Travis Heller asked Alan Moore:

Of all the current books and graphic novels today, do you have any personal favorites that you feel deserve more attention by the public? Any books or graphic novels from the past? Thank you for everything you have written and given to the world to enjoy!

Alan Moore I’m afraid that being a little out of touch with the contemporary comic scene, while there is some exemplary work out there I am probably not the best person to point it out, and a list of the writers that I’m currently reading most would look suspiciously partisan, in that it’s Garth Ennis, Si Spurrier, Kieron Gillen and the rest of my Avatar associates. I have only recently become belatedly acquainted with the remarkable work of Brian Vaughn, and I’m sure you don’t need me to recommend Saga, surely one of the most remarkable and inventive pieces of science-fantasy ever to emerge from the comic medium. As far as the ‘graphic novelists’ of the past go, one of the only people ever to produce work that was inarguably deserving of that term would be the unsurpassable Lynd Ward, author and artist of such sophisticated wordless narratives as God’s Man and Madman’s Drum amongst others. Anyone interested in the form should investigate Ward, a great American original whose work still has a great deal to teach us all these decades later.

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