Panel Borders: The art of Philip Spence

Ninja Bunnies by Philip Spence

Concluding Indie comics month (a little bit late due to technical issues) on Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to artist Philip Spence about his self published mini-comics / web comic The Adventures of Ninja Bunny. Mini-comics are an offshoot of the zine and small press comics scene, measuring approx 9cm square and have a more collectible appearance for causal comics browsers who may pick up the titles in art fairs and markets. Philip has recently branched out from his minis into regular sized autobiographical titles and talks about his interest in fine art prints and the production process.

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Panel Borders: Captain Britain by Alan Davis and Paul Cornell

Originally broadcast 05/03/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Excalibur by Alan Davis featuring Captain Britain and X-Men

It’s the start of ‘classic heroes’ month on Panel Borders and to kick off, Alex Fitch is talking to two of the creators of the UK’s very own superhero – Captain Britain. Alex talks to Alan Davis, the artist and writer of the strip in the early 80s, who together with help from writers Alan Moore and Jamie Delano rescued the character from oblivion with esoteric storylines, a great supporting cast and a terrific new costume. Alex also talks to author Paul Cornell about his recent revamp of the character in the new comic Captain Britain and MI:13 which sees the Captain get a 21st Century make-over while encountering such nefarious characters as Count Dracula and Gordon Brown!

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Links: Wikipedia pages on Captain Britain, Alan Davis and Paul Cornell
For Paul’s blog, please click here
Buy Captain Britain and MI:13 from Forbidden Planet International
More info about The Bristol International Comics Expo (May 9th / 10th 2009) and D.R. and Quinch
Alan’s website

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Panel Borders: The work of David Baillie

Originally broadcast 19/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Extract from A Dogs Tale by David Baillie

Continuing Indie comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to writer and artist David Baillie about his experiences in the comics industry. David has been self publishing comics since the beginning of the 2000s and has recently produced his first graphic novel – Tongue of the dead – a pastiche and welcome update of 1970s and 80s Sword and Sorcery comics such as Conan the Barbarian. David also has worked as a comics commentator for various publications, is working on a 3D site specific graphic novel with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey displayed on the walls of a children’s hospital in France and has just seen his first “Future Shock” published in the venerable British periodical 2000AD.
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Panel Borders: The work of Adrian Tomine

Originally broadcast 12/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Extract from Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

Continuing Indie comics month on Panel Borders: Eagle Award winning writer and artist Tom Humberstone will be talking to American comic book creator Adrian Tomine who writes and draws the comic book Optic Nerve, originally self published and now serialised by Drawn and Quarterly. Collections of short stories from the comic, entitled Summer Blonde and Sleepwalk, have just been published in the UK by Faber and Faber.
Adrian is also the editor of a series of collections of the work of underground manga creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi including Abandon the old in Tokyo and The Push Man and other stories. Tom and Adrian talk about working in comics, Adrian’s artistic influences and interests, his graphic novel Shortcomings and his involvement in bringing Tatsumi’s work to the attention of a new generation in the West.

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Panel Borders: Comica 2008

Originally broadcast 05/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Extracts from comics by Julian Hanshaw and Isabel Greenberg, entries in the Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short story competition

Starting a month of shows on indie comic book creators, Dickon Harris presents a trio of interviews recorded at last autumn’s Comica festival at the ICA; Dickon is talking to the winner – Julian Hanshaw – and runner-up – Isabel Greenberg – of 2008’s Observer / Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story competition about their strips: “Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms” and “Cheer up, love, it’s only a credit crunch”. Dickon also talks to author Tim Pilcher about his books on Erotic Comics and how the changing landscape of censorship and appreciation of graphic novels as literature, has altered the reception of adult comics over the years.

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Panel Borders: The art of Ken Reid

Originally broadcast 29/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Excerpt from Jonah by Ken Reid, The Beano, November 7, 1959

In the last of January’s quartet of shows about four generations of British Cartoonists, Alex Fitch talks to writers Alan Moore and Pat Mills about their favourite cartoonist, the late Ken Reid who drew Roger the Dodger in the 1950s Beano and a variety of underrated strips in children’s comics such as Wham! and Whoopee! including the creepy classics Faceache and Frankie Stein, up to the 1980s…

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Panel Borders: The work of Peter Doherty

Originally broadcast 22/01/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Art from Grendel Tales by Peter Doherty

In the third of last month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to an artist who started work in the early 90s on Judge Dredd megazine, illustrating the acclaimed serial Young Death – Boyhood of a superfiend, has worked on a variety of titles in America such as Batman / Superman, The Dreaming and Grendel Tales, before returning to the world of Dredd again more recently. Peter Doherty has worked as a penciller, a fully rendered artist and as a colourist on off beat titles such as Shaolin Cowboy and Grant Morrison’s absurdist Sea Guy. This interview was recorded last November at the Leeds sequential art festival, Thought Bubble…

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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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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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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.

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