Panel Borders: Comics and ‘zines

Panel Borders: Comics and ‘zines
Orignally broadcast 03/07/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

In a pair of interviews about the crossover between comics and
(maga)zines, Alex Fitch investigates a love of retro horror comics with the editor of the EC Comics tribute magazine ‘From the Tomb’ plus, in a sneak preview of the forthcoming Comics and Zines celebration in Museum Street on the 19th of July, Alex talks to organiser and small press creator Jimi Gherkin about the event.
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Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part one

Panel Borders: Reading Graphic Novels part one …
Orignally broadcast 26/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Alex Fitch talks to members of The Streatham Library Graphic Novels Readers group about studying comics in the library environment, how art and text combine to provide narratives and promotion of literacy. Alex also attends a meeting of the group as they discuss Charles Burns’ controversial graphic novel ‘Black Hole’. (part one of two)
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The Bike Show: London Lidos by Bicycle

A tour of London lidos by bicycle with Jason Cobb, a lido enthusiast, cyclist, photographer and author of Onion Bag Blog, a blog devoted to life in the Stockwell-Oval-Brixton triangle. Taking in Brockwell Lido, the ghost of Kennington Lido, the Serpentine Lido, the refurbished London Fields Lido and an unexpected audience with Brixton’s wheelbuilding legend Sam The Wheels.

We discover why cycling and outdoor swimming are a good mix.

Jason’s London links:

Diamond Geezer (blog)
Londonist (blog)
Last Bus Home (blog)
The Way We See It (photo blog)

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Hooting Yard : Nightjars Attack Cattle

32. If you eat roasted swallow, you are likely to be attacked by dragons.

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The Bike Show: London Festival of Architecture (by bike)

Featuring an interview with Stephen Bayley, design editor of The Observer, about his guided cycle ride around the houses and homes of celebrated London artists and architects which kicks of a fantastic programme of bicycle tours as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Stephanie Laslett of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios explains why architects love bikes. Plus the latest from Simon Mottram of Rapha, the London-based cycle clothing company and a short report about the Summer Solstice night ride to Stonehenge. To win the 2008 Etape du Tour reconnaissance DVD courtesy of CycleFilm, email the correct answer to bikeshow (at) gmail (.)com.

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Panel Borders: Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen’s Phonogram

Panel Borders: Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen’s Phonogram
Orignally broadcast 19/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo:
Alex Fitch talks to artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen of the comic book Phonogram about the way the comic mixes ideas about magic and music to create a package that is both nostalgic and very modern. Alex also talks to Jamie about his solo project Suburban Glamour and to Kieron about his upcoming sci-fi prequel Newuniversal: 1959.

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Official Phonogram website
Wikipedia pages on Phonogram, Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen
Jamie’s website, blog and flickr page
Kieron’s blog and interview at strip-for-me.com

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Mark Stafford's Pandaemonium Carnivale

On now at The Railway Tavern, Station Rise, Tulse Hill, occasional Strip! contributor (and Bryan Talbot’s Cherubs illustrator) Mark Stafford is exhibiting Pandemonium Carnivale; A series of unfortunate paintings…

Hooting Yard : Pebblehead’s Twaddle

I am very pleased to announce that the latest episode in the Grizzled Old Fool series of multi-platform cultural interventions has been released. Grizzled Old Fool At The Haberdashery sees the grizzled old fool going to a haberdashery to buy buttons and cloth and pins. As usual, he is chewing a plug of tobacco and wearing his trademark battered old hat. He behaves ineptly in the haberdashery, piddling in his trousers and overturning a display stand of thread samples. In a particularly poignant moment, he is mistaken for Mark E Smith of The Fall and prevailed upon to sing an extempore version of “City Hobgoblins” to the haberdasher’s excited children.

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The Bike Show: From the Tropics to the Stones

The Bike Show is back for the summer season. This week’s show features two long rides: from Singapore to China with two small children in tow and a preview of Rolling to the Stones, a midsummer night ride from Central London to Stonehenge.

Plus music from Bucky: you can see the video version over here. The London Festival of Architecture has a fantastic programme of architecture and urban design themed rides coming up, running from a month starting on 21 June. Since being on air, Alastair Humphrey’s talk at Stanfords has sold out.

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Electric Sheep podcast: Zoo (and A)

Electric Sheep podcast: Zoo (and A)

Alex Fitch talks to Hannah Patterson about Zoo at the Prince Charles Cinema, photo by Robin WarrenAn episode of the Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch discusses the new documentary ‘Zoo’ with magazine critic and writer Hannah Patterson (Sight and Sound / Vertigo magazines).

Alex and Hannah look at the various topics raised by the film both moral and aesthetic, and field questions from the audience in a Q & A that was recorded live at the Prince Charles Cinema in London by Robin Warren (Liberation Jumpsuit / Resonance FM).

 

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Panel Borders: Underground Heroes

Panel Borders: Underground Heroes
To be broadcast 19/06/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo; In this episode of ‘Panel Borders’, Alex Fitch is talking to a quartet of underground writers and artists who have created comics books and strips that bring a new angle to British superhero comics. In the podcast we have Adam Hamdy and David Golding, creators of the horror/ superhero comic The Hunter which is influenced by the West’s so called ‘war on terror’, and Alex Morgan who writes and draws Captain Bristol, a strip in the local listings magazine ‘suityourself’. Alex also catches up with Oliver Lambden, creator of Tales from the flat, a superhero sitcom which casts himself and his friends as the characters in the story.
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