Panel Borders: Daredevil by Irvine and Maleev
Daredevil by Alex Maleev
Classic heroes month continues on Panel Borders with a look at the red-suited vigilante Daredevil – blind lawyer by day and superhero by night. Trying to break the record for the largest number of people called Alex in any one episode of the show, Alex Fitch talks to the Bulgarian artist Alex Maleev who with writer Brian Bendis brought the periodical back to the forefront of Marvel Comics’ line in an award winning four year run on the title in the mid 2000s. Alex also talks to novelist Alex (Hellstorm: Son of Satan) Irvine whose anachronistic reimagining of the comic – Daredevil Noir – starts next month and combines the Chandleresque storytelling of Frank Miller’s iconic run on the title with the look and feel of classic Film Noir, relocating the adventures of Matt Murdock to Hell’s Kitchen in the 1930s…
Half hour edit originally broadcast 26/03/09, as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
For more info about the podcast including a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Wikipedia pages on Daredevil, Alex Maleev and Alex Irvine
Maleev and Irvine‘s websites
Daredevil fansite
Comics news: This Saturday, 28th March sees rival small press comics events in Mile End, London
The U.K. Web and Mini Comix Thing happens in Queen Mary University’s Great Hall on Mile End Road. Guests include Sarah McIntyre and Roger Langridge… Admission is £4 at the door
www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk
Schmurgen Con takes place at the New Globe on Mile End Road, around 1PM, provided that they can get the pub open in time. Guests include Dan Lester and David Baillie… Admission is free.
schmurgenjonerhaffs.blogspot.com
also:
Birmingham Spring Memorabilia Show
Including guests from the worlds of comics, TV and Sci-fi, including Andi Watson, John McCrea, Hunt Emerson, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn, Robert Vaughn, Richard Kiel, Richard Briars, Linda Blair, John Leeson…
28-29 March 2009 Brimingham NEC
www.memorabilia.co.uk
and:
Strength from Adversity: A Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Art Festival – 15-17 April 2009
The National Gallery is pleased to be hosting this celebration of contemporary Japanese cinema. Includes screenings of Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen), Fudeko: Sono Ai – Tenshi no Piano (Fudeko and the Angel’s Piano), Takeshi Kitano’s Kikujiro and Okuribito (Departures)
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/what/film
