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Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Over the last few 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 bad about [...]

“Bodies for gold!” – we talk bodysnatching to Martin Conaghan & Will Pickering

Friday, November 13, 2009

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FPI: Today I’m joined by Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, the team behind Insomnia’s recently published graphic novel Burke and Hare, which draws upon one of history’s most famous cases of the infamous ‘Resurrection Men’ (or bodysnatchers) in Enlightenment era Edinburgh. Hi, guys and thanks for joining us – could you begin by introducing yourselves [...]

Forget the monkey, we talk to the Organ Grinder

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Regular contributor to the blog, the Megazine and many others spots, Matt ‘madman’ Badham has been confusing the Twitterverse recently with multiple references to needing more artists and some project, ominously entitled ‘Grinder’. Intrigued and not a little alarmed at the title (visions of giant robotic meat grinder stomping across the land devouring humanity; I [...]

Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

Friday, October 30, 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 [...]

Alan Moore talks Dodgem Logic

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Mustard mag has an interview up with Albion’s great bearded wizard Alan Moore, discussing his upcoming new underground publication Dodgem Logic which we mentioned the other week (and which I am delighted to say we’re selling via our webstore): “I first used the name Dodgem Logic on a fanzine that I attempted to do back in [...]

Paul Cornell interviewed

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Comics scribe and novelist Paul Cornell is interviewed by fellow comics and SF&F writer Keith R.A. DeCandido on the Chronic Rift podcast; the link to play the show is on the right of the CR site’s post. (thanks to Matt B for the heads-up). In related news Paul can also be found on the Marvel [...]

Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Chris Randle managed to get time to chat with Yoshihiro Tatsumi, creator of the acclaimed D&Q titles Push Man, Good-bye, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and the recent A Drifting Life, at this year’s TCAF (via Chris at Comics 212): “CR: You mentioned Tezuka, and there’s a few times in the book where he’s depicted as [...]

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

Friday, October 2, 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, [...]

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

Thursday, October 1, 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 [...]

An illustrated interview about Iran

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Isaac Littlejohn Eddy interviews Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: theParadox of Modern Iran, which isn’t directly related to our normal comics field of coverage, except, rather interestingly, he’s included some rather neat comics-style illustrations to go along with the audio segments, which makes the whole thing seem more friendly and accessible, [...]

ICV2 talks to Berke Breathed

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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ICV2 has a short chat with Berkley Breathed ahead of the first volume of IDW’s very welcome Bloom County Complete Library, which is due next month (we asked Bill the Cat for a comment, he simply replied “Ack! Ack! Thhhpptttt!” – make of that what you will): “ICV2: Some of the strips that will be included [...]

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

Thursday, September 17, 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 [...]

Shane Chebsey on Geek Syndicate

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Barry at the excellent Geek Syndicate podcast reminds us that the guys have a 45-minute chat with British International Comics Show organiser Shane Chebsey, where Shane “reveals what events people can expect at this years show as well as a look back at lessons learned from previous years. There is a look behind the scenes [...]

For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood

Friday, August 14, 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 [...]

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

Tuesday, August 4, 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 [...]

Tag Archive | "interview"

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

“Bodies for gold!” – we talk bodysnatching to Martin Conaghan & Will Pickering

Forget the monkey, we talk to the Organ Grinder

Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

Alan Moore talks Dodgem Logic

Paul Cornell interviewed

Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed

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

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

An illustrated interview about Iran

ICV2 talks to Berke Breathed

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

Shane Chebsey on Geek Syndicate

For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood

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

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