial, in that the Comics Code Authority (which was still very much a thing back then) objected to it.  DC Comics  tried to get clarification on just which parts of the story the CCA objected to so changes could be made.  The CCA responded that it found O’Neill’s art objectionable.  To DC’s credit, they went ahead and published the story without the CCA’s Seal of Approval.

Decades later writer Geoff Johns mined this story for much of the basis of the Blackest Night saga.  That brought a barrage of vitriol from Alan Moore, but that whole drama is another thing entirely.

The next big project from O’Neill was Marshal Law, a character he co-created with writer Pat Mills.  The good marshal first appeared in a mini-series from Epic Comics (Marvel’s edgier, more adult imprint; kinda like DC’s Vertigo) which satirically skewered American superhero comics.  He then bounced around to some other publishers (Apocalypse, Dark Horse), before returning to Epic for a two-part crossover/battle with the Cenobites from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser.

I highly recommend tracking down as much Marshal Law as you can find.  Unless, of course, you’re easily offended.  In that case, forget I said anything.

But the project that Kevin O’Neill is probably most well known for is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which he and Alan Moore started in 1999.  O’Neill provided the art for all the issues over the years, as well as the two spin-off Nemo stories.  TLOEG has rightly been hailed as a masterpiece, and - again - I give it my heartiest recommendation.

Afterwards he drew the Cinema Purgatorio series, again written by Moore.  Earlier this year O’Neill had also completed comic pages for Moore’s Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, forthcoming from Top Shelf Productions.

Kevin O’Neill had a rare and unique art style that made him stand out in a crowd.  I enjoyed his work over these last few decades, and am saddened that the world won’t see any more from him.

Time to pull out my Marshal Law and TLOEG collections and immerse myself in his world again.

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Which forthcoming Alan Moore work are you most looking forward to - The Moon And Serpent Bumper Book of Magic or the first Long London novel?

Moon and Serpent has fifteen years of anticipation behind it.

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Moon and Serpent Bumper Book from Alan Moore & Steve Moore

is it finally happening? Signs seem to point to a fall release for the long, long promised grimoire from writers Alan Moore and Steve Moore, and an impressive list of artistic collaborators. One such collaborator, John Coulthart, writes a little about the contents: Magic, like science and art, deals with the entirety of the world but you wouldn’t know it to look at a lot of the books that…

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The other thing to note is that this book is as much Steve Moore’s as Alan Moore’s, something which I’m sure Alan will want to emphasise but which news reports and reviews are inevitably going to overlook. The aforementioned final essay, “The Moon and Serpent: An Evening in the Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels” is a piece that functions on three levels: first as a recapitulation of the book as a whole, second as a history of the development of magical thought, and third as a brief history of the Moon & Serpent cabal itself, together with a précis of the cabal’s magical philosophy. This latter aspect includes a sketch of Alan and Steve’s long-running friendship which makes the point that it was Steve Moore who first interested Alan Moore in magic as something to be involved in more deeply than mere intellectual interest. I was surprised to discover that the pair first began talking about magic after Steve introduced Alan to the Illuminatus! trilogy in the 1970s; Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s books also stoked my own interest in magic at the same time, this being a subject I was already curious about thanks to my Dennis Wheatley-reading mother. Alan and Steve didn’t formalise any of their occult preoccupations until the early 1990s but the Illuminatus! connection makes me feel that the Bumper Book might be seen as one of the long-tail artefacts generated by Shea and Wilson’s trilogy.

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Knockabout and Top Shelf announce “The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic” a graphic grimoire, by Alan and Steve Moore

Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Ltd have announce the publication date of the long-awaited The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore and Steve Moore

Internationally celebrated publishers Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Ltd have announce the publication date of the long-awaited The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore and Steve Moore. Born of the longstanding creative partnership between legendary writer Alan Moore (From Hell, V for Vendetta) and his creative and magical mentor Steve Moore (no relation, 2000AD, Doctor…

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The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic Coming Oct 2024

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Amazing if true.

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Ask Game!

I was tagged by @stabbyhobbit

Rules: If tagged, answer the original questions and either add to the list or delete some (if you’d like), then tag more people!

Which book are you currently reading?

This weird little Kindle book on devotional polytheism, and also Rise of the Runelords adventure path

What’s the best beverage to drink while reading?

Um... lukewarm tea, cold tea, water, seltzer, virgin mojitos? I’m not picky!

What’s your favourite book quote?

“ Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. ”  - Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

I love the quote that @stabbyhobbit listed, so I’m going to keep it there.

Also this gem from Snowcrash:

Vitaly: Did you win the sword fight?

Hiro: Of course I won the swordfight. I’m the best swordsman in the world.

Vitaly: And you wrote the code.

Are you looking forward to a certain book release? If yes, which one? The next book in the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence by Mitchell Hogan. Also I’ve been waiting YEARS (literal years) for the Moon And Serpent Bumper Book Of Magic to come out.

What’s your Hogwarts house?

Hogwarts house is Ravenclaw, Czocha house is Sendivogius or Faust, New World Magischola house is Casa Calisayla

Are there any books you would recommend to the rest of us?

Salt by Mark Kurlansky! Extreme Latin by Henry Beard A is for Anthropos by i dont remember

What types of book covers do you find most aesthetically pleasing? I have no real preferences

What is one genre you want to read more of? Um... I’d like to actually get through more of my nonfiction history books, like the one huge fat one about the silk road. I got distracted, despite it being REALLY interesting

Do you tend to easily enjoy whatever it is you’re reading or are you a hard sell?

It varies some. I’m picky with my fantasy media, mostly because there’s so much bad stuff out there. Like, I couldn’t get through a book because they kept using a Greek word wrong. It made me a sad potato

What other kinds of media do you enjoy?

I love comics! Webcomics and trade paperbacks mostly. Movies are nice, and I do like a good video game.

Tagging: @jackthebard , @the-roaming-elf, @endreal, @sorcyress, @socpuppet, @redrokingpunkwitch, and @kuroko99

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