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Matt B - who has written 20 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
Friday, January 29, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Best of the year: Matthew’s picks
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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: Chloe [...]
Continue reading...Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett
Friday, October 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay
Friday, October 16, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin
Friday, October 9, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood
Friday, August 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tony’s Terrible Tea-time Torture Show: an interview with Tony Lee
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Tony Lee has been a writer for over twenty years and has worked in pretty much every medium, but in recent years has chosen to concentrate mainly on comics. In this interview, he talks mostly about his work for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as his experience of scripting Doctor Who [...]
Continue reading...We are Family: A conversation with Vicky Stonebridge
Friday, July 31, 2009
In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]
Continue reading...“We like original voices…”: A conversation with Jay Eales
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]
Continue reading...Good, Trashy Fun: An Interview with John Higgins
Friday, June 5, 2009
John Higgins is one of the most respected comic artists working today, with a long career that has seen him illustrate everything from Future Shocks to Jonah Hex. In this interview with regular contributor Matt Badham, John talks about his weird horror strip Razorjack (a title he self-published and then took to British indie comics [...]
Continue reading...Something for Everyone: a conversation with Shane Chebsey
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]
Continue reading...“Then We Bought Some Chairs”: Matt Badham in conversation with Oli Smith
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions (your British Comics Network!) are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, [...]
Continue reading...The Man from Death Planet: Matt Badham talks with Al Ewing
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Al Ewing is one of 2000 AD’s rising stars. In the last seven years he’s written numerous Future Shocks and Terror Tales (these one-off twist-in-the-tale stories have long been the acknowledged route into the comic for fledgling creators; even Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman tried their hand on Future Shocks once upon a time) and [...]
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- Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars
- Al Davison’s Gaimanda
- Steve Whittaker and Mooncat’s comic DIY
- Scott Pilgrim – July 20th 2010.
- Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements
- Movement from the still image
- Slagsmålsklubben – a modern take on Little Red Riding Hood
- Alex’s audio round-up
- Jonathan Ross to interview Matthew Vaughn online next week
- Steve Bell on the church cover-ups
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