Resonance FM Podcasts

Panel Borders: Transmission X
Originally broadcast 04/02/10 as an episode of Strip! Resonance 104.4 FM
Starting web comics month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to three members of the Canadian webcomics collective ‘Transmission X’ in an interview recorded during last year’s Comica festival after their signing at Orbital Comics. Cameron Stewart is best known for his [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Gay Super (Duper) Heroes
Concluding our month long look at ‘Masculinity in American comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Brian Andersen about his self published indie comics So Super Duper, Sex and the Superhero and Unabashedly Billie… Alex and Brian chat about representations of gay characters in superhero comics, making the transition between web and [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Ian Rakoff and comics at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Continuing our month long look at ‘Masculinity in American comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Ian Rakoff, a volunteer lecturer in sequential art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who is primarily responsible for the museum’s acquisition of nearly 20,000 comics in their library. In [...]

 

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Panel Borders: The art of Howard Chaykin
Originally broadcast 14/01/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Continuing our month looking at depictions of masculinity in American comics, Alex Fitch talks to veteran artist Howard Chaykin about his career from collaborating with masters of Science Fiction literature in the 1970s – such as Michael Moorcock [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Philosophers, Gods and Monsters
In the first of this month’s shows about the portrayal of masculinity in American comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer Fred Van Lente about penning the adventures of undead superheroes in Marvel Zombies, bringing to light the exciting adventures of Action Philosophers from Aristotle to Derrida and co-writing tales of [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Tales of Diversity
Broadcast 17/12/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the last of this month’s shows looking at the use of comics in education, Sarah Lightman visits the Eastside Educational Trust in Hackney and talks to two of the tutors / mentors from the organisation – Rakhee Jasani [...]

 

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Reality Check: Sci-Fi Comics part two
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q and As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London Film Festival, this is the second half of a two part podcast in which Alex Fitch talks to four practitioners of Science-Fiction comic books about their work; these include Paul Cornell (Captain Britain [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Depicting the darkness in Johnny Cash
Broadcast 10/12/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Continuing ‘Education and comics’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Reinhard Kleist about his book Johnny Cash: I see a darkness, an epic 224 page graphic novel that tells the life and times of [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Visiting the Cartoon Classroom
Partially broadcast 17/12/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Continuing our month of shows on comics and education, Alex Fitch talks to V for Vendetta illustrator David Lloyd and cartoonist Steve Marchant about the project – Cartoon Classroom – they’ve set up with the help of Paul Gravett; [...]

 

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Panel Borders: Apostolos Doxiadis’ Logicomix
Originally broadcast 03/12/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to to author Apostolos Doxiadis about the graphic novel Logicomix – An epic search for truth which he co-wrote with computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou from the University of California in Berkeley. The graphic novel centres around the [...]

 

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