Panel Borders: The work of Bevis Musson

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to Bevis Musson the British Indie creator of Oddcases and Queen of Diamonds. Alex and Bevis talk about sexuality in super-hero comics, British eccentrics who investigate strange goings on, how the latter’s background in costume design influences his comics and about the gay small press comics scene in general.

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Panel Borders: Tommy Roddy and Pride High

Partially broadcast 11/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Pride High #6

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders; in the first of two shows, Alex Fitch talks to one of the winners of last year’s Gay Press Grant – Tommy Roddy about his comic “Pride High” which is a hipper version of the “X-Men” that allows the gay characters of a super hero school take centre stage, while dealing with issues of oppression and mortal enemies.

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Panel Borders: Justin Hall and Glamazonia

Partially broadcast 11/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders: in the second of two shows about the Queer Press Grant, Alex Fitch talks to one of the winners of last year’s grant – Justin Hall about his comic “Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny”, which tells the tale of a transgender super-heroine fighting mythical creatures, serial killers and old fashioned super hero origin stories

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Panel Borders: The art of Howard Hardiman

Howard Hardiman's Badger

It’s the start of Gay Comics month on Resonance FM (season of good will to all men and whatnot) and we kick off with an ideal Christmas present for children of all ages: Badger by up and coming artist Howard Hardiman. Alex and Howard talk about funny animal / anthropomorphic titles and their relation to autobiography, having a sense of location in comics and the tricky art of marketing a new product…

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Panel Borders: The work of Art Spiegelman
Originally broadcast 27/11/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Guest presenter Grant Rogers talks to Pulitzer prize winning author Art Spiegelman about his seminal work Maus and the 30th anniversary republication of Breakdowns, his sophomoric collection of underground strips which has now been reprinted in hardback format with a new 30 page autobiographical comic book called Portrait of the artist as a young %@?*!… The interview was recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.
(With thanks to Penguin books, the ICA and Paul Gravett for arranging this interview).
Resonance 104.4 FM, Thursday 27/11/08 5pm, repeated 11.30pm Sunday 30/11/08…

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Panel Borders: Handmade and Bound
Originally broadcast 20/11/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Dickon Harris presents a special report about the affordable ‘zine and comics book fair – Handmade and Bound – and talks to a quintet of small press comics creators: Gareth Brookes, Gavin Burrows, Sean Duffield, Richard Cowdry and Peter Lally. Dickon also talks to one of the founders of Handmade… – Simon Last – about the success of the fair and the small press scene in general…
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Panel Borders: The work of Garth Ennis part 2
Originally broadcast as an episode of Strip! 18/09/08 on www.resonancefm.com

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott continue their talk with one of Britain’s most popular and critically acclaimed comic book writers, and this week look at Garth Ennis’ move to creator owned projects, his bemusement with superheroes as demonstrated in the comic “The Boys” and the differences between scripting his own ideas and characters vs. being hired to work on existing ‘mainstream’ properties.

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Panel Borders: Incredibly Strange Comics
An uncut version of a pair of interviews originally broadcast 06/11/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

In the first of two belated Halloween specials, Alex Fitch talks to sequential art expert Paul Gravett about his new book “The Leather Nun And Other Incredibly Strange Comics” (sold in America with the even subtler title “Holy Sh*t! The World’s Weirdest Comic Books”) which looks at the weirder and more lurid examples of the genre and to Australian artist Ben Templesmith about his career so far, drawing comics such as the neo-noir title “Fell”, the Matrix inspired “Singularity 7” and the popular vampire serial “30 days of night” which was adapted as a movie last year.

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Panel Borders: Eddie Campbell – the life and many deaths of the artist
An uncut version of an interview originally broadcast 30/11/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance FM

In the fourth of four episodes of Panel Borders looking at the work of artist Eddie Campbell, Alex Fitch talks to Eddie about his books The Fate of the Artist, The Black Diamond Detective Agency and The Amazing, Remarkable Monsieur Leotard. Alex and Eddie also touch on film to comic adaptations and vice versa and the lack of heroes at the beginning on the twenty first century via consideration of his comics From Hell, Bacchus and Alec…
(With thanks to Oli Smith for putting Alex in touch with Eddie Campbell)

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Panel Borders: ‘From Hell’ and Psycho Geography*
Uncut version of an interview originally broadcast 23/10/08, on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) as an episode of Strip!

Continuing Eddie Campbell month on Resonance FM… Alex Fitch talks to writer and magician Alan Moore about collaborating with Eddie Campbell on his masterpiece From Hell and the two comic book adaptations of his performances Snakes and Ladders and The Birth Caul. Alex and Alan talk about the experience of documenting Whitechapel in the past and present and Alan’s growing interest in psychogeography in London and beyond.

Excerpt from From Hell, Chapter 4 by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

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