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Panel Borders: Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen’s Phonogram

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.

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Official Phonogram website
Wikipedia pages on Phonogram, Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen
Jamie’s website, blog and flickr page
Kieron’s blog and interview at strip-for-me.com

Comics news:

Mark Stafford's Pandaemonium Carnivale

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…

Hooting Yard : Pebblehead’s Twaddle

I am very pleased to announce that the latest episode in the Grizzled Old Fool series of multi-platform cultural interventions has been released. Grizzled Old Fool At The Haberdashery sees the grizzled old fool going to a haberdashery to buy buttons and cloth and pins. As usual, he is chewing a plug of tobacco and wearing his trademark battered old hat. He behaves ineptly in the haberdashery, piddling in his trousers and overturning a display stand of thread samples. In a particularly poignant moment, he is mistaken for Mark E Smith of The Fall and prevailed upon to sing an extempore version of “City Hobgoblins” to the haberdasher’s excited children.

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The Bike Show: From the Tropics to the Stones

The Bike Show is back for the summer season. This week’s show features two long rides: from Singapore to China with two small children in tow and a preview of Rolling to the Stones, a midsummer night ride from Central London to Stonehenge.

Plus music from Bucky: you can see the video version over here. The London Festival of Architecture has a fantastic programme of architecture and urban design themed rides coming up, running from a month starting on 21 June. Since being on air, Alastair Humphrey’s talk at Stanfords has sold out.

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Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) are here.

Electric Sheep podcast: Zoo (and A)

Electric Sheep podcast: Zoo (and A)

Alex Fitch talks to Hannah Patterson about Zoo at the Prince Charles Cinema, photo by Robin WarrenAn 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

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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Hooting Yard : Four Leatherette Corner Flaps

The USS Milquetoast Jesuit is sponsored by L’Oreal, and is powered by light-reflecting booster technology, just like Andi MacDowell’s hair. Captain Biff is contractually bound to use various L’Oreal hair products, but if he had his way he would smear his ginger mop with grease from the engine room.

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Reality Check: Joe Lidster and the Whoniverse

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

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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Hooting Yard: The Legend Of The Golden Pig

The circumstances in which I first heard the legend of the golden pig were oddly similar to those of the Sermon on the Mount. Crushed in a multitude, I followed a beardy man up on to a hillock, and sat down and listened to him speak… well, more or less. There were two or three of us, rather than a heaving mass of humanity, it was a flat field, not a hillock, and we did not listen to a beardy man speaking to us directly but to the disembodied voice of a woman, broadcast from a radio set perched on the back of a farmer’s cart. The voice belonged to the Woman Of Twigs, the radio set was pneumatic, and the cart belonged to mad Old Farmer Frack. It was his field we gathered in, and it was partially flooded.

There was no sign of the horse we assumed must have pulled the cart into the middle of the field. Old Farmer Frack only had one horse, named Desmond, so it was likely he had led it off along the lane to the fruit and nut market. It seemed he planned to leave the cart in the field for some time, for its wheels had been removed. I had seen the cart before, so I knew that they were the big wheels of Motown, to where, at a guess, they were being returned. There were wheels within wheels, too, and it had to be assumed they were also bound for Motown.

This episode was recorded on the 1st May 2008. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.

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Panel Borders: The DFC part 2 (John and Patrice Aggs / Jim Medway)

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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