Yuggoth Cultures 1 Wrap Cvr Avatar 1st print Alan Moore Bryan Talbot

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Yuggoth Cultures (2003) #1B
Published Sep 2003 by Avatar

Wrap cover. by Alan Moore, Bryan Talbot & Juan Jose Ryp

The magical mind of Alan Moore is unleashed in this new monthly series that weighs in at a super-sized 40 pages per issue! Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths features tons of Alan’s classic, long-out-of-print short sequential comic book stories, stories that have never-before-seen, and special developmental sections with original script pages and comments from Alan and the creators!

This debut issue features the amazing Nightjar, a story written 20 years ago to run in legendary British comic anthology, Warrior Magazine, but never fully drawn. With art by Bryan Talbot, the first part of the story is finally illustrated and sees print here along with Moore’s notes on where the series was originally going to go. As a special bonus, we include Alan’s original script. Nightjar is a true lost gem that fans have been dying to see for two decades, polished for publication for the first time ever! Also in this issue is the story, Zaman’s Hill, originally written for Moore’s aborted novel titled, Yuggoth Cultures, now seen in sequential form by master illustrator Juan Jose Ryp! Fans of Alan Moore rejoice, many prayers are finally answered in this career-spanning series from the finest wordsmith in the industry! Regular and Wraparound covers by Juan Jose Ryp.Issue #1 (September 2003)
“Zaman’s Hill” (adapted by Antony Johnston from Moore’s poem, art by Juan Jose Ryp)
“Nightjar” (art by Bryan Talbot, planned as the first instalment of a serial to appear in Warrior)
Nightjar first draft script by Alan Moore
A letter from Alan Moore to Bryan Talbot outlining the creation of Nightjar
Nightjar commentary by Bryan Talbot

b&w, 40pg (1 of 3), Cover price $3.95.

Issue #1 (September 2003)
“Zaman’s Hill” (adapted by Antony Johnston from Moore’s poem, art by Juan Jose Ryp)
“Nightjar” (art by Bryan Talbot, planned as the first instalment of a serial to appear in Warrior)
Nightjar first draft script by Alan Moore
A letter from Alan Moore to Bryan Talbot outlining the creation of Nightjar
Nightjar commentary by Bryan Talbot

Alan Moore’s Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths is a three-issue comic book miniseries presenting work written by influential comics writer Alan Moore, based on the writings of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was published by Avatar Press in 2003.

After Dave Mitchell of Oneiros Books asked Alan Moore to contribute to The Starry Wisdom, a collection of new writings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Moore came up with the idea to do an entire book, to be called Yuggoth Cultures, based on Lovecraft’s Fungi From Yuggoth cycle of poems. Unfortunately, Moore lost the only copies of most of the pieces he had written for the book in a London taxi cab. Moore submitted a short story entitled “The Courtyard” as his entry for The Starry Wisdom, but suspended work on Yuggoth Cultures. “So the project went ‘on hold,’…I kind of shoved it in the back of a drawer and forgot about it,” he told Avatar editor-in-chief William Christensen in an interview included in Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths No. 3. The two other surviving pieces from Yuggoth Cultures, the poems “Recognition” and “Zaman’s Hill,” were included in the 1995 book Dust: A Creation Books Reader.

Avatar’s 2003 anthology miniseries Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths presented Antony Johnston’s comics adaptation of “Recognition” and “Zaman’s Hill” as well as two of Alan Moore’s songs, “Litvinoff’s Book” and “Me and Dorothy Parker”, the never-before-seen “Nightjar,” and reprints of many of Alan Moore’s short comics.

Near mint, 1st print.