Still, I haven’t bought a thing of his since he wrote Lost Girls.

That said, none of the ABC line sold particularly well when it came out either though the collections have been perennial sellers like most of his oeuvre, with DC putting out multiple formats of TOP TEN and PROMETHEA and the LOEG comics they still own. 

Moore's run on SAGA OF SWAMP THING with Bissette, Totleben, and Vietch remains one of my favorite runs of any mainstream comic (along with JB's FANTASTIC FOUR and ALPHA FLIGHT and the Giffen and Dematteis and Maguire JUSTICE LEAGUE). 

I am sorry to see him go, but, like I've stated, he's barely been sticking a toe in comics since he left most of the ABC line at DC. 

As for whether he's a fan of comics or not, he has stated he loves the medium but hates the industry.  HERBIE is his favorite comic and he's a huge fan of the Lee, Kirby, and Ditko Marvel comics. He's also a huge fan of those early MAD issues by Kurtzman, in particular, Superduperman by Kurtzman and Wally Wood which obviously influenced him on things like WATCHMEN.

He also hated that the thing folks did after WATCHMEN was to take comics in a grim and gritty direction and suck all the fun out of comics and felt partially responsible for that. Things like TOM STRONG and JACK B. QUICK were him trying to do fun comics again, but he no longer had the influence he once had while working on the more prominent IPs that he had in the 80's. So comics are still stuck doing the grim and gritty like reviving Moore's BLACKEST NIGHT idea and DOOMSDAY CLOCK vastly out-selling Moore's current work. Moore also hates the KILLING JOKE (other than the art) and blames that for a lot of what comics became after.

I honestly don't see WATCHMEN having much influence at all until DC put out IDENTITY CRISIS, which was and is an awful story.

I enjoyed what i read of his stories, and defending the rights of writers and artists rather than a compagny is a good fight, though the way he does it may sometime let me skeptical, and wondering what part of it is fighting this fight and what part is acting like a diva.

He also seems to come to quick conclusions on weak basis, on some topics like Stan Lee.

I also am not a fan of the rock star mentality, even whith rock stars, and i'm even less a fan of it when it comes to comics writers or artists. (Some others that came later may be more guilty of it than him though, even if he probably inspired them)

And there're a few other things i read in an interview of him around 1999 or 2000 that i didn't like.

All this being say the public image of an artist (writer, artist, painter, musician, etc...) and the person are two different things. For all i know, he may be (the lost girls thing, that i didn't read, and the thing from the interview i was talking about, excepted), a decent guy.

I like his work. but nobody is irreplaceable, even if each creator is somehow unique. He was, and probably will be in other media, an interresting voice, a good storyteller.