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Alex’s audio round-up

20. January 2011

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As a crisp, frosty January Thursday shines across the land here’s Alex Fitch to shed a little glow of winter sunlight with some of his up and coming radio and podcast shows. And oh my, just look who he has as guest tonight! Really, have a look, swoon with excitement, look again to check you [...]

Matt B talks to Jim Campbell

10. January 2011

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Matthew Badham has posted up an interview with artist, designer and letterer Jim Campbell on his blog; the talk covers not only the often under-appreciated art of comics lettering but also on the state of the industry, how trimming budgets can affect production, especially in the less-visible but nonetheless vital aspects of comics publishing like [...]

The Spurge talks to Dan Clowes

9. January 2011

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Just before the Christmas holidays we pointed you to the start of a series of Holiday Interviews that Tom Spurgeon was posting up on the fine Comics Reporter. At that point there were already several up already, all long, in-depth, fascinating pieces with a variety of people in the comics industry. Well Tom’s still going [...]

CR’s holiday interviews

23. December 2010

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The always excellent Tom Spurgeon has been posting up a series of of holiday interviews, with Joe Casey, Karl Stevens and Matt Seneca. I suspect most of us today and tomorrow will be too busy either finishing off work before the holidays or are already lucky enough to be off and trying to finish wrapping [...]

Rogue Trooper Round Table

13. December 2010

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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 [...]

The cat’s out of the bag – Juan Diaz Canales talks about Blacksad #4 (part 2)

10. December 2010

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This is the second part of the interview by Stripgids editor-in-chief Toon Horsten with Blacksad writer Juan Diaz Canales (you can read the first part here). In this part, we discuss the state of the Spanish comic market, telling stories with flashbacks, and Diaz Canales’ and artist Juanjo Guarnido’s future projects. We would like to [...]

Orson Welles as a hippo – Juan Diaz Canales talks about Blacksad #4 (part 1)

9. December 2010

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It’s taken five years, but this fall a new Blacksad book finally arrived on the continent. A comic with animals behaving like people, living in a world that looks eerily like an American crime movie set in the 50s. “We really do a casting each time we need a new character, to discuss which animals [...]

More Medway

6. December 2010

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Kenny has been following up his original Q&A with Jim Medway we posted on Friday and we’ve now updated it; in addition to discussing the launch of the new Comical Animal bimonthly online series they both discuss getting younger readers interested in comics in the face of various other distractions and the relative merits of [...]

“Arrakis. Dune. Desert planet”

6. December 2010

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Tom at the always excellent Comics Reporter points us to the Grantbridge Street blog posting on Marvel’s official adaptation of the movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune by Ralph Macchio and Bill Sienkkiewicz. Blue on blue eyes, the Spice, giant worms and Sting in those classic blue plastic pants may be [...]

Comical Animal Launches: an Interview with Jim Medway

3. December 2010

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Jim Medway is a well known name in the UK comics field, with his own work (his Crab Lane Crew in the DFC was a particular favourite of our own Richard and Molly), comics workshops and now a new project, an online, bi-monthly comic drawing on a range of contributing talents and aimed squarely at [...]

Alex’s audio round-up

18. November 2010

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As a chilly November Thursday blows in here’s Alex Fitch offering us the radio version of hot chesnuts to warm us up. As ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site. Panel Borders – Chase Batwoman, Promethea, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards on Panel [...]

David O’Connell interviews Ellen Lindner

17. November 2010

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The fine David O’Connell interviews the equally fine Ellen Lindner ahead of this weekend’s Thought Bubble in Leeds – you really should go and read it, it’s interesting stuff, from Ellen starting with superhero comics to get in with ‘cool boys’ at school to discovering Indy comics, women in the medium and, naturally, the excellent [...]

Denny O’Neill speaks

8. November 2010

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Legendary comics scribe and editor Denny O’Neill features in a whole bunch of videos uploaded recently by the Comics Archive, discussing how he got started in comics, complete with some hitch-hiking and Stan Lee: Writer Denny O’Neil’s Road to New York and Marvel Comics from The Comic Archive on Vimeo. The Silver Age and working [...]

Tom Spurgeon talks to Sarah Glidden

8. November 2010

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Among the most recent releases of graphic novels I’ve seen wafting their way to our shelves Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 days or Less from DC/Vertigo is one that struck me as a book I think I’d really like to read. After Tom Spurgeon on Comics Reporter inteviewed Sarah yesterday I find [...]

Judith Vanistendael discusses Dance by the Light of the Moon

3. November 2010

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SelfMadeHero has a short video interview with Belgian artist Judith Vanistendael discussing her beautiful part-biographic graphic novel Dance by the Light of the Moon, which we loved so much we reviewed it twice (Richard’s review, my thoughts here) – it really is a lovely work, highly recommended. Dance By the Light of the Moon – [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Matt B talks to Jim Campbell

The Spurge talks to Dan Clowes

CR’s holiday interviews

Rogue Trooper Round Table

The cat’s out of the bag – Juan Diaz Canales talks about Blacksad #4 (part 2)

Orson Welles as a hippo – Juan Diaz Canales talks about Blacksad #4 (part 1)

More Medway

“Arrakis. Dune. Desert planet”

Comical Animal Launches: an Interview with Jim Medway

Alex’s audio round-up

David O’Connell interviews Ellen Lindner

Denny O’Neill speaks

Tom Spurgeon talks to Sarah Glidden

Judith Vanistendael discusses Dance by the Light of the Moon

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