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If you were enticed by the title I’m sorry to admit it was simply a purile marketing ploy to attract your attention, and this episode contains nothing relating to figs – just the usual selection of pop classics you’ve come to know and love.
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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Nothing has been happening for a long time and I’m completely dry of comment. Yet again.
Interview with St. Martin’s graduate Reto Scheiber. Reto Schreiber admitted to having suffered from depression but after embracing religion and using this in his Art his state of mind improved. After leaving St Martin’s he took a job in East London but quickly decided to return to his Alpine homeland.
Recorded in the studio on Borough High Street.
The Association of Iranian Researchers (ACI) is here represented by Roya Kashefi, on the art-music radio programme Six Pillars to Persia on Resonance 104.4fm
Discussing everything from facts to figures and holes in the news, Roya explains to Fari what the ACI does and why, while demystifying some facts about Iran today. One subject close to Roya’s heart is the efforts of the women’s rights movements, an Roya discusses this and other efforts in this friendly interview.
With music by the innovative Belgian Leo Kupper (b. 1935) on electro-acoustic santoors (x2) and his own micro-processors.
Fittingly for today’s episode subject, Kupper is founder and director of the “Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives†in Brussels.
This episode was broadcast from the Resonancefm studios on May 19th 2008
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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Pamelia Kurstin; Eschschloraque, from Thinking Out Loud (Tzadik 2007).
Iron and Wine; Resurrection Fern, from The Shepherd’s Dog (Transgressive 2007).
Camberwell Now; Ghost Trade, from All’s Well (ReCDec 1015).
The Handsome Family; There’s a City, from Smothered and Covered (2002), a personal gathering of rarities including odd covers, bathroom demos and orphaned songs.
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William phones Weaverville California and gets an insight into thrift shops from James Tregaskis. Recorded before he became Professor.
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.
To download or stream the show in a variety of different formats, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
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