Tag Archive | "Interviews"

Lauren Beukes and Andy Sawyer interviewed

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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There are a couple of fine interviews up with some top bods from the world of science fiction – one of my favourite literary podcasts, The Bat Segundo Show, has an interview with Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and winner of this year’s prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award: (Lauren Beukes, phot borrowed from the [...]

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Jo Chen interviewed

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Ulysses E Campbell has posted a short video interview with comics artist Jo Chen, who has been responsible for a huge amount of very varied work and is especially notable to many readers for her cover work for the Buffy season 8 (and now season 9) comics by Joss Whedon: From episode #28, Ulysses E [...]

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Tharg interviewed

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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World of Superheroes‘ Rob Richardson interviews the current Earthly incarnation of The Mighty Tharg, Matt Smith, editor of British comics mainstay 2000 AD, with a fair bit discussing the advantages of the anthology format that is common to many British comics (link via that man Citizen Badham): (one of my favourite recent covers from 2000 [...]

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Pat Mills talks girl’s comics

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The Bring Back Bunty blog talks to the excellent Pat Mills about comics for girls, once a part of the thriving UK comics publishing industry (I remember racks full of all sorts of weekly comics for girls alongside the boy’s own and younger reader’s kids, the newsagents were stacked with them in the 70s), now [...]

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Dredd Again: An interview with John Tomlinson

Friday, August 5, 2011

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During his career, John Tomlinson has worked for just about everyone in British comics publishing as either a writer or editor (including Marvel UK, 2000 AD and Tundra). This conversation has been compiled from the unused parts of a 5000-word interview with John Tomlinson conducted by Matt Badham recently for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and [...]

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Eureka gals at SDCC

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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Takes on Tech has short video interviews from the recent San Diego Comic Con with two of the female stars from SyFy’s Eureka, Felecia Day: Interview with Felicia Day of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011 from Takes on Tech on Vimeo. And Salli Richardson-Whitfield: Interview with Salli Richardson-Whitfield of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011 from [...]

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Alan Grant talks

Friday, July 29, 2011

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James Lundy posts up a video of an impromptu interview with the fine Scots comics scribe Alan Grant at the recent Glasgow Comic-Con: ALAN GRANT INTERVIEW @ GCC ’11 from James Lundy on Vimeo.

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Rob Croonenborghs likes Zombies !

Friday, July 22, 2011

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With a title like Jesus hates Zombies : A Jurassic Kinda Life (215Ink), the third installment of writer Stephen Lindsay’s over-the-top survival epic, you at least have a comic that delivers what it promises.  Elaborating on the premise that any theme from popular culture gets better if you throw it together with a few random [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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As half the comics world descends on San Diego for the nerd-nirvana that is Comic-Con, here is Alex Fitch to lift the spirits of those of us who can’t make it over. As ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows. Panel Borders: Infamous games and comics, [...]

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Rian Hughes talks

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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Rob Harrigan has been in touch to let us know that he’s posted up an interview on comics and design with the brilliant Rian Hughes (with the interview also referring back to a lengthy interview our own Kenny had with Rian here on the blog a while back), covering his career, inspirations and his view [...]

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A couple of extraordinary gentlemen chat – Pádraig talks to Alan Moore about the new LOEG Century

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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Our resident expert on all things Alan Moore, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, talked on the phone to the man himself for an interview with the 3am site a few weeks back (which you should go and read if you haven’t already). And while they were chatting Alan was also kind enough to talk to Pádraig specifically [...]

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Talking about Blood and Bricks

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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You may have seen Richard mentioning a couple of times recently about a mysterious new project, Built of Blood and Bricks, a collaboration between two of our most intriguing Brit small press comics creators, Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi, following on from their very successful collaboration with Sightings of Wallace Sendek. We were curious, naturally, [...]

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Ian Rankin talks Dark Entries

Friday, June 24, 2011

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Leon Hawthorne talks to bestselling novelist and lifelong comics fan Ian Rankin about his graphic novel debut, Dark Entries: Ian Rankin from LEON HAWTHORNE on Vimeo.

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Arthur Wyatt talks to Matt Badham

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Matt Badham talks to Arthur Wyatt about his work, how he got into writing comics professionally and, of course, working for the Mighty Tharg – you can read more of Matt talking to Arthur in the Judge Dredd Megazine #311, on his blog Matt presents more material there wasn’t space [...]

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Dan Clowes on the Bat Segundo show

Friday, June 3, 2011

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(a scene from the recently publisher Mister Wonderful by and (c) Dan Clowes, published in UK by Jonathan Cape) Daniel Clowes is the guest on one of my favourite book-related podcasts, the always interesting Bat Segundo show, discussing his life, his work, the difference between the readers responses to Eightball and the New York Times, comparing [...]

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