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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

14. May 2009

This week Alex goes from Leah Moore and John Reppion discussing two of Victorian literature’s most enduring characters, Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, to talking to Oscar winning scribe of wonderfully odd films, Charlie Kaufman as well as offering up some audio coverage of the recent Arthur C Clarke Awards; as ever check the Panel Borders [...]

The Man from Death Planet: Matt Badham talks with Al Ewing

13. May 2009

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Al Ewing is one of 2000 AD’s rising stars. In the last seven years he’s written numerous Future Shocks and Terror Tales (these one-off twist-in-the-tale stories have long been the acknowledged route into the comic for fledgling creators; even Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman tried their hand on Future Shocks once upon a time) and [...]

Neil Gaiman video interview

8. May 2009

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Good chum of the blog the Times’ Michael Moran has a video interview up with Neil Gaiman ahead of the film version of his children’s novel Coraline (finally) opening in the UK this weekend, go and check it out.

The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore

8. May 2009

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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 [...]

Language, Joyce, Newton, Bojeffries, magic and drugs advice – part two of Pádraig’s with Alan Moore

7. May 2009

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Well we hope you enjoyed the first part of Pádraig’s chat with Alan Moore yesterday. Today we have even more yummy goodness for you in this second part, as Alan and Pádraig discuss what Alan is working on next, from the Bumper Book of Magic to Jerusalem and possible future (or, chronologically speaking, past) LOEG [...]

Talking to an Extraordinary Gentleman of letters part one – Pádraig chats with Alan Moore

6. May 2009

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Well we’ve been teasing you for a while now that Pádraig Ó Méalóid had managed to get his travel visa stamped for entry to that strange, sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing, always fascinating mythical land which lies on a distant part of the ever changing map that is formed from the mind, thoughts and words of [...]

Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

30. April 2009

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As the traditional rain clouds gather ahead of the holiday weekend Alex Fitch dances in the rain for our entertainment and delight, bringing us news of radio and podcast shows and some events he’s involved with over the next week or so, including several panels at Sci-Fi London which look very interesting (and I’m sure [...]

Download David Tennant interview

24. April 2009

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BBC Radio 6Music’s Stephen Merchant chatted with David Tennant a few days ago and not only is it available on the Listen Again feature (which is time limited), the lovely Beeb people have made it available as a completely free podcast (or stream if you’d rather) to download and keep! Nice! (David Tennant performs his world [...]

From Our Continental Correspondent – Waste Not, Want Not: Le Sketch

23. April 2009

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Le Sketch is the idea of the moment: why waste the paper trims that are cut off from normal print jobs (after the pages of a book are cut to size), when you can use them to promote good comic art? That’s what American cartoonist Matt Madden and Portuguese designer Paulo Patricio thought when they [...]

Sheri S Tepper talks to the ‘Nest

21. April 2009

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The SF Crowsnest talks to the frankly brilliant author Sheri S Tepper about her latest work, The Margarets (a contender for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award), and her long and distinguished career. I love Tepper’s work – Grass is a superb piece that should be on the shelf of any serious SF reader – [...]

‘Commando’ Keith Page interviewed on DTT

17. April 2009

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John Freeman tells us that Jeremy Briggs has posted up an interview with Keith Page, stalwart artist on a number of DC Thomson’s Commando Books (which have been enjoying a bit of a nostalgic renaissance recently with some massive and enjoyable compilation editions) as well as working on 2000 AD, Eagle and many others, over [...]

Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

16. April 2009

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Another Thursday rears up out of the cold, gray mist (ahhh, summertime…) and that means its time for Alex Fitch to tantalise us with some new aural delights; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to archived podcast versions of previous shows: Strip! Comic Boom, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, [...]

Part 2 of Adi Tantimedh’s interview with Alan Moore

16. April 2009

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The second part of Adi Tantimedh’s chat with Alan Moore has been posted up on CBR, with the focus this time more on the characters, including using some which are still under copyright but which the authors (like Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock) generously allowed Alan and Kevin to use for Century, with Alan also [...]

Paul Cornell talks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid

16. April 2009

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At the end of March the Phoenix Convention took place in Dublin’s fair city with science fiction, fantasy and comics creators and fans enjoying a damned fine weekend. Pádraig Ó Méalóid, as is traditional for P-Con, was on hand (rumour has it that guests carry small, hand-carved Pádraig figures with them for good luck throughout [...]

Alan Moore talks to Adi Tantimedh

15. April 2009

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“So with this book, we were able think, okay, if the readers are perhaps going to have to wait for a little while between chapters, then it would perhaps make sense if we did this as three quite lavish 72-page books. You have an over-arching story [across three books] that would be complete in themselves [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

The Man from Death Planet: Matt Badham talks with Al Ewing

Neil Gaiman video interview

The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore

Language, Joyce, Newton, Bojeffries, magic and drugs advice – part two of Pádraig’s with Alan Moore

Talking to an Extraordinary Gentleman of letters part one – Pádraig chats with Alan Moore

Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

Download David Tennant interview

From Our Continental Correspondent – Waste Not, Want Not: Le Sketch

Sheri S Tepper talks to the ‘Nest

‘Commando’ Keith Page interviewed on DTT

Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

Part 2 of Adi Tantimedh’s interview with Alan Moore

Paul Cornell talks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid

Alan Moore talks to Adi Tantimedh

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