Monthly Archives: July 2012

Electric Sheep Podcast: Unreliable images

Electric Sheep Podcast: Unreliable images

In a pair of Q and As recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London International Science-Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival, Alex Fitch talks to director John Simon about his adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth and to director Berton Pierce and special effects expert Greg Aronowitz about the film Sense of Scale, a documentary on model making in the cinema.

Stills from Sense of Scale and Radio Free Albemuth

Stills from Sense of Scale and Radio Free Albemuth

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Links: Radio Free Albemuth website
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with John Simon
Watch the trailer for Sense of scale on youtube.com
More info about Greg Aronowitz work at barnyardfx.blogspot.co.uk Continue reading →

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Panel Borders: Resident Aliens – Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse

Panel Borders: Resident Aliens – Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse

In the last of our series of shows about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch talks to Steve Parkhouse and Peter Hogan about their new comic, Resident Alien, initially serialised in Dark Horse Presents and now continuing as a comic book miniseries. The comic tells the story of an alien who has crash-landed in rural American and found a job as a small town doctor, now turned detective when a body is found in mysterious circumstances. Alex talks to Peter and Steve about working together, producing comics for both the UK and US markets and their previous experiences on revered British anthology titles Crisis and Doctor Who Monthly. (Recorded in front of an audience at Kapow!, London, Spring 2012)

Interior and cover of Resident Alien by Steve Parkhouse + Peter Hogan / Cover of The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse / Cover of Revolver, edited by Peter Hogan

Interior and cover of Resident Alien by Steve Parkhouse + Peter Hogan / Cover of The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse / Cover of Revolver, edited by Peter Hogan

Originally broadcast 29/07/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: Wikipedia pages on Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse
Preview of Resident Alien #0 at www.darkhorse.com
Interview with Peter Hogan and article on Steve Parkhouse’s work in Warrior comic on the Forbidden Planet International blog Continue reading →

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Hooting Yard: Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning Pt. IV

Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning was published in an edition of twenty-five copies in 1994, under the Hooting Yard Press imprint and – save for a brief, rewritten, extract posted  here some years ago – has never again seen the light of day. It was the last piece of prose I completed before my descent into the maelstrom, or the Wilderness Years, or whatever one wants to call that period of ruination from which I eventually emerged with the launch of the Hooting Yard website in 2003.

F. Key.

Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning Pt. IV

This episode was recorded on the 08th September 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Storiesand Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

 

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Wavelength – George Barber scratch video artist

Guest this week is renowned video artist George Barber. “George Barber’s work on ‘The Greatest Hits Of Scratch Video’ is internationally known and has been featured in many galleries and festivals across the world. The Independent and Sunday Times ran features on it, and the tapes, unusually for video art, sold in record shops. His two famous works of the period, ‘Absence of Satan’ and ‘Yes Frank No Smoke’ are screened regularly and many of the other works are considered seminal in the history of British Video Art”. George Barber:

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Caption podcast: Kate Brown and Paul Duffield

Caption podcast: Kate Brown and Paul Duffield

In the latest episode of the Caption Podcast, and the first to have been recorded at Caption small press festival 2011: Alex Fitch hosts a discussion between cartoonists Kate Brown and Paul Duffield about their comics and working practices. Kate and Paul are both alumni of the Manga Shakespeare line published by Self Made Hero and bring subtle, illustrative lines to their work, with washes of colour and and obvious interest in Manga. The two creators discuss sharing a studio, bouncing ideas off each other and working on children’s comics such as The DFC and The Phoenix as well as their first graphic novels.

Caption 2012 takes place on August 18th / 19th, East Oxford Community Centre, Cowley, Oxford OX4 1DD
Guests include: Hunt Emerson, Tony Bennett, Brick, Krent Able, Woodrow Phoenix, Corinne Pearlman, John Anderson, Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman, Darryl Cunningham, Nicola Streeten, Gareth Brookes, Richy K. Chandler, David Baillie (via video), Charles Cutting, Robin Etherington, Daniel Hartwell, Neill Cameron, Adam Murphy, Robin Etherington, Jade Sarson, Rebecca Burgess, Sarah Burgess, Joe Morgan, Al Davison and David O’Connell.

