Tag Archive | "Matthew Badham"

Bastille Day

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Since today is the 14th of July (le quatorze Juillet), which marks the Fête Nationale – more commonly known as Bastille Day in the Anglophone world – we thought that was a perfect excuse (not that we need one, usually) to celebrate some of the great comics work which comes out of the French language [...]

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Thank God he got fired!: an interview with Dan McDaid

Friday, June 4, 2010

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Dan McDaid is a regular contributor to the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) and the artist on Image’s Jersey Gods. (He’s also one of my personal favourite cartoonists.) In this interview with the FPI blog, he talks about his work on Who, taking a back seat in terms of the writing chores on [...]

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Matt Badham talks to Jason Cobley

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Matt Badham‘s posted up a mini-interview with Jason Cobley, discussing the changing nature of the British small press comics scene: “Matthew: Why did you get into small press comics? Jason: Well, as a kid it was to get my ideas into print. When I resurfaced in the early 1990s with my own Bulldog Adventure Magazine [...]

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Ask Pat Mills

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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No, we’re not going to be running a new Agony Uncle column where you send in your personal problems to Uncle Pat for advice, it’s much more exciting than that! Roving interviewer Matt Madman Badham is going to be talking to the very fine Mister Pat Mills for the blog in the near future and [...]

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‘A Life-Changing Experience’: Talking 45 with Andi Ewington

Friday, April 9, 2010

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Writer Andi Ewington is the man behind 45, a new, and critically acclaimed, illustrated book from British independent comic company, Com.X.  In this interview, Andi talks to the Forbidden Planet International blog about fulfilling his childhood dreams, leaving a legacy for his son and why we haven’t heard the last of the world he designed [...]

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New Who – a few opinions

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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Matthew had the cunning idea of several of us throwing in our tuppence worth on the eagerly anticipated return of Doctor Who to our screens, with not just a new season but a new companion, a new TARDIS, new show runner and, of course, a brand new, freshly regenerated Doctor, always a major moment in [...]

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Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Richmond Clements is one of the busiest men working on the British independent comics scene today. While holding down a full-time job, he manages to (co-) run a successful convention (Hi-Ex! in Inverness), co-edit several small press anthologies and has even, recently, been scripting various comic projects. Matt Badham caught up with him recently to [...]

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Matthew Badham wants your thoughts….

Friday, March 12, 2010

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(Honestly, when I first saw that my first thought was “oooh, huge post-it note”. Matthew Badham pic by D’Israeli and his Flickrstream, grabbed from Down The Tubes) Matthew Badham, features writer at Judge Dredd Megazine, and contributor to this blog, has been in touch regarding a project that he needs some help with, particularly those [...]

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Darryl Cunningham talks to Matt Badham

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Matthew Badham talks to Darryl Cunningham about the upcoming Psychiatric Tales on CBR: “Matt: In terms of “Psychiatric Tales,” when and why did you decide to start making strips about mental illness? Darryl: I worked for many years as a health care assistant on an acute psychiatric ward. Throughout this time I kept a diary, [...]

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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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Best of the year: Matthew’s picks

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year selection comes from Matt Badham, freelance writer (with work appearing in the Judge Dredd Megazine, Tripwire, 2000 AD, Comics International and more), interviewer, keen supporter of UK comics talent and a regular contributor to the blog. Eschewing the regular format Matt is instead concentrating soley on comics; over to Matt: [...]

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Matt Badham talks to Si Spurrier

Monday, December 14, 2009

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I’m glad to see good chum of the blog and regular contributor here Matt Badham has a web presence again with Citizen Badham and has used it to post up an expanded Q&A with Si Spurrier which originally appeared in a much shorted version in the Judge Dredd Megazine; now Matt has (with Si’s permission) [...]

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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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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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