Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part two …
Orignally broadcast 26/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
This episode is the second of two looking at the Streatham Library graphic novels readers group and is the second part of the group’s discussion about Charles Burns’ lurid graphic novel Black Hole which mixes 1950s horror comics with more up to date concerns about sexuality, STDs and social exclusion. (part two of two)
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Panel Borders: Comics and ‘zines
Orignally broadcast 03/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In a pair of interviews about the crossover between comics and
(maga)zines, Alex Fitch investigates a love of retro horror comics with the editor of the EC Comics tribute magazine ‘From the Tomb’ plus, in a sneak preview of the forthcoming Comics and Zines celebration in Museum Street on the 19th of July, Alex talks to organiser and small press creator Jimi Gherkin about the event.
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Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part one …
Orignally broadcast 26/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to members of The Streatham Library Graphic Novels Readers group about studying comics in the library environment, how art and text combine to provide narratives and promotion of literacy. Alex also attends a meeting of the group as they discuss Charles Burns’ controversial graphic novel ‘Black Hole’. (part one of two)
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Panel Borders: Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen’s Phonogram
Orignally broadcast 19/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo:
Alex Fitch talks to artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen of the comic book Phonogram about the way the comic mixes ideas about magic and music to create a package that is both nostalgic and very modern. Alex also talks to Jamie about his solo project Suburban Glamour and to Kieron about his upcoming sci-fi prequel Newuniversal: 1959.
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Comics news:
On now at The Railway Tavern, Station Rise, Tulse Hill, occasional Strip! contributor (and Bryan Talbot’s Cherubs illustrator) Mark Stafford is exhibiting Pandemonium Carnivale; A series of unfortunate paintings…
Electric Sheep podcast: Zoo (and A)
An episode of the Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch discusses the new documentary ‘Zoo’ with magazine critic and writer Hannah Patterson (Sight and Sound / Vertigo magazines).
Alex and Hannah look at the various topics raised by the film both moral and aesthetic, and field questions from the audience in a Q & A that was recorded live at the Prince Charles Cinema in London by Robin Warren (Liberation Jumpsuit / Resonance FM).
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Panel Borders: Underground Heroes
To be broadcast 19/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo; In this episode of ‘Panel Borders’, Alex Fitch is talking to a quartet of underground writers and artists who have created comics books and strips that bring a new angle to British superhero comics. In the podcast we have Adam Hamdy and David Golding, creators of the horror/ superhero comic The Hunter which is influenced by the West’s so called ‘war on terror’, and Alex Morgan who writes and draws Captain Bristol, a strip in the local listings magazine ‘suityourself’. Alex also catches up with Oliver Lambden, creator of Tales from the flat, a superhero sitcom which casts himself and his friends as the characters in the story.
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Reality Check: Joe Lidster and the Whoniverse.
Originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com
Alex Fitch talks to Joe Lidster, writer of half a dozen “Big Finish” Doctor Who audio plays starring the cast of the classic TV series such as Sylvester McCoy and Geoffrey Beevers in Master and Paul McGann and Terry Molloy (Davros) in Terror Firma. Joe also wrote one of the best episodes of Torchwood on TV this year and an episode of the forthcoming series of The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures.
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Panel Borders: The art of Kate Brown and Paul Duffield
Originally broadcast 05/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo; in this week’s episode we’re looking at new European Manga creators. Alex Fitch is talking to two artists who have drawn Manga Shakespeare and are doing very well in serialised comics: Kate Brown (The DFC) and Paul Duffield (web comic Freak Angels).
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Panel Borders: The DFC part 2 (John and Patrice Aggs / Jim Medway)
Originally broadcast 29/05/08 as the second half of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch presents the second half of a special report on the new kids’comic The DFC published by Harper Collins / David Fickling Books, and recorded live at the launch party for the periodical. Alex talks to former manga artist John Aggs about the comic strip he’s drawing for The DFC which is written by acclaimed children’s author Philip Pullman, to John’s mother Patrice who is also producing a strip for the comic with her son called The Boss and to Jim Medway who is creating a comedy strip in The DFC called New at the Zoo.
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Panel Borders: The DFC part 1 (Pullman / Abadzis / Fickling)
Originally broadcast 29/05/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch presents the first half of a special report on the new kids’ comic The DFC published by Harper Collins / David Fickling Books, including David Fickling, Nick Abadzis and Philip Pullman’s speeches about the comic, recorded at the launch party for the periodical. Alex also interviews Philip Pullman about writing the lead story in The DFC and how this is a natural successor to his episodic narratives for children in His Dark Materials and elsewhere.