Tucked into a convenient nook beneath an elevator at Harrods, Comic Timing is a thoughtfully curated exhibition of original artwork by British comic book writers and artists. As the curators note, comic art has long been seen as a disposable medium - the "off cuts" of the industry, they were often given away or destroyed, and it is relatively recently that the fruits of the artists' labours have been seen as valuable in their......

We can't think of anything more scary for Hallowe'en than Hawksmoor's brooding masterpiece of Christ Church, Spitalfields, spreading out its talons, poised to strike. The church has often been linked to the occult and mysterious - most notably in Alan Moore's 'From Hell' and the work of Iain Sinclair. Keep sending in your own images of distorted London to londonist - at - gmail - dot - com......

London’s got its very own comics festival, and it’s kicking off this weekend. But don’t let yourself envisage flocks of overgrown adolescents in ill-fitting capes – Comica’s appeal is that it casts its eye more broadly, bringing in arresting art and affecting stories from around the world. Normally it’s the heroes in tights hogging the spotlight. Comica gets them to step aside for a couple of weeks a year in favour of the unusual......

The second greatest comedy magazine ever to be named after a foodstuff has relaunched. Mustard (it's a gas) is the brainchild of Alex Musson, and draws on obvious influences The Onion and TV Go Home. Previously A4, the new-look mag is roughly the size of a piece of tin foil cut to a 17 X 23 cm rectangle. Cartoons, interviews, spoof news and other crap will leave you tittering with glea and glittering with......

The Battle of Thermopylae has stirred the blood of writers many times (Herodotus through William Golding to most recently Steven Pressfield) and its story of a small force battling a vast invading army has been filmed once before, back in 1962. Seemingly drawn to difficult films - a George Romero remake and an Alan Moore adaptation bookend this project - Zack Snyder has set out to bring to life Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's......

LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore's Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts' Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at "porn" take on Peter Pan's Wendy / Alan Moore's erotic Lost Girls / Rich Johnson on Lost Girls / Rich Johnson Reviews Lost Girls You know already then that this is going to be awesome. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has......

Remember the trailer for Hellgate: London that we treated you to back in March? Well there's a comic book version on the way to fill in some of the background on the mayhem: The comic book provides the background story behind HELLGATE: LONDON. Issue “0” begins when MI5 service agent Lyra Darius discovers a human charnel house in London whilst investigating the affairs of recently resigned Home Office Minister, Lord Sumerisle. Soon afterwards, Lyra......

OK, OK, we know most of you will be sick of reading about Hawksmoor. But Londonist are completer-finisher types, and after stalking so many lesser London luminaries we feel obliged to tackle the great church-building, conspiracy-generating architect. There must be some readers out there who haven’t read Iain Sinclair’s trademark lucidity-shy ramblings on how Hawksmoor’s six churches align with other sites of dubious significance to form a pretty pattern. Or Peter Ackroyd’s erudite reinterpretation......

Akira moved to London from Cambridge two years ago; are named after a cockroach; make a jagged industrial post-rock noise and enjoy walks in the park and watching sunsets with loved ones. Their bio lists their influences as: The Karate Kid, Philip K Dick, The Chapman Brothers, Derrida, Battle Of The Planets, Chaos Theory, Father John, Edward Thomas, Alan Moore, Sleepwalker, Bourdieu, Jeremy Paxman, London Underground, David Fincher, Chris Morris, The American Dream and......

This week: V for Vendetta, Army in the Shadows and The Double Life of Veronique. Plus all the usual film rumours and Trailer of the Week. We've heard semi-promising things about the latest attempt to tranfer the genius of Alan Moore to the big screen, and after hearing David Lloyd at the Guardian Newsroom last week our hopes were up. Unfortunately we trust Peter Bradshaw quite a bit and Pete Bradshaw absolutely hates V......

Set your alarms, get your diaries out, write a reminder on the back of your hand with a biro, because Alan Moore is on the gogglebox tonight. BBC2's The Culture Show is featuring the bearded warlock and undoubted genius tonight in a 'rare television interview': In a row of terraces in Northampton lives a tall, bearded man called Alan Moore. You might never have heard of him, but he’s an internationally loved writer credited......

So you've got your golden ticket to go see V for Vendetta at the ICA. You're quaking in your fanboy boots at the prospect of being taken in hand by Alan Moore. So to be honest March couldn't get any more exciting unless a totalitarian government sprang up over night and gave you an excuse to wear your pointy hat out in public... Probably best not to mention the V for Vendetta Exhibition at......

