Alex Fitch interviews Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman, members of the band Extreme Animals. Jacob is also a member of the art collective Paper Rad (for whose videos David has supplied sountracks) and while they were in Europe touring with their band Alex spoke to them about the Paper Rad exhibition showing at Sketch Gallery in London which Jacob curated. Paper Rad are famous for their low-fi DIY videos, art and comics which mix fanzine indie aesthetics with the detritus of our generation’s pop culture…
As their exhibition closes Saturday evening and IRFMCU is being podcast only this month, in a break from tradition, this week’s I’m ready for my close-up is available to download now (30 hours early) to give our listeners a chance to get down to Conduit Street and check out the installation…
(mp3 format, 27.4mb)

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Links: Wikipedia’s page on Paper Rad
Sketch Gallery’s press release about the show: PDF format / HTML format
Sketch Gallery’s website
Paper Rad and Deitch Projects‘ Super Mario Movie

N.B./ The following links are not suitable for viewing if you suffer from epilepsy; if you choose to click on them, it is your responsibility!
Paper Rad‘s website
Paper Rad comics
Extreme Animals‘ myspace page

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Steve Yeowell, a 2000AD veteran who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Yeowell achieved early fame collaborating with Grant Morrison on the superhero epic Zenith and the first storyline in The Invisibles plus more esoteric titles such as The new adventures of Hitler, Sebastian O & Skrull Kill Krew. More recently Yeowell has returned to 2000AD working with Ian Edgington on such scripts as Detonator X and The Red Seas…

In comics news: This weekend it’s Caption Fest 2007 in Oxford where small press artists and writers present their work and there’re workshops presented by awawrd winning graphic novelist Al Davidson (The Spiral Cage).

Also: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can stream today’s show now… (mp3 format, 12.3mb) For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia entry on Steve Yeowell Interview with Steve at 2000adreview.co.uk
Excerpts from The new adventures of Hitler at Scans Daily
Tashkeel Comics’ website

With the new Transformers movie currently in cinemas, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s looking at Furman’s continuation of the mythos for a variety of publishers, Senior’s new career as a graphic designer and what they think of the live action movie…

In other comics news: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details.

Panel Borders is currently podcast only and this episode went ‘live’ on July 30th 2007… (mp3 format, 13.5mb)
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Links - Wikipedia entries on: Transformers comics, cartoon, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Simon’s blog
Geoff’s website
Titan Publishing’s new UK Transformers comic by Simon & Geoff
Dynamite Entertainment’s new Terminator 2 comic by Simon
Underground Online‘s guide to Transformers
Monzo and Jhiaxus’ guide to obscure Transformers comics

With a week to go until the release of the new Transformers movie, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s which helped cement a love of the robots in disguise for our generation as much as the cartoons and toys the franchise was based on.

In other comics news: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details…
Almost transmitted on Resonance FM on Monday 23rd July 2007 (mp3 format, 13.8mb)
Links – Wikipedia entries on: Transformers comics, cartoon, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Simon’s blog
Geoff’s website
Titan Publishing’s new UK Transformers comic by Simon & Geoff
Dynamite Entertainment’s new Terminator 2 comic by Simon
Underground Online‘s guide to Transformers
Monzo and Jhiaxus’ guide to obscure Transformers comics

In the second episode of Panel Borders in its regular slot, guest presenter Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) concludes his interview with the prolific and popular American comics writer Peter David about continuing Stephen King’s epic saga The Dark Tower in comic book format and the ever present challenge of continuity…
Original broadcast: 16th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 13.8mb)

Wikipedia entries on:
Peter David, Paul Cornell and The Dark Tower
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Continuing his discussion from Monday’s episode of Panel Borders, author Paul Cornell interviews sci-fi writer Peter David about his Star Trek novels and episodes of Babylon 5. Peter’s Next Generation novel Imzadi was an inspiration for Paul’s Doctor Who novel Human Nature (recently adapted for TV) and so the two authors discuss themes of love and loss in science-fiction and the joys of working for a sympathetic show runner…
Today’s show is edited by Alex Fitch with digital noise reduction by Steve Clark… Original broadcast: 12th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 29.7 mb)

Links: Peter and Paul’s blogs
Wikipedia pages on Paul Cornell, Peter David and Babylon 5
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In the first episode of Panel Borders in its regular slot, guest presenter Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) interviews the prolific and popular American comic book writer Peter David about his work on Marvel comics such as The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel! [In the Timely / timeless tradition of comic book cross-overs, the next part of this interview in which Peter and Paul talk about writing for and novelizing TV shows, will be broadcast on Thursday as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up]
Original broadcast: 9th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 13.5mb)

Wikipedia entries on:
Peter David, Paul Cornell
The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk,
Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com