The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast team have just released Episode 32, which features a great interview with crime novelist and comics writer Ian Rankin. The creator of the Rebus novels chats about his career, his love of comics… Read More ›
Comic Creator Interviews
Interviews with British comic creators – writers, artists, editors and more.
VIZ’s Davey Jones in the publicity spotlight (even if he doesn’t want to be)
I’ve known ace VIZ cartoonist Davey Jones since the 1980s, back when he contributed some of his amazing early strips to a fanzine I published (a chaotic assemblage with inconsistent numbering and format sizes, including one edition that literally, physically… Read More ›
Matt Garvey chats about writing comics and more on latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival podcast
Comics writer Matt Garvey is the guest on the latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival podcast. He’s written a whole host of comics including The Either, Chunks, White Noir and The Devil in Disguise. Hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates talk… Read More ›
Zoom Rockman mind probed for latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast!
Beano cartoonist and Lakes International Comic Art Festival patron Zoom Rockman is the guest of the organisation’s podcast this week. Zoom is a young creator who started producing comics from a young age, He appeared in the Beano at age… Read More ›
Doctor Who Panel to Panel Podcast reaches 100th episode
Episode 100 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel, the podcast produced by Jeremy Bement about Doctor Who comics, is live, and I’m honoured to have been asked to take part in this landmark episode. Jeremy has racked up an impressive… Read More ›
A Chat with Cinebook – Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast probes European comics publisher
In the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, the team chat to Jerome Saincantin about his role as a translator for Cinebook. Cinebook, whose titles we’ve often featured on downthetubes, are publishers of best selling European books… Read More ›
Words From Beyond: Lady Penelope Artist Frank Langford Part 2 – Andersonic Quotes
In the first part of this Words From Beyond feature on artist Frank Langford we reprinted a rare interview with him from Tardis fanzine dated February 1976. For this second part we begin with a selection of quotes from Andersonic fanzine dated… Read More ›
Words From Beyond: Lady Penelope Artist Frank Langford Part 1 – Tardis Interview
Frank Langford is a familiar name when it comes to comics having illustrated fan favourites like Thunderbirds’ Lady Penelope in the 1960s and BBC TV’s Doctor Who in the 1970s, yet when Gordon Blows interviewed him in the third issue… Read More ›
10 Questions: An Interview with Comics Writer and Novelist Rik Hoskin
Rik Hoskin is a comic book writer and novelist from the UK. He’s written comics for Star Wars, Doctor Who, Superman, Shrek and a successful Spider-Man title aimed at younger readers, among many others. His most recent work includes… Read More ›
Cosmic Conversations: A Chat with Andy W. Clift
After reading the first issue of The Adventures of Captain Cosmic #1, creator Andy W. Clift and I chatted online and I got to ask him a few questions about how Captain Cosmic came into being. Read on, Cosmic Chums! (You… Read More ›