We've had a LOT to say about the upcoming V for Vendetta movie, but finally we're going to get the chance to see the damn thing. The ICA as part of its COMICA stream has organised a preview screening of the film next month: Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain (1989!), Alan Moore and David Lloyd's sophisticated tale is more politically relevant than ever in today's climate of terrorist paranoia and threatened......

It's one of life's little oddities that so much mythology and indeed an entire industry has survived for so long around the acts of a man who made himself famous by playing around in the guts of women. You don't see Peter Sutcliffe getting this much attention or a franchise. Maybe in a hundred years... Now Australian scientists are preparing to finally and definitively unmask the identity of the original Ripper... maybe. Scientist Ian......

The BT Tower is 40 years old today! Staff at the tower are marking the celebration with a party , so if we hear of a rash of fatalities in the West End caused by vol-au-vents thrown from 620ft above ground level, we'll know that things have got out of hand. It seems to us that the Tower, formerly known as the Post Office Tower, is one of those structures that we can always......

We've been bemoaning what a bad idea adapting Alan Moore's work to the big screen is for a while now: V for Vendetta - The Film Haunted Who Watches the Wathcmen? V for Vapid, Vile, Vulgar, Vacuous Wathcmen Unwound ... turning to steam V for Van Dyke But now we finally have a V for Vendetta trailer to look at. It looks nice and slick, action packed and with a fair few decent actors......

More American fretting we're afraid. It seems that the troubled production of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta movie has hit another glitch. Should the release date be moved back from November the 5th (which was kind of the whole point as far as the idiots making the movie were concerned) since some bombs went off in London in July? Can't quite see the logic there ourselves, but then we wouldn't have adapted one of......

Imagine that you find yourself strapped into a chair and forced to watch nothing but documentary images of death, murder and horror for twenty four hours a day. Imagine being suspended in the centre of a room with every surface showing a fresh atrocity, every screen offering an unending reel of carnage for every second that you have your eyes open. Food is funneled in (and out) intravenously, the pipes bolted into your body.......

Another week and another bit of Alan Moore news. No not that Hugo Weaving has taken over as V on the stupid movie of 'V for Vendetta'. This is much better. The trailer for The Mindscape of Alan Moore is online. It's a bit of a tease really as Shadowsnake Films have yet to secure a distributor for the documentary, although talks are underway to get it out on DVD. We saw it last......

We've mentioned a couple of times now that Iain Sinclair will be appearing at Patti Smith's Meltdown, but we didn't reveal that Londonist was invited to have a chat with him one sunny afternoon a week or so ago. What followed was a conversation that made for a great interview which it is now our pleasure to share with you. It's a LONG one, but it covers so much of interest that we were......

Alas, we had high hopes for the Watchmen adaptation as it was the last chance for someone to do Alan Moore's work justice on the big screen after the upcoming V for Vendetta movie disappeared up it's own arse (and you can see some London centric pictures of that particular travesty here and here). We were happy when our own Paul Greengrass signed on as director as we rather liked his Bourne Supremacy -......

Londonist would have loved to have seen a faithful rendition of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta make it to the big screen, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon. Moore has not only distanced himself as far as possible from the movie he's gone a step further and withdrawn his future work from DC Comics. This is big news in itself for the comic fans out there, but as happy......

Well, we'd like to. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face." The works of Alan Moore are renowned for their intelligence, wit and sophistication which is what makes them such a difficult animal to translate into film. We've already covered Constantine, but before they Keanued all the soul out of Hellblazer, Hollywood had also done its very best......

And talking of sci-fi adaptations... ...Reading Bookslut this morning we came across a link to a post on the Newsarama forums from a guy who, it seems, has read the script for the forthcoming V for Vendetta film. After From Hell this is Alan Moore's great 'London' comic, only this time it's the London of a reimagined, facist-controlled 80s. Word is that the Wachowski brothers are going to dump the 80s period setting, but......

There's no denying it: Radio 4 is great. No, we don't listen to the Archers (yet), and we're not quite at the Book at Bedtime stage either, but we should all offer up a prayer of thanks to the BBC directors for organising their latest stroke of radio genius: Chain Reaction. Described by the BBC as "Simplicity itself", the idea is that "A well-known public figure begins the series by interviewing the person of their......