Panel Borders: The work of Peter Doherty

Originally broadcast 22/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Art from Grendel Tales by Peter Doherty

In the third of last month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to an artist who started work in the early 90s on Judge Dredd megazine, illustrating the acclaimed serial Young Death – Boyhood of a superfiend, has worked on a variety of titles in America such as Batman / Superman, The Dreaming and Grendel Tales, before returning to the world of Dredd again more recently. Peter Doherty has worked as a penciller, a fully rendered artist and as a colourist on off beat titles such as Shaolin Cowboy and Grant Morrison’s absurdist Sea Guy. This interview was recorded last November at the Leeds sequential art festival, Thought Bubble…

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Panel Borders: The work of Marc Ellerby

Originally broadcast 15/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

An image from the online diary comic Ellerbisms by Marc Ellerby

In the second of this month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to artist and writer Marc Ellerby, who has self-published a variety of small press autobiographical comics, drawn Love the way you love by Jamie S. Rich for Oni Press and the back-up strip for the latest issue of Image Comics’ critically acclaimed Phonogram. Marc is currently exhibiting original artwork in the Drawn! exhibition at Brent Museum (until 8th Feb 2009) and throughout last year ran a Manga Club at a bookshop at Lakeside in Essex…

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Links: Marc’s website and online comic strip Ellerbisms
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Panel Borders: The Work of Raymond Briggs

Originally broadcast 08/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In the first Panel Borders of 2009, Alex Fitch is talking to the beloved British children’s illustrator Raymond Briggs who in the 1970s created some of the most treasured kids books of the late twentieth century such as The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman which were all turned into successful and memorable animated cartoons in the following decade.

If many people only know his work from the cartoons, it’s entirely possible they don’t realise that Briggs has been drawing his books in comic strip format since the early 70s and is one of Britain’s finest and ironically least recognised comic book creators. This has started to change in recent years with the last year alone seeing Briggs talk about his work on stage alongside Brian Talbot at Comica at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, being awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Cartoon Art Trust while Jonthan Cape reissued Gentleman Jim as one of their classic British Graphic Novels…

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Panel Borders: Dale Lazarov and Amy Colburn – Manly

Partially broadcast 18/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Concluding gay comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to Amy Colburn and Dale Lazarov, the creators of “Manly“, a homoerotic comic sold in Art bookshops. Alex discusses with Dale his history of writing silent erotic comics and the varying benefits of being published by a comic book company and an art book publisher, plus Amy talks about her fine art background and the differences between Yaoi and Western gay comics.

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Panel Borders: The work of Bevis Musson

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to Bevis Musson the British Indie creator of Oddcases and Queen of Diamonds. Alex and Bevis talk about sexuality in super-hero comics, British eccentrics who investigate strange goings on, how the latter’s background in costume design influences his comics and about the gay small press comics scene in general.

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Panel Borders: Tommy Roddy and Pride High

Partially broadcast 11/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Pride High #6

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders; in the first of two shows, Alex Fitch talks to one of the winners of last year’s Gay Press Grant – Tommy Roddy about his comic “Pride High” which is a hipper version of the “X-Men” that allows the gay characters of a super hero school take centre stage, while dealing with issues of oppression and mortal enemies.

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Panel Borders: Justin Hall and Glamazonia

Partially broadcast 11/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders: in the second of two shows about the Queer Press Grant, Alex Fitch talks to one of the winners of last year’s grant – Justin Hall about his comic “Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny”, which tells the tale of a transgender super-heroine fighting mythical creatures, serial killers and old fashioned super hero origin stories

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Panel Borders: The art of Howard Hardiman

Howard Hardiman's Badger

It’s the start of Gay Comics month on Resonance FM (season of good will to all men and whatnot) and we kick off with an ideal Christmas present for children of all ages: Badger by up and coming artist Howard Hardiman. Alex and Howard talk about funny animal / anthropomorphic titles and their relation to autobiography, having a sense of location in comics and the tricky art of marketing a new product…

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