Panel Borders: Digitising comics

Concluding a month of shows looking at web comics, Alex Fitch talks to two experts in web based technologies about their dissemination methods aimed at bringing comics to tablets and other devices. Russell Willis discusses his Panel Nine range of graphic novels for the iPad which include titles by Eddie Campbell and David Lloyd and are about to be joined by a new digital store front for International book publishers.
Also, in a presentation recorded at Cartoon County in Brighton, Charles Kriel talks about his Indiegogo campaign to fund a new app designed to be the equivalent of iTunes for comics allowing collectors to combine their existing digital comics collections with newly bought titles to fill in the gaps, with questions asked by Alex Fitch, David Lloyd and members of the audience. (Originally broadcast 31/03/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Covers of Panel Nine digital comic collections The Certified Hunt Emerson and Dapper John, interior of Verity Fare / David Lloyd promotes Comics Thing app

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Links: Panel Nine / Sequential / iEnglish websites
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Panel Borders: Collage and reappropriation

Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Panel Borders examines the work of a quartet of creators whose online strips and cartoons reinvent retro images and iconic characters from film and TV to beguiling effect. In a pair of short interviews recorded at Thought Bubble, Leeds 2012, Alex Fitch talks to American creators Scott C – about his webcomics Double Fine Action Comics and The Great Showdowns – and Becky and Frank about Tiny Kitten Teeth, cartoons which utilise imagery from toys, cereal packaging and children’s literature.

Also, Alex looks into the varying merits of print and web-based comics with British writer / artist Paul O’Connell, in an interview recorded at the University of Brighton. Paul’s postmodern fumetti mash-ups mix comedy and horror via strips such as A Muppet Wicker Man and The Seinfeld Matrix, and the artist discusses his collaborations with other Brighton based creators, including Lawrence Elwick on Charlie Parker, Handyman, plus his aspirations for using the medium of online comics to its full interactive potential. (Originally broadcast Sunday 24th March 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Clockwise from top left: webcomics by Scott C x2, Becky, Paul O’Connell x 3, Frank

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

Links: Paul O’Connell’s website, The Sound of Drowning
Scott’s blog / Great Showdowns and Double Fine Action Comics
Becky and Frank’s website, Tiny Kitten Teeth

Listen to Dickon Harris’ 2010 interview with Paul O’Connell
Listen to Alex’s interview with original Wicker Man director Robyn Hardy

Recommended events:

Comics at Crawley Wordfest

Alex Fitch hosts a panel with Myriad Editions creators Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Eaton and Nye Wright, discussing the mythological in graphic novels Naming Monsters and Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park.

7.30pm, Tuesday 26th March, Crawley Library , Southgate Ave, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 6HG

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