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More Ways to Explode: an interview with Boo Cook

26. July 2010

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Boo Cook has been working in comics for just about a decade, drawing strips such as A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Dredd, Asylum, Damnation Station and Judge Anderson for 2000 AD. He’s also worked in American comics as one of the many artists contributing to Richard Starking’s Elephantmen and on X-Factor for Marvel. For this chin-wag, Matthew [...]

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Dan Clowes audio

21. July 2010

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NPR has audio and a transcript of a recent broadcast with the brilliant Dan Clowes talking about Wilson. (via Dirk at Journalista)

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Alan Moore in the Quietus

13. July 2010

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Richard flagged up The Stool Pigeon recently and the interview they had with the great beared magus of comics, Alan Moore. Well John Doran’s interview is now up online at the Quietus for all who couldn’t get hold of the paper edition to read. (thanks to Angus Finlayson for the heads-up) “Doran: Have you turned [...]

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Neil Gaiman on the Beeb

5. July 2010

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Neil Gaiman chats in a five minute video on the BBC website, in a piece that starts, appropriately enough, with Camile Saint-Saens Danse Macabre (a favourite classical piece of mine, as it happens). It’s only five minutes or so but they do cover his comics, his books for children and adults and the multiple awards [...]

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Frank Quitely at the West Port Book Festival

1. July 2010

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Acclaimed Scottish comics artist Frank Quitely was the surprise guest at the the recent West Port Book Festival, a series of literary events which took place in indpendent and second hand bookstores in Edinburgh, held several weeks ahead of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (the behemoth of Scottish literary fests). Frank was in conversation with [...]

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Ken MacLeod video interview

29. June 2010

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Missed this, but one of my very favourite authors – and indeed one of the UK’s consistently most inventive and intelligent writers – Ken MacLeod has a webcam video interview with IO9‘s Annalee Newitz for Bloggingheads.tv, discussing Ken’s books, his influences, science, the creation of synthetic lifeforms and, naturally enough for Ken, politics:

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Evan Dorkin video interview

14. June 2010

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RGB Filter has a long – and expletive and often delightfully sarcasm filled -  interview with the excellent Evan Dorkin recorded at TCAF (thanks to Tom at Comics Reporter for the link):

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Gene Deitch interviewed

10. June 2010

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The Daily Cross Hatch has an excellent, long, four-part interview with award winning cartoonist, illustrator and animator Gene Deitch -- part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 (via Dietrich Reisler): “Daily Cross Hatch: You did the Terr’ble Thompson, which Fantagraphics released as a collection, a few years back. That was drawn in your [...]

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“We’re pro-Toronto, pro-Canadian, and pro-Canadian cartoonists”: Chris Butcher talks to Tom Spurgeon

6. June 2010

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“Up front, this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival was our best ever by pretty-much every metric we can measure. In terms of attendance — we get audited attendance figures from our venue Toronto Public Library because they have turnstiles set up — we were up to about 12,000 attendees over the two days this year, [...]

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Thank God he got fired!: an interview with Dan McDaid

4. June 2010

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Dan McDaid is a regular contributor to the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) and the artist on Image’s Jersey Gods. (He’s also one of my personal favourite cartoonists.) In this interview with the FPI blog, he talks about his work on Who, taking a back seat in terms of the writing chores on [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

27. May 2010

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It’s Thursday and as we head towards a bank holiday weekend and the always unpredictable weather that entails it’s nice to know we have some audio options to sit in and listen to if the rains come down; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: [...]

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Neil Gaiman talks Wednesday Comics

27. May 2010

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With the much oversized hardback edition of Wednesday Comics coming out today (and giving the term oversized new meaning), USA Today kicks off a series of interviews and looks at the art, starting with Neil Gaiman, here commenting on working with the excellent Mike Allred: “I love writing for Mike. He gives everything a slick [...]

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Jordan Crane video interview

27. May 2010

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Royal Jelly’s latest video interview is with Jordan Crane; interesting, although personally I had to tab to a different screen several times and just listen to the audio as the constantly rotating camera becomes a little tiresome to the eyes: Jordan Crane interviewed by Royal Jelly from John Orlow on Vimeo.

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SciFi Pulse talks to Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill

24. May 2010

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Still on a rush from the return of the Silurians to Doctor Who at the weekend? Then check out the latest Sci-Fi Pulse podcast, where the gang have an interview with the Amy Pond’s bridegrooom-to-be, Rory Williams, aka actor Arthur Darvill, who talks about joining his adventurous girl onboard the TARDIS. (Arthur with Karen as [...]

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TCAF on video

21. May 2010

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Tdot Comics has posted up their first video interview from the recent TCAF (since they’ve numbered it #1 I’m guessing this means we should keep an eye out for further uploads): TCAF Interview #1 – Vicky Nerino from TdotComics on Vimeo.

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