Panel Borders: Typography and Teaching comics illustration
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch is talking to Dan Berry, a lecturer from North Wales School of art and design about the new Illustration for Graphic Novels course he’s going to be teaching from this autumn, about introducing a new generation to [...]
Entries from July 2008
Panel Borders: Typography and Teaching comics illustration
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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Panel Borders: The art of Dan Lester
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Panel Borders: The art of Dan Lester
Originally broadcast 24/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch is talking to cartoonist Dan Lester about his humour comics such as Monkeys might puke and use of satire and reoccurring characters in gag strips. Dan is also writing a new murder mystery comic that’s being drawn [...]
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Marvin Suicide : 158 - Come on ya’ll, let’s rock this s**t.
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Hi there,
There is a lot of bad language in this episode, so if you’re not 100% groovy with that then please do not listen.
But apart from the profanity it really is an absolutely wizard time. Oh my gosh, I’m feeling quite thrilled just at the thought of it, so I am.
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Hooting Yard : Riding A Wild Horse
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
More than twenty years ago, I wrote a short piece in which I described being hunched among shimmerings. Looking back, it occurs to me that I didn’t really know what I was talking about. I was just blathering. I often blathered in those days, both vocally and when doing my scribblings. I think I was [...]
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Wavelength 2005 October 10th - Perpetual Motion Machine
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Alan Bridges (alias Hugh de la Cruz) attempts to describe his perpetual motion machine. Hugh is an inventor of unfinished projects including a motorcycle that doesn’t fall over and a trousercoat illustrated in “What did you eat today? Number One; Hugh de la Cruz” 16mm film by William English and Sandra Cross.
William English
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Hooting Yard : Peanuts And Hazelnuts
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
One has only to consider the records broken by Bobnit Tivol to recognise him for the superb sprinter he was. Leafing through old athletics almanacks, his name appears again and again and again, invariably in capital letters, annotated by one, two, or even three stars, at the top of every list. They say he had [...]
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Marvin Suicide : 157 - The Adventures Of Cameron And The 5 Mega Pixies
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments
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Panel Borders: The art of Tom Humberstone
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Panel Borders: Best Crime Comics
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Reality Check: Terrance Dicks’ 40 years of Doctor Who part 2
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Reality Check: Terrance Dicks’ 40 years of Doctor Who part 2
The second half of a two part ‘feature length’ podcast in which former Doctor Who producer and script editor Terrance Dicks talks about his career in conversation with Tim Phipps (Strange Horizons) at a meeting of The British Science Fiction Association. The podcast picks up [...]
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