Panel Borders – Looking for Lost Girls (video podcast) Audio version broadcast 14/02/08 on Resonance FM
You can download now the video of Alex Fitch’s interview with Alan Moore about his graphic novels Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier and Alan’s depictions of procreation in Swamp Thing and Miracleman.
Originally broadcast 14/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
The second half of Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Alan Moore – originally broadcast on Valentine’s day. Alex and Alan discuss Alan’s epic graphic novels Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier and look at Alan’s depictions of procreation in Swamp Thing and Miracleman
Excerpt from Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Originally broadcast 14/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
The first half of Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Alan Moore – originally broadcast on Valentine’s day. Alex and Alan discuss Alan’s epic graphic novel Lost Girls, from its beginnings – serialised in the horror anthology Taboo – to its final printing 16 years later as a beautiful three volume slipcased hardback published by Top Shelf.
Excerpt from Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Visit the home of this episode at archive.org
Links: Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies – an article on the portrayal of women in comics by Alan Moore (circa 1983) …
Paul Gravett interviews Alan Moore …
Alex’s previous interview with Alan part one, part two, part three …
Extracts (and a very cool photo) from Alan’s recent interview with Word magazine …
Index of Alan Moore interviews available on the web … Wikipedia page on Lost Girls …
Top Shelf productions (publishers of Lost Girls) website …
Gosh! Comics website
Comics news…
The nominations for this year’s Eagle Awards have started – www.eagleawards.co.uk…
If I might use this blog to make some suggestions… You can get a full list of all the comic book creators I’ve interviewed over the last year and a half at podcasts.resonancefm.com and I’d like to show my appreciation for their contibutions to this show – so if you’d like to vote for say Simon Spurrier or any of the Manga Jiman creators for favourite newcomer writer or artist respectively, that might be cool, or the likes of Alan Moore, Leah Moore, John Reppion, Ian Edgington, Rich Johnston, Paul Cornell etc. for favourite comics writer, they deserve it. Favourite combined writer / artist – I think Bryan Talbot is without peers in this category* – , favourite artist (spreadable between inkers, pencillers, colourists etc.) – John McCrea, Mark Buckingham, Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Duncan Fegredo, D’Israeli, Frazer Irving, Melinda Gebbie**,(Resonance’s very own) Mark Stafford all seem like good candidates to me…
I’ve not interviewed any letterers as yet – I’m happy to recommend Todd Klein** on Alan Moore’s behalf – but will try and do so in the next few months. The only editor I’ve interviewed is Matt Smith, a year ago, but he continues to do good work on 2000AD…
Publisher: Self Made Hero (Nevermore) and Rebellion (200AD) are up there already, but Modern Monstrosity (Tales from the flat) deserve a nomination…
Nominating comics and graphic novels (particularly American) is very much down to personal taste – all the above creators and everyone else I’ve interviewed has done very good work over the last year – though it would be remiss of me not to suggest Tales from the Flat for best British Black and White comic, The Mark of Aeacus for favourite new comic book, Alice in Sunderland for favourite new Graphic Novel and Pat Mills’ Nemesis the Warlock book 3 for favourite reprint.
In terms of related media – the Forbidden Planet International blog has supported this show throughout the last year, so gets my recommendation for best favourite website, though Bugpowder, London Underground Comics and Journalista!*** are all very deserving too. If we can get Oli Smith’s London Underground Comics video podcasts listed under favourite TV / film (going for the loosest definition of the words), that would be great too.
Finally the roll of honour – at the risk of being terribly egotistical, may I suggest me, Alex Fitch in the category of “entrepreneur whose achievements have… increased public awareness (of comics)”? (I know it says “in print”, but then I do publicise the show in [electronic] print)
That said, I noticed Paul Gravett and Ed Hillyer haven’t won in the past and are far more deserving than me! (Shameless self-publicist Oli Smith is after nomination as well and as I guess he’s the Barack to my Clinton, he doesn’t need any extra help from me!)
*as the Eagle awards are the comics equivilent of the BAFTAs, I’m going to only recommend British creators except for those with **two asterixes as Melinda and Todd get honorary British status for working on Lost Girls…
Also *** Journalista! regularly promotes Panel Borders (though weirdly, not Strip!) as well, so we like them!
Reality Check: Producing genre shows on the radio
Originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com
Alex Fitch talks to Dirk Maggs about his various genre and science fiction programmes on BBC radio from the recent revival of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective agency, An American Werewolf in London & Independence Day UK…
Originally broadcast 07/02/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to Dirk Maggs about his comic book adaptations Superman – Death & Beyond, Superman on Trial and Batman: Knightfall, how the shows got commissioned and the challenges of bringing a visual art form to a visuals free medium.
Panel Borders: Manga Jiman
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
In a trio of interviews recorded at the Japanese Embassy, Alex Fitch talks to Michael Kacar, Asia Alfasi and Gillian Sein Ying Ha – the winners of the Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competition to find new British Manga creators (the accompanying exhibition is on at the Embassy until the end of March).
Panel Borders: The London Underground Comics Stall
Originally broadcast 31/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Oli (Hazy Thursday) Smith and Oliver (Tales from the Flat) Lambden about their self published comics and the London Underground Comics stall they run every Saturday at Camden Market.
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Panel Borders: The work of Gary Russell
Originally broadcast 24/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who story editor Gary Russell about his new Who comic for the American market as well as the history of Doctor Who in strip format from TV Comic to the Radio Times.
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Panel Borders: The work of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
Originally broadcast 17/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch interviews writer Ian Edginton and artist Matt Brooker (who draws under the name D’Israeli) about their sci-fi comics from Matt’s early strips such as ‘Lazarus Churchyard’ and Ian’s work on ‘Aliens’ and ‘Predator’ comics. They also talk about their love of steampunk which features in such 2000AD / Judge Dredd Megazine strips as ‘Stickleback’ and their sequels to H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘War of the worlds’ Continue reading
Panel Borders: Nevermore
Originally broadcast 10/01/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Virginie Sélavy talks to Jamie Delano & Matt Brooker (a.k.a. D’Israeli) about their contributions to the Edgar Allan Poe collection Nevermore: adaptations of The Murders on the Rue Morgue and The Pit and the Pendulum
Visit the home of this episode at archive.org
Links: Info about Nevermore
Wikipedia pages on Matt Brooker (D’Israeli) and Jamie Delano
