Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Satanic Panic, Festival Screenings

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Satanic Panic, Festival Screenings

Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to author Kier-La Janisse about her book on the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ phenomenon, in which subculture, cult film and teenage rebellions were erroneously classified as having supernatural connections. Virginie also chats to film critic and cartoonist Mark Stafford about films they saw at this year’s London Film Festival, including: High Rise, The Witch, Evolution, Der Nachtmahr, The Invitation, Men and Chicken, The Lobster, Green Room, James White, Desierto and The Forbidden Room. Plus classic tracks by Sparkle Moore with Dan Belloc and his orchestra, and The Sonics. (Edited by Alex Fitch)
Partially broadcast as a ‘Clear Spot’, 22nd October 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Satanic Panic cover / LFF logo / Mark Stafford, photo by Sarah McIntyre

Satanic Panic cover / LFF logo / Mark Stafford, photo by Sarah McIntyre

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Links: Electric Sheep Magazine website
Info about “Satanic Panic” by Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe
Mark Stafford’s website

Panel Borders: Big Punch Studios

Panel Borders: Big Punch Studios

Alex Fitch talks to a quartet of young graphic novelists – Nich Angell, Lucy Brown, Jon Lock and Alice White – who publish together under the umbrella of Big Punch Studios discuss Big Punch Magazine, and other titles created together and apart, in a panel discussion from the ‘True Believers’ Comic Festival in Cheltenham. Nich and Jon discuss they beginning of their collaborations via the crossover The Heavenly Cord, which mixes their comics 7String and Afterlife Inc., while Lucy explores her story 99 Swords and Alice talks about her design work on the anthology. (Originally broadcast as part of the ‘Clear Spot’, 12th October 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Issues 1-3 of Big Punch Magazine / Alice White, Nich Angell, (Jon Lock) and Alex Fitch discuss Big Punch studios at True Believers Comic Festival, Cheltenham

Issues 1-3 of Big Punch Magazine / Alice White, Nich Angell, (Jon Lock) and Alex Fitch discuss Big Punch studios at True Believers Comic Festival, Cheltenham

For more info and a variety of formats to stream or download this podcast, please visit archive.org

Links: Big Punch Studios website and shop
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Nich Angell about swapping web comics

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Cult Screenings, Hardware, Squirm

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Cult Screenings, Hardware, Squirm

Electric Sheep Magazine assistant editor Alex Fitch talks to directors Jeff Lieberman and Richard Stanley, and composer Simon Boswell about cult cinema screenings.
Fitch and Lieberman discuss the latter’s classic horror films Squirm, Blue Sunshine and Just Before Dawn during the director’s visit to Cine-Excess 2014 at the University of Brighton, and bookending a 25th anniversary screening of Hardware at SCI-FI-LONDON, Stanley and Boswell explore the genesis of their film, the former’s plans to direct an adaptaion of H.P.Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space” and the latter’s scores for other genre classics such as Sante Sangre and Shallow Grave. Plus classic tracks by R Dean Taylor, and PiL (with live accompaniment by Simon Boswell).
Partially broadcast as a ‘Clear Spot’, 22nd October 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Still from Hardware / Norwegian video cover for Blue Sunshine / still from Squirm

Still from Hardware / Norwegian video cover for Blue Sunshine / still from Squirm

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Links: Electric Sheep Magazine website
Cine-Excess website and tickets for this year’s event
Info about the 25th anniversary screening of Hardware at SCI-FI-LONDON
Listen to Alex’s interview with artist Kevin O’Neill about the strip Shokk which inspired Hardware

Panel Borders: Erica Smith – Girl Frenzy

Panel Borders: Erica Smith – Girl Frenzy

Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Erica Smith recalls her influential zine Girl Frenzy, made by Brightonians in the 1990s, in an interview recorded at Cartoon County, Hove. Alex and Erica also discuss the anti-UKIP beer mats the artist designed for distribution in the South East before the General Election and her contributions to “Julia Kay’s Portrait Party”.(Originally broadcast as part of the ‘Clear Spot’, 12th October 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Issues 3 - 5 of Girl Frenzy, Erica Smith holds GF annual (photo by Sarah McIntyre), anti-UKIP beer mats designed by Smith

Issues 3 – 5 of Girl Frenzy, Erica Smith holds GF annual (photo by Sarah McIntyre), anti-UKIP beer mats designed by Smith

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Links: Interview with Erica Smith about portrait art
Article by Smith on her anti-UKIP beer mat design
Article by Charlotte Cooper on her contributions to Girl Frenzy

Panel Borders: Chris Riddell

Panel Borders: Chris Riddell

Alex Fitch talks to Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell about newspaper cartoons, Goth Girl and illustrating Coraline. Chris and Alex also discuss the artist’s different takes on Alienography for political cartoons and children’s books, plus his memories of encountering David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta at a young age. (Originally broadcast as part of the ‘Clear Spot’, 15th September 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM. Recorded at Graphic Brighton)

