Panel Borders: Transmission X
Originally broadcast 04/02/10 as an episode of Strip! Resonance 104.4 FM
Starting web comics month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to three members of the Canadian webcomics collective ‘Transmission X’ in an interview recorded during last year’s Comica festival after their signing at Orbital Comics. Cameron Stewart is best known for his work on Grant Morrison’s Seaguy and Batman and Robin, but has also been responsible for a online crime comic called Sin Titulo which between its first instalment in 2007 and its 89th page last autumn won the 2009 Joe Shuster Award for Best Webcomic. Also on the Transmission X site are a collection of other terrific strips in a variety of genres including Kukuburi and Butter Nut Squash by the prolific Ramón Pérez and The Abominable Charles Christopher by Karl Kershl. While they were on the London leg of their European tour, Alex caught up with Cameron, Ramón and Karl and talked about working in a variety of genres on the web, how this contrasts with their superhero comics for more famous publishers and the experience of updating web comics on a regular basis.
Various Transmission X webcomics by Ramón Pérez, Karl Kershl and Cameron Stewart
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Transmission X homepage
Transmission X youtube channel
Cameron Stewart – Sin Titulo webcomic
Cameron’s blog
Ramón Pérez – Kukuburi and Butter Nut Squash webcomics
Ramón’s blog
Karl Kershl – The Abominable Charles Christopher and North Sea Epoch webcomics
Karl’s blog
Recommended events:
Arthur Ransom Exhibition at Orbital comics
14 January- 14 February
Orbital Comics is pleased to present British comics legend, Arthur Ranson’s, premiere exhibition, showing art spanning throughout his prolific career from 2000AD and beyond and depictions of beloved characters such as Judge Anderson, PSI and Button Man…
8 Gt Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA
More info: www.orbitalcomics.com
Drawn Out and Painted Pink, an exhibition of cartoons by Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton
Throughout February 2010 The Drill Hall will be hosting and housing Drawn Out & Painted Pink, a cartoon exhibition by Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton documenting LGBT history from the 1970s to now.
“Like the best foreign correspondents (only funnier) their cartoons and comic strips have painted a devastatingly accurate self-portrait of LGBT life in the UK… They’ve got us bang to rights in the ways we were, the ways we are and the ways we could be. These are social documents of the highest order.”
Ellen Galford
The Drill Hall, Bloomsbury, West End, London WC1E 7EX
