UK based comic book supremo Alan Moore who is best known for having written Watchmen, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V For Vendetta is set to collaborate on a new project with Hip Hop musician Andrew Broder.

The pair are about to start work on a new graphic novel titled Unearthing on which Broder will do the musical score.

The book started life as a joint venture between Moore and photographer Mitch Jenkins. It’s been described as a “prose-based novel” accompanied by photographic art.

“It’s actually more a novel. Mitch did all the photos, and so it will be more like a giant coffee table book than anything else. But the writing itself is extremely dense,” Doseone told music website Pitchfork.

“It’s a prose-based novel, and it’s too confusing for me to try and correctly encapsulate. But it is about, uh, a co-worker of Alan’s and somehow seemingly about Alan himself. And it’s about the comic industry, the world of magic, the world we live in, the world we don’t live in. Really fantastic writing.”

The art rap veteran is to work on the project with long time collaborator and friend Andrew Broder, best known for his music with Fog.

“It’s full of recurring themes, and all this recurring writing breaks and reconstructs its phrasings over and over again throughout,” he continued. “So we kinda found those motifs, brought them all in and out, and then made holes in it, where we made things recur and then patched the holes.”

• Unearthed will be released in 2010.

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