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Rogue Trooper Round Table

Monday, December 13, 2010

Rogue Trooper is one of science fiction comic 2000 AD’s most iconic characters. A deserter in a future war, he roams the barren surface of Nu Earth, a chemical ruin of a planet, on a sworn mission to avenge his dead comrades from the Quartz Zone Massacre. On this mission he is accompanied by three [...]

Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre

Friday, September 24, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre is, as regular readers will know, a huge favourite of your FP blog crew (not least with our cub reporter, young Molly) for her comics and her illustration work, as well as for her sparkly tiaras at comics and book events. This autumn sees the second wave of graphic novel collections from the [...]

Exercises in Instant Gratification: an interview with Tom Humberstone

Friday, August 13, 2010

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Tom Humberstone is a cartoonist and editor. As the man behind such comics as Art School Scum, My Fellow Americans and How To Date A Girl In 10 Days, he’s had critical plaudits aplenty. Also, in 2008, he was the winner of the Eagle award for ‘Favourite British Black and White Comic’. In this interview, [...]

More Ways to Explode: an interview with Boo Cook

Monday, July 26, 2010

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Boo Cook has been working in comics for just about a decade, drawing strips such as A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Dredd, Asylum, Damnation Station and Judge Anderson for 2000 AD. He’s also worked in American comics as one of the many artists contributing to Richard Starking’s Elephantmen and on X-Factor for Marvel. For this chin-wag, Matthew [...]

Thank God he got fired!: an interview with Dan McDaid

Friday, June 4, 2010

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Dan McDaid is a regular contributor to the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) and the artist on Image’s Jersey Gods. (He’s also one of my personal favourite cartoonists.) In this interview with the FPI blog, he talks about his work on Who, taking a back seat in terms of the writing chores on [...]

Psychiatric Tales – Darryl Cunningham on the couch with Matthew Badham

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Matthew Badham talked to Darryl Cunningham just before the publication of Psychiatric Tales in the UK (from Blank Slate; a US edition is due next year by Bloomsbury) for CBR. He’s just re-posted it on his own blog and with Psychiatric Tales now on our shelves (come in and have a look, it’s highly recommended [...]

‘A Life-Changing Experience’: Talking 45 with Andi Ewington

Friday, April 9, 2010

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Writer Andi Ewington is the man behind 45, a new, and critically acclaimed, illustrated book from British independent comic company, Com.X. In this interview, Andi talks to the Forbidden Planet International blog about fulfilling his childhood dreams, leaving a legacy for his son and why we haven’t heard the last of the world he designed [...]

Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Richmond Clements is one of the busiest men working on the British independent comics scene today. While holding down a full-time job, he manages to (co-) run a successful convention (Hi-Ex! in Inverness), co-edit several small press anthologies and has even, recently, been scripting various comic projects. Matt Badham caught up with him recently to [...]

The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Creators Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi have been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since, respectively, 1998 and 2002. In 2008, they teamed up for the first time and brought us the espionage horror Necessary Monsters, which was initially available in weekly instalments online before seeing release in print form as mini-comics. The series is [...]

Best of the year: Matthew’s picks

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year selection comes from Matt Badham, freelance writer (with work appearing in the Judge Dredd Megazine, Tripwire, 2000 AD, Comics International and more), interviewer, keen supporter of UK comics talent and a regular contributor to the blog. Eschewing the regular format Matt is instead concentrating soley on comics; over to Matt: [...]

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and bad about [...]

Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Over the last few weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and [...]

You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay

Friday, October 16, 2009

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Over the previous and the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate [...]

Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Over recent and upcoming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s [...]

For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood

Friday, August 14, 2009

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In the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As with the organisers of various British comic conventions talking to Matt Badham. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s [...]

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Rogue Trooper Round Table

Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre

Exercises in Instant Gratification: an interview with Tom Humberstone

More Ways to Explode: an interview with Boo Cook

Thank God he got fired!: an interview with Dan McDaid

Psychiatric Tales – Darryl Cunningham on the couch with Matthew Badham

‘A Life-Changing Experience’: Talking 45 with Andi Ewington

Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements

The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Best of the year: Matthew’s picks

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay

Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin

For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood

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