Panel Borders: Gay Super (Duper) Heroes

Panel Borders: Gay Super (Duper) Heroes

Concluding our month long look at ‘Masculinity in American comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Brian Andersen about his self published indie comics So Super Duper, Sex and the Superhero and Unabashedly Billie… Alex and Brian chat about representations of gay characters in superhero comics, making the transition between web and print publishing and becoming a publisher of other people’s comics to help the proliferation of LGBT titles on the shelves.

Panel from page 158 of So Super Duper by Brian Andersen, contained in issue 8 of the comic

Panel from page 158 of So Super Duper by Brian Andersen, contained in issue 8 of the comic

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: Brian’s website – sosuperduper.com
Read So Super Duper online at newsarama.com
Brian’s profile at www.prismcomics.org

Listen to Alex’s month on gay comics creators from December 2008 and interviews with Pam Harrison, Zan Christensen, Patty Jeres
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Reality Check: Fall Out – The Prisoner in other media

Reality Check: Fall Out – The Prisoner in other media

Celebrating 42 years of the cult TV show The Prisoner – Alex Fitch talks to a couple of writers who have continued the adventures of Patrick McGoohan’s iconic character No.6 in other media. 1980s Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel has written a new Prisoner novel ‘Miss Freedom’ while Sophia Cacciola from the band ‘Do not forsake me, oh my darling’ has written an album of songs based on each episode of the TV show. Also, actress and comedienne Jessica Fostekew reads from the novel accompanied by sound effects and music from the show… (originally broadcast in an edited form as part of a Clear Spot on Resonance 104.4 FM)

From left, cover of the novel Miss Freedom by Andrew Cartmel, Sophia Cacciola and Michael Epstein a.k.a. Do not forsake me, oh my darling and No.6 painting by Simon Palmer

From left, cover of the novel Miss Freedom by Andrew Cartmel, Sophia Cacciola and Michael Epstein a.k.a. Do not forsake me, oh my darling and No.6 painting by Simon Palmer

Links: Info about Andrew Cartmel’s The Prisoner: Miss Freedom
Info about Do not forsake me, oh my darling
Info about The Prisoner on Blu-Ray

For more Sci-Fi London podcasts, please visit www.sci-fi-london.com

Listen to Alex’s interview with Ian Rakoff about writing Living in Harmony and co-editing It’s your funeral and The General

Recommended events:

Dante’s Inferno Premiere

Sci-Fi London are delighted to present the UK premiere of the brand new animated movie DANTE’S INFERNO which has been produced to coincide with the Electronic Arts game.

Crusader Dante returns home to discover that his beloved Beatrice has been murdered, and her soul dragged into Hell. Refusing to give her up, he steals Death’s scythe and chases after her… into the Inferno.

Featuring the voice talents of Mark Hamill, Victoria Tennant and Vanessa Branch, the movie is Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery!

There is a goody bag for all those attending! Book by calling 020 7451 9944 or www.apollocinemas.com Doors open 7pm and the screening starts at 7.30. Tickets are £13.00 and £9.00 concs. – If you quote “SCI-FI-LONDON” you can qualify for a 10% discount on each ticket!!!

7.30pm, Tuesday 2nd February, Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London

Ian Rakoff Lecture on 20th Century Comic Strips at the V & A

Former writer of cult TV show The Prisoner and the primary source of The Rakoff collection at the V and A, Ian Rakoff is giving a free talk about 20th Century Comic Strips at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London on February 3rd 2010. Ian will be discussing the impact comic strips such as Little Orphan Annie had on popular culture and the shaping of the American identity over the last 120 years.

FREE, 1.15pm, February 3rd 2010, The Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
More info at www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events
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Panel Borders: Ian Rakoff and comics at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Panel Borders: Ian Rakoff and comics at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Continuing our month long look at ‘Masculinity in American comics’, Alex Fitch talks to Ian Rakoff, a volunteer lecturer in sequential art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who is primarily responsible for the museum’s acquisition of nearly 20,000 comics in their library. In advance of Ian’s lecture on February 3rd* – ‘The Creation of the American identity through 20th Century comic strips’ – Alex and Ian talk about the latter’s lifetime interest in comics from being inspired by Captain Marvel as a child to buying rare 1930s comics as an adult off a stall in Cambridge Circus in the 1960s and issues such as the depiction of race and cultural stereotypes in comics and comic strips in the last century.

