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Panel Borders: What makes a good graphic novel?

Panel Borders: What makes a good graphic novel?

Concluding a month of shows looking at the work of female cartoonists, Alex Fitch hosts a panel discussion with cartoonists Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Eaton and Nicola Streeten to try and answer the question: “What makes a good graphic novel?”, with reference to their own work as writers, artists and commissioning editors and to other publications that have inspired them. Recorded at ‘Graphic Brighton’, University of Brighton, May 2014; broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM, London on 30th June 2014.

Excerpts from work by Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Berry, Hannah Eaton and Nicola Streeten

Excerpts from work by Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Berry, Hannah Eaton and Nicola Streeten

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: Hannah Berry’s website
Cartoons by Corinne Pearlman
Hannah Eaton’s profile at Myriad Editions
Nicola Streeten’s website Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Vampire Academy comic Breaks

Reality Check: Vampire Academy comic Breaks

Continuing a Q and A recorded at Gosh! Comics, as part of SCI-FI-LONDON 14, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Emma Vieceli about illustrating the comic book adaptations of the first three Vampire Academy books by Richelle Mead. Emma also discusses her new webcomic Breaks and forthcoming work on the Alex Rider graphic novel range.

Cover of Dragon Age / interior art from Vampire Academy and Breaks, illustrated by Emma Vieceli

Cover of Dragon Age / interior art from Vampire Academy and Breaks, illustrated by Emma Vieceli

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Penguin website on Vampire Academy graphic novels
Breaks webcomic
Emma Vieceli’s website
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with Emma Vieceli: in 2009 and the first half of the Gosh! / SCI-FI-LONDON Q and A Continue reading →

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Podcast and playlist: Hello GoodBye – 28.06.14 – Ft: Spaceheads + Parvaz Ensemble

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Parvaz Ensemble

This was the final Hello GoodBye Show of the current season and featured live music from Spaceheads and Parvaz Ensemble.

NB* The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show will return to air on Resonance FM at midday on Saturday 13th September 2014.

PLAYLIST
The Fish Police – People Skills
Spaceheads – Hello Goodbye / improvised (LIVE SESSION)
Spaceheads – Spooky Action (At A Distance) (LIVE SESSION)
Spaceheads – ‘interview’
Teeth Of The Sea – Hovis Coil
Eddie Henderson – Say You Will
Technology + Teamwork – Small Victory
Olga Bell – Khabarovsk
Lucy Claire – Paelestin – (Hello GoodBye archive)
Dead Rat Orchestra – Pigeon, Goose and Storks
Parvaz Ensemble – Untitled 1 (LIVE SESSION)
Parvaz Ensemble – Untitled 2 (LIVE SESSION)
Parvaz Ensemble – Untitled 3 (LIVE SESSION)
Parvaz Ensemble – ‘interview’ (LIVE SESSION)

Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Lisa Geurts

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Panel Borders: Freud, Shakespeare and Marx

Panel Borders: Freud, Shakespeare and Marx

Continuing a month of shows looking at the work of female cartoonists, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of artists whose graphic novels have covered the work of masters of theatre, philosophy and psychoanalysis. In a Q and A recorded at Gosh! Comics as part of the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival, Emma Vieceli discusses her work on SelfMadeHero’s Manga Shakespeare line, drawing adaptations of a post-apocalyptic Hamlet, and 19th Century Much ado about nothing. Also, in an interview (translated by Alex Spiro) recorded at ELCAF French cartoonist Anne Simon discusses her graphic novel biographies of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, published in English by Nobrow. Originally broadcast 23rd June 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Much ado about nothing and Hamlet, drawn by Emma Vieceli / Freud and Marx by Anne Simon

Much ado about nothing and Hamlet, drawn by Emma Vieceli / Freud and Marx by Anne Simon

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: Emma Vieceli’s website and new webcomic Breaks
Manga Shakespeare website
Nobrow and Grand Papier pages on Anne Simon
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Emma Vieceli and Dickon Harris’ interview with Alex Spiro about Nobrow Continue reading →

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Hooting Yard: King Jasper’s Castle, Its Electrical Wiring System, Its Janitor, And Its Chatelaine

The plot of King Jasper’s Castle, Etcetera is so convoluted that I am not going to attempt to summarise it here. What you need to know is that the setting is a castle, belonging to King Jasper, situated on a bleak promontory overlooking a bleaker sea. The castle’s electrical wiring system is as complicated as the plot of the play, if not more so. Its maintenance and seemingly endless tweaking and repair is the responsibility of the janitor, who is employed by the castle’s chatelaine. Neither the janitor nor the chatelaine has a given name, though whether this is an oversight on Pickles’ part, or an oh so clever literary device, is moot. Arguments have been thrashed out on both sides. There are other Pickles plays with nameless characters, some where characters swap their names around between acts, and several where, though every character has a name, those names are unpronounceable in any human tongue, or indeed in bestial grunts, howls, or birdsong. Not for nothing is Pickles labelled a “difficult” playwright, just as he was called a “difficult” child by those paid to watch over him in his infancy.

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This episode was recorded on the 12th April 2012. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Frank’s new eBook By Aerostat to Hooting Yard is now available for purchase.

