The other day, our pal the photographer and filmmaker Dave Ma got in touch with some amazing shots of tQ’s John Doran when he interviewed Alan Moore, which made us realise that we really ought to do an edition of The Portal with some of our archival material on the great writer and countercultural magus. So look below for John’s interview with portraits by Ma, the late and much-missed Nick Talbot speaking to Moore about Iain Sinclair, a piece on Akira, Mark Fisher on 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stalker, Solaris and Interstellar. There’s a Strange World of Steve Aylett, an interview with 2000AD founder Pat Mills, and from the subscriber area, Joel McIver on the 2012 film Dredd. Remember that you can access this, and all our other subscriber perks, with a month free by signing up here.
Our second Iain Sinclair feature to mark the 70x70 Finale event at Barbican this weekend sees Nick Talbot interview Alan Moore about his relationship with the writer, perspectives on psychogeography, and influence each has had on the other's work
With Heart Of The Original, his radical treatise on creativity, back in print and new novel The Book Lovers out last December, cult author Steve Aylett is ripe for discovery. Aug Stone talks to him and offers ten points of entry into his back catalogue
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction