Alan Moore To Write New BoJeffries Saga

[Thom Young]

From Rich Johnston's new Web site:

Alan Moore announced that he was writing new episodes of The BoJeffries Saga for Steve Parkhouse, to be published by Top Shelf comix.

The BoJeffries Saga is the long lost forgotten child of Warrior magazine. While "V For Vendetta" and "Marvelman" would go on to great acclaim, Alan Moore’s third series for the British anthology, with collaborator Steve Parkhouse, would not receive the same attention.

I had forgotten all about this wonderful series. I read the original stories in Warrior back in the 1880s. I hope a collection that reprints all of the originals is also planned.

[Dave Wallace]

Originally Posted by Thom Young

From Rich Johnston's new Web site:

Yeah, I saw Moore talk about this when he was interviewed by Pádraig Ó Méalóid, back in May. I'm surprised that Rich didn't mention it earlier.

Originally Posted by Thom Young

I had forgotten all about this wonderful series. I read the original stories in Warrior back in the 1880s.

Come on Thom, you're not that old.

Originally Posted by Thom Young

I hope a collection that reprints all of the originals is also planned.

It sounds like it. From the interview:

PÓM: And I think the other thing that I know is forthcoming – I believe is forthcoming – is – isn’t there a new Bojeffries Saga story?

AM: Yes, Bojeffries Saga. Oh, there’s a thing coming from Avatar that’s quite good, called Light of Thy Countenance. I’ve seen the adaptation of it, and I think they’ve done a really good job, and that’s coming out sometime soon. But the Bojeffries, yeah, I have written a final Bojeffries – well, I don’t know if it’s a final – but I’ve written a kind of, it wouldn’t hurt if it was the last one, although maybe me and Steve will want to do some more with them.

What we’re going to do is, we’re going to collect up, with Top Shelf, all of the Bojeffries material that’s appeared to date, and we’re going to cap it all off with a twenty-four page story called After They Were Famous, which is the Bojeffries in 2009, existing side-by-side with culture as it is now, as opposed to culture as it was in the eighties and the early nineties, and I think it’s the best Bojeffries thing yet, and it’s great, it’s a pleasure to be working with Steve again.

It’s great working with Kevin on the one hand and Steve Parkhouse on the other. They are two of the most British of all of my collaborators, you know, their influence are – I mean, this is not to mock the artists whose influences are more from the other side of the Atlantic, but there’s something very cheering about working with a couple of artists who grew up on the same Beano and Dandy illustrators that I did. You know, the Paddy Brennans and the Ken Reids and the Leo Baxendales, and who kind of worked that into their style.

So, yeah, I mean, I don’t know what the schedule is, I believe that Steve is working away, he said he found the script very challenging, but he thought it was a perfect ending, a perfect contemporary take on the Bojeffries, so that, I think people will enjoy that when it comes out, it’s very funny. It’s also got, they’ll never need to make a movie of the Bojeffries because one of the episodes in this twenty-four page story is coverage of the Bojeffries Movie, which shows a few shots, two scenes, a clip from the Bojeffries Movie, which starred, I think, Meryl Streep as Uncle Raoul, which is probably all you need to know.

It’s pretty good, it’s pretty good, and that’s just one part of this story. There’s a whole Big Brother part to it, and Ginda is a Blair’s Babe, Reth is a Booker Prize-winning author hanging out with Julie Burchill at the Groucho Club, and, yeah, what happened to Baby, and what happened to Jobremus, and what happened to Granddad. It’s pretty good. The entire family is broken up, by the way, when the story starts. They haven’t seen each other for years, which doesn’t sound like the most promising introduction, but it leads to a very, very good story, so I think that everyone’s going to enjoy that.

I've never read any of Moore's Bojeffries stuff, but I've heard good things about it, so I'll probably check this new collection out.