Panel Borders: The Hartlepool Monkey
Continuing a month of shows about French comics or Bande dessinée, Alex Fitch talks to writer Wilfrid Lupano, artist Jérémie Moreau and publisher Tony Bennett about their graphic novel The Hartlepool Monkey (Le Singe de Hartlepool), released in the UK by Knockabout Press. The trio discuss the County Durham legend of a pet monkey washed ashore from a Napoleonic ship and taken to be a French spy by locals, how the graphic novel has gone down in France and their approach to combining various versions of the story to make a cohesive narrative. (Originally broadcast 17/02/14 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Excerpt from The Hartlepool Monkey by Wilfrid Lupano and Jérémie Moreau
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: Wilfred’s blog
Jérémie’s blog
More info about The Hartlepool Monkey at www.knockabout.com
Review and director’s commentary on The Hartlepool Monkey at Forbidden Planet International blog
