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Padraig - who has written 22 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Not Really A Review of Black Dossier, In Any Real Sense, More an Examination of One Tiny Part of It
In March this year Knockabout published the first British edition of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sourcebook, Black Dossier. In theory, this should be the first time that this book is available on this side of the Atlantic, even though it was published in America in 2007, five years ago now. [...]
Continue reading...Voices from the past – A Few Words With Grant Morrison About We3
Monday, November 21, 2011
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This short interview with Grant Morrison took place when his collaboration with Frank Quitely for DC Comics, We3, had just been published, around 2005, and first saw light of day on a fondly remembered science fiction review site, The Alien Online, which some of you may recall reading. TAO grew out of the staff recommendations [...]
Continue reading...Mick Anglo – 1916-2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
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Earlier this week we received news of the death of Mick Anglo, the British comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher, most famous for his association with the creation of the comic character Marvelman. Anglo died, aged 95 on 31st October 2011. Pádraig Ó Méalóid has kindly produced this extensive obituary for the FPI Blog. Mick [...]
Continue reading...Lunar man – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore
Friday, November 11, 2011
Recently we mentioned on the blog that Steve Moore, scribe of many an essay, book and comic, friend and mentor to Alan Moore, had a fascinating new novel, Somnium, coming out, and as it is a book that carries an endorsement not only by Alan but also from Michael Moorcock it is quite obviously a [...]
Continue reading...he’s a legal alien – Padraig talks to Peter Hogan
Friday, October 21, 2011
I like Peter Hogan. We met over the ‘net when I interviewed him for this very blog (see here), and we immediately got on. I found that he was involved in all sorts of interesting things that struck a chord with me, like the British comic magazine Revolver, of which I still cherish fond memories. [...]
Continue reading...It’s 1969, ok? Pádraig talks with Kevin O’Neill
Friday, September 30, 2011
Well alright! It’s 1969 ok We got a war across the USA There’s nothing here for me and you We’re just sitting here with nothing to do There’s nothing here for me and you Another year with nothing to do. (1969 – The Stooges) (cover art to LOEG Century 1969 by and (c) Messrs Alan [...]
Continue reading...A couple of extraordinary gentlemen chat – Pádraig talks to Alan Moore about the new LOEG Century
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Our resident expert on all things Alan Moore, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, talked on the phone to the man himself for an interview with the 3am site a few weeks back (which you should go and read if you haven’t already). And while they were chatting Alan was also kind enough to talk to Pádraig specifically [...]
Continue reading...Opening the Cages – Pádraig talks with Dave McKean
Friday, October 8, 2010
Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to another of Blighty’s top creators -- comics artist, illustrator, animator, photographer, film maker, Dave McKean‘s endlessly fascinating visuals have crossed media to create some wonderful (and oft-imitated) images from Violent Cases and the beautiful Signal to Noise to MirrorMask and even some wonderful art for Heston Blumenthal’s cookery book. He [...]
Continue reading...Music and comics: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Peter Hogan
Friday, September 10, 2010
That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid strikes once more, pouncing on another unsuspecting comics writer, pen and pad in hand, armed with a bandolier of questions as he talks to the fine Peter Hogan about his early comics reading (a slew of classic Brit comics many of us grew up on), being exposed to his first [...]
Continue reading...Rabbit holes, badger detectives and cherubs – part two of Bryan Talbot’s interview with Pádraig
Friday, October 2, 2009
Following yesterday’s terrific chat between Bryan Talbot and Pádraig Ó Méalóid (which can be read here) today we bring you the second half, where we mostly move on to more recent work from Bryan, such as the magnificent, years-in-the-making Alice in Sunderland, cross-gender anonymity with the ‘Veronique Tanaka’ silent comic experiment (which took me in, [...]
Continue reading...The road from Wigan Pier: Bryan Talbot talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, part one
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Today we have a wonderful treat for you – that notorious masked interviewer Pádraig Ó Méalóid has a cracking new interview for us, this time with the brilliant Bryan Talbot (or I should say Doctor Bryan Talbot now!) and, like his previous Alan Moore interviews here, its a long and in-depth piece, so we’re going [...]
Continue reading...Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Regular readers will know that we’ve been following Garen Ewing‘s delightful Rainbow Orchid series with great pleasure for some years, in limited print versions and online and we’ve kept up with Garen as it progressed, so it seemed right that now Egmont have published the first Rainbow Orchid book (I’m tempted to use the European [...]
Continue reading...What’s Your Opinion Of The Term “Graphic Novel”?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
+ (Borrowed from David S Carter’s Flickr.) Our very own interview king Pádraig Ó Méalóid set this question last week on his live journal blog (and we linked to it then) but we thought it was well worth posting here on the FPI blog as well to let more folks see it. So with Pádraig’s [...]
Continue reading...The Thoughts of the Artist: Eddie Campbell talks to Pádraig
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]
Continue reading...The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore
Friday, May 8, 2009
Welcome to the third and final leg of this week’s Mighty Moore Marathon; this week I think we’re supplying 100% of your RDA of Vitamin M (if you are playing catch up you can find the first part here and the second part here). At the end of the last episode Pádraig and Alan were [...]
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