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Matt B - who has written 27 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Tony’s Terrible Tea-time Torture Show: an interview with Tony Lee
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
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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
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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 [...]
Continue reading...Clearing the line – Matt Badham talks to Garen Ewing
Friday, February 13, 2009
A very special treat for you today as Matthew Badham sits down for a good, long chat with Garen Ewing, looking back to what drew him into creating comics, his early work in fanzines, self-publishing and then moving into being a professional write/artist with work in the very well received DFC comic and, of course [...]
Continue reading...O Men and gay superheroes in Brighton – Matt Badham dons his sparkliest spandex to talk to Martin Eden
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Martin Eden is the writer and artist behind the Eagle award-nominated comic, The O Men, an action-packed superhero soap opera. By day he’s a mild-mannered magazine editor, but at night he becomes a whirling dervish of creativity, whose comics are some of the most popular on the ever-burgeoning British independent comics scene. Matt Badham tracked [...]
Continue reading...Reading Dr Doolittle to Cows: An interview with Oliver East
Friday, May 30, 2008
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Oliver East is the writer and artist behind indie comic Trains are Mint, whose first three issues have recently been collected by fledgling publisher Blank Slate. The comic charts Oliver’s walks along routes in and around Manchester. In this interview, recorded in a café in Manchester, he talks about his art education, the concept behind [...]
Continue reading...Writing on a Blank Slate – Matthew Badham talks to FPI’s Kenny Penman
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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As many of our regular readers will know our own Kenny Penman has been heavily involved in not only selling and promoting good new comics material, he’s now involved in actually publishing them through the new Blank Slate imprint, starting with Oliver East’s Trains Are Mint and a translation of German cartoonist Mawil’s work We [...]
Continue reading...A Storytelling Thing: an interview with Paul Grist
Friday, January 11, 2008
Paul Grist has worked for, amongst others, DC Thomson, Marvel, DC and Dark Horse, but is probably best known for his self-published comics, Kane and Jack Staff. In this exclusive interview for the Forbidden Planet International Blog, Paul talks about making comics, self-publishing and why both Kane and Jack Staff are now being published by [...]
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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