Panel Borders: Anorexia and Geriatrics

Continuing a month of shows about the depiction of medicine and illness in comics, Alex Fitch talks to two female cartoonists whose work movingly covers this subject. Artist Katie Green discusses her forthcoming graphic novel Lighter than my shadow, which chronicles her adolescent struggle with anorexia, and her ‘zine The Green Bean which currently depicts the creation of the book. Alex also talks to Doctor Muna Al-Jawad about her cartoon strips of experiences on geriatric wards, how she has been able to illustrate her ethnographic research with these and the forthcoming Graphic Medicine conference at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Originally broadcast Monday 17th June, 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

Cover of The Green Bean / interior art from Lighter than my Shadow by Katie Green / cartoon strip by Dr. Muna Al Jawad

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Katie Green’s website – www.katiegreen.co.uk
Info about Doctor Muna Al Jawad’s work at Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Graphic Medicine website
Laydeez do Comics podcast featuring Katie Green Continue reading →

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Panel Borders: Naming Minotaurs

In the first of a series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of two recent graphic novels that deal with these themes. In a panel discussion recorded at Crawley WordFest, Alex talks to Nye Wright and Hannah Eaton about their graphic novels Things to do in a retirement home trailer park and Naming Monsters, with an introduction to the work of publisher Myriad Editions by editor Holly Ainley. Nye’s graphic novel depicts the last months of his relationship with his father as the latter dies of emphysema, with the comic book versions of the pair depicted as anthropomorphic characters; Hannah’s is a psychological exploration of a young woman coming to terms with her mother’s death and the contrasts and connections between her vignettes and British folklore stories.
Originally broadcast Monday 2nd June on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

Panels from Naming Monsters by Hannah Eaton and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park by Nye Wright

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Panel Borders: Image Duplicators

In the last of a series of shows about the relationship between fine art and comics, Alex Fitch talks to three artists about their recreations of fine art in comic book pages and vice versa. Simon Russell discusses his small press comics Roy and That’s not my Merkin!, Dutch artist Typex illuminates his graphic novel about Rembrandt, and Jason Atomic talks about his contribution to the ‘Image Duplicator’ show at Orbital Comics which deconstructs the work of Roy Lichtenstein. Originally broadcast Monday 27th May 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM

cover of Not my Merkin by Simon Russell, Extract from Rembrandt by Typex, Homage to Carl Barks by Jason Atomic

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Simon Russell’s blog
Buy Roy and That’s not my Merkin! from www.comicsy.co.uk/boinggraphics
Info about Typex at www.selfmadehero.com
Jason Atomic’s blog
Image Duplicator info at www.orbitalcomics.com/image-duplicator

Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with director Peter Greenaway about his projections onto Rembrandt’s paintings in the Rijksmuseum and film of the painter’s Nightwatch Continue reading →

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Panel Borders: Exhibiting comics (2013)

As part of Panel Borders’ month of shows about fine art and comics, we have our yearly look at how art from comic books is displayed in the gallery space. At OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY, Deptford, Alex Fitch talks to gallery owner / curator Sue Cohen, and artist Sarah Lightman, about the latter’s exhibition “The Book of Sarah”, which previews her forthcoming graphic novel from Myriad Editions.
Also, at Phoenix Brighton, fine art lecturer Sue Gollifer, curator Karin Mori, exhibition designer Ben Thomson, and artist Iain Paxon (Hamilton Yarns) talk about the gallery’s exhibition of artists’ books “Press and Release”. Originally broadcast Monday 20th May 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

“The Book of Sarah” is on display at OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY, Enclave 9, Resolution Way, Deptford, London SE8 4NT (Weds – Sat) to 1st June, 2013 / “Press and Release” is on display at Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Pl., Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9NB (Weds – Sun) to 9th June 2013

page from The Book of Sarah by Sarah Lightman / exhibition launch / Press and Release flyer / photo of gallery

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Links: Occupy my Time Gallery website
Sarah Lightman’s website
Phoenix Brighton website
Hamilton Yarns website
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Panel Borders: Barbara Nessim – a (comics) artful life

Continuing a month of shows about the connections between fine art and comic books, Alex Fitch talks to acclaimed artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim about her work and the many connections it has with sequential art, as its influence and subject. A selection of Nessim’s work is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with her Wonder Woman analogue “Star Girl Banded with Blue Wave” (1966) being used as the focus for the marketing of the show; Alex talks to her about this work, the use of panel based sequential images in her Flag series and others, and her unlikely appearance in a anti-drugs fumetti, facilitated by Gloria Steinem and published in Warren Magazines’ Help! periodical in the 1960s.
Barbara Nessim – an artful life is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 19th May 2013
(Orignially broadcast Monday 13th May 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Superman carrying girl with green shoes, Star Girl banded with blue wave, Fumetti from Help! magazine, Chopin a la moog, Swedish Lives, A / B, The Night is Silent by Barbara Nessim

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Barbara Nessim’s website
Info about the Barbara Nessim exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Article about Nessim’s installation at Centria Building Continue reading →

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Panel Borders: Fine Art / Comics

Starting a month of shows looking at the connections between ‘fine art’ and comic books, Panel Borders is proud to broadcast a pair of presentations by Richard Reynolds FRSA and graphic designer Rian Hughes given at 2013 Spring Comiket, Central Saint Martins School of Art. Reynolds looks at the influences that various works of fine art have had on comic books over the last hundred years while Hughes explores the many comic book panels that Roy Lichtenstein used in creating his works of art, currently on show at Tate Modern. (Originally broadcast 06/05/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Richard Reynolds and Rian Hughes on stage at Comiket, Central Saint Martins, Lichtenstein strip by Mort Walker

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Richard Reynolds’ page on linkedin
Rian Hughes’ website
Info about the Image Duplicator show at Orbital Comics
David Barsalou’s Deconstructing Lichtenstein website
Sotherby’s pages on Glenn Brown
Mort Walker strip about Roy Lichtenstein

Recommended events:

Exhibitions at Orbital Comics

Andrew Hickinbottom

is a digital 3D illustrator who specialises in stylised pinups. His work has been showcased on the internet over 60 times, and has been featured in many international books and magazines, appearing on 4 covers. Some of his clients include EA, Tassimo, Seat, Intel and The international Olympic Committee.

This exhibition of his personal works features a wide range of his appealing female character illustrations, with signed prints, an artbook and even a VERY limited edition figurine for sale.

17th April – 10th May

Reappropriating Lichtenstein

Artists Jason Atomic and Rian Hughes are curating an exhibtion at Orbital Comics, on the subject of Reappropriating Lichtenstein to coincide with the final weeks of the exhibtion at Tate Modern in May. Any practising comic book artists who would like to trace back one of Lichtenstein’s images to its original source, crediting the original artist in the process, and produce a new version themselves are invited to submit proposal for exhibition by April 6th.
More info here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/19/a-call-for-comic-artists-to-respond-to-roy-lichtenstein

Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
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