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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
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, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
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The mighty Dave Gibbons will be guesting on the George Lamb show on BBC 6Music this morning at some point during its run from 10am to 1pm; as usual with the Beeb radio programmes, if you miss it you can use the Listen Again feature to catch it for seven days after transmission. (Dave Gibbons, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Another perrenially good interviewee, Grant Morrison always seems to have something worth talking about. And this interview at the Onion is no exception. “My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul. It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
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As another week wooshes by bringing us to Thursday (already??) its time for Alex to update us with some of the shows he’s involved with, including a second look at Doctor Who in comics form, this time the classic Who strips. As usual for more details and links to archived podcasts of previous shows check [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Over on Den of Geek Michael Leader talks to the Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen movie as it comes out on DVD and how the addition of the Black Freighter and the ability to stop and re-watch scenes on disc adds to the sense of the film (I must confess I’m not convinced on that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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The Geek Syndicate boys interview writer/director Duncan Jones (the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie) about his debut feature, the British indy science fiction movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey. I was lucky enough to catch the film a few weeks back at the Edinburgh Film Festival (reviewed here) and [...]
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