Panel Borders: Blue Pills and Sandcastles Continuing our month of shows on international creators, Alex Fitch talks to Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters about his latest comic Sandcastle, published by SelfMadeHero and based on a script by filmmaker Pierre-Oscar Lévy. Sandcastle is a Twilight Zone style narrative about a group of strangers trapped on a [...]
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Panel Borders: European adventure comics Continuing our trio of shows looking at international comics we have interviews with a couple of European adventure comics creators. In an interview recorded at last year’s BD & Comics Passion festival at the Institut Français, Dickon Harris talks to Yves Sente, one of the current authors of the classic [...]
Panel Borders: Belgian graphic novelists Starting a trio of shows about international comics, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of Belgian graphic novelists about their work. Creator Ivan Petrus discusses The Neuport Gathering, his moving and harrowing tale of Allied soldiers during the First World War, and in an interview recorded at last month’s Comica [...]
Reality Check: Dystopian TV and film
Published by May 6th, 2012 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Dystopian TV and film Alex Fitch talks to Ilana Rein (director: We are all Cylons), Andrew Mark Sewell (producer: Blake’s 7 audio) and Ben Aaronovich (writer: Blake’s 7 audio / Doctor Who) about dystopian TV from The Time Tunnel to Battlestar Galactica; and to Elizabeth Karr (producer) and John Alan Simon (writer / [...]
Electric Sheep Podcast: Comics and film
Published by April 30th, 2012 in Electric Sheep Magazine podcast and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsElectric Sheep Podcast: Comics and film In a pair of interviews looking at the crossover between comics and film, Alex Fitch talks to Stefan Hutchinson about his comic book Demons 3 – a sequel to Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava’s classic 1980s horror films – and to comic book artist Dave McKean about his film [...]
Panel Borders: John Higgins – Before (and after) Watchmen
Published by April 29th, 2012 in Panel Borders. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: John Higgins – Before (and after) Watchmen Concluding our month of shows about British comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer, artist and occasional self-publisher John Higgins about his career so far. Alex and John talk about the latter’s first experiences in comics, being published in Bryan Talbot’s Brainstorm and 2000AD, his landmark collaboration [...]
Panel Borders: John Higgins - Before (and after) Watchmen [ 52:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (398)Reality Check: The work of Warren Ellis
Published by April 24th, 2012 in Panel Borders and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: The work of Warren Ellis Iyare Igiehon (BBC 6music) discusses the work of Warren Ellis with Matt Jones (BERG design), Matthew Sheret (We are words + pictures) and Kieron Gillen (X-Men). Jones talks about SVK, the new comic by Ellis and D’Israeli, commissioned by BERG, Sheret discusses how Ellis inspired him to become [...]
Panel Borders: Young graphic novelists, Spring 2012
Published by April 22nd, 2012 in Panel Borders. 0 CommentsPanel Borders: Young graphic novelists, Spring 2012 As part of our month of episodes on British comics, we have our twice yearly look at a pair of young graphic novelists. Warwick Johnson Cadwell has garnered a great reputation for his small press work and contributions to short story collections, and Dickon Harris talks to WJC [...]
Panel Borders: Young graphic novelists, Spring 2012 [ 36:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (258)Panel Borders: Depicting the personal Continuing our month of shows looking at British comics, we have a pair of interviews about artists who examine their personal life and feelings as a subject for their art. Cartoonist Richy K. Chandler talks to Simone Lia about her new graphic novel, Please God, find me a husband!, which [...]
Panel Borders: The art of Tom Gauld Continuing our month of shows all about British Comics, Alex Fitch interviews cartoonist Tom Gauld about his work, from magazine and newspaper strips such as Move to the City and Hunter and Painter, to small press comics and his new graphic novel, Goliath. Alex and Tom also talk [...]