Tag Archive | "Paul Cornell"

Paul Cornell, Jimmy Broxton and some cosplay: FCBD at N&C

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton were guests at our Nostalgia and Comics store in sunny Birmingham for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, seen here relaxing with a cuppa generously laced with laudanum before the events kicked off (it’s how we keep the writers and artists manageable). And of course it wouldn’t really be FCBD [...]

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To do tomorrow – the Nostalgia & Comics Free Comic Book Day event….

Friday, May 6, 2011

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Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham – my favourite comic shop in the world (yes, I’m biased, I did work there for 19 happy years off and on after all) is having a very special event for tomorrow’s Free Comic Book Day. There are, of course, the usual piles and piles of free comics for the [...]

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The Two Pauls

Friday, February 25, 2011

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London’s fine Orbital Comics recently hosted The Two Pauls – Cornell and Rainey – and now there’s video from the event online, via the Orbital site:

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Paul Rainey gives us more Time and the debut appearance of The Two Pauls…..

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Paul Rainey, of the excellent There’s No Time Like The Present, has been in touch to tell me about the extra exclusive supplemental TNTLTP pages he’s produced for the Paul Gravett curated That’s Novel exhibition. Here’s one, the rest are at Paul’s website found at the TNTLTP pages: And on February 19th Paul will be [...]

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P. Craig Russell’s vision of Death in Action Comics

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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Paul Cornell blogs about the forthcoming issue 894 of Action Comics which not only features Neil Gaiman’s character Death making a rare appearance in the DC Universe but this lovely P. Craig Russell variant cover as well. (Yes, I hate variant covers as a concept, but it doesn’t mean I can’t occasionally enjoy looking at [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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It’s Thursday once more and that means Alex Fitch has to stop playing conkers in the playground to fill us in on some of the shows he’s involved with in the next few days. As ever for more details and podcasts of previous programmes you can check the Panel Borders site: Panel Borders: AC / [...]

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Death takes a holiday?

Friday, July 9, 2010

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The Cover to Action Comics #894 – not exactly what you were expecting? Writer Paul Cornell has pulled off a bit of a coup. whilst Supes stretches his legs walking across America later this year and leaves Action behind him, Cornell’s having to get creative and explore the Superman universe and particularly Lex Luthor on [...]

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Paul Cornell has his finger on the Pulse

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Some of you have probably spotted references online here and there about an upcoming programme penned by Paul Cornell, Pulse. It’s a pilot for a potential series, due to air at some point in June on BBC3, part of an initiative to showcase some new original drama, not unlike the initiative which first brought the [...]

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Paul Cornell interview

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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Friend of the FPI blog and regular contributor Matt Badham has posted his 2008 interview with Paul Cornell online. Initially part of his research for a Megazine article and subsequently appearing in Tripwire in a heavily edited form it’s nice to have this complete and available to read at our leisure. Also for your enjoyment, [...]

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Best of the Year: Paul Cornell’s faves

Friday, December 18, 2009

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It’s time for the latest in our annual Best of the Year selections and today’s guest, I am delighted to say, is a well-respected author of science fiction novels, screenplays (including some of the better Doctor Who episodes) and comics, as well as a regular at many a convention, it is, of course, the very [...]

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And so it’s goodbye to another Captain Britain series…..

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Captain Britain And MI-13 Volumes 2 & 3; Hell Comes To Birmingham and Vampire State by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk, with Mike Collins, Ardian Syaf, Patrick Olliffe Marvel And so we have the second and third volumes of a Captain Britain book I rather enjoyed when I read the first volume. Sadly these are [...]

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Cornell and Kirk’s Dark X-Men

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Paul Cornell has posted a bit about his and Leonard Kirk’s Dark X-Men mini-series, including some cool character design sketches by Leonard, such as the fab Mystique one below: “It’s been a real blast getting the old Captain Britain and MI-13 band together (that is, me, Leonard and invaluable editor Nick Lowe) on this title. [...]

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Paul Cornell discusses the Black Widow

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Science Fiction, comics and screen writer and all-round good egg Paul Cornell talks briefly to top UK SF mag SFX about the upcoming Black Widow: Deadly Origin mini-series from Marvel (issue #1 is due next week), which to me looks like one of the more interesting takes on Nat since Marvel let Paul’s fellow Brit [...]

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Paul Cornell interviewed

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Comics scribe and novelist Paul Cornell is interviewed by fellow comics and SF&F writer Keith R.A. DeCandido on the Chronic Rift podcast; the link to play the show is on the right of the CR site‘s post. (thanks to Matt B for the heads-up). In related news Paul can also be found on the Marvel [...]

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