The brick sized TCJ #302 should be out this Autumn. As usual, full of more reading than you can probably get through before Christmas. But noteably, it has an interview with Maurice Sendak, something we’d talk about anyway, but made all the more important by his death this month. Essential reading. Gary Groth has posted [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 8, 2011
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Okay, this isn’t comics per se but as it involves the great Maurice Sendak as he talks to Expanded Books about his new illustrated work – his first pop-up book, as it happens – I figured a lot of us would enjoy it!
Continue reading...Monday, November 14, 2011
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Cartoonist Bil Keane – best known for his Family Circus strip – passed away just last week at the age of 89 (Tom Spurgeon has a good round up of tributes to him on Comic Reporter). The National Constitution Center has posted up a couple of brief videos with Bil discussing his work, recorded for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 22, 2011
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French site Comicsblog posts up a video interview with Sara Pichelli recorded at the recent Paris Comic Con, talking about her background in animation, a desire to do more storytelling leading her into comics and eventually to working with Marvel: Comic Con France : L’interview de Sara Pichelli from COMICSBLOG.fr on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Thursday, July 21, 2011
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The wonderful Mira Furlan(best known to SF genre fans for Lost and Babylon 5) is interviewed by Jason Reed in this short video recorded at Wizard World’s Anaheim Comic Con 2011. I’ve admired Mira ever since her 5 year stint in Straczynski’s groundbreaking Babylon 5, where she managed to bring to life a character who [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Matt Badham spots that our chums on British comics mag Crikey! have posted up an interview with Rufus Dayglo: “Crikey: Did you read many comics growing up? Which were your favourites? Which most influenced your art? Rufus: I was incredibly lucky in that my parents not only allowed comics, but actively encouraged and indulged this [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Creators Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi have been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since, respectively, 1998 and 2002. In 2008, they teamed up for the first time and brought us the espionage horror Necessary Monsters, which was initially available in weekly instalments online before seeing release in print form as mini-comics. The series is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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The Sardinian Connection blog has a nice early Christmas treat for us all in the form of an interview with artist JH Williams III: (some fabulous Promthea art by JH Williams III, borrowed from his Flickr gallery) “Sardinian Connection: Could you talk about your collaboration with Alan Moore on Promethea? How did it start?” “JH [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
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Hope Larson is the guest on the latest videocast by the Comicbook Orange crew, along with a look at the latest take on Doctor Strange:
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
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