Panel Borders: The art of Tom Humberstone
Originally broadcast 17/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to Tom Humberstone about the various illustrated endeavours he’s been involved with such as comics which range from Art school scum to Everything you never wanted to know about Crohn’s disease and the Eagle award winning How to date a girl in ten days. Tom also runs a pen club in South East London which allows amateurs and professionals to meet in a friendly pub and draw together and most recently he illustrated the blog / sold out graphic novella My Fellow Americans about the democratic nomination process earlier this year.
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Panel Borders: Best Crime Comics
Originally broadcast 17/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to comics historian and critic Paul Gravett about the new book he’s edited and collated, The Mammoth book of best Crime Comics. Alex and Paul talk about the crime genre in sequential art from the 1930s to the modern day, about Paul’s choices for inclusion in the book and the relationship between crime on film and in graphic novels.
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Panel Borders: The art of David Lloyd
Orignally broadcast 10/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In the second of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist David Lloyd about his career, about working with Alan on V for Vendetta and about the challenges of illustrating graphic novels such as The Horrorist and Kickback.
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Panel Borders: The art of Dave Gibbons
Orignally broadcast 10/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In the first of two podcasts about artists called Dave who worked with writer Alan Moore, Alex Fitch talks to artist Dave Gibbons about his career from humour strips to 2000AD, Dan Dare to Green Lantern. Alex talks to Dave about his career so far, working on more personal projects such as The Originals and his thoughts on the current Hollywood adaptation of Watchmen.

Read an abridged transcript of the interview in Wheel Me Out magazine
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Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part two …
Orignally broadcast 26/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

This episode is the second of two looking at the Streatham Library graphic novels readers group and is the second part of the group’s discussion about Charles Burns’ lurid graphic novel Black Hole which mixes 1950s horror comics with more up to date concerns about sexuality, STDs and social exclusion. (part two of two)
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Panel Borders: Comics and ‘zines
Orignally broadcast 03/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In a pair of interviews about the crossover between comics and
(maga)zines, Alex Fitch investigates a love of retro horror comics with the editor of the EC Comics tribute magazine ‘From the Tomb’ plus, in a sneak preview of the forthcoming Comics and Zines celebration in Museum Street on the 19th of July, Alex talks to organiser and small press creator Jimi Gherkin about the event.
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Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part one …
Orignally broadcast 26/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to members of The Streatham Library Graphic Novels Readers group about studying comics in the library environment, how art and text combine to provide narratives and promotion of literacy. Alex also attends a meeting of the group as they discuss Charles Burns’ controversial graphic novel ‘Black Hole’. (part one of two)
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Panel Borders: Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen’s Phonogram
Orignally broadcast 19/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo:
Alex Fitch talks to artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen of the comic book Phonogram about the way the comic mixes ideas about magic and music to create a package that is both nostalgic and very modern. Alex also talks to Jamie about his solo project Suburban Glamour and to Kieron about his upcoming sci-fi prequel Newuniversal: 1959.

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Panel Borders: Underground Heroes
To be broadcast 19/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo; In this episode of ‘Panel Borders’, Alex Fitch is talking to a quartet of underground writers and artists who have created comics books and strips that bring a new angle to British superhero comics. In the podcast we have Adam Hamdy and David Golding, creators of the horror/ superhero comic The Hunter which is influenced by the West’s so called ‘war on terror’, and Alex Morgan who writes and draws Captain Bristol, a strip in the local listings magazine ‘suityourself’. Alex also catches up with Oliver Lambden, creator of Tales from the flat, a superhero sitcom which casts himself and his friends as the characters in the story.
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Panel Borders: The art of Kate Brown and Paul Duffield
Originally broadcast 05/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo; in this week’s episode we’re looking at new European Manga creators. Alex Fitch is talking to two artists who have drawn Manga Shakespeare and are doing very well in serialised comics: Kate Brown (The DFC) and Paul Duffield (web comic Freak Angels).
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