For over three decades comics fans and creators have regarded Alan Moore as a titan of the form. With works such as <i>V for Vendetta, Watchmen</i> and <i>From Hell,</i> he has repeatedly staked out new territory, attracting literary plaudits and a mainstream audience far removed from his underground origins. His place in popular culture is now such that major Hollywood players vie to adapt his books for cinema. <br />Yet Moore&apos;s journey from the hippie Arts Labs of the 1970s to the bestseller lists was far from preordained. A principled eccentric, who has lived his whole life in one English town, he has been embroiled in fierce feuds with some of the entertainment industry&apos;s biggest corporations.  And just when he could have made millions ploughing a golden rut he turned instead to performance art, writing erotica, and the occult. <br />Now, as Alan Moore hits sixty, it&apos;s time to go in search of this extraordinary gentleman, and follow the peculiar path taken by a writer quite unlike any other.