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Voices from the past – A Few Words With Grant Morrison About We3

21. November 2011

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This short interview with Grant Morrison took place when his collaboration with Frank Quitely for DC Comics, We3, had just been published, around 2005, and first saw light of day on a fondly remembered science fiction review site, The Alien Online, which some of you may recall reading. TAO grew out of the staff recommendations [...]

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Lunar man – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore

11. November 2011

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Recently we mentioned on the blog that Steve Moore, scribe of many an essay, book and comic, friend and mentor to Alan Moore, had a fascinating new novel, Somnium, coming out, and as it is a book that carries an endorsement not only by Alan but also from Michael Moorcock it is quite obviously a [...]

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he’s a legal alien – Padraig talks to Peter Hogan

21. October 2011

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I like Peter Hogan. We met over the ‘net when I interviewed him for this very blog (see here), and we immediately got on. I found that he was involved in all sorts of interesting things that struck a chord with me, like the British comic magazine Revolver, of which I still cherish fond memories. [...]

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It’s 1969, ok? Pádraig talks with Kevin O’Neill

30. September 2011

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Well alright! It’s 1969 ok We got a war across the USA There’s nothing here for me and you We’re just sitting here with nothing to do There’s nothing here for me and you Another year with nothing to do. (1969 – The Stooges) (cover art to LOEG Century 1969 by and (c) Messrs Alan [...]

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A couple of extraordinary gentlemen chat – Pádraig talks to Alan Moore about the new LOEG Century

14. July 2011

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Our resident expert on all things Alan Moore, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, talked on the phone to the man himself for an interview with the 3am site a few weeks back (which you should go and read if you haven’t already). And while they were chatting Alan was also kind enough to talk to Pádraig specifically [...]

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Opening the Cages – Pádraig talks with Dave McKean

8. October 2010

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Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to another of Blighty’s top creators – comics artist, illustrator, animator, photographer, film maker, Dave McKean‘s endlessly fascinating visuals have crossed media to create some wonderful (and oft-imitated) images from Violent Cases and the beautiful Signal to Noise to MirrorMask and even some wonderful art for Heston Blumenthal’s cookery book. He [...]

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Music and comics: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Peter Hogan

10. September 2010

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That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid strikes once more, pouncing on another unsuspecting comics writer, pen and pad in hand, armed with a bandolier of questions as he talks to the fine Peter Hogan about his early comics reading (a slew of classic Brit comics many of us grew up on), being exposed to his first [...]

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Rabbit holes, badger detectives and cherubs – part two of Bryan Talbot’s interview with Pádraig

2. October 2009

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Following yesterday’s terrific chat between Bryan Talbot and  Pádraig Ó Méalóid (which can be read here) today we bring you the second half, where we mostly move on to more recent work from Bryan, such as the magnificent, years-in-the-making Alice in Sunderland, cross-gender anonymity with the ‘Veronique Tanaka’ silent comic experiment (which took me in, [...]

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The road from Wigan Pier: Bryan Talbot talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, part one

1. October 2009

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Today we have a wonderful treat for you – that notorious masked interviewer Pádraig Ó Méalóid has a cracking new interview for us, this time with the brilliant Bryan Talbot (or I should say Doctor Bryan Talbot now!) and, like his previous Alan Moore interviews here, its a long and in-depth piece, so we’re going [...]

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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig

17. September 2009

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Regular readers will know that we’ve been following Garen Ewing‘s delightful Rainbow Orchid series with great pleasure for some years, in limited print versions and online and we’ve kept up with Garen as it progressed, so it seemed right that now Egmont have published the first Rainbow Orchid book (I’m tempted to use the European [...]

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