Reality Check: John Reppion’s Haunted Liverpool

Reality Check: John Reppion’s Haunted Liverpool Originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com Alex Fitch talks to author John Reppion, about his book 800 years of Haunted Liverpool and the many issues it raises. Alex and John talk about the nature of hauntings, the variety of other phantasms seen in Merseyside from Witches to Mermaids and the phenomenon […]

Panel Borders: The Worldwide Comix of Jeffrey Lewis

Panel Borders: The Worldwide Comix of Jeffrey Lewis Continuing a month of shows looking at the connections between comic books and music culture, guest presenter Conor O’Grady talks to American underground cartoonist and musician Jeffrey Lewis about his comics such as Fuff and The Worldwide Comix Scavenger Hunt. O’Grady and Lewis also discuss the latter’s […]

Panel Borders: (Ghosts of) Young Graphic Novelists

Panel Borders: (Ghosts of) Young Graphic Novelists Continuing a month of shows about the depiction of musicians and music culture in comic books, this week’s episode coincides with our yearly look at the work of young graphic novelists. Alex Fitch talks to Owen Johnson, Mark D Penman, James Lawrence and Andrew Tunney about their comics […]

Panel Borders: Jim McCarthy, Music Biographies

Panel Borders: Jim McCarthy, Music Biographies Starting a month of shows about the depiction of musicians and music culture in comic books, Alex Fitch talks to Jim McCarthy about writing graphic novel music biographies of musicians and groups such as Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, The Ramones and Metallica. Fitch and McCarthy talk about the varying […]

Panel Borders: Doctor Who and the Graphic Novels

Panel Borders: Doctor Who and the Graphic Novels Continuing a month about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch looks at Doctor Who comic strips in the 50th anniversary week of the TV show. In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, artists Adrian Salmon and Mark Buckingham plus writers Scott Gray and Andrew Cartmel […]

Panel Borders: Peckham Invalids and The Thrill Electric

Panel Borders: Peckham Invalids and The Thrill Electric Concluding this month’s series of shows about new British comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a pair of new Edwardian set comics that mix classic comic book ideas with old and new storytelling techniques. Howard Hardiman discusses The Peckham House for Invalids, a new comic […]

Panel Borders: Level Up – the work of Gene Luen Yang

Panel Borders: Level Up – the work of Gene Luen Yang Continuing our month of shows about the crossover between comics and video games, Alex Fitch talks to American cartoonist Gene Luen Yang about his recent comics about games – his graphic novel Level Up and web strip Legends of the Joystick, both illustrated in […]