Panel Borders: Movies, toys and graphic design with Alex Cox and James Jarvis

Panel Borders: Movies, toys and graphic design with Alex Cox and James Jarvis Continuing our month of shows looking at the work of people who aren’t known for their involvement in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to film director Alex Cox and celebrated toy designer James Jarvis on the importance of comics to their work. […]

Panel Borders: Ben Dickson

Panel Borders: Ben Dickson At Cartoon County in Brighton, Ben Dickson talks to Alex Fitch about his satirical sci-fi comics Slumdroid and Falling Sky and his contributions to political anthologies Fight the Power and Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption. Ben will be appearing at Graphic Brighton on December 10th to discuss Fight the Power alongside artist Inko […]

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Investigating Genre

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Investigating Genre The monthly show about world cinema and cult releases. Electric Sheep assistant editor Alex Fitch talks to Lee Broughton about his book Euro-Western, published by I.B. Tauris, which uncovers progressive attitudes to women and minorities in European Westerns, and to the director (Andrew Martin) and lead actor (Edmund Kingsley) […]

Panel Borders: Gay Manga

Panel Borders: Gay Manga Alex Fitch talks to Ilya, Inko, Chie Kutsuwada and Emma Vieceli about gay representation in manga and Japanese style comics, including the phenomenon of Yaoi, titles that have inspired them, and LGBT characters in their own work. Recorded at Graphic Brighton 2015, University of Brighton (Panel Borders continues on the 1st […]

Electric Sheep magazine podcast: Death and Beyond

Electric Sheep magazine podcast: Death and Beyond Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to Death Waltz Records’ Spencer Hickman and composer Fabio Frizzi about the latter’s scores for such classic Italian horror films as The Beyond and Zombi 2, recorded at Frightfest 2016. Also, ESM assistant editor Alex Fitch takes part in a Q […]

Panel Borders: City Strips

Panel Borders: City Strips Alex Fitch talks to Goldsmiths College Design lecturer Stuart Bannocks about his ‘zine City Strips which collages panels from superhero comics with the hero removed, to create a travelogue of fictional cities such as Batman’s Gotham and Superman’s Metropolis. Alex and Stuart discuss the second edition of City Strips: Amazing City […]

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Fear and Fantasy

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Fear and Fantasy Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to Steven Shainberg about his new film Rupture and takes part in a Q and A with director Guillermo del Toro about the documentary Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex, recorded at Fantasia Festival, Montreal. Also, ESM assistant editor Alex Fitch discusses […]

Panel Borders: The Last Driver of Insect Cowboys

Panel Borders: The Last Driver of Insect Cowboys In the first episode of the tenth series of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to Chris Baker and Shaky Kane about their comic The Last Driver from Dead Canary Comics, currently on Kickstarter, which combines 1960s road movies with giant irritated monsters. Kane also discusses his latest […]

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Summer Shocks

Electric Sheep Magazine assistant editor Alex Fitch presents a couple of interviews regarding films to chill the soul during the summer heatwave. Suture directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel discuss their classic 90s neo-noir as it sees a new release on Blu-Ray in the UK from Arrow, and FrightFest founder and programmer Alan Jones explores […]

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Looking East / Thalma Goldman

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Looking East / Thalma Goldman Electric Sheep editor Virginie Selavy talks to East End Film Festival programmer Andrew Simpson, Masonic Temple programmer Josh Saco, and to Evrim Ersoy, programmer and presenter of DukeFest the Third. Electric Sheep assistant editor Alex Fitch discusses Israeli-born British artist and animator Thalma Goldman with Richard […]