Moore worked as a freelance comic strip writer, often writing stories for other people’s characters. In 1980, he finally succeeded in selling an idea for a comic strip in 2000AD. It was Moore’s dream to write for 2000AD, the most prestigious comic magazine in Britain at the time. It was during this period that Moore married his wife, Phyllis, and had a child, Leah.

For the next five years, Moore earned less than 50 pounds a week.

He didn’t begin writing and illustrating comic books full-time until 1978, when he sent his first cartoons to the music magazine NME. Following his expulsion, Moore worked a number of odd jobs, including toilet cleaning and tanning. It was also around this time that Moore began experimenting with drugs like LSD, and in 1970 he was expelled from his college (the English counterpart to American high school) for drug use. As a teenager, he began sending in poems and essays to local newspapers. He was a voracious reader as a child, and showed a talent for drawing and writing. Alan Moore was raised in an impoverished part of the United Kingdom.

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