Reality Check: Sci-Fi Comics part two

Reality 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

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 […]

Panel Borders: Eclectic Micks and stars of Solipsistic Pop!

Panel Borders: Eclectic Micks and stars of Solipsistic Pop! Edited broadcast 22/10/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, in an interview recorded at last month’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to four members of a group of Irish […]

Electric Sheep podcast: New approaches to Zombie cinema

Electric Sheep podcast: New approaches to Zombie cinema Originally broadcast 16/10/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM In a special early Halloween edition, Alex Fitch talks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the producer of the innovative Canadian Horror film Pontypool and Marc Price, director of the excellent British living dead […]

Panel Borders: Swedish Manga

Panel Borders: Swedish Manga Originally broadcast 05/06/08 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, Dickon Harris presents Fredrik Strömberg and Sofia Falkenhem’s panel on Swedish Manga from the 2008 Bristol International Comics Expo, about a Manga studio (Yokaj) imported to Europe from Japan! […]

Panel Borders: London / Quebec / Cape Town

Panel Borders: London / Quebec / Cape Town Originally broadcast 08/10/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Starting ‘anthologies and collectives’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to three comic book creators who produce anthologies of their wares in a trilogy of interviews recorded at last weekend’s British International Comics Show […]

Panel Borders: Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells

Panel Borders: Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells Originally broadcast 01/10/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Concluding ‘women in comics month’ on the show, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of illustrators about their genre bending work. Hannah Berry‘s debut graphic novel Britten and Brülightly tells the tale of a harried private […]

Electric Sheep podcast: Cutting Edge Animation

Electric Sheep podcast: Cutting Edge Animation (Charles Burns interview originally broadcast 25/09/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM as an episode of “Strip!”) Following on from last month’s look at Osamu Tezuka’s classic animé, the Electric Sheep Podcast is exploring more experimental animation from 1970s surrealism to the very latest French comic strip inspired cartoons. Tom (How […]

Panel Borders: The work of Garth Ennis part 1

Panel Borders: The work of Garth Ennis part 1 Originally broadcast 11/09/08 on Resonance FM Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to one of Britain’s most popular and critically acclaimed comic book writers who’s famous for such mildly controversial titles as Preacher and The Boys, both of which are probably going to be adapted for […]

Panel Borders: The Tale of One Bad Rat

Panel Borders: The Tale of One Bad Rat Originally broadcast 04/09/08 on Resonance FM After a two week haitus, Resonance’s weekly podcast about comic books – Panel Borders – is back for a 2nd series… …starting with an interview by Alex Fitch with graphic novelist Bryan Talbot about the new printing of his classic book […]