Panel Borders – Lingua Franca: English language comics in Europe
Commencing our yearly, month-long look at ‘Cross Cultural comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett about co-curating a gallery show on Jack Kirby in Lucerne, Switzerland and the film adaptation of the bande dessinée Largo Winch which was shot mainly in English, even though the film is a French / Belgium co-production. Alex also talks to Francesca Cassavetti, Dan Lester, Sean Azzopardi and Oliver Lambden about their anthology B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. which was created as a survey of the best small press creators in London for dissemination at the Angoulême comics festival in France at the beginning of the year.
Display from the Jack Kirby exhibition in Lucerne + extract from the cover of B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. by Francesca Cassavetti
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:
B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S.blog
Reviews at Midnight Fiction and Forbidden Planet International
Review of Francesca’s comic book on Angoulême
Kirby at Fumetto website
More info on Dan Nadel’s blog and comicsbeat.com
Paul’s guide to the Kirby exhibition
Largo Winch at Ciné lumière – screening times
Buy the English language graphic novels from Cinebooks
Trailer at Daily Motion
Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010
presents…
Futureproof: the Timehacks and Life-mods of Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, the co-editor of boingboing.net and author of the bestselling novels LITTLE BROTHER and FOR THE WIN. Join him for tales of woe and wonder that will explore the realms of storytelling as techno-social activism; delving into creativity as symbiotic, cross-cultural hacking; breaching the dangers and shelters of reason; examining the copywrongs of copy-right; transducing pathways to a post-scarcity world while pondering if truth is truly in sight? Be there and glimpse the future, right now… (OK, it might just be a regular author Q&A about some perhaps unusual themes…)
For full details please visit www.sci-fi-london.com / http://nettlefoldhall.blogspot.com
