Watchmen sales

[alexxkay]

Alan Moore fans know that he has given up on "Hollywood money" -- he now requests that any payments he is legally due from such movies be sent to the appropriate artists, instead. But I think he's getting a pretty significant bump in income from the Watchmen movie, indirectly. My local comics store owner says he used to sell a small but steady stream of Watchmen GNs, quite respectable for a book over 20 years old... but in the month since the trailer came out, his sales of that book went up by roughly a factor of *thirty*! DC has gone back to press, for a new printing of 900,000 copies.

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

The artists of the comics on which the movies are based.

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

So, that's not him? Isn't he the writer? Or is he more of a producer?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

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.