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Clearing the line – Matt Badham talks to Garen Ewing

13. February 2009

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A very special treat for you today as Matthew Badham sits down for a good, long chat with Garen Ewing, looking back to what drew him into creating comics, his early work in fanzines, self-publishing and then moving into being a professional write/artist with work in the very well received DFC comic and, of course [...]

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O Men and gay superheroes in Brighton – Matt Badham dons his sparkliest spandex to talk to Martin Eden

29. July 2008

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Martin Eden is the writer and artist behind the Eagle award-nominated comic, The O Men, an action-packed superhero soap opera. By day he’s a mild-mannered magazine editor, but at night he becomes a whirling dervish of creativity, whose comics are some of the most popular on the ever-burgeoning British independent comics scene. Matt Badham tracked [...]

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Reading Dr Doolittle to Cows: An interview with Oliver East

30. May 2008

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Oliver East is the writer and artist behind indie comic Trains are Mint, whose first three issues have recently been collected by fledgling publisher Blank Slate. The comic charts Oliver’s walks along routes in and around Manchester. In this interview, recorded in a café in Manchester, he talks about his art education, the concept behind [...]

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Writing on a Blank Slate – Matthew Badham talks to FPI’s Kenny Penman

23. April 2008

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As many of our regular readers will know our own Kenny Penman has been heavily involved in not only selling and promoting good new comics material, he’s now involved in actually publishing them through the new Blank Slate imprint, starting with Oliver East’s Trains Are Mint and a translation of German cartoonist Mawil’s work We [...]

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A Storytelling Thing: an interview with Paul Grist

11. January 2008

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Paul Grist has worked for, amongst others, DC Thomson, Marvel, DC and Dark Horse, but is probably best known for his self-published comics, Kane and Jack Staff. In this exclusive interview for the Forbidden Planet International Blog, Paul talks about making comics, self-publishing and why both Kane and Jack Staff are now being published by [...]

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