SWAMP THING's Bissette blogs about working with Alan Moore

Steve Bissette, the artist on Alan Moore's Swamp Thing comic, has been writing a series of illuminating blog posts about their days working on the acclaimed comic books series. Swamp Thing was an incredibly dark, twisty book for mainstream comics of the time, and its influence on comics (and American pop culture) is considerable. The book spawned DC's Vertigo comics line, which popularized the work of other English comics writers (like Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison) who would go on to greater fame. It established Moore in America, which led to his later books like Watchmen, which in turn helped create the trend for "dark" superhero re-imaginings and inspired work in other mediums like Lost and Heroes.

You could say that without Swamp Thing, our entertainment landscape would be unimaginably different today. Not bad for a shambling pile of moss.