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 discuss the subject. Using the traditional children’s annual as a framing device means that the authors launch their ideas from a position of entertainment and aesthetic delight while at the same time being (relatively) serious and informative throughout. (This again reflects Illuminatus! which uses the form of a rambling SF-inflected adventure story to deliver a great deal of discussion about Discordianism, anarchism, occultism, weird fiction, American political history, etc, etc, most of which was news to me when I first read the trilogy at the age of 15). The Bumper Book may superficially resemble a children’s annual but this isn’t a book for children. The essays include discussion of the use of drugs and sex in magic, and there’s a lot of nudity (also a fair amount of sex) in the illustrations. The book is a serious study, but not, I hope, a boring one

Moon and Serpent Rising, { feuilleton }

Incidentally, { feuilleton } is one of the blogs I've been reading the longest, and Coulthart is certainly not unconnected with Lovecraft, although you'll get quite a bit more that the mythos from it.

I've been personally waiting a long time for this book. That's not a complaint. I read Promethea maybe 15 years ago and found it to be pretty transformative, and this announced right around then, so I was ready. I might not be quite as much of a Moore-head as I was in 2007 times but I am still absolutely ready to have my mind blown by this.