Panel Borders: Parasites, stem cells and microbes!
Continuing our series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Edward Ross and Sci-Fi novelist Ken MacLeod about their comic Hope Beyond Hype, an educational title about “stem cell therapies from lab bench to hospital bedside”, funded by the European Community Research and Development Information Service. Edward also discusses his other medical comics Parasites! and Malaria: The battle against a microscopic killer, while Ken talks about the similarities between comics and science-fiction novels as a way of presenting science fact to the general public.
Originally broadcast Monday 10th June, 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
100 tiny moments no.80 by Edward Ross / Malaria by Ross and Jamie Hall / Hope beyond hype by Ross, Ken MacLeod and others
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Hope beyond hype / Malaria comics
Info about Parasites comic on Edward’s blog and PDF download
Edward Ross’ website and 100 Tiny Moments webcomic
Ken MacLeod’s blog
mp3 recordings of Battle of Ideas debates with Ken Macleod: Frankenstein’s Daughters (2009) / Banning the Brave New World (2012)
Recommended Events:
David Shenton Exhibition
These Foolish Things: Shenton’s cartoons are often camp but they’re not just camp, and they’re not that awful apolitical offensive camp, but a light, knowing, meaningful camp; their first task is to entertain and to make the audience laugh – and often they do much more because the liberation politics that informs his work means that with the laugh there is an acerbic point – a wry observation on how we live or a satirical comment about society and a wider political context, contained in the lives and musings of plausible and likeable characters. Or sometimes it’s just a silly joke.
1 June to 27 July 2013
Space Station 65 Gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS
More info: www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
DrownTown Launch Party and Signing
2000AD alumni Robbie Morrison (Nikolai Dante) and Jim Murray (Batman / Judge Dredd) have embarked on a fully-painted epic set in a flooded futuristic London and are launching the first volume at Gosh with a party and art exhibition!
It’s all happening on Friday the 21st of June, from 7pm until 9pm at which point everything will probably move on to the pub down the road. There’s no need to RSVP but if you’d like to reserve a book feel free to ask. Published by Jonathan Cape, the book is a £12.99 hardcover and if you can’t make it on the night but would like a signed/dedicated copy anyway, send us an email to info@goshlondon.com
7pm, Friday 21st June
Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London, W10DR
More info: www.goshlondon.com
