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Trip City Round Table part two
In December, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent maverick reporter Stilts McGoon to Noo Yawk to talk to some of the boys (and gals) behind Trip City. The result was the first part of our Trip City roundtable. In this much-delayed second part (Sorry, Joe – Stilts) McGoon chats to more of the people – [...]
Continue reading...Trip City Round Table, part one
Friday, December 16, 2011
The website Trip City describes itself as a ‘Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Salon’, an intriguing and heady mixture of prose, comics, photography and more. Intrigued by just what this meant, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent ace reporter Stilts McGoon, equipped with battered Fedora, old Mac coat and enquiring attitude, to the city that never sleeps to [...]
Continue reading...Dredd Again: An interview with John Tomlinson
Friday, August 5, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...More Matt Badham interviews … this time it’s (nearly) everyone involved with The Lovecraft Anthology…
Saturday, May 21, 2011
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Okay, not quite, but this week writer and friend of the FPI blog Matthew Badham had five different interviews go up online. The first, with West creators Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable, you’ve already seen on the FPI blog, but the other four are all tied into the Megazine article written about SelfMadeHero’s very attractive looking [...]
Continue reading...How the West was won….. Matt Badham interviews Cheverton and Keable
Friday, May 20, 2011
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Matt Badham returns to the FPI blog to bring us this interview with Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable – whose West character we’re both rather keen on. West: Justice and West: Distance featured on my best of 2010 list and I’m looking forward to getting a copy of the new one-shot anthology West: Stray Bullets. [...]
Continue reading...Exercises in Instant Gratification: an interview with Tom Humberstone
Friday, August 13, 2010
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Tom Humberstone is a cartoonist and editor. As the man behind such comics as Art School Scum, My Fellow Americans and How To Date A Girl In 10 Days, he’s had critical plaudits aplenty. Also, in 2008, he was the winner of the Eagle award for ‘Favourite British Black and White Comic’. In this interview, [...]
Continue reading...More Ways to Explode: an interview with Boo Cook
Monday, July 26, 2010
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Boo Cook has been working in comics for just about a decade, drawing strips such as A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Dredd, Asylum, Damnation Station and Judge Anderson for 2000 AD. He’s also worked in American comics as one of the many artists contributing to Richard Starking’s Elephantmen and on X-Factor for Marvel. For this chin-wag, Matthew [...]
Continue reading...‘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 [...]
Continue reading...Most People Want To See ‘Hulk Smash!’: an interview with Richmond Clements
Friday, March 19, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
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...Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett
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...You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay
Friday, October 16, 2009
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Over the previous and the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be 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 [...]
Continue reading...Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin
Friday, October 9, 2009
Over recent and upcoming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be 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 [...]
Continue reading...For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood
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 [...]
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