This project would not exist without Alan Moore’s writing, Dave Gibbons’s art and lettering, and John Higgins’s colors.
It was the summer of 1988. I first encountered Watchmen at summer camp, in individual issues.
My counsellor, Jason Rosenfeld, let me read them. He also took the time to explain the metaphors, the concepts and the subtext so I could understand what I was reading.
That introduction is part of the story of A Clock For No One. Before the Minecraft palace, there were those issues and the person who helped me read them.
Andrew David Baron · Personal recollection
Writer and co-creator of Watchmen. This artwork returns to the story’s questions about time, humanity and Dr. Manhattan’s distance from human life.
Artist and co-creator of Watchmen. His drawings of the Martian palace are the visual source for this reconstruction. Every study of its gears, cups, rings and needles begins with those panels.
Original colorist of Watchmen. His pinks, purples, blues and yellows give the Martian scenes their changing atmosphere. The glass palace and this site’s visual language both draw on that color work.
In A Clock For No One, I will make the journey to Mars in Minecraft Survival and build the glass palace by hand. This page acknowledges the creators whose work made that journey imaginable, and Jason Rosenfeld, who introduced me to it at eleven, in the summer of 1988.
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