Panel Borders: Countryside Comics

Panel Borders: Countryside Comics

Continuing a month of shows about architecture and landscape in comics, guest presenter Lizzie Boyle (Disconnected Press) talks to writer Owen Michael Johnson about the experience of being a comic book creator in the countryside. Lizzie and Owen also discuss finding the difficulties of comic book communities in rural locations and using the landscape for inspiration. Recorded at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal. Originally broadcast Thursday 12th March 2015, on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

Owen Michael Johnson and Lizzie Boyle in discussion at LICAF (photo by Alex Fitch)

Owen Michael Johnson and Lizzie Boyle in discussion at LICAF (photo by Alex Fitch)

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Links: Owen Michael Johnson’s website
Disconnected Press website
More information about The Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Listen to Alex Fitch’s 2014 interview with Johnson and his co-creators who form the Ghosts comic book collective
Info about Johnson’s current exhibition Beast Wagon on display at Orbital Comics, London