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From The Trenches: David Baillie’s “Behind The Scenes” Portsmouth Comic Con Retrospective
Comic creators, cosplayers, traders and thousands of fans attended Portsmouth Comic Con recently…
Stake Your Claim to Sector 13!
The latest issue of the 2000AD-inspired fanzine from Northern Ireland, sprawls across three jam-packed parts
Telling Your Research Story Through Comics – Special Webinar announced by University of California
Find out more about how you can use comics to make academic research more accessible…
Creating Comics: David McDonald, publisher of Hibernia
Matt Badham chats with David McDonald, publisher of Hibernia, about their publishing plans, which include a Starlord celebration next year
Creating Comics: An Interview with BEANO writer Nigel Auchterlounie
Matt Badham tracks down top BEANO writer Nigel Auchterlounie in his secret lair!
Doctor Who Monsters in the spotlight for new Never Cruel or Cowardly podcast
Last month, comics writer and author Cavan Scott described podcasts as the “… fanzines of the 21st Century”. The team behind a mainly Doctor Who-influenced podcast, Never Cruel or Cowardly, are running with that idea in style. The work of talented creators… Read More ›
Sneak Preview: Arcadia #1 by Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeifer
When 99 per cent of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are “saved” by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins… Read More ›
Art Hero: An interview with Daniel Clifford
I’ve been talking to Daniel Clifford about his work and his collaborations and fascinating sounding workshops, and I’m sharing the resulting interview here and the ace Forbidden International blog. Born in South Shields in 1986, writer and educator Daniel Clifford, who has… Read More ›
Cats as Humans: “Playing Out” by Jim Medway
Released last year, Playing Out by Jim Medway is a 48-page story about Connor, Kieran and Jamal mooching around Manchester City Centre – but these youths are cats portrayed as humans. downthetubes contributor Matt Badham has just re-plugged the title,… Read More ›
Radio interviews with Al Davison, David Hine, Tom Humberstone and Tony Lee
Panel Borders: From small press to mainstream In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London International festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, guest presenter Matt Badham talks to comic creators David Hine, Al Davison, Tom Humberstone and Tony… Read More ›
Bringing V for Vendetta to the stage: an interview with Dean Thackeray
Daniel Thackeray as V. Photo: Laura Evans V for Vendetta is writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd’s seminal comic series from the 1980s. The story depicts a near-future police state in which a Fascist party called Norsefire hold power…. Read More ›
Wyatt’s World
Megazine 311 – Cover by Brendan McCarthy The latest Judge Dredd Megazine (on sale now) contains an interview Matt Badham conducted with ace comics writer Arthur Wyatt. As is often the case with these things, there were unused quotes, so… Read More ›
Read West, Young Man (and Woman)…
by Matthew Badham – cross-posted here and on the Forbidden Planet blog with full permission. Read the original version here West, by Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable, is one of my favourite indie comics. It’s the story of Jerusalem West,… Read More ›
Writing Commando: The Blank Page Always Kicks My Ass
Matt Badham wrote “Deserter!”, a story for DC Thomson’s Commando title back in 2008, which has just been published in Issue 4385 – giving you some idea how long some scripts can take to get into print. Here, Matt outlines… Read More ›