Panel Borders: Collier’s War Continuing our month of shows on biography and autobiography, Alex Fitch talks to Canadian cartoonist David Collier about his work, from his Collier’s self published comics to graphic novels such as Chimo released by Conundrum Press and various titles distributed by Drawn and Quarterly. Alex and David also talk about the […]
Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation Alex Fitch talks to a pair of directors of innovative short animated films; to Oscar winner (2011 co-director Short Animated film) Shaun Tan about the adaptation of his acclaimed picture book The Lost Thing and to web animator Jonti Picking about his cult animated series Weebl and Bob as well […]
Panel Borders: Animating Tatsumi Starting a month of shows on biography and autobiography, Alex Fitch and Dickon Harris interview comic creator turned animator Eric Khoo who’s directed a portmanteau film called Tatsumi (released 13/01/12), based on the work of mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi, including five of his gekiga short stories with bookends adapting his autobiography A […]
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 […]
Panel Borders: Philosophers, Gods and Monsters In the first of this month’s shows about the portrayal of masculinity in American comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer Fred Van Lente about penning the adventures of undead superheroes in Marvel Zombies, bringing to light the exciting adventures of Action Philosophers from Aristotle to Derrida and co-writing tales […]
Panel Borders: Tales of Diversity Broadcast 17/12/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM In the last of this month’s shows looking at the use of comics in education, Sarah Lightman visits the Eastside Educational Trust in Hackney and talks to two of the tutors / mentors from the organisation – […]
Electric Sheep podcast: Living in Harmony with Ian Rakoff To coincide with the 42nd anniversary of the broadcast of the episode he wrote the original script for, Alex Fitch talks to writer, editor and raconteur Ian Rakoff about his experiences working on The Prisoner and being an observer of British Film culture in the 1970s […]
Electric Sheep podcast: Living in Harmony with Ian Rakoff [ 43:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadReality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter Alex Fitch talks to two creators of excellent Christmas entertainment. Oscar winning animator Ray Harryhausen has long been associated with Bank Holiday TV programming and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without an appearance of Jason and the Argonauts or Sinbad facing off mythological […]
Reality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadReality Check: Sci-Fi Comics part two 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 […]
Panel Borders: The art of Brendan McCarthy Edited broadcast 05/11/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Starting ‘British Mavericks’ month on the show – a series of conversations with illustrators whose work is surprisingly avant-garde for mainstream comics – we have an interview with pop art surrealist Brendan McCarthy. Appropriately for Guy […]