The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay

16. October 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 [...]

Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed

15. October 2009

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Chris Randle managed to get time to chat with Yoshihiro Tatsumi, creator of the acclaimed D&Q titles Push Man, Good-bye, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and the recent A Drifting Life, at this year’s TCAF (via Chris at Comics 212): “CR: You mentioned Tezuka, and there’s a few times in the book where he’s depicted as [...]

Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin

9. October 2009

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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 [...]

Peter F Hamilton talks

7. October 2009

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One of the UK’s best exponents of huge-scale space opera science fiction, Peter F Hamilton, answers questions sent in by readers as the paperback edition of the second of his massive Void trilogy series, The Temporal Void, hits the shelves. In typical Peter style it is an enormous book and yet still skips by at [...]

Rabbit holes, badger detectives and cherubs – part two of Bryan Talbot’s interview with Pádraig

2. October 2009

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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, [...]

Alex’s audio round-up

1. October 2009

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Another Thursday blows in and dragging himself away from indulging in Peanuts style jumping into piles of fallen leaves here’s Alex Fitch with details of the comics and SF shows he’s involved with over the new week; as usual check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows. Strip!: Talking [...]

The road from Wigan Pier: Bryan Talbot talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, part one

1. October 2009

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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 [...]

Harvey Pekar talks to Josh McCutchen

1. October 2009

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Smithmag (home of some great online comics over the last few years) offers up a short video interview with our favourite comics curmudgeon, the one and only Harvey Pekar talking to Josh McCutchen (via Journalista)

Alex’s audio round-up

24. September 2009

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Its another Thursday and kicking piles of falling leaves and fiddling with his conkers comes Alex Fitch to tell us about his latest shows; as usual for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site: Strip!: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga, tonight on Resonance FM at 5pm, podcast afterwards [...]

An illustrated interview about Iran

22. September 2009

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Isaac Littlejohn Eddy interviews Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: theParadox of Modern Iran, which isn’t directly related to our normal comics field of coverage, except, rather interestingly, he’s included some rather neat comics-style illustrations to go along with the audio segments, which makes the whole thing seem more friendly and accessible, [...]

Alex’s audio round-up

17. September 2009

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It’s Thursday and its time for Alex Fitch to update us to the next batch of upcoming shows he’s involved with; as ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site: Strip!: In the company of women, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards at Panel Borders Continuing “women [...]

ICV2 talks to Berke Breathed

17. September 2009

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ICV2 has a short chat with Berkley Breathed ahead of the first volume of IDW’s very welcome Bloom County Complete Library, which is due next month (we asked Bill the Cat for a comment, he simply replied “Ack! Ack! Thhhpptttt!” – make of that what you will): “ICV2: Some of the strips that will be included [...]

Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig

17. September 2009

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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 [...]

What’s Your Opinion Of The Term “Graphic Novel”?

25. August 2009

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+ (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 permission we’re [...]

Tripwire Annual 2009: classy, classy magazine. As expected.

17. August 2009

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Tripwire Annual 2009 Editor-in-chief Joel Meadows First of all, before we go any further into this one – isn’t that a great cover? The Nick Fury/Samuel L. Jackson image is by Jeff Carlisle after Shepard Fairey. Okay, onto the insides: Meadows and crew have worked very hard, yet again, to make a magazine that could be, should be, [...]

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You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay

Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed

Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin

Peter F Hamilton talks

Rabbit holes, badger detectives and cherubs – part two of Bryan Talbot’s interview with Pádraig

Alex’s audio round-up

The road from Wigan Pier: Bryan Talbot talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, part one

Harvey Pekar talks to Josh McCutchen

Alex’s audio round-up

An illustrated interview about Iran

Alex’s audio round-up

ICV2 talks to Berke Breathed

Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig

What’s Your Opinion Of The Term “Graphic Novel”?

Tripwire Annual 2009: classy, classy magazine. As expected.

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