Tag Archive | "Pádraig"

Alan Moore’s Fossil Angels

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Our resident expert on all things Mooreish, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, has very kindly been given permission by Northampton’s great bearded magus to post online a story which for various reasons never made it to print: “Fossil Angels was written by Alan Moore in December 2002, and was to appear in KAOS #15. KAOS #15 never [...]

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Music and comics: Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Peter Hogan

Friday, September 10, 2010

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That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid strikes once more, pouncing on another unsuspecting comics writer, pen and pad in hand, armed with a bandolier of questions as he talks to the fine Peter Hogan about his early comics reading (a slew of classic Brit comics many of us grew up on), being exposed to his first [...]

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Now we are Five…

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because in one way it doesn’t really feel like it’s been five years since I posted that first blog item but on the other hand it also feels like we’ve been a part of [...]

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So who does own the copyright on Marvelman?

Monday, November 23, 2009

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Pádraig Ó Méalóid, a regular contributor to the blog, has, as most of us who know him can atest, been working for several years on untangling the quite convoluted history of just who exactly has had a legitimate claim to copyright on the Marvelman character, a quest which has grown from an essay to a [...]

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Fanstorm

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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A bizarre situation has manifested itself this week: Pádraig Ó Méalóid, regular and valued contributor to this blog and someone who’s well known by fans, readers, writers and artists in the SF&F and comics communities for supporting and promoting good books, has been told by the organisers of this year’s Octocon convention that he is [...]

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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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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 [...]

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The Thoughts of the Artist: Eddie Campbell talks to Pádraig

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]

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