Laydeez do podcasts: Beyond the page

In three talks recorded at Laydeez do comics, we’re looking at dissemination of comics beyond the printed page, as University of Bournemouth lecturer Jo Tyler talks about adapting comic books for the radio, interviewer and journalist Alex Fitch talks about his experience of talking to comic book creators for broadcast and podcast and Lebanese cartoonist Joumana Medlej talks about her comic book Malaak: Angel of peace, which is available online and for a variety of devices which allow the reader to explore the language of the comic further than a simple translation.
(Introduced and recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited by Alex Fitch)

Excerpt from Malaak by Joumana Medlej, Jo Tyler and Lobo, Alex Fitch (art by Sarah McIntyre)

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: Radio Production at Bournemouth University
Read an extract of Salmon Doubts by Adam Sacks
Wikipedia page on Lobo

Interview with Alex Fitch at thecomicsbureau.co.uk
Archive of Alex’s early radio work

Malaak: Angel of Peace website

Read the Laydeez do comics blog
Info about Laydeez do comics

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Panel Borders: Pat Mills’ Infamous comics and games

Continuing our month of shows about the crossover between games and comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer Pat Mills about the series of seven online comic strips he’s written to accompany the release of the new PlayStation game inFAMOUS 2. In the comic strips, riffing on the idea of fame and infamy, Pat and editor Howard Marks are satirising modern celebrities and also giving them and their companions the kind of powers you might find in the game. Alex and Pat talk about writing these strips, his previous experiences in writing interactive comics in the form of 2000AD spin off title The Dice Man and his thoughts on web comics and strips available for ebook readers.

Panels from inFAMOUS: the fame strips by Pat Mills and (left to right) Ellen Lindner, Luke Pearson, Kate Brown and Fay Dalton

Links: Read inFAMOUS: the fame strips at www.infamousthegame.com
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with Pat Mills
Ellen Linder’s website
Luke Pearson’s website
Kate Brown’s website
Fay Dalton’s website

Recommended events:

Pub Fiction presents…

The regular ‘Pub Fiction’ slot at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester presents Q and As with popular British comic book and fantasy writers:

Al Ewing, July 22nd, 6.30pm (£2 / ticket)
Bryan Talbot, July 23rd, 5pm (£5 / ticket)
Stephen Gallagher, July 23rd, 6.30pm (£5 / ticket)
Paul Magrs and George Mann, July 24th, 5pm (£2 / ticket)

Buy tickets at We Got Tickets or pay on the door.

Part of The Lass O’Gowrie‘s LassFest.

The Lass O’Gowrie
36 Charles Street
Manchester
M1 7DB
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Panel Borders: Interactive comics

Starting a month of shows about the cross-over between comic books and video games, Alex Fitch talks to web comics creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey about the latest examples of his experiments in interactive ‘hyper-comics’: including Jack’s Abstraction available on Android devices, and the forthcoming A Duck, which allow comic strip readers to follow differing narrative paths in various directions on the virtual page. Alex and Daniel also talk about other recent examples of the intersection between games and comics including Batman: Arkham Asylum and inFAMOUS 2: THE FAME STRiPS which he designed the flash interface for.

Extract from the interactive comic Jacks Abstraction by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

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: Download Jack’s Abstraction from the Android store

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey’s website: e-merl.com
Read inFAMOUS 2: THE FAME STRiPS online
Listen to previous interviews with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

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Laydeez do podcasts: Bristol Cartoonists

In this month’s podcast we have a recording of two cartoonists from Bristol whose work is informed by their medical conditions. Andrew Godfrey talks about his strips The Clichéd Artist and The Selfish Gene which detail his life with Cystic Fibrosis and Katie Green talks about her forthcoming book Lighter than my shadow: A graphic Memoir about battling anorexia, to be published by Jonathan Cape.
(Introduced and recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited by Alex Fitch)

Self portraits by Andrew Godfrey - sketch at Laydeez do Comics - and Katie Green - cover of Lighter than my shadow

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: Andrew Godfrey’s blog http://itsallaboutthecomics.blogspot.com
Katie Green’s website www.katiegreen.co.uk
Panel Borders’ month of shows on Medical Comics

