Alexx's Journal

In the comics world "artist" typically translates to "penciler" (or "painter", for fully-painted comics). Sometimes the term "artist" also includes "inker", but that isn't common usage. As it happens, most of the artists who Moore works with also ink themselves. There is no intent (at least usually) to imply that the inkers, colorists, letterers, etc. are not contributing artistic worth; it's just a jargon issue.

Moore is professionally a "writer". While he is capable of penciling and other forms of directly creating visual artwork, he does it only very rarely these days.