Panel Borders: Typography and Teaching comics illustration
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch is talking to Dan Berry, a lecturer from North Wales School of art and design about the new Illustration for Graphic Novels course he’s going to be teaching from this autumn, about introducing a new generation to the craft of making comics and also about Dan’s interest in typography and how it’s one of the most under appreciated aspects of comic books.

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Panel Borders: The art of Dan Lester
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch is talking to cartoonist Dan Lester about his humour comics such as Monkeys might puke and use of satire and reoccurring characters in gag strips. Dan is also writing a new murder mystery comic that’s being drawn by Oliver Lambden, so Alex & Dan talk about the similarities between humour and crime fiction and solving the problems of both on the page.
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Panel Borders: The art of Tom Humberstone
Originally broadcast 17/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to Tom Humberstone about the various illustrated endeavours he’s been involved with such as comics which range from Art school scum to Everything you never wanted to know about Crohn’s disease and the Eagle award winning How to date a girl in ten days. Tom also runs a pen club in South East London which allows amateurs and professionals to meet in a friendly pub and draw together and most recently he illustrated the blog / sold out graphic novella My Fellow Americans about the democratic nomination process earlier this year.
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Panel Borders: Best Crime Comics
Originally broadcast 17/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to comics historian and critic Paul Gravett about the new book he’s edited and collated, The Mammoth book of best Crime Comics. Alex and Paul talk about the crime genre in sequential art from the 1930s to the modern day, about Paul’s choices for inclusion in the book and the relationship between crime on film and in graphic novels.
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Panel Borders: The art of David Lloyd
Orignally broadcast 10/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In the second of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist David Lloyd about his career, about working with Alan on V for Vendetta and about the challenges of illustrating graphic novels such as The Horrorist and Kickback.
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Panel Borders: The art of Dave Gibbons
Orignally broadcast 10/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In the first of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist Dave Gibbons about his career from humour strips to 2000AD, Dan Dare to Green Lantern. Alex talks to Dave about his career so far, working on more personal projects such as The Originals and his thoughts on the current Hollywood adaptation of Watchmen.

Read an abridged transcript of the interview in Wheel Me Out magazine
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