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Panel Borders: Taming the Elephantmen
Panel Borders: Taming the Elephantmen
In a companion podcast to last week’s episode, Alex Fitch continues his conversation with writer Richard Starkings and artist Ian Churchill about Elephantmen, a sci-fi anthropomorphic comic about animal / human hybrid soldiers coming to terms with life in the big city after being demobbed.
In a Q and A recorded at the Leeds Thought Bubble festival, Autumn 2011, Alex discusses Elephantmen issue #25 and beyond, including the comic’s use of guest artists such as Tim Sale and Marian Churchland and the programme of collecting the title into chunky graphic novels.
(This is the last in the current series of Panel Borders, which will return on September 16th, 2012)
Elephantmen promotional art by Ian Churchill
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Links: Elephantmen official website
Read about comics article on Elephantmen
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Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 10 with Richard Thomas
Conversing with Resonance apparatchik Richard Thomas on Tenerife, anti-design, a Markson piano, ResoVision, and the recent student demonstrations.
Reality Check: The Minister of Chance
Reality Check: The Minister of Chance
In the first of pair of podcasts about Doctor Who audio spin-offs, Alex Fitch talks to the writer / director, Dan Freeman, and one of the stars, Paul Darrow, of The Minister of Chance. The series is a crowd-funded, mp3 download serial which follows the SF / fantasy adventures of The Minister, a character who first appeared in the Doctor Who webcast, Death Comes to Time. Alex talks to Dan about the creation of DCtT and The Minister of Chance and to Paul about acting alongside Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy and reprising his iconic role of role of Avon in Blake’s 7 and Kaldor City audio plays.
Promotional images for The Minister of Chance and Kaldor City, starring Paul Darrow
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Panel Borders: Unleashing the Elephantmen
Panel Borders: Unleashing the Elephantmen
Alex Fitch talks to writer, editor and letterer Richard Starkings, and Ian Churchill, one of a rotating team of artists on Elephantmen, an American monthly comic (primarily created by Brits) about retired super-soldiers that are half animal, half human hybrids. Mixing the sci-fi / noir ambience of Blade Runner with the anthropomorphic horrors of The Island of Doctor Moreau, the comic has been serialised since 2003 and in this episode, recorded in front of an audience at last year’s Bristol Small Press Expo, Alex talks to Richard and Ian about the origins of the title, Richard’s move to America as a creator and Ian’s own creator owned title, Marineman, which first appeared as a back-up strip in Elephantmen #25. Originally broadcast 19/08/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Panel from Elephantmen
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Links: Elephantmen official website
Read about comics article on Elephantmen
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Wavelength – Clive Phillpot on Ray Johnson
Clive Phillpot, Super Librarian, started at Chelsea Art School before becoming director of the library at the Museum of Modern Art New York. One of the world’s leading authorities on artists’ books, Clive talks about Ray Johnson; mail artist and founder of the New York Correspondence School. Clive’s book; Ray Johnson on Flop Art was published by fermley press in 2008.
Six Pillars – Turner Prize Nominee Shirazeh Houshiary
Shirazeh Houshiary first showed at The Lisson Gallery in 1984. On the eve of a new and monumental Lisson show Houshiari discusses her technique and thinking with Six Pillars. Her works draw on the presence of the ineffable presences that stand between life and death, earth and space, time and the nanosecond.
“I set out to capture my breath,” she says, to “find the essence of my own existence, transcending name, nationality, cultures.“
Book List: Anthropomorphic Literature
Book List: Anthropomorphic Literature
To complement this month’s series of Panel Borders on anthropomorphic comic books, tonight’s Clear Spot explores the use of animal characters with human characteristics in literature. In the first half of the show, we’re proud to present an extract from one of Bryan Talbot’s lectures on anthropomorphism in children’s books, cartoons and comics, and their relevance to his own graphic novels series Grandville. Alex Fitch also talks to Bryan about his interest in the subject, and to children’s writer and illustrator Helen Ward about her adaptations of Aesop’s Fables for modern audiences. (Originally broadcast 13/08/12 on Resonance FM)
Bryan Talbot talks about Kamandi (photo by Matthew Rees) / cover of Grandville vol. 3 / covers of Varmints by Helen Ward + Marc Craste / Cover and interior spread from Aesops Fables adapted by Ward
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Links: Bryan Talbot’s website
Video of Bryan giving his talk in another location on youtube
Buy Grandville as an ebook from Dark Horse Comics
Information about Helen Ward’s titles for Templar Books
Review of Helen’s adaptation of Aesop’s Fables at Publishers Weekly
Watch the animated film of Varmints on vimeo
Wikipedia pages on anthropomorphism and Aesop’s Fables
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Panel Borders: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Panel Borders: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Continuing Panel Borders’ month of shows about anthropomorphic comics, Alex Fitch talks to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman, Rich Magallanes (Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon animation) and British comic book writer David Baillie about the ever popular franchise. Alex discusses the history of the comics and cartoons with Kevin and Rich as well as the latest versions of the characters appearing in IDW’s comic books and Nickolodeon’s new series which starts on October 1st. Alex and David talk about his experience in writing TMNT strips for the Eastern European market, short comics that look at the point of view of both the Turtles and the villains from the series.
Covers of IDW TMNT comics / Covers of Russian TMNT comics / Still from new Nickelodeon animated series
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Links: Wikipedia page on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nickelodeon page on the new Turtles cartoon
Information on IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics
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Wavelength – Maurice Seddon on cassette
Conversing with Captain Maurice Seddon, Royal Signals (retired) by telephone. Maurice is now 84. I played some cassette tape recordings he had made in the 1980s, all telephone conversations which Maurice would habitually record, perhaps since the 1960s but his memory is not what it was. One such conversation was with Fritz Fend, designer of the Fend Flitzer which developed into the Messerschmitt bubble car. I mentioned theremins to Maurice and he thought I said thermin which reminded him that he had recently bought a thermal hat which he now can’t find. The final track is Kaddish (Ravel) played on the theremin by Clara Rockmore with piano accompaniment by Nadia Reisenberg