Political and non-political Alienography, Antrobus and Coraline by Chris Riddell

Political and non-political Alienography, Antrobus and Coraline by Chris Riddell

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Links: Chris Riddell’s website
Info about Riddell’s illustrated books at bloomsbury.com
Biography at cartoons.ac.uk
More info about Graphic Brighton

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: The Female Gaze, the Forbidden Room

Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: The Female Gaze, the Forbidden Room

In the start of a new series, Electric Sheep Magazine editor in chief Virginie Sélavy and assistant editor Alex Fitch preview the London Film Festival and talk to filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond, whose short film NASTY is screening as part of the Cult section. Sight and Sound production editor Isabel Stevens joins them to talk about the new Female Gaze issue of the magazine. Plus extracts from Evan Johnson’s interview with Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Fobidden Room, is showing at LFF; a sample of William Fowler’s lecture on guerrilla filmmaker Antony Balch at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and classic tracks by Hank Mizell, Shirley Ellis, Nina Simone and Piney Brown.

Still from Nasty by Prano Bailey-Bond, Sight and Sound September 2015 cover, still from The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin

Still from Nasty by Prano Bailey-Bond, Sight and Sound September 2015 cover, still from The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin

Originally broadcast as the ‘Clear Spot’, 16th September 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: Electric Sheep Magazine website
Prano Bailey-Bond’s website
BFI pages on the London Film Festival and Sight and Sound Magazine
Listen to Alex Fitch’s 2008 interview with Guy Maddin about My Winnipeg

Panel Borders: Dave Gibbons, Comics Laureate

Panel Borders: Dave Gibbons, Comics Laureate

In the first of a new series of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to ‘Comics Laureate’ Dave Gibbons about his career so far, from Doctor Who Weekly strips to Watchmen, Give me Liberty to Kingsman / The Secret Service. Recorded at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, October 2014. Originally broadcast as part of the ‘Clear Spot’, 15th September 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM.

Dave Gibbons interviewed by Alex Fitch at LICAF, interior art from The Iron Legion, covers of Doctor Who #17 and Watchmen #1

Dave Gibbons interviewed by Alex Fitch at LICAF, interior art from The Iron Legion, covers of Doctor Who #17 and Watchmen #1

For more info and a variety of formats to stream or download this podcast, please visit archive.org

Links: Interview with Dave Gibbons about becoming Comics Laureate
More info about the Lakes International Comic Art Festival
2008 video interview with Dave Gibbons

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Free Lab Radio Podcast- Petro-Subjectivity + Bolivia

Petro-Subjectivity and Institutional Laws for Mother Earth in Bolivia at the 2 Degrees Festival, hosted by Arts Admin. This Free Lab Radio podcast features (in this order):

– Activist and environmentalist Brett Bloom on deep listening and Petro-Subjectivity,

– The 2 Degrees team on the Hackathon with The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and this year’s festival in general at Toynbee Hall.

– The Ambassador of Bolivia in UK, Roberto Calzadilla speaking on his country’s constitutional rights of Mother Earth

We also ask Brett what music he is listening to that might be the playlist for the 2 Degrees movement: The Swans and Bad Brains.

The 2 Degrees Festival ran 1-7 June, 2015 at Toynbee Studios, London. “ART. CLIMATE. ACTION.” Listen on air if you are one of London’s 10 million inhabitants, otherwise use this handy app.

Free Lab Radio: Petro-Subjectivity + Laws for Mother Earth in Bolivia, 2 Degrees Festival/Arts Admin by Fari B on Mixcloud

Hooting Yard: On The Ground

We can go over now to our reporter on the ground, Praxiteles Hubbard . . . Prax, what is the situation there on the ground?

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This episode was first broadcast on the 2nd August 2012.

Panel Borders: On the Brink of a Brass Sun

Panel Borders: On the Brink of a Brass Sun

Concluding a month of shows about ‘The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’, Alex Fitch talks to artist I.N.J. Culbard about his work for 2000AD on strips such as ‘clock-punk fantasy’ serial Brass Sun and the forthcoming Brink. Ian also explains his unusual method for drawing Dan Abnett’s anthropomorphic adaptation of The War of the Worlds – Wild’s End published by Boom! – plus his recent graphic novels for SelfMadeHero: Celeste and The King in Yellow. (Last in the current series – Panel Borders will return in a new slot and format in September)
Originally broadcast 27th August 2015 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Covers of Wilds End, Brass Sun and Celeste, interior art from The King in Yellow by I.N.J. Culbard

Covers of Wilds End, Brass Sun and Celeste, interior art from The King in Yellow by I.N.J. Culbard

For more info and a variety of formats to stream or download this podcast, please visit archive.org

Links: More info about I.N.J. Culbard on SelfMaderHero’s website
Buy Brass Sun volume one from 2000AD online
More info about Wild’s End at Boom! Studios website
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with Ian Culbard