Steve Moore (comics)
| Steve Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 June 1949 United Kingdom |
| Died | 16 March 2014 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Pseudonym(s) | Pedro Henry |
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Notable works
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Axel Pressbutton Future Shocks Tom Strong's Terrific Tales |
Steve Moore (11 June 1949 – 16 March 2014) was a British comics writer.
Moore was credited with showing writer Alan Moore (no relation), then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts. His career has subsequently been quite closely linked with the more famous Moore – the pair collaborated under pseudonyms (Steve's pseudonym was "Pedro Henry", Alan's was "Curt Vile") on strips for Sounds magazine, including one which introduced the character Axel Pressbutton, who was later to feature in the Warrior anthology comic, as well as a standalone series published by Eclipse Comics.
Moore has long been linked to Alan Moore, who has known him "since he [Alan] was fourteen" referring to him as "a friend... fellow comic writer [and] a fellow occultist", Moore and Moore have so often been linked together that Alan joked that Steve would have 'no relation' engraved on his tombstone
Moore was an editor of Bob Rickard's long-running UK-based "Journal of the Unexplained" Fortean Times. In later years, he also edited that publication's more academic sister-publication Fortean Studies. He is listed as a 'specialist contributor' to the Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained, which also notes that he compiled the Fortean Times' General Index, and several derivative books. He was a freelance writer on diverse topics, and said he "lives in London [where he] interests himself mainly in ancient and oriental subjects".
Steve Moore began working for Odhams Press' comics division while still in his teens and in 1971 he created the UK's first comics fanzine, Orpheus. Moore's comics work has featured in most of the major British comics, particularly in anthologies. He has been involved with 2000 AD from its earliest days, writing the second story-arc of their Dan Dare-revival "Hollow World" (Progs 12–23), and devising the Future Shocks format for Prog #25 with his "King of the World".
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