

Their defining feature, visually anyway, is their adoption of the Guy Fawkes mask. Two of the most prominent, although maybe not the most obvious, are hacker group Anonymous and the Occupy protest movement. Not bad for the self-taught artist that was once expelled from school for selling LSD.Ĭontemporary culture has been defined by many movements. It found itself listed in Time Magazine’s best 100 novels published since 1923 (and up to 2005).

It's not only famous, but highly ground-breaking. Watchmen (1986), is probably Moore's most famous work. With nothing to prove, he doesn’t require a title to denote that his pursuit is of the highest artistic merit – his work does all the talking. Moore is completely comfortable with the title of ‘comic book writer’. The title of comic doesn’t mean they can’t be important though. The thing is, they are comics, no matter how you dress them up. If it has literary and artistic value, it’s elevated to a ‘graphic novel’. He works in the medium of the graphic novel - a term that really reflects the content of a comic.
