FOG! Interview: 007 Scholar ALAN J. PORTER on SKYFALL and 50 Years of Bond on Film

Interview by Brian Saner Lamken

Alan J. Porter was born in Greater Manchester, England, and grew up in the UK but moved to the States in 1996. He currently lives in Texas, where in addition to working as the Content Marketing Manager for Caterpillar Inc. he writes comics (including Disney/Pixar's Cars), prose fiction (including an upcoming novella about H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain), and non-fiction (including Star Trek: A Comics History and James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007).

I first "met" Alan almost 20 years ago via the Comics/Animation Forum on CompuServe. When my Skyfall review got me thinking anew about the world of Bond, it only made sense to pick the brain of the man cataloging Bond continuity and chronology in The James Bond Lexicon: The Unofficial Guide to the World of 007 in Movies, Novels, and Comics.

Our freewheeling E-mail conversation, held over the course of a week or so, follows.

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