Monthly Archives: August 2009

Panel Borders: The art of Jill Thompson

Panel Borders: The art of Jill Thompson

Alex Fitch interviews Jill Thompson
Concluding children’s comics month on Panel Borders, the belated podcast of Alex Fitch’s interview with Jill Thompson sees Alex and Jill talk about her career so far from drawing popular DC comics such as Wonder Woman and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman to creating her own children’s books Scary Godmother and Magic Trixie. Jill also talks about her influences, her early work on Mike Baron’s Badger and her latest project Beasts of Burden.
(With thanks to Gosh! Comics for arranging this interview)

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Jill’s website and blog…
Jill’s page at lambiet.net
Watch the cartoon version of Scary Godmother on youtube
Read an interview with Jill and writer Evan Dorkin about Beasts of Burden
Read the first instalment of Beasts of Burden at www.darkhorsecomics.com
Buy Jill’s comics from Forbidden Planet International

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Clear Spot – Maziar Bahari

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A Resonance FM ClearSpot show presented by Neil Denny of Little Atoms and Fari Bradley of Six Pillars to Persia.

The recent Iranian elections were mired in controversy and accusations of corruption. Early in August around 100 so called “opposition leaders” appeared in a Tehran courtroom, in what has been described as a Stalinist show trial. They had been accused of formenting a “Velvet Revolution”. This program focuses on one of those accused, the Canadian Journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari.

Joining Fari and Neil to discuss Maziar’s current plight, and his life and career as a journalist, are the film-maker Simon Ardizzone, who collaborated as editor on a number of Maziar’s films, writer Malu Halasa, co-editor with Maziar of the book Transit Tehran, and Little Atom’s own Padraig Reidy, news editor of ‘Index on Censorship’.

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Panel Borders: Octopi, dogs and bears, oh my!

Panel Borders: Octopi, dogs and bears, oh my!

Originally broadcast 13/08/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Lucy the Octopus by Richy K. Chandler and Harold by Henri Goldsmann have bad hair days

Lucy the Octopus by Richy K. Chandler and Harold (a dog's best friend) by Henri Goldsmann have bad hair days

Continuing children’s comics month on Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to artists Henri Goldsmann and Richy K. Chandler about their work. Henri is the author of a new picture book – Harold (a dog’s best friend) – and has a successful career as a caricaturist, having dabbled in graphic novels such as Secret Agent Spanky Sheep on the side. Richy has produced ten terrific mini comics such as Lucy the Octopus and Govinda the Meditating Rabbit over the last couple of years which are now available in a cute bear shaped box set…

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Henri Goldsmann –
Buy Henri’s books – Secret Agent Spanky Sheep / Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden / Harold (a dog’s best friend)
Henri’s website – www.bluntpencil.com
youtube video of Henri drawing
Review of Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden

Richy K. Chandler
Richy’s myspace pages for comics and music
Watch a video of Richy constructing the mini-comics box set
Info about Richy at factorfictionpress.co.uk

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Panel Borders: The Atom Style part 1 – Woodrow Phoenix and Garen Ewing

Panel Borders: The Atom Style part 1 – Woodrow Phoenix and Garen Ewing
Originally broadcast 06/08/09 as part of the 8pm Clear Spot on Resonance 104.4 FM

Panels from The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing and Rumble Strip by Woodrow Phoenix

Panels from The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing and Rumble Strip by Woodrow Phoenix

The first of two special episodes of Panel Borders looking at the history and practice of ‘The Atom Style’, which is currently the focus of an exhibtion at The Atomium in Brussels. Alex Fitch talks to artists Woodrow Phoenix and Garen Ewing about their work, exemplified in their recent graphic novels Rumble Strip and The Rainbow Orchid volume one, respectively. (part 1 of 2)

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org / Listen to the companion episode in which Alex talks to Paul Gravett, curator of The Atom Style exhibtion at The Atomium

Links: Read an extract from Rumble Strip by Woodrow Phoenix in Creative Review
Rainbow Orchid pages at garenewing.co.uk
Info about the Atom Style exhibition at brusselscomics.com
Article on the Atom Style at www.paulgravett.com
Wikipedia pages on Paul Gravett, Woodrow Phoenix and Garen Ewing

