Panel Borders: Eddie Campbell – The art of the raconteur
Exclusive podcast to compliment the Resonance FM radio show, Strip!

In the second of four podcasts about comic book artist Eddie Campbell, Alex Fitch introduces a monologue by the artist in which Eddie tells the tale of his long suffering typesetter Mick Evans who has cameoed in a variety of his comics. Later in the show, Alex talks to Eddie about the nature of the artist’s role as a raconteur in titles such as Alec and Bacchus. Please note, we apologise if it is difficult to hear this recording – there is a lot of very loud background chatter, so it may be occasionally difficult to hear the interview. There will be a transcript forthcoming to help listeners follow the conversation.
(with thanks to Oli Smith and Nottingham’s premiere comic shop, page 45)

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Panel Borders: Eddie Campbell on Fast Fiction
originally broadcast as part of Strip!, 09/10/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

It’s the start of Eddie Campbell month on Panel Borders: guest presenter Oli Smith (London Underground Comics) talks to the acclaimed comic book artist and writer about Fast Fiction, the seminal British small press comics stall which promoted European and underground comics at the Westminster Comic Marts in the early 80s. Later in the show Alex Fitch and Oli talk to Paul Gravett about running the stall and its influence on the next generation of small press creators. Please note, we apologise if it is difficult to hear this recording – there is a lot of very loud background chatter, so it may be occasionally difficult to hear the interview. There will be a transcript forthcoming to help listeners follow the conversation.
(With thanks to Nottingham’s premiere comic shop, page 45)

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Panel Borders: Jonathan Cape – Publishing Graphic Novels
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 04/09/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM

This is a special extended podcast of the broadcast version of Alex Fitch’s talk with Dan Franklin, the head of Jonathan Cape. Alex & Dan discuss Cape’s range of ‘Classic British Graphic Novels’, their Graphic Short Story competition, their successes publishing Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland and the recent reprint of The Tale of One Bad Rat and their past and future plans for printing albums of sequential art.

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Panel Borders: Gilbert Shelton and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 02/10/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch constructs a microphone stand while Gilbert Shelton (and Groucho Marx) look on, bemused...

Alex Fitch talks to Gilbert Shelton, creator of the legendary counter culture comics The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, looking at the 40 year history of the titles. Gilbert did a brief tour of the UK with the new omnibus edition of his most famous comic and Alex caught up with him at the Groucho Club in London to chat about his career from the early days of running Rip Off Press to the latest news regarding the Freak Brothers movie…

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Panel Borders: Widening Genres
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 03/07/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Dickon Harris talks to humourist Hunt Emerson and publisher Chris Staros (Top Shelf Comics) at the Bristol International Comics Expo…

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Panel Borders: Osamu Tezuka @t Bristol part 2*
An exclusive podcast complimenting the “Clear Spot” broadcast at 8pm 18/09/08 on Resonance FM

An episode of Panel Borders: Dickon Harris presents the second half of a panel recorded at The Bristol International Comics Expo hosted by Helen McCarthy and featuring John Aggs, Tim Pilcher, Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima looking at the work of Osamu Tezuka. part 2 of 2…
(*The name is an intentional homage to the title of the Millennium development in Bristol which mixes art, science and culture!)

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Panel Borders: Osamu Tezuka @t Bristol part 1*
An exclusive podcast complimenting the “Clear Spot” broadcast at 8pm 18/09/08 on Resonance FM

An episode of Panel Borders: Dickon Harris presents the first half of a panel recorded at The Bristol International Comics Expo hosted by Helen McCarthy and featuring John Aggs, Tim Pilcher, Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima looking at the work of Osamu Tezuka. part 1 of 2…
(*The name is an intentional homage to the title of the Millennium development in Bristol which mixes art, science and culture!)

For more info please visit the home of this podcast at archive.org
Listen to Alex Fitch’s interviews with Helen about Tezuka and other manga / animé works…
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