26 interviews by William English
Doreen Osborne explains her hobby; buying auction catalogues, cutting
them up, making scrapbooks and the therapeutic qualities of this activity.
Episode 7: It Isn’t Far From London by SPB Mais (1931)
In this final episode in the series Nick and John delve into the topographical writing of SPB Mais. Mais was one of the most famous media figures of the 1930’s and 40’s. He presented a number of popular programmes on BBC radio including Microphone at Large and This Unknown Island.
In this episode he is presented as a forward thinking almost proto-psychogeographer in his approach to the experience of walking and a radical call to arms to embrace both the past and the future from the forces of commerce. Nick describes his writing as a kind of nature mysticism.
The walk from Mais’s It Isn’t Far From London that was recorded for the show was an epic tramp from Slough through Stoke Poges, Burnham Beaches, Hedgerley then along the M40 in the gloom to Beaconsfield.
With readings by Heidi Lapaine.
Originally broadcast December 16th 2009.
Here is some video footage from that walk cut with extracts from the audio recordings used in the show.
Reality Check: Sci-Fi Comics part two
Clockwise from top left - FreakAngels by Paul Duffield and Warren Ellis, Grandville by Bryan Talbot, Iron Man 2020 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Kenneth Rocafort, Dark X-Men by Paul Cornell and Jae Lee
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q and As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London Film Festival, this is the second half of a two part podcast in which Alex Fitch talks to four practitioners of Science-Fiction comic books about their work; these include Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and MI-13 ), Bryan Talbot (Grandville ), Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (Iron Man 2020) and Paul Duffield (Freakangels). In this second half, members of the audience ask the panel about the future of comics post Google digitization, their influences from SF literature and the cross-over between different audiences.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London or click here for info on the first half of this podcast.
Links: Paul Cornell – blog
Interview about Captain Britain
Bryan Talbot – website
Interview about Grandville
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey – website
Read Iron Man 2020 online
Paul Duffield – website
Read FreakAngels online
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 & 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
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26 interviews by William English
Nick Rochford recorded at Conway Hall describing the early days of
Compendium bookshop.
26 interviews by William English
Maurice Seddon tries to remember Struwwelpeter and fails.
26 interviews by William English
LAB at ICA. Various people were asked “What is an artists’ book?”
Francis Picabia: La Nourrice Americaine (The American Nurse). Slow Version (19.57) So far as is known, Picabia composed just one piece of music, an antagonistic piece performed for the first, and seemingly last, time in 1920; “three notes repeated to infinity” (LTMCD 2509)
26 interviews by William English
Yves Klein. Les Fondements du Judo translated into English by Arnaud
Desjardin.
26 interviews by William English
Jeff Pine interviewed at the London Art Book Fair.
Panel Borders: Depicting the darkness in Johnny Cash
Broadcast 10/12/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Johnny Cash meets Bob Dylan in a couple of panels from I see a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist
Continuing ‘Education and comics’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Reinhard Kleist about his book Johnny Cash: I see a darkness, an epic 224 page graphic novel that tells the life and times of the hell-raising American Country singer from early success to his iconic show at Folsom Prison and beyond. Alex and Reinhard chat about the artist’s varying style from project to project, his love of Americana and the travails of doing such a project in the nascent German comics scene. Continuing ‘Education and comics’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Reinhard Kleist about his book Johnny Cash: I see a darkness, an epic 224 page graphic novel that tells the life and times of the hell-raising American Country singer from early success to his iconic show at Folsom Prison and beyond. Alex and Reinhard chat about the artist’s varying style from project to project, his love of Americana and the travails of doing such a project in the nascent German comics scene.
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: Watch a 14 min edit of Alex’s interview with Reinhard, accompanied by the latter sketching Cash at the ICA
More info about Johnny Cash: I see a darkness at www.selfmadehero.com
Interview with Reinhard Kleist at www.paulgravett.com
Info on the iPhone edition of the Graphic Novel at the Forbidden Planet blog
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