Triptych with scenes from the Apocalypse by Master Bertram, Germany circa 1380. Photo by Richard Comline, taken in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Triptych with scenes from the Apocalypse by Master Bertram, Germany circa 1380. Photo by Richard Comline, taken in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

More info at www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events
*FREE, 1.15pm, February 3rd 2010, The Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

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

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Hooting Yard: The Cow & Pins

Every so often I receive letters from readers asking for background information on particular features of Hooting Yard. My usual practice is to ignore such enquiries and stuff them into a cardboard box, and to shove the cardboard box into a dark cranny. But sometimes I feel impelled to shine a torch into the cranny, to rummage in the cardboard box, to take out one among the mouldering scraps of paper, and to give it due attention. There is no particular method in my choosing, though a letter written neatly and grammatically on scented notepaper headed with a heraldic device, however spurious, is likely to win out over a scribble on a torn bit of breakfast cereal carton stained with grease. You may wish to make a note of that in your pocketbook for future reference. Elsewhere I will provide some tips on drawing spurious yet strangely compelling heraldic devices for your letterhead, but there is no time for that now.

This episode was recorded on the 28th May 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.

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The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Christmas Special

The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show has been kick starting live programming each weekend on 104.4 FM since the wavelength first became home to Resonance FM back in the Spring of 2002.

This 90 minute magazine style show runs from noon until 1.30pm every Saturday lunchtime.

The programme is mostly cram packed with bountiful live music sessions and also features upcoming listings information for London’s thriving underground music scene!


‘Michael Garrad’s 12 Days of Christmas’

In which our regular sound engineer Michael selects his Top 12 sessions recorded live on Hello GoodBye throughout 2009.


12 Drummers Drumming:

B.C – “Volcano Blues” (3rd January 2009)


11 Pipers Piping:

James III – “untitled” (3rd January 2009)


10 Lords a’ Leaping:

Teeth of the Sea – “A Sentimental Journey” (24th January 2009)


9 Ladies Dancing:

Sons of Noel and Adrian – “The Wreck is not a Boat” (7th March 2009)


8 Maids a’ Milking:

Blue Bambinos – “Driving in my Car” (25th April 2009)


7 Swans a’ Swimming:

Smoke Fairies – “River Song” (24th October 2009)


6 Geese a’ Laying:

Le Tetsuo – “It’s All On Sale” (26th September 2009)


5 Gold Rings:

Private Trousers – “The Storm” (21st November 2009)


4 Calling Birds:

Poino – “Tipp-Hex Snippet” (14th November 2009)


3 French Hens:

Braindead Collective – “Stoke and Gesture” (28th November 2009)


2 Turtle Doves:

Lime-Headed Dog – “Lorenzo” and “Flavours of Crisps” (12th December 2009)


A Partridge in a Pear Tree:

The Sticks – “Eee Yeah”, “Master Soldier”, “Under Pressure”, “Radio Song”, “Land Game”, “Say Yeah”, “Cut My Head” (27th June 2009)


http://www.deXterBentley.com

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Voice On Record

Episode 13: Yorkshire, with apologies.

A complete survival guide to Yorkshire.

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.

Originally broadcast on November 24th 2009.

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Electric Sheep podcast: Susannah York and War on screen

Electric Sheep podcast: Susannah York and War on screen

Alex Fitch interviews Oscar nominated actress Susannah York about her career, focusing on her performances in war related productions and her interest in peace activism. Alex and Susannah talk about the latter’s narration for the 1987 Channel Four TV series The Struggles for Poland, writing the war time drama Falling in love again, her iconic role in They shoot horses, don’t they? and using her reputation and theatre tours to promote the work of the Movement for the Abolition of War.
(Partially broadcast as part of a ‘Clear Spot’ on Resonance FM)

Susannah York on the set of The Battle of Britain in 1969

Susannah York on the set of The Battle of Britain in 1969

‘The Struggles for Poland’ screens at the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ on January 16th (Episodes 1-4), 17th (Episodes 5-8) and 23rd (Episodes 3-5 and 9) as part of Polska! Year.

