Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie are hanging in the National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery - Photograph of the Month
Born in Northampton in 1953, Moore began his career as an illustrator in the late 1970s drawing cartoon strips for music magazines. As a writer he produced scripts for Warrior, 2000AD and Marvel UK publications including Captain Britain and Spider-Man. His acclaimed graphic novels include V for Vendetta (1982-8), From Hell (1991-6) and Watchmen (1986-7). All have been released as films, the most recent in April 2009.
Comic artist, Gebbie was born in San Francisco where she contributed her first strip to Wimmen’s Comix, before moving to London in 1982. Gebbie and Moore married in 2007; they have collaborated on the controversial graphic novel Lost Girls (2006) and the comic book heroine Cobweb who appeared in Tomorrow Stories (1999-2002).
