Tag Archive | "writing"

Director’s Commentary: the art of writing fantasy

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Today we have a nice treat for science fiction and fantasy fans with only our second guest Director’s Commentary post on a prose work, I’m delighted to welcome a highly regarded fantasy writer I’ve known and whose work I’ve enjoyed for years, Juliet E McKenna: I do words, not pictures. I cannot draw anything but [...]

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Comics summer school

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Bryan Talbot tells us that he will be once more tutoring at the annual Creative Writing for Graphic Novels residential course held at the well-known Arvon Foundation, along with Hannah Berry and also this year featuring Bryan’s wife and now collaborator on the new Dotter of Her Father’s Eye graphic novel, Mary Talbot, as a [...]

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Alejandro Jodorowsky talks

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Dangerous Minds has an interview up with the film-maker, writer, ‘shaman’ and more, the astonishing Alejandro Jodorowsky. It isn’t specifically about his comics work such as the brilliant collaboration with Moebius in The Incal (recently republished in English in a lovely edition by SelfMadeHero, reviewed here by Richard), taking in “Occupy Wall Street, why revolutions [...]

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Autumn Leaves

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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Fine science fiction scribe Michael Swanwick decided to pen a story – not an unusual thing for an author to do, of course. Except Michael decided to write his story, October Leaves, a letter at a time on fallen autumnal leaves then photograp them. Afterwards he left the leaves where they lay for passers-by to [...]

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Scotland’s most Wanted: Mark Millar kicks ass at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Over the holiday weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival once again, this time to see top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar on what I think was his first appearance at this venerable literary bash. I bumped into Mark outside the Writer’s Yurt just before the event was about to [...]

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Tony’s Terrible Tea-time Torture Show: an interview with Tony Lee

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Tony Lee has been a writer for over twenty years and has worked in pretty much every medium, but in recent years has chosen to concentrate mainly on comics. In this interview, he talks mostly about his work for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as his experience of scripting Doctor Who [...]

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What a writer did before he was a writer

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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One of my favourite (and consistently most inventive) contemporary science fiction writers Charlie Stross has finished posting up a 25, 000 word piece of autobiography about how he came to be the science fiction scribe he is today, How I Got There in the End: “I was writing fiction (and articles for Computer Shopper) as [...]

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Al Ewing at SFX

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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The excellent Al Ewing is interviewed in SFX magazine and they’ve very nicely put it up online so everyone can read it. As well as discussing his career Al offers advice for would-be comics writers, noting how the short Future Shocks stories in 2000AD have proven to be a great way for new scribes to [...]

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