For more info about the variety of formats you can download this podcast in / stream, please visit www.archive.org

Links: Film at Imperial War Museum London – download a pdf of the cinema schedule
Information about Polska! Year
IMDb pages on The Struggles for Poland and Susannah York
More info about Miracles at the Leicester Square Theatre
Info about the Movement for the Aobolition of War

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Panel Borders: The art of Howard Chaykin

Panel Borders: The art of Howard Chaykin
Originally broadcast 14/01/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing our month looking at depictions of masculinity in American comics, Alex Fitch talks to veteran artist Howard Chaykin about his career from collaborating with masters of Science Fiction literature in the 1970s – such as Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber – to producing creator owned titles in the 80s and 90s such as American Flagg! and American Century and his most recent work drawing iconic Marvel characters such as Wolverine and Blade plus writing the origin of John McClane in Die Hard Year One.

Panel from American Flagg! by Howard Chaykin

Panel from American Flagg! by Howard Chaykin

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: Interview with Howard Chaykin in The Independent about American Flagg!
Pages on Howard at Wikipedia and lambiek.net
Online gallery of Howard’s work at art4comics.com
Read the first ten pages of Die Hard Year One at comicbookresources.com

Recommended events

Comixmas exhibition

ComiXmas: When Worlds Collide is an exhibition of fantastic images from contemporary comic books and graphic novels, featuring work by the best contemporary comic book artists, along with images from past great masters of the genre. On display in the exhibition are prints reproduced at a strikingly larger scale by artists such as Osamu Tezuka, one of the fathers of Japanese manga and anime; Hergé, the Belgian creator of Tintin; Woodrow Phoenix, creator of the award winning Rumble Strip; Andrzej Klimowski, illustrator of The Master & Margarita; Reinhard Kleist, illustrator of Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness; From Hell creators Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, and many other artists. This free exhibition runs from 11 December 2009 to 6 February 2010 at the LondonPrintStudio Gallery, 425 Harrow Road, London.

Additionally, Paul Gravett will be hosting a free panel discussion How A Comic Is Made at the LondonPrintStudio on Thursday 21 January 2010, where you can discover the secrets behind writing and drawing comics, graphic novels and manga, revealed by creators featured in the ComiXmas Exhibition: Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal (Master and Margarita), Nana Li (Twelfth Night), Pat Mills (Nemesis, Slaine, Requiem) and Woodrow Phoenix (Rumble Strip). Followed by book signings and reception.

More info at www.londonprintstudio.org.uk

Tales of Diversity launch

The Eastside Educational Trust in Hackney has produced a sequential art anthology called ‘Tales of Diversity’ as part of their project ‘Graphic Truths’ as a way of engaging young people with comic book creation, to tell stories that are personal to them.
The anthology is being launched with an accompanying exhibtion at The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ on January 16th, with tutors and creators from Eastside Trust in attendance.

January 16th, 2010, The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ
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Voice On Record

Episode 12: Musique Concrete and Electronic Music

A history of the use of the human voice in tape and other electronic composition.

Voice On Record is produced and presented by Sean Williams. Each episode features a selection of recordings of the human voice which have been preserved on vinyl. Historic events stand alongside esoteric guides to better bowling. Arid studio recordings are juxtaposed with location recordings rich with fascinating incidental sounds.

Originally broadcast on November 17th 2009.

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Art Monthly Talk Show January 2010

In this month’s Art Monthly show host Matt Hale talks to Peter Suchin about his review of Terry Smith The Foundling at The Foundling Museum, Colin Perry’s review of Chen Chieh-jen at InIVA and Dave Beech scrutinises the face of Conservative cultural policy in the form of Roger Scruton’s new book on Beauty.

www.artmonthly.co.uk

Art Monthly magazine’s talk programme on Resonance FM started in February 2009 and is broadcast on the second Friday of each month at 5pm. In each show Art Monthly critics discuss their writing in the latest issue.

The programme is presented by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.

Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings

Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.

Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at www.artmonthly.co.uk/sub09

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