Tag Archive | "interview"

Sara Pichelli at the Paris Comic-Con

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.

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Mira Furlan interviewed

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 [...]

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Rufus Dayglo interviewed on Crikey

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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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 [...]

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The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Friday, January 29, 2010

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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 [...]

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Sardinian Connection talks to JH Williams III

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 [...]

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Hope Larson on A Comicbook Orange

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:

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

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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