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Murray Gold talks Doctor Who Live

15. October 2010

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Doctor Who site Blink points us towards this video from Digital Spy, a quick chat with Doctor Who composer Murray Gold behind the scenes at the Doctor Who Live show (have any of you been to the shows so far? How was it?).

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Opening the Cages – Pádraig talks with Dave McKean

8. October 2010

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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 [...]

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FPNYC’s Jeff Ayers interviewed

8. October 2010

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Among the many videocasts and interviews appearing on the Comic Archive’s video uploads I can’t help but notice that the New York Forbidden Planet‘s Jeff Ayers is the subject of one, discussing comics retailing, from why (or why not) to stock back issues, the comics to merchandise mixture, the constant struggle for space to show [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

7. October 2010

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Another Thursday rolls around and Alex Fitch is here to update us on some of the shows he’s involved with over the next few days. As usual check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: The Sound of Drowning and Gentlemen Corpses, tonight at 5pm on [...]

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“We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman” – Jerry Robinson in the NYT

6. October 2010

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“Villains, I always thought, were more interesting … I think the name came first: the Joker. Then I thought of the playing card,” the great Jerry Robinson talks to the New York Times about the creation of the Batman’s nemesis,  as the new Abrams book Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics, hit shelves. Our own Richard [...]

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Joe Kubert at the Comic Archive

4. October 2010

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I’ve been trawling more four-colour delights courtesy of the Comic Archive’s stash of video goodness following some of those fine video interviews we mentioned last week and, oh look, there’s even more comics pleasure to be had from the CA folks, including several videos featuring the great Joe Kubert (we’re not worthy, we’re not worthy…), [...]

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Collected Comics Library talks to Dean Mullaney

4. October 2010

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Chris Marshall at the weekly Collected Comics Library talks to Dean Mullaney, creative director of IDW’s Library of American Comics imprint, discussing the increasingly impressive range and the titles in store for the future, including collections on Alex Toth, Chuck Jones’ Complete Crawford and an Ultimate Alex Raymond, as well as more of the Complete [...]

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Comics Archive talks to Richard Starkings

1. October 2010

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I’m enjoying the treasure trove of video interviews the Comics Archive has been posting up; here’s one with the excellent Richard Starkings: Interview with Comics Letterer/Writer Richard Starkings from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Alex’s audio round-up

30. September 2010

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It’s a lovely autumnal Thursday and Alex Fitch has paused from picking brambles to fill us in on his upcoming shows; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Gleaming the Silver Surfer, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards on Panel Borders Concluding our [...]

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Steve Niles interviewed

30. September 2010

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Another video interview from The Comic Archive’s uploads to enjoy, this time a chat with comics horror-meister Steve Niles: Interview with Comics Writer Steve Niles from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Simon Fraser video interview

29. September 2010

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The Comic Archive has a number of video interviews up online, including this one with 2000 AD and Act-I-Vate artist Simon Fraser: Interview with comics writer & artist Simon Fraser from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre

24. September 2010

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Sarah McIntyre is, as regular readers will know, a huge favourite of your FP blog crew (not least with our cub reporter, young Molly) for her comics and her illustration work, as well as for her sparkly tiaras at comics and book events. This autumn sees the second wave of graphic novel collections from the [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

23. September 2010

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It’s Thursday once more and that means Alex Fitch has to stop playing conkers in the playground to fill us in on some of the shows he’s involved with in the next few days. As ever for more details and podcasts of previous programmes you can check the Panel Borders site: Panel Borders: AC / [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

16. September 2010

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It’s Thursday and that means it’s time for Alex Fitch to tell us about some of the comics and SF related radio and podcasts he’s involved with; as always check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Making Marvel in the UK Part 2, tonight at [...]

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Cuba and comics

16. September 2010

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Jamin Brophy-Warren on the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy talks to Inverna Lockpez and Dean Haspiel about their collaboration on the recently published (and very interesting looking) Cuba: My Revolution: “When did you start talking about working together? Lockpez: It was three years ago. Dean was insistent that I needed to write it down, but there [...]

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