Category Archives: Interviews

I’ve just come across this great version of Alice in Wonderland called A Walk through Wonderland which the Duirwaigh Gallery are presenting over the month of November. It has art by a  range of folk including Brian Froud and Terri … Continue reading →

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Kelly Link about her new collection, Pretty Monsters , which has just shot to the top of my to get in the next few days. It sounds like the awesome Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan, … Continue reading →

Over at the New York Times, Terrence Rafferty has a piece on women writing horror, looking at a vairety of novelists including Elizabeth Hand. Short and to the point, he does muse on the nature of horror to terrify the … Continue reading →

Hippy Bathday to Wind in the Willows and Paddington Bear… Wind in the Willows was 100 years on October 8th (good reminder by the BBC) where they muse on what might happen to Toad and so on in the current … Continue reading →

Tintin in the Congo is the most difficult of Hergé’s Tintin strips. It first appeared in 1930 in the “Petit Vingtiéme”, the newspaper for which he worked , and in book form during 1931. His manager, the Abbé Norbert Wallez, … Continue reading →

Paulie Baynes, who provided the classic illustrations for C.S. Lewis’s Narnia, died on 1 August. (Independent obituary).

There appear to be two sorts of women portrayed by Narnia. The first, whom CS Lewis appears to prefer, is the stoical, non-sexual, almost Alice-like woman such as Lucy or Polly in the Magician’s Nephew (MN). She is perhaps the … Continue reading →

Caitlin Moran has posted a blog item on reading children’s fiction to her child and rediscovering some gems, particularly Enid Blyton. (I did once try to read Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit to Mia but being a cat she wanted to … Continue reading →

Girls in young adult fantasy novels tend to fare rather poorly, especially in the light of Susan from the Chronicles of Narnia. When Aslan admits the Pevensies into paradise, Susan is barred because she has forgotten Narnia and is more … Continue reading →