I was kept very busy this week finishing editing and setting up my mate Pádraig's incredibly Massive Mega Moore Marathon - its a new (15, 000 words or so, phew!) interview with Britain's Wizard in Extraordinary, Mr Alan Moore. In fact its so big I had to break it into three sections across three days on the Forbidden Planet blog - part one is ( Read more... )

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The penultimate episode of ITV's Primeval is coming up this Saturday and its been penned by the very fine novelist, comics scribe and screenwriter Paul Cornell - Paul very kindly took some time to answer a few, brief questions on writing for the series, for Doctor Who and his recent comics output for the Forbidden Planet Blog, should you fancy a ( Read more... )

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Glaswegian superstar comics writer Grant Morrison is apparently one of the shortlist nominees in the Scottish Style Awards in the Most Stylish Men category along with James McAvoy and Kevin McKidd. This made me smile on a Monday, never the easiest thing to do...

I am not on the list, despite the spiffing fur-felt, silk-lined hat I bought this year. ( Read more... )

I was lucky enough to be offered preview discs of the upcoming Comics Britannia series which starts on BBC4 next Monday. If you haven't heard about it yet it is three one-hour programmes exploring British comics, starting with kid's comics with the Beano and Dandy in the late 30s, then boys and girls comics from the Eagle and Bunty through to the ( Read more... )

This week on the Forbidden Planet Blog I posted a short interview with Katie Miranda who runs the Postcards From Palestine LJ. I've posted some political cartoons via Katie's LJ a few times and she mentioned she had a collection of political cartoons she'd done for regional papers and also the start of a comic strip based on her experiences as a ( Read more... )

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