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Matt B - who has written 34 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Trip City Round Table part two
In December, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent maverick reporter Stilts McGoon to Noo Yawk to talk to some of the boys (and gals) behind Trip City. The result was the first part of our Trip City roundtable. In this much-delayed second part (Sorry, Joe – Stilts) McGoon chats to more of the people – [...]
Continue reading...Manchester’s answer to Joel Silver: An interview with Gareth Kavanagh
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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When the Forbidden Planet International blog heard that there was going to be a new stage version of Halo Jones produced at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester (a spot already well known to local science fiction and comics fans), they sent roving reporter Bat Cardigan to find out what it was all about! The [...]
Continue reading...Trip City Round Table, part one
Friday, December 16, 2011
The website Trip City describes itself as a ‘Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Salon’, an intriguing and heady mixture of prose, comics, photography and more. Intrigued by just what this meant, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent ace reporter Stilts McGoon, equipped with battered Fedora, old Mac coat and enquiring attitude, to the city that never sleeps to [...]
Continue reading...Best of the year – Matt Badham
Friday, December 16, 2011
Today’s Best of the Year choices come from freelance writer, comics commentator (including frequently in the Megazine and here on the blog, I’m pleased to say) and staunch supporter of the UK Indy comics scene, Matthew Badham: Low Life: The Deal in 2000 AD (by Rob Williams and D’Israeli from Rebellion) – Dirty Frank, an [...]
Continue reading...The Thrill Electric – Matt talks with Leah Moore and John Reppion
Friday, November 4, 2011
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Occasional Forbidden Planet International blog contributor Matt Badham recently decided to have a chat with scriptwriting team Leah Moore and John Reppion about their latest project, The Thrill Electric, which just started posting on Channel 4’s site last week. The result was the following interview: MB: How did you come up with the idea for [...]
Continue reading...The musings of Matt – This is an Occasional Column #1
Thursday, September 29, 2011
I asked the Forbidden Planet International (FPI) blog to give me a column and they said yes. I suppose this is because we have an established relationship, they want some content and I’ll be writing it for free (and it is nothing to do with those incriminating pictures we have of Matt posing with several [...]
Continue reading...Dredd Again: An interview with John Tomlinson
Friday, August 5, 2011
During his career, John Tomlinson has worked for just about everyone in British comics publishing as either a writer or editor (including Marvel UK, 2000 AD and Tundra). This conversation has been compiled from the unused parts of a 5000-word interview with John Tomlinson conducted by Matt Badham recently for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre
Friday, September 24, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...‘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 [...]
Continue reading...Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements
Friday, March 19, 2010
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 [...]
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