Read Mike Medaglia’s blog entry about Andrew and Katie’s appearance at Laydeez do Comics
Info about Laydeez do comics

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Panel Borders: Doctoring Comics

Concluding our month of shows looking at medical comics, we have a talk by Dr. Ian Williams about his work including curating Graphic Medicine and creating comic strips under the name Thom Ferrier followed by a Q and A session featuring questions by Phillipa Perry and Alex Fitch. (Recorded at Laydeez do Comics, May 2010)

Ian Williams at Laydeez do comics, photo by Marcia Mihotich / Fear of Failure by Thom Ferrier

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: Ian Williams’ comics produced as Thom Ferrier at www.disrepute.info

Info about Graphic Medicine
Call for papers (pdf download) for the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in Leeds

Listen to more podcasts featuring Phillipa Perry

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Panel Borders: Medical Manga

Continuing our month of shows about looking at portrayals of illness, medicine and caregiving in comic books, we’re examining medical manga in two talks recorded at last year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Maria Vaccarella talks about a German Manga about Epilepsy – Epilepsie? Bleib cool! – an educational comic designed to help teenage epilepsy suffers in Germany cope with their condition, also Ada Palmer is talking about the heroism of doctors in the work of Osama Tesuka from Buddha to Black Jack, Astro Boy to Phoenix.

Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka, Epilepsie - bleib cool! by Stefanie Wollgarten, Barbara Lillge and Heiko Krause, Buddha by Osamu Tezuka

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: Order Epilepsie? Bleib cool! from www.amazon.de
Review of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack at www.anigamers.com

Listen to Helen McCarthy talk about the work of Osamu Tezuka

Info about the 2010 Graphic Medicine conference
Call for papers (pdf download) for the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in Leeds

Recommended events:

Comics County meeting, Brighton, Monday, 27th June

This month’s meeting we have three speakers for podcast representing two areas where cartoon art is being used for social good as well as entertainment.

Steve Silverwood and Laurence Stead are from Upside Comics – www.upsidecomics.org.uk – and they’ll be reporting on workshops they’ve recently held for the purpose of aiding literacy as well as spreading the word of the art form itself. Many cartoonists have been doing this work for a while (our trusty Dr Parsons and his www.crazycomicclub.co.uk for a start, not to mention all the other folks listed in www.cartoonclassroom.co.uk) and its future is under threat due to current cuts in schools and libraries, so reporting of practical results from such work is more needed than ever.
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Panel Borders: Cancer Comics

Continuing our month of shows about medical comics, we have two recordings of creators’ very different approaches to tackling the issue of cancer in sequential art. In another presentation from last year’s Graphic Medicine conference, Suley Fattah talks about his anthologies Drawing the line and Drawing the line again, which collect a selection of new comics about the subject of cancer to raise money for related charities. Also, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ross Mackintosh about his moving autobiographical book Seeds which depicts his father’s battle with the disease.

Covers of Seeds by Ross Mackintosh, Drawing the line and Drawing the line again curated by Suley Fattah and Kasra Ghanbari

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: For more information about Ross Mackintosh’ Seeds, www.seedscomic.blogspot.com
For more info about Drawing the line and Drawing the line again, www.benefitcomic.com

Listen to Brian Fies talk about his work

Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago

Recommended events:

Comics Launchpad, Birmingham

This weekend, a unique event takes place at The Studio, Birmingham, bringing together seasoned professionals and aspiring creators from around the world with one thing in common: a passion for comics.

The first event of its kind, Launch Pad includes a full programme of workshops and seminars designed to inform and inspire budding writers and artists, along with opportunities for portfolio reviews and face-to-face feedback.

Speakers at the one day conference include legendary creator Klaus Janson, DC Comics Senior Editor Joey Cavalieri and 2000AD Editor Matt Smith, and the event is officially supported by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Rebellion Entertainment, Diamond Distribution and a host of other major publishing companies worldwide.

Join International Comics Shows at The Studio in Canon Street on Saturday, June 18 and find out how to make your career take off.

The Conference is limited to 300 delegates and includes an option to attend the exclusive after event roof garden party with complimentary food and drink.

To find out more or to book your place go to: http://www.comicslaunchpad.com

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