Panel Borders: The Tale of One Bad Rat
Originally broadcast 04/09/08 on Resonance FM
After a two week haitus, Resonance’s weekly podcast about comic books – Panel Borders – is back for a 2nd series…
…starting with an interview by Alex Fitch with graphic novelist Bryan Talbot about the new printing of his classic book The Tale of One Bad Rat which tells the story of an abused homeless girl who finds solace in the works of Beatrix Potter…
For more info please visit the home of this podcast at archive.org or watch it as a two part youtube video…
Listen to Alex’s earlier chats with Bryan about The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and his experiences at Sci-Fi conventions…
Links: Wikipedia pages on Bryan Talbot, The Tale of One Bad Rat and
Jonathan Cape’s ‘Graphic Novels minisite’
Comics news:
Movies into Manga: Osamu Tezuka at The Barbican
From 18th September, there’s a week long season of Osamu Tezuka adaptations at The Barbican, curated by Helen McCarthy, who Alex will be interviewing for a second time at Streatham Library on Monday 15th September, to be broadcast as a clear spot on Resonance FM at 8pm on the 18th…
Plus: The Jonthan Cape / Observer graphic fiction competition is back on, with the deadline being 17/10/09 to design a short story in comic book form to fit two pages of The Observer…
Jonathan Cape / The Observer graphic short story competition
Also: At Harrods, Knightsbridge, Rich Johnston has curated an exhibtion of original comic book art by industry luminaries such as Sean Phillips and Raymond Briggs, open from now until the end of October…
More info at www.comicbitsonline.com and at Sean’s blogyoxford.com
