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I'm another fan of "Watchmen"; are there other such you
can recommend? I know about "Maus".
The Dark Night Returns and V: For Vendetta are usually mentioned in the same breath as Watchmen (which means you've probably heard of them already too).
I think Moore's "Miracleman" work (collected in, er, three or four trade paperback volumes) is arguably even better than Watchmen, though with art by several diverse artists, visually it's a lot less coherent. Neil Gaiman's brief coda to the Miracleman saga, collected in "Miracleman, The Golden Age," is equally good (perhaps surprisingly so, given that at the time Gaiman was still an up-and-comer).
Then you might check out Grant Morrison's work -- his Doom Patrol stuff is fantastic, though a bit bizarre. The first six or so issues are collected in a trade paperback entitled "Crawling From The Wreckage," and though the rest of the run (40+ issues) is available only in the original back issues, they're well worth tracking down. Morrison is currently in the middle of "The Invisibles," the first eight issues of which are also available in a trade paperback entitled "Say You Want A Revolution." Also terrific stuff. While most of Morrison's stuff is inherently post-modern, that element of his work reached a high point a couple summers back in a short series called "Flex Mentallo," which is due to be reprinted soon in paperback as well.
For starters.... <grin>
John