Panel Borders: Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures!

Panel Borders: Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures!

The Muppet Show by Roger Langridge

The Muppet Show by Roger Langridge

Starting adaptation and inspiration month on the show: Alex Fitch and Robin Warren talk to two humour cartoonists – Roger Langridge and Hugh Raine (a.k.a. Shug) – about their work. Roger has just started drawing the new Muppet Show comic for Boom Studios! and has drawn the U.K. Doctor Who comic from time to time while Hugh has just completed the 37th and final issue of his comic Reet!, so Alex and Robin talk to Roger about his career so far and bringing Jim Henson’s beloved creations to the page, while Alex talks to Hugh about Northern humour, self-publishing and his influences…

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Links: Roger Langridge’s website, blog and wikipedia page
Read Fin Fang Four at marvel.com
Boom! studios website
Read the first seven pages of The Muppet Show
Info about Boom!’s American newsstand distribution
Listen to Alex and Duncan Nott’s coversation with Mark Waid about Boom! Studios

Hugh Raine’s web, livejournal and myspace sites
Review of Shug’s comics at the Forbidden Planet International blog