Strip! – Bryan Talbot and Mark Stafford’s Cherubs Originally broadcast at 5pm, 10/04/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM James DeCarteret talks to Bryan Talbot and Mark Stafford about their graphic novel Cherubs.
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Satanic Panic, Festival Screenings Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to author Kier-La Janisse about her book on the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ phenomenon, in which subculture, cult film and teenage rebellions were erroneously classified as having supernatural connections. Virginie also chats to film critic and cartoonist Mark Stafford about films […]
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Satanic Panic, Festival Screenings [ 53:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadElectric Sheep podcast: Terry Gilliam and Ted Kotcheff, The Fright Theorem Alex Fitch talks to Ted Kotcheff, the director of a ‘lost’ cult classic – Wake in Fright (1971) – and to Terry Gilliam, director of another cult title in the making, The Zero Theorum (2014). Fitch and Kotcheff discuss how Wake was recovered by […]
Electric Sheep podcast: Terry Gilliam and Ted Kotcheff, The Fright Theorem [ 34:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: Will Eisner week Starting a month of shows about comics and graphic novels which depict ordinary life on the page, Alex Fitch talks to a quartet of comics experts and historians about Will Eisner’s autobiographical comics to coincide with International Will Eisner Week, which celebrates the author’s work. Richard Reynolds (Senior Lecturer, Central […]
Concluding a month of shows about French comics or Bande dessinée, Alex Fitch talks to Tim Pilcher about his new role as UK Liaison at Humanoids Publishing, bringing translations of French graphic novels to Britain, and to Graphic Novelist and filmmaker Joann Sfar about his titles The Rabbi’s Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin) and Tokyo. […]
Panel Borders: Inhumanity and darkness in literature Continuing our month of shows about comics and literature, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about adapting classic 19th century novels as sequential art. In a panel discussion recorded at Comica Comiket in 2011, David Hine and Mark Stafford discuss their adaptation of Victor Hugo’s […]
Panel Borders: Swedish thrillers and dark Sci-Fi fantasy Starting a month about the links between comics and literature, Alex Fitch looks at an example of a series of books that are being adapted for comics and comics that are being continued as novels. Scots novelist Denise Mina discusses her adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy […]
Panel Borders: Swedish thrillers and dark Sci-Fi fantasy [ 39:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI’m ready for my close-up special: London Film Festival 2012 review part 1 In the first of two special hour long editions to celebrate the 56th BFI London Film Festival, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist and film critic Mark Stafford about films they’ve seen at this year’s LFF. Films reviewed include: the new Ralph Steadman […]
I'm ready for my close-up special: London Film Festival 2012 review part 1 [ 1:02:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: Illustrating the Mountains of Madness Beginning a trio of shows about the influence of writer H.P.Lovecraft on comics, Alex Fitch talks to I.N.J. Culbard about his graphic novel adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness and forthcoming adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward for Self Made Hero. Cartoonist Rob Davis briefly […]
Book List: Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft As everyone likes a good ghost story at Christmas, Alex Fitch chairs a panel discussion on H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, the two American heavyweights of classic horror and fantastic literature, with contributors including novelists China Miéville and Denise Mina, and illustrators Mark Stafford and Alice […]