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Panel Borders: Comedies and tragedies

Panel Borders: Comedies and tragedies

Continuing a month of shows looking at the work of female comic book creators, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of cartoonists whose work occurs at the opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. Small press cartoonist Rachael Smith discusses her first graphic novel – House Party – just released by Great Beast Comics, and her back list of humorous self published comics which deal with disenfranchised British teenagers, in an interview recorded at ELCAF (East London Comic Art Festival).
Also, American artist Maureen Burdock talks about the latest installment of her F Word Project, a series of comics about violence against women around the world; Mumbi and the long run tackles the subject of Female Genital Mutilation and the original artwork is on display at Space Station 65 gallery, Kennington until July 7th.

Cover and interior art from House Party, interior art from I am Fire by Rachael Smith / art from photos from the launch of and art from Mumbi and the Long Run and cover of Marta and the missing by Maureen Burdock

Cover and interior art from House Party, interior art from I am Fire by Rachael Smith / art from photos from the launch of and art from Mumbi and the Long Run and cover of Marta and the missing by Maureen Burdock

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 Continue reading →

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Art Monthly Talk Show 12th May 2014

 

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Daniel Miller, Paul O’Kane and Stephen Wilson discuss their features and reviews from the May issue of Art Monthly. Daniel discusses he is Polemic piece entitled  Against Political Art, Paul O’kane discusses his feature New Romatic(ism) and Stephen discusses his report on Art Taipei.

The show is hosted by Chris McCormack the Assistant Editor of Art Monthly.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings

 

Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

 

Special magazine subscription offer  £29 .

 

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Podcast and playlist: Hello GoodBye – 14.06.14 – Ft: The Fish Police, Lucy Claire + Literary Kitchen

The Fish Police
Lucy Claire
literary Kitchen (Andrea Mason)

The Fish Police and Lucy Claire perform live in session and Andrea Mason discusses the Literary Kitchen Festival on Resonance FM‘s Hello GoodBye on Saturday 14th June 2014.

PLAYLIST
The Fish Police – Coco Butter (LIVE SESSION)
The Fish Police – Chicken Nuggets For Me (LIVE SESSION)
The Fish Police – Fish Water (LIVE SESSION)
The Fish Police – Japanese Girl (LIVE SESSION)
ESG – Erase You
The Fish Police – ‘interview’
Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra – UFO
Flame Proof Moth – Jools Holland (Hello GoodBye Archive 06.04.13)
Literary Kitchen (Andrea Mason) – ‘interview’
Gerald Adams And The Variety Singers – After The Ball Is Over (1929)
Ichi – Go Gagambo
Olga Bell – Kamchatka
Lucy Claire – Fantasia On Mildew (LIVE SESSION)
Lucy Claire – Stille (LIVE SESSION)
Lucy Claire – Paelistin (LIVE SESSION)
Lucy Claire – ‘interview’

Presented by deXter Bentley
Live sound engineering: Tom Kemp and Lisa Geurts assisted by Beth Rogers

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Panel Borders: Graphic Lives

Panel Borders: Graphic Lives

Continuing a month looking at work of female comic book creators, Alex Fitch talks to writers Sarah Laing and Dr. Mary Talbot about their graphic novels which mix biography and autobiography in an extract from a panel discussion recorded at the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, Kings College. Laing discusses her autobiographical comic Let me be Frank and her novel The Fall of Light which separates the story of an architect recuperating after an accident into silent comics and traditional text; Dr. Talbot talks about her first graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes which juxtaposes her childhood with that of Lucia Joyce and her latest book Sally Heathcote: Suffragette. Originally broadcast Monday 9th June 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

Extracts from Let me be Frank, Dead Peoples Music, and The fall of light by Sarah Laing / Dotter of her Fathers Eyes and Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary Talbot

Extracts from Let me be Frank, Dead People’s Music, and The fall of light by Sarah Laing / Dotter of her Father’s Eyes and Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary Talbot

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: Sarh Laing’s blog
Mary Talbot’s website

Recommended events:

ELCAF 2014

East London Comic Art Festival takes place at the Pickle Factory, 13-14 The Oval, London E2 9DT
Saturday 14th June 2014

Guests include Chris Ware, Anouk Ricard, Jesse Moynihan, Anne Simon, Mattias Adolfsson, Takayo Akiyama and Seth, with exhibiros including NoBrow, SelfMadeHero, Myriad Editions, Great Beast, It’s Nice That and many more.

Alex Fitch will be in conversation with Anne Simon about her collaborations with psychoanalyst Corinne Maier on two graphic biographies on Marx and Freud, plus other comics illustrations and children’s books at 2.30pm

Also Takayo Fukiyama’s Strange Worlds exhibition will be accompanying ELCAF at The Bishopsgate Building, London EC2M 3UG, from 27th May – 27th June

More info at http://www.elcaf.co.uk
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OST 01.06.2014 – Robin The Fog’s Denman Horn Special

Soundtracks, library and television music, usually brought to you by Mr. Jonny Trunk. This week’s show (and the first podcast in ages, for which we are truly and humbly sorry) comes to you from the Science Museum in London’s South Kensington, and was broadcast both live on Resonance FM and down a 27 foot-long loudspeaker from 1929. Lovingly restored by Aleksander Kolkowski and his team from the original design by Roderick Denman, today’s hour-long special features a carefully curated horn-friendly playlist designed to show the biggest loudspeaker in Britain in it’s most flattering light- and is therefore choc-full of field recordings, radiophonic curiosities, and – of course – foghorns. Full track-listing and some nice photos to accompany your listening experience here. I suppose I could have included them on this posting, but frankly I could do with the extra web traffic.

Strap on your ear-goggles and let’s roll! Best wishes,

Robin The Fog

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