Art from FreakAngels by Paul Duffield and The Lost Boy by Kate Brown

Art from FreakAngels by Paul Duffield and The Lost Boy by Kate Brown

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Links: Kate Brown’s website
Paul Duffield’s website
FPI reviews of Kate’s graphic novel Fish + Chocolate and finale of FreakAngels illustrated by Paul Duffield Continue reading →

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Book List: Young Adult authors

Book List: Young Adult authors

With many kids now on their summer holidays, in this Clear Spot, Alex Fitch looks at two authors who are writing books aimed at the ‘tweenage’ audience. Philip Reeve discusses his award winning Mortal Engines series, his interest in steam-punk fiction and his new novel Goblins!; Jodi Picoult talks about her first Young Adult novel, Between the Lines, co-written with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, as well as her interest in comic books as displayed in her novel The Tenth Circle and her short run on Wonder Woman.

Cover + interior illustration of Between the lines, cover of Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult / covers of Mortal Engines + Goblins by Philip Reeve, promotional art for Seawigs by Reeve + McIntyre

Cover + interior illustration of Between the lines, cover of Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult / covers of Mortal Engines + Goblins by Philip Reeve, promotional art for Seawigs by Reeve + Sarah McIntyre

(Originally broadcast 23/07/12 on Resonance FM)

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

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Panel Borders: Multimedia Comics by Edgar Wright and Dave Lander

Panel Borders: Multimedia Comics

In the third of our series on comic book collaborators, Alex Fitch talks to two pairs of creators who have created cross platform comics that exist as both as sequential art and moving pictures. Film-maker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Tommy Lee Edwards (Turf) discuss their interactive motion comic The Random adventures of Brandon Generator designed to promote Internet Explorer 9, and Dave Lander and Stathis Tsemberlidis discuss Decadence #9 plus their spin off short films Immortality and MOA-192B…

Brandon Generator by Edgar Wright and Tommy Lee Edwards / cover of Decadance #9 / stills from Immortality by Dave Lander and MOA-192B by Stathis Tsemberlidis

Brandon Generator by Edgar Wright and Tommy Lee Edwards / cover of Decadance #9 / stills from Immortality by Dave Lander and MOA-192B by Stathis Tsemberlidis

Originally broadcast 22/07/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Wavelength – Songs of the Brokenhearted

“Give Me Love. Songs of the Brokenhearted – Baghdad, 1925-1929”. In February 1925 the engineer Robert Beckett, travelling from India, recorded 200 titles for a new series on HMV, the label allotted to the region. The sessions were organised by Meir Hakkak, the eldest of 4 brothers running a record, gramophone and musical instruments shop in Baghdad. The following year, Marcus Alexander took another 367 titles. These recordings were reportedly sabotaged by Hakkak. At the close of the decade it was the turn of the engineer Arthur Twine. Unhappily, in 1929, the new compound he used to create the masters made them fragile, and many were shattered or cracked en route to the Company’s manufacturing plant in Hayes, west of London. The music collected on this double LP compiled by Mark Ainley in 2008 (HJRLP35) is diverse; Kurdish improvisations and a Hebrew hymn amidst an array of erotic overtures and expressive distress from Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait.

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OST 30.06.2012 – DJ Format

Soundtracks, library music and a generous helping of phat [sic] beatz [sic] with Jonny Trunk. This week homegrown Hip Hop artist and extraordinary record collector DJ Format (Aka Matt) joins Jonny in the broomcupboard to. Prepare yourself for two hours of quite brilliant film and library music from his enviable collection…

Word is bond: www.djformat.com/

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Panel Borders: Cabanon Press

Panel Borders: Cabanon Press

In the second of a series of shows about comic book creators who have collaborated together, Alex Fitch talks to celebrated British cartoonists Tom Gauld and Simone Lia in a conversation recorded at this year’s Spring Comiket at Bishopsgate Institute, London. Tom and Simone talk about their collaborative comics First and Second (republished together as Both by Bloomsbury) and publishing books together under the title Cabanon Press.

Art by Simone Lia and Tom Gauld

Art by Simone Lia and Tom Gauld

Originally broadcast 15/07/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: Tom Gauld’s website
Simone Lia’s website
Info about Comica festival

Listen to previous interviews with Tom Gauld and Simone Lia Continue reading →

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