id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5541 Alan Moore - Wikipedia .html text/html 18111 1912 77 Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke and From Hell.[1] Regarded by some as the best comics writer in the English language,[2][3] he is widely recognized among his peers and critics. It is the only comic to win the Hugo Award, in a one-time category ("Best Other Form").[36] It is widely seen as Moore's best work, and has been regularly described as the greatest comic book ever written.[3](pp39–40) Alongside roughly contemporary works such as Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets, Watchmen was part of a late 1980s trend in American comics towards more adult sensibilities.[37] Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Watchmen "called into question the basic assumptions on which the super hero genre is formulated".[38] DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed in 2010 that "As with The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen set off a chain reaction of rethinking the nature of super heroes and heroism itself, and pushed the genre darker for more than a decade. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5541.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5541.txt