Andi Watson very kindly agreed to be interviewed by e-mail. This is for my research in to gender issues for an upcoming essay and also for my final dissertation.
You can check out Andi's work on his site (which includes a blog): http://www.andiwatson.biz/
And he also has a Flickr account where you can see his latest work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andiwatson/
In October, 2005 I interviewed Bryan Talbot. It was important research for my dissertation, but also for my practical work as Bryan is best known for his graphic novels. Here is an edited version of the interview. If you have anything to ask or add to this, please leave a comment or contact me.
Sorry it's taken me so long to transcribe this! If you want to find out more about Bryan's work or see what he's up to then check out his website: http://www.bryan-talbot.com/
As my practical project for this year is a graphic novel, my research is also to do with this. An early problem I ran in to was describing what the term graphic novel actually means. Sure, you can refer to Will Eisner or look up Eddie Campbells manifesto, but to the average person on the street this isn't going to clarify things.
Anyway, I was really intrigued by Paul Raineys current work, 'There's no time like the present', which he describes as a graphic novel but it is released and formatted like a comic. So I've interviewed him about it. Read on to find out more, and leave a comment if there are any other questions you'd like me to ask him.