Panel Borders: The DFC part 2 (John and Patrice Aggs / Jim Medway)

Originally broadcast 29/05/08 as the second half of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch presents the second half of a special report on the new kids’comic The DFC published by Harper Collins / David Fickling Books, and recorded live at the launch party for the periodical. Alex talks to former manga artist John Aggs about the comic strip he’s drawing for The DFC which is written by acclaimed children’s author Philip Pullman, to John’s mother Patrice who is also producing a strip for the comic with her son called The Boss and to Jim Medway who is creating a comedy strip in The DFC called New at the Zoo.
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Panel Borders: The DFC part 1 (Pullman / Abadzis / Fickling)
Originally broadcast 29/05/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch presents the first half of a special report on the new kids’ comic The DFC published by Harper Collins / David Fickling Books, including David Fickling, Nick Abadzis and Philip Pullman’s speeches about the comic, recorded at the launch party for the periodical. Alex also interviews Philip Pullman about writing the lead story in The DFC and how this is a natural successor to his episodic narratives for children in His Dark Materials and elsewhere.

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Panel Borders: Autobiographical comics
Originally broadcast 22/05/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to a couple of small press comic book creators who work in autobiographical comics – Oli Smith and Sean Azzopardi – about their continuing success selling comics in Camden Market and beyond; about their recent diary work (Weekend Friends and the collected version of 12 Hour Shift respectively) and how they’re both now collaborating with other comic book creators (Oliver Lambden and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey) to produce work in the fantasy genre.
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Panel Borders: Diary Drawing
To be broadcast 22/05/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to curator Sarah Lightman and to gallery director Andrew Hewish about the Diary Drawing exhibition at the Centre for recent drawing in Islington, London. Alex and Sarah discuss the various styles of diary drawing in the exhibtion from the most literal examples, to blog entries and gag strips while Alex discusses with Andrew the history of the gallery and the necessity of having an exhibition space that concentrates on artists’ drawings in particular. Artists in the group show being discussed include Gabrielle Bell, David Blandy, Oliver East, Alex Fox, Miriam Katin, Sarah Lightman, Lady Lucy, Mio Matsumoto, Rutu Modan, Ariel Schrag and Rebecca Swindell.
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Panel Borders: Charley’s War
Originally broadcast 08/05/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

An extended version of guest presenter Grant Rogers‘ (a former animator on such shows as Tales of Beatrix Potter and Dogtanian and now an educator at the Imperial War Museum) interview with Pat Mills about his critically acclaimed serial about the 1st World War – Charley’s War – which was serialised in the pulp war comic Battle Picture weekly in the late 1970s and is now being reprinted in lavish hardback volumes by Titan Books…
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Panel Borders: Remembering Jack Kirby part 2
Originally broadcast live 01/05/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM

The second half of Alex Fitch’s conversation with Barry Forshaw, contributor to Jack Kirby Collector magazine and Mark Evanier author of Jack Kirby – King of comics. The show, originally recorded and transmitted live on Resonance FM, on the eve of the release of the Iron Man movie, is looking at the work of Jack Kirby and the characters he drew and co-created. This half of the programme concentrates on the Marvel movies based on his work.
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Panel Borders: Tripwire and Studio Space
Originally broadcast 08/05/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch are talking to Joel Meadows, publisher and editor of Tripwire magazine which ran for ten years and now exists as an annual publication and features the links between comic books and multimedia from films to TV shows and animation. He has also written a new book – Studio Space – about the work of comic book artists, which is released tomorrow. Continue reading →

Panel Borders: Remembering Jack Kirby part 1
Originally broadcast live 01/05/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to Barry Forshaw, contributor to Jack Kirby Collector magazine and Mark Evanier author of Jack Kirby – King of comics. The show is looking at the work of Jack Kirby on the eve of the release of the Iron Man movie, a character he drew and co-created.
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Panel Borders: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Broadcast 24/04/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Virginie Selavy’s interview with cartoonist and film maker Marjane Satrapi whose film and graphic novel Persepolis breaks new ground in terms of depictions of the Middle East, comic book adaptations and autobiography.
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Panel Borders: The UK Web and Mini Comix Thing
To be broadcast 24/04/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Guest presenter Oliver (Tales from the Flat) Lambden interviews various fans and small press creators who attended and boycotted the UK Web and Mini Comix thing including Jake Harold, David Baillie, Mike Rouse-Deane, Dan Lester, Laurence Powell, Sean Azzopardi, Oli Smith, Adam Cadwell and Anna Petterson (Marc Ellerby’s girlfriend!)…
Edited by Alex Fitch
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