Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine about their work in comics from early strips in 2000AD to their recent collaboration on Marvel’s Silent War.
Art house Cinema: Podcast #5
Looking for something to do on a rainy August bank holiday? Why not listen to Resonance FM‘s latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London for advice…
This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Kim Morgan (former presenter of the Resonance FM show Midnight Sex Talk, whose birthday it is today)…
I’m ready for my close-up: London Frightfest 2007
Alex Fitch interviews video shop manager Michael Hall about his thoughts on the horror genre and previews he’s seen of this year’s Frightfest horror film marathon in London, including reviews of Black Sheep, Daywatch and Disturbia. Also, in an interview conducted a year ago, Alex talks to film student Greta Mills about her perspective on last year’s Frightfest including George Romero’s (then) Zombie tetralogy and its unnecessary ‘sidequel’ Day of the Dead 2: Contagium!
Marvin Suicide : 134 – Fizz-buzzes in my noo-noo
When you’re happy and you know it clap your hands,
When you’re happy and you know it clap your hands,
When you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
Something something something clap your hands.
Here is the linked up and fully functioning tracklist relating to this episode for your information:
Panel Borders: The art of John McCrea
Alex Fitch interviews artist John McCrea about his work, his love of superhero comics which has now lead to work in Saudi Arabia and collaborating with writer Garth Ennis on such projects as Troubled Souls.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today’s show now… (mp3 format, 14.4mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Links: Wikipedia pages on John McCrea, Garth Ennis and Fleetway publishing’s Crisis comics anthology
John’s Middle Eastern comic The 99
Lambiek page on John McCrea, showing examples of his artwork
Hooting Yard : Farmyard Slurry
To those among the gathered peasants who were existentialists familiar with Sartre, it was apparent that Bonkers Maisie was plucking phrases from the book at random. To the rest, the words took on a haunting grandeur. Some wept. All were transfixed.
- The Huffington Post
- Tidy Is As Tidy Does
- Bonkers Maisie
- The Sick Pig
- Himmelfarb
- Boot Bath
This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 20th June 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase. Photo by hoof666.
I’m ready for my close-up: The art of Paper Rad
Alex Fitch interviews Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman, members of the band Extreme Animals. Jacob is also a member of the art collective Paper Rad (for whose videos David has supplied sountracks) and while they were in Europe touring with their band Alex spoke to them about the Paper Rad exhibition showing at Sketch Gallery in London which Jacob curated. Paper Rad are famous for their low-fi DIY videos, art and comics which mix fanzine indie aesthetics with the detritus of our generation’s pop culture…
As their exhibition closes Saturday evening and IRFMCU is being podcast only this month, in a break from tradition, this week’s I’m ready for my close-up is available to download now (30 hours early) to give our listeners a chance to get down to Conduit Street and check out the installation…
(mp3 format, 27.4mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Links: Wikipedia’s page on Paper Rad
Sketch Gallery’s press release about the show: PDF format / HTML format
Sketch Gallery’s website
Paper Rad and Deitch Projects‘ Super Mario Movie
N.B./ The following links are not suitable for viewing if you suffer from epilepsy; if you choose to click on them, it is your responsibility!
Paper Rad‘s website
Paper Rad comics
Extreme Animals‘ myspace page
Marvin Suicide : 133 – Jogger’s nipple
I can’t think of anything to top the previous episodes description, so please refer to that one if you are looking for something to read that is not of a factual nature.
Please find below the tracklisting for this episode along with links to where all the items were found:
1. 1000 Dollars by Autopsy Protocol, Umami:
www.entity.be
2. Lloriao by Bacanal Intruder, Modem:
www.zymogen.net
3. Siren by Dave Seagrim, Resolute:
www.notype.com/nishi
4. The Fifth Wheel by Giraffe, Dusty Windows EP:
www.12rec.net
5. North Coast by Darren McClure & Lezrod, Data Transfer:
www.zymogen.net
6. . by Tupolev, Tupolev EP:
www.12rec.net
7. Promptrain by Le Cantin, Canadian Biz:
www.1bit-wonder.com
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Panel Borders: The art of Glenn Fabry
Alex Fitch interviews artists Glenn Fabry and John McCrea, two very different artists who have worked on comics in Britain and America and have both illustrated strips by writer Garth Ennis. The majority of today’s show is concerned with Glenn’s work from his seminal run on Sláine in 2000AD to his epic run of painted covers for DC comics’ Preacher which are available in a coffee table book.
Towards the end of the show Alex talks to John McCrea about the 60 issues he drew of Ennis’ superhero satire Hitman (and their interview continues next week).
This episode of Panel Borders was first podcast on 13th August 2007… (mp3 format, 18mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Links: Wikipedia pages on Glenn Fabry , John McCrea, Sláine, Preacher and Hitman
Glenn’s website
Hooting Yard : Jean-Claude Unanugu
If you spend a bit of time thinking about the matter, it becomes apparent that human ingenuity has created a myriad of pastes. At one end of the spectrum are thick pastes, tacky to the touch, and at the other are pastes so runny that they are akin to goo.
There are other ways of thinking about the variety of pastes other than the thick-to-thin or tacky-to-goo spectrum, but they have less appeal. Why is this? Not surprisingly, it is a question to which Dobson once turned his magnificent pamphlet-writing brain.
- Goofy, Macabre
- Tacky To Goo
- Song Of The Grunty Man
- Name That Boy!
This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 13th May 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase. Photo by barto.