Alan Moore is probably the single author who has influenced me as a person the most. I'm an atheist and a technologist, whereas he appears to be a Luddite magician. But as an "outsider artist" (in some sense) and as someone with a particular set of morals, he has been with me since I could read. (I probably was too young for Watchmen when I first read it).
‘Art isn’t doing its job any more,’ he says at one point. ‘It’s not filled with the real and the marvellous. There’s no vision. There’s no William Blake.’
Not news, but still exciting to remember, Alan Moore is working on a Lovecraft story called "Providence" which I believe is due out from Avatar Press at some point next year. (Bringing some relevance to the old blog, as it were).
Alan Moore Interview on Aeon Magazine
