Watchmen Co-Creator Dave Gibbons Talks Alan Moore, Comics in Autobiography
Dave Gibbons, the prolific artist who co-created Watchmen alongside writer Alan Moore, is releasing an autobiography called Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography in October. While Gibbons has created and drawn many stories over the course of his long career, in this book he’ll be turning the focus onto himself. Given the length and breadth of his career, this promises to be no less fascinating than the fictional stories he has produced in the past.
Dave Gibbons first broke into the underground British comics industry in the 1970s. This eventually led to him becoming the lead artist for Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly. His work in Britain attracted the attention of Len Wein at DC Comics, which led to him working for the company soon thereafter. It was here he began to collaborate with Alan Moore and the two went on to create some of the most iconic comics of all time, including the groundbreaking series Watchmen. Gibbons would continue to work with iconic creators like Frank Miller and Mark Waid over the course of his career and he would also go on to write and illustrate his own graphic novels like The Originals. His expansive body of work eventually led to him becoming the UK’s first Comics Laureate in 2014 and to him getting inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Gibbons is illustrating some of the details of this long and illustrious life in his upcoming autobiography Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography, which is to be published by Dark Horse Books. This is far from Gibbons' first collaboration with Dark Horse as he co-created the comic The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century with Frank Miller for the publisher
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