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	<title>The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log</title>
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		<title>Eagle Awards 2012 – the end of an era….</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eagle Awards were announced last night at the MCM Expo Awards. Results are below, and congrats to everyone who won this year. You all have the chance to say you won the last Eagle Award. After a long history dating back to &#8217;79, the Eagle Awards are being retired, and in their place next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/eagle-awards-2012-the-end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<title>The Strong Female Characters are back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kate Beaton returns to the characters created by herself, Carly Monardo, and Meredith Gran. They&#8217;re still strong, they&#8217;re still female, they&#8217;re still characters. Comics world &#8211; take note! Strong Female Characters &#8211; The Return:]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/the-strong-female-characters-are-back/</link>
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		<title>Morrison Draws &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 80s Grant MorDeep Space Transmissions; a Grant Morrison news site, has been posting a little bit of Morrison&#8217;s artwork recently &#8211; here, here, and here. From which I do quite like these two examples, Kid Marvelman, and Will Eisner&#8217;s Spirit. KM dated &#8217;84, Spirit dated &#8217;78, making Morrison 18 at the time:]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/morrison-draws/</link>
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		<title>The 80s&#8230;. more bang for your buck in those days&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moan occasionally about comics and the lack of value they give you these days, especially the modern decompressed style of storytelling beloved at Marvel and DC right now. Granted it can be done rather marvellously (Millar, Ellis) but generally just comes across as vapid, and takes less time to read than make the cup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/the-80s-more-bang-for-your-buck-in-those-days/</link>
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		<title>Shia Labeouf makes mini comics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world really is a strange, strange place isn&#8217;t it? Not only does Shia LaBeouf make mini comics, but they don&#8217;t look at all bad, and Sean T. Collins at The Comics Journal rather likes them: &#8220;All right, let’s take the elephant in the room and fly that fucker around like Dumbo: These are self-published, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/shia-labeouf-makes-mini-comics/</link>
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		<title>Rian Hughes&#8230; Threadless think he could do better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rian Hughes has a  few T-shirts up for consideration at Threadless. You know&#8230; THAT Rian Hughes. The rather brilliant artist/designer responsible for some very gorgeous imagery over the years. These two are pending approval&#8230; But a third design has already had a little feedback from Threadless. I&#8217;ll pass you over to Rian&#8217;s comments grabbed from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/rian-hughes-threadless-think-he-could-do-better/</link>
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		<title>Next up in convention season: London MCM Expo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happening over the weekend, or this afternon if you were at the special Friday preview. MCM Expo is a full media show, with a lot of guests from the worlds of TV, film, and pop entertainment of all kinds. Big names this time round include Danny Devito, Anthony Daniels, and Kevin Eastman along with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/next-up-in-convention-season-london-mcm-expo/</link>
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		<title>Ken Harrison speaks to Alec Worley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comics writer Alec Worley was recently interviewed for the Judge Dredd Megazine by Ken Harrison (Megazine #324, released earlier this week and available now). This is the original email exchange that formed the basis of that interview. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Ken Harrison, Alec Worley and Judge Dredd Megazine Editor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/ken-harrison-speaks-to-alec-worley/</link>
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		<title>Eat Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eat Me! A Food Anthology Jack Davies, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss &#38; Harry Griffin-Hayes, Sammy Borras, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Sarah Fogg Inspired Comics Hmm. The urge to pepper this one with hideous puns and food references is almost too much. You&#8217;ll forgive me &#8220;pepper&#8221;. I promise that will be the last of them. Right then. Six comic strips all on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/eat-me/</link>
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		<title>Don Depresso meets the Happiness Fairy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little while since I checked out the most recent postings on Better, Drawn, the site that showcases comics works addressing mental and physical health issues. Simon Moreton flagged up one strip, Don Depresso by Asidewalk, on Twitter recently and I had to have a look, followed by a visit to Asidewalk&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/don-depresso-meets-the-happines-fairy/</link>
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