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Padraig - who has written 23 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog.
Kickstarter – Tim Pilcher’s Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics
You’re thinking to yourself, ’I’ve never heard of Tim Pilcher’, but you’d probably be wrong. While he was working in the London Vertigo office, and before that in London’s genuinely prestigious Comic Showcase comic shop, Pilcher met all sorts of people, like Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and many other British comics luminaries. And [...]
Continue reading...Not Really A Review of Black Dossier, In Any Real Sense, More an Examination of One Tiny Part of It
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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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 [...]
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