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Frank Miller and Alan Moore are two comics writers best known for dominating the late 80′s and effectively changing the landscape of comics with Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Moore’s Watchmen. Moore has drifted radically away from comics in recent years due to his distaste for the sales driven direction big publishing houses are going and a variety of personal reasons regarding the rights to a lot of his work.
Miller on the other hand has went into Hollywood and become a borderline parody of his own writing style, most recently typified by his anti-Occupy rant that saw criticism hurled at him by a sea of detractors for his heavy handed, thoughtless and extremely right wing slamming of the protests. Alan Moore has recently pitched in with his views on Miller’s rant, and he doesn’t swing and miss with this one:
“Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided. I think that there has probably been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller’s work for quite a long time. Since I don’t have anything to do with the comics industry, I don’t have anything to do with the people in it. I heard about the latest outpourings regarding the Occupy movement. It’s about what I’d expect from him. It’s always seemed to me that the majority of the comics field, if you had to place them politically, you’d have to say centre-right. That would be as far towards the liberal end of the spectrum as they would go. I’ve never been in any way, I don’t even know if I’m centre-left. I’ve been outspoken about that since the beginning of my career. So yes I think it would be fair to say that me and Frank Miller have diametrically opposing views upon all sorts of things, but certainly upon the Occupy movement.
“As far as I can see, the Occupy movement is just ordinary people reclaiming rights which should always have been theirs. I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it; they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s too big to fail. It’s a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it. I’m sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces, he’d be more in favour of it. We would definitely have to agree to differ on that one.”
‘Word’ Alan Moore 
Source: HonestPublishing.com
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