The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

It’s Sunday morning and you really don’t want to get out of bed to pick up the Sunday papers yet but fancy a bit of entertaining reading? Ah, we have the perfect solution.

(Joe Sacco photograph by Richard Saker from the Guardian website.)

First up a quick interview in the Guardian with Joe Sacco, discussing his career and his latest book: Footnotes In Gaza, which looks like it may miss out on some best of year lists by sheer misfortune of coming out slightly too late. From past history and advance looks that’s the only reason its not going to be one of many people’s books of the year.

And then to finish, here’s Eddie Campbell, whose Alec: The Years Have Pants is soon to be released (available in hardcover and softcover) It’s another one that will no doubt be a contender for best of year – again, if it comes out in time! He’s interviewed over on Italian site Comicus. The English version of this extensive interview is halfway down the page and, as is usual with one of comics funniest raconteurs, there are some wonderful quotes…..

“My two most asked questions are “Where did you get your ideas?” and “How mad is Alan Moore?” He’s a magnificent fellow. He’s a genius. In all my life if I ever met somebody I thought was a genius it’d be him, he would be the one. Because his head’s full of information and ideas. It doesn’t matters if he loses his idea because Hollywood steal it and makes the mess of it, he’ll have another idea tomorrow and he always will have another idea; I’ve never met anybody who always have another idea tomorrow.”

“I love to paint through the colour. I do it all by hand, I think I’m the last person that paint the books you know rather than colour on the computer. I’m trying to get somebody to teach me how to do it, how to colour on the computer. I’m looking for a seven-year-old who can tell me how to do it.”