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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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What’s Your Opinion Of The Term “Graphic Novel”?

25. August 2009

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+ (Borrowed from David S Carter’s Flickr.) Our very own interview king Pádraig Ó Méalóid set this question last week on his live journal blog (and we linked to it then) but we thought it was well worth posting here on the FPI blog as well to let more folks see it. So with Pádraig’s permission we’re [...]

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The Thoughts of the Artist: Eddie Campbell talks to Pádraig

8. July 2009

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Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]

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The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore

8. May 2009

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Welcome to the third and final leg of this week’s Mighty Moore Marathon; this week I think we’re supplying 100% of your RDA of Vitamin M (if you are playing catch up you can find the first part here and the second part here). At the end of the last episode Pádraig and Alan were [...]

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Language, Joyce, Newton, Bojeffries, magic and drugs advice – part two of Pádraig’s with Alan Moore

7. May 2009

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Well we hope you enjoyed the first part of Pádraig’s chat with Alan Moore yesterday. Today we have even more yummy goodness for you in this second part, as Alan and Pádraig discuss what Alan is working on next, from the Bumper Book of Magic to  Jerusalem and possible future (or, chronologically speaking, past) LOEG [...]

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Talking to an Extraordinary Gentleman of letters part one – Pádraig chats with Alan Moore

6. May 2009

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Well we’ve been teasing you for a while now that Pádraig Ó Méalóid had managed to get his travel visa stamped for entry to that strange, sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing, always fascinating mythical land which lies on a distant part of the ever changing map that is formed from the mind, thoughts and words of [...]

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Paul Cornell talks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid

16. April 2009

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At the end of March the Phoenix Convention took place in Dublin’s fair city with science fiction, fantasy and comics creators and fans enjoying a damned fine weekend. Pádraig Ó Méalóid, as is traditional for P-Con, was on hand (rumour has it that guests carry small, hand-carved Pádraig figures with them for good luck throughout [...]

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Another chance to read Pádraig’s chat with Neil Gaiman

5. January 2009

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Just a couple of days before Christmas we posted up Pádraig’s interview with the one and only Neil Gaiman as an early Yuletide treat, but for those of you who may have already hit the road home for the holidays when it went up we’re re-posting it again today for your delictation and delight: Here’s a [...]

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Lunching in the graveyard – Neil Gaiman talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid

22. December 2008

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Here’s a very special early Christmas present for our readers: Pádraig Ó Méalóid (who is rapidly becoming our Roving Interviewer At Large, following his excellent chats with Todd Klein and Alan Moore) met one of my very favourite writers Neil Gaiman during Neil’s recent busy tour (does Neil do any other kind of tour?) for [...]

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A man of letters – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Todd Klein

29. September 2008

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Today we have a very special treat for you – my friend and lifelong champion of good comics and books Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been very busy following up his terrific interview with Alan Moore (which can be read on the blog with part one here and part two here, if you missed it) and [...]

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You want Moore? You got it!

19. June 2008

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Last week we posted the first part of a fascinating interview of Alan Moore by Irish comics and SF expert Pádraig Ó Méalóid, in which they discussed Alan’s earlier body of comics work and his contemporary titles such as The Lost Girls and the next installments in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as well as [...]

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We’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Northampton – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Alan Moore

13. June 2008

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I’ve been friends with Pádraig Ó Méalóid years – he’s been heavily involved with the comics and science fiction scene in Ireland (including a fair bit of time organising the major P-Con event, which has been host to many top SF and comics writers and artists) and he writes extensively on both SF and the [...]

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