VOICE OF THE FIRE

Atlanta/Portland: Top Shelf Productions, [, [2003]. First U.S. and first hardcover edition. Quite fine in fine dust jacket. (9135). Octavo, illustration by Jose Villarrubia, cloth backed boards. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author and the illustrator Jose Villarrubia. The author's first novel. Alan Moore is one of the seminal writers working in comics and graphic novels today. He has worked for both major U.S. comic publishers; D.C. and Marvel as well as independent publishers. His output includes WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, SWAMP THING as well as work on BATMAN, SUPERMAN, and many others. Several of his graphic novels have been filmed: "From Hell" (2001), a tale of Jack the Ripper starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane and Ian Richardson, "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003) starring Sean Connery and Watchmen (2009). Moore has won numerous awards in the comics field, The Harvey, The Eisner and many international awards and also awards outside the comics, the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. His graphic novel WATCHMEN was listed in the Time Magazine's all time best 100 novels (2005), the only comic make it onto the list.