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The Thrill Electric – Matt talks with Leah Moore and John Reppion

4. November 2011

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Occasional Forbidden Planet International blog contributor Matt Badham recently decided to have a chat with scriptwriting team Leah Moore and John Reppion about their latest project, The Thrill Electric, which just started posting on Channel 4’s site last week. The result was the following interview: MB: How did you come up with the idea for [...]

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Dredd Again: An interview with John Tomlinson

5. August 2011

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During his career, John Tomlinson has worked for just about everyone in British comics publishing as either a writer or editor (including Marvel UK, 2000 AD and Tundra). This conversation has been compiled from the unused parts of a 5000-word interview with John Tomlinson conducted by Matt Badham recently for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and [...]

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How the West was won….. Matt Badham interviews Cheverton and Keable

20. May 2011

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Matt Badham returns to the FPI blog to bring us this interview with Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable – whose West character we’re both rather keen on. West: Justice and West: Distance featured on my best of 2010 list and I’m looking forward to getting a copy of the new one-shot anthology West: Stray Bullets. [...]

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Pat Mills Unwrapped part 2

4. March 2011

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Following on from the first part of Matt Badham‘s talk with the great Pat Mills (see here for part one), we present the second and concluding part of the interview, in which Pat discusses the ‘dark age’ of 2000 AD editorship, writing comics for the British and the French markets and the differences between them, [...]

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Pat Mills Unwrapped part 1 – the godfather of Brit comics talks with Matt Badham

3. March 2011

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Pat Mills is one of the leading lights of the British comics industry. A former editor turned freelance writer, he’s been responsible for some of the most memorable characters ever seen in English language comics. His creations include Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law, the ABC Warriors, Sláine and Defoe. But he’s also a presence in [...]

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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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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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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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Psychiatric Tales – Darryl Cunningham on the couch with Matthew Badham

18. May 2010

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Matthew Badham talked to Darryl Cunningham just before the publication of Psychiatric Tales in the UK (from Blank Slate; a US edition is due next year by Bloomsbury) for CBR. He’s just re-posted it on his own blog and with Psychiatric Tales now on our shelves (come in and have a look, it’s highly recommended [...]

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Ask Pat Mills

15. April 2010

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No, we’re not going to be running a new Agony Uncle column where you send in your personal problems to Uncle Pat for advice, it’s much more exciting than that! Roving interviewer Matt Madman Badham is going to be talking to the very fine Mister Pat Mills for the blog in the near future and [...]

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‘A Life-Changing Experience’: Talking 45 with Andi Ewington

9. April 2010

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Writer Andi Ewington is the man behind 45, a new, and critically acclaimed, illustrated book from British independent comic company, Com.X.  In this interview, Andi talks to the Forbidden Planet International blog about fulfilling his childhood dreams, leaving a legacy for his son and why we haven’t heard the last of the world he designed [...]

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Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements

19. March 2010

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Richmond Clements is one of the busiest men working on the British independent comics scene today. While holding down a full-time job, he manages to (co-) run a successful convention (Hi-Ex! in Inverness), co-edit several small press anthologies and has even, recently, been scripting various comic projects. Matt Badham caught up with him recently to [...]

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The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

29. January 2010

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Creators Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi have been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since, respectively, 1998 and 2002. In 2008, they teamed up for the first time and brought us the espionage horror Necessary Monsters, which was initially available in weekly instalments online before seeing release in print form as mini-comics. The series is [...]

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Paul Cornell interview

29. December 2009

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Friend of the FPI blog and regular contributor Matt Badham has posted his 2008 interview with Paul Cornell online. Initially part of his research for a Megazine article and subsequently appearing in Tripwire in a heavily edited form it’s nice to have this complete and available to read at our leisure. Also for your enjoyment, [...]

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Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

18. November 2009

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Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been 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 good and bad about [...]

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