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Panel Borders: The Atom Style part 2 – Paul Gravett, curating at The Atomium

Panel Borders: The Atom Style part 2 – Paul Gravett, curating at The Atomium

Cover of Escape magazine issue 2 by Rian Hughes, edited by Paul Gravett

Cover of Escape magazine issue 2 by Rian Hughes, edited by Paul Gravett

The second of two special episodes of Panel Borders looking at the history and practice of ‘The Atom Style’, which is currently the focus of an exhibtion at The Atomium in Brussels. Alex Fitch talks to comics historian and curator of the Atom Style exhibtion, Paul Gravett about the history of that aesthetic movement and its links with Clair Ligne / Clear Line comics made famous by Herge’s Adventures of Tintin. Paul championed the style and movement in his 1980s magazine Escape and Alex and Paul talk about the British artists he helped discover and the European artists he felt were being neglected by the public, then and now. (part 2 of 2)

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org / Listen to the companion episode, in which Alex talks to artists Garen Ewing and Woodrow Phoenix

Links: Info about the Atom Style exhibition at brusselscomics.com
Article on the Atom Style at www.paulgravett.com
Wikipedia pages on Paul Gravett, Rian Hughes and Hergé
Info about the Javier Mariscal exhibtion at The Design Museum in London
David O’Connell’s clair ligne webcomic Tozo

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Reality Check: Supermarionation special

Reality Check: Supermarionation special

Gerry Anderson interview originally broadcast 16/07/09 /
Francis Matthews interview originally broadcast 13/08/09 as episodes of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM

Francis Matthews, Captain Scarlet and Gerry Anderson
Francis Matthews, Captain Scarlet and Gerry Anderson

In a special episode looking at two of the people most closely associated with classic Supermarionation TV shows, Alex Fitch and Robin Warren talk to Francis Matthews about providing the voice of Captain Scarlet and playing cult detective Paul Temple on TV. Alex also talks to Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson about some of his more obscure titles from Fireball XL5 to Lavender Castle…

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London

In association with: Sci-Fi London logo

Links: Gerry Anderson‘s fan club
Wikipedia pages on Gerry Anderson, Francis Matthews, Paul Temple and Captain Scarlet
Buy the Paul Temple box set from Acorn Media
Buy Fireball XL5 and Space:1999 from Network DVD

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Marvin Suicide : 194 – I like the neon. It’s calming.

Better late than never, as that there saying goes.

This episode celebrates another Catgut album. Hooray for Catgut.

The album is called Loop Nostalgia and can be downloaded from www.littlecatgut.com.

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Tunnel Vision

Episode 3 of 10: Frank Key.

Frank Key shuffles through a series of tunnels beneath West Dulwich to lament the forgotten histories of The Puckington Tunnels and Pointy Town sewers.

Tunnel Vision is a new series recorded entirely in London’s sewer system. Producer/presenter Bruno Rinvolucri duped a collection of writers, musicians, activists and academics into wading knee deep through swollen rivers of effluvia along the miles of tunnel beneath London. Tunnel Vision’s troglodytes explore this hidden and somewhat mysterious subterranean environment.

This episode was originally broadcast on 11th August 2009.

Email: brinvolucri@yahoo.co.uk

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Violent London

Ian Bone discusses the history of violent protest in London. Joining Ian in the studio are the author Clive Bloom and Andy Meinke from Freedom Press.

This programme exists in parallel to London’s Burning, a series of talks and events concerned with London’s social history, literary London, the occult, deep topography, psychogeography, radicalism and much else besides. London’s Burning is hosted by Housmans book store…

Originally broadcast August 10th & 14th 2009.

Produced by Nick Hamilton.

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Tunnel Vision

Episode 2 of 10: Jane Trowell.

Jane Trowell is a member of artist and environmentalist collective Platform. She discusses “green” sanitation systems.

Tunnel Vision is recorded entirely in London’s sewer system. Producer/presenter Bruno Rinvolucri duped a collection of writers, musicians, activists and academics into wading knee deep through swollen rivers of effluvia along the miles of tunnel beneath London. Tunnel Vision’s troglodytes explore this hidden and somewhat mysterious subterranean environment.

This episode was originally broadcast on 4th August 2009.

Email: brinvolucri@yahoo.co.uk

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