News from the mess that is Atos’s assessments and another chance to hear the pink-haired punk Kieran Strange hitting a nerve.
Reality Check: 35 years of 2000AD – Pencils and paint
Reality Check: 35 years of 2000AD – Pencils and paint
In a companion podcast to a recent edition of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of iconic artists, responsible for illustrating many of 2000AD’s most memorable characters to celebrate the title’s 35th anniversary year. Kev Hopgood has drawn Judge Dredd, Future Shocks and Harlem Heroes, before going on to co-create War Machine in the American Iron Man comic; while Henry Flint has rendered memorable runs on Nemesis the Warlock, Rogue Trooper and ABC Warriors.
(Expanded podcast of the second half of a Clear Spot, broadcast 26/09/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
2000AD covers by Kev Hopgood and Henry Flint
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Panel Borders: 35 years of 2000AD – Words and letters
Panel Borders: 35 years of 2000AD – Words and letters
Covers of 2000AD progs 1799 and 1800 featuring a promotional image from Dredd and art by Chris Weston and Simon Bisley
Continuing our month of shows about comic book anthologies, Alex Fitch talks to Matt Smith about editing 2000AD and writing prose adventures of Judge Dredd, to David Baillie about penning Future Shocks, and to Annie Parkhouse about lettering “the galaxy’s greatest comic” in its 35th anniversary year. Matt also discusses penning a comic strip prequel to Dredd 3D in the latest Megazine, David discusses the concept of ‘selling out’ as a small press creator and Annie talks about her travails with international creators on American comic books. (Originally broadcast as the first half of a Clear Spot, 26/09/12 on Resonance FM)
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Art Monthly Talk Show on Resonance104.4 FM, 14th September 2012
Jennifer Thatcher and Morgan Quaintance bring their two texts from the September issue of Art Monthly together. Jennifer’s feature – a conversation with Tino Sehgal and Morgan’s review of Claire Bishop’s book Artificial Hells.
Tino Sehgal is a key figure in the rise of participatory art, using performers – or ‘interpreters’ – to engage with audience members. He discussed his current (Sept 2012)commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, his reliance on art galleries for context, the motivations driving his interpreters and his work’s avoidance of open-ended public engagement through a strict adherence to ‘the craft of composition’.
‘Unlike our name-badge culture of faux-intimacy (Hello, my name is Bob, how can I help you?), these interpreters remain anonymous. Yet that anonymity “paradoxically allows for greater intimacy”, Sehgal argues, “when you meet a stranger on a train, you can always say more.”‘
Morgan Quaintance wrote: ‘Claire Bishop explains that the dominance of ethical and moral judgement is killing aesthetic assessment in an “ethically charged climate in which participatory and socially engaged art has become largely exempt from art criticism”. This new binary (the ethical versus the aesthetic) replaces the passive-active conundrum as the new site of contention to be duked out in the participatory debate.’
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
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Panel Borders: Aces Weekly
Panel Borders: Aces Weekly
Continuing our month of shows about anthologies, Alex Fitch talks to the creator and co-editor – David Lloyd – of a new weekly digital comics anthology, Aces Weekly. Alex also talks to three of the other contributors – David Leach, John McCrea and Kev Hopgood – about their new strips which will feature in the title and how the creators hope this will open up a new market for British comics in a brand new format.
Clockwise from top left, art from Aces Weekly by: David Lloyd, David Leach, Kev Hopgood and John McCrea
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Wavelength – In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven there were men and women.
Composed by Robert Ashley in 1972, released on Cramps Records in 1974. The text is by John Barton Wolgamot, written in 1944 and published privately in two different versions. The book was reputedly found by chance in a second hand bookshop in Greenwich Village in the 1950s. ‘Wolgamot said he had sold twelve copies of the first edition and two copies of the second. Wolgamot said that the “book” was essentially the title page, that one should consider the title page to be the “body” of the book, and that the 128 pages of names should be considered as “the blood flowing through the body”. Wolgamot was being modest, facetious, self-deprecating, whatever, when he said, “It’s harder than you think to write a sentence that doesn’t say anything”‘.
Technical Difficulties 4:2 (with Disability News Service)
Disability News Service round-up including:
? British Paralympians Danielle Brown, David Smith and David Clarke on the effect that Disability Living Allowance has on their lives
? Atos’s continued high rate of failure in testing.
Reality Check: Home Invasions
Reality Check: Home Invasions
Alex Fitch interviews the directors of two new British horror films that deal with supernatural home invasions and their consequences. Oliver S. Milburn discusses his debut film The Harsh Light of Day which looks at a home owner’s Faustian deal with a vampire to get revenge on the thieves who murdered his wife, and Pat Holden talks about his new movie When the lights went out, starring Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), produced by Bil Bungar (Moon), and dramatises the story of the 1966 haunting of a semi-detached house in Pontefract.
Posters for When the lights went out and The harsh light of day
(Expanded podcast of an episode of I’m ready for my close-up, broadcast 19/09/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
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Panel Borders: The Phoenix
Panel Borders: The Phoenix
In the first of a new series of Panel Borders, we start a month of shows looking at comic book anthologies with a recording of a panel discussion of the children’s comic The Phoenix. Creators Daniel Hartwell (writer: ‘Pirates of the Pangaea’), Neill Cameron (artist: ‘Pirates of the Pangaea’), Adam Murphy (‘Corpse Talk’), Robin Etherington (writer: ‘Long Gone Don’) and Patrice Aggs (‘Blimpville’) discuss creating serialised comics for children and how the title rose from the ashes of The DFC – hosted by David O’Connell (‘Tozo: The Public Servant’) and recorded live at Caption Festival, Oxford.
Cover of The Phoenix, art from Corpse Talk, Blimpville, The Pirates of Pangaea, Long Gone Don
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Wavelength – Ed Baxter on Artists in Ruins (Destruction in Art Part 11)
Interview number six with Resonance Executive Officer Ed Baxter and ostensibly part two of Ed’s association with Art in Ruins (Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowles). Alcohol gets a cameo role, Dermot Todd’s book: Filth, is passed over (grisly and embarrassing), disarmingly candid introspection.