Alan Moore's London. part 6

With the epilogue in FROM HELL it was strange coming back to this scene I'd started ten years before, with Abberline and Lees as old codgers in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. Alan had made a trip down there and taken a dozen photographs of the cemetery. I then filed the photos away until they were needed ten years later. This all sounds somewhat extraordinary to me now. I was recently talking to a young girl just out of school, telling her that I would be spending the whole of the next year on my new book (I'll tell you about it soon). She found it hard to understand that somebody could spend a whole year on one job. How little she knows. Alan planned this thing out in thorough detail and then we spent ten years seeing the plan through. Were we mad? In Greek myth Odysseus spends ten years after the Trojan war finding his way back to Greece. I remember feeling that this was very far fetched. Ten years is too long to contemplate. Too long indeed. From this side of it even more so.
With the epilogue we had ten pages of two characters interacting in mid distance. This is my favourite thing to draw in the whole world. So i handled the lettering and figures and Pete Mullins took care of everything else in this one.





"There's no hurry." Abberline is saying.
No hurry indeed.

(ps I know it wasn't literally ten years between the prologue and epilogue, but it was ten between the first page and the end of the appendix, so I feel I was taking a justifiable poetic liberty up there.)