Panel Borders: Collage and reappropriation
Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Panel Borders examines the work of a quartet of creators whose online strips and cartoons reinvent retro images and iconic characters from film and TV to beguiling effect. In a pair of short interviews recorded at Thought Bubble, Leeds 2012, Alex Fitch talks to American creators Scott C – about his webcomics Double Fine Action Comics and The Great Showdowns – and Becky and Frank about Tiny Kitten Teeth, cartoons which utilise imagery from toys, cereal packaging and children’s literature.
Also, Alex looks into the varying merits of print and web-based comics with British writer / artist Paul O’Connell, in an interview recorded at the University of Brighton. Paul’s postmodern fumetti mash-ups mix comedy and horror via strips such as A Muppet Wicker Man and The Seinfeld Matrix, and the artist discusses his collaborations with other Brighton based creators, including Lawrence Elwick on Charlie Parker, Handyman, plus his aspirations for using the medium of online comics to its full interactive potential. (Originally broadcast Sunday 24th March 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Clockwise from top left: webcomics by Scott C x2, Becky, Paul O’Connell x 3, Frank
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: Paul O’Connell’s website, The Sound of Drowning
Scott’s blog / Great Showdowns and Double Fine Action Comics
Becky and Frank’s website, Tiny Kitten Teeth
Listen to Dickon Harris’ 2010 interview with Paul O’Connell
Listen to Alex’s interview with original Wicker Man director Robyn Hardy
Recommended events:
Comics at Crawley Wordfest
Alex Fitch hosts a panel with Myriad Editions creators Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Eaton and Nye Wright, discussing the mythological in graphic novels Naming Monsters and Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park.
7.30pm, Tuesday 26th March, Crawley Library , Southgate Ave, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 6HG
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