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Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

30. October 2009

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Over the last few weeks and 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 [...]

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You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay

16. October 2009

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Over the previous and the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be 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 [...]

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Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin

9. October 2009

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Over recent and upcoming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be 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 [...]

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For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood

14. August 2009

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In the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As with the organisers of various British comic conventions talking to Matt Badham. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s [...]

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Tony’s Terrible Tea-time Torture Show: an interview with Tony Lee

4. August 2009

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Tony Lee has been a writer for over twenty years and has worked in pretty much every medium, but in recent years has chosen to concentrate mainly on comics. In this interview, he talks mostly about his work for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as his experience of scripting Doctor Who [...]

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We are Family: A conversation with Vicky Stonebridge

31. July 2009

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In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]

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“We like original voices…”: A conversation with Jay Eales

10. June 2009

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In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]

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Good, Trashy Fun: An Interview with John Higgins

5. June 2009

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John Higgins is one of the most respected comic artists working today, with a long career that has seen him illustrate everything from Future Shocks to Jonah Hex. In this interview with regular contributor Matt Badham, John talks about his weird horror strip Razorjack (a title he self-published and then took to British indie comics [...]

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Something for Everyone: a conversation with Shane Chebsey

3. June 2009

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In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]

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“Then We Bought Some Chairs”: Matt Badham in conversation with Oli Smith

27. May 2009

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In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions (your British Comics Network!) are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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