Caption podcast: Kate Brown and Paul Duffield

Caption podcast: Kate Brown and Paul Duffield

In the latest episode of the Caption Podcast, and the first to have been recorded at Caption small press festival 2011: Alex Fitch hosts a discussion between cartoonists Kate Brown and Paul Duffield about their comics and working practices. Kate and Paul are both alumni of the Manga Shakespeare line published by Self Made Hero and bring subtle, illustrative lines to their work, with washes of colour and and obvious interest in Manga. The two creators discuss sharing a studio, bouncing ideas off each other and working on children’s comics such as The DFC and The Phoenix as well as their first graphic novels.

Caption 2012 takes place on August 18th / 19th, East Oxford Community Centre, Cowley, Oxford OX4 1DD
Guests include: Hunt Emerson, Tony Bennett, Brick, Krent Able, Woodrow Phoenix, Corinne Pearlman, John Anderson, Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman, Darryl Cunningham, Nicola Streeten, Gareth Brookes, Richy K. Chandler, David Baillie (via video), Charles Cutting, Robin Etherington, Daniel Hartwell, Neill Cameron, Adam Murphy, Robin Etherington, Jade Sarson, Rebecca Burgess, Sarah Burgess, Joe Morgan, Al Davison and David O’Connell.

Art from FreakAngels by Paul Duffield and The Lost Boy by Kate Brown

Art from FreakAngels by Paul Duffield and The Lost Boy by Kate Brown

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Links: Kate Brown’s website
Paul Duffield’s website
FPI reviews of Kate’s graphic novel Fish + Chocolate and finale of FreakAngels illustrated by Paul Duffield Continue reading →

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Book List: Young Adult authors

Book List: Young Adult authors

With many kids now on their summer holidays, in this Clear Spot, Alex Fitch looks at two authors who are writing books aimed at the ‘tweenage’ audience. Philip Reeve discusses his award winning Mortal Engines series, his interest in steam-punk fiction and his new novel Goblins!; Jodi Picoult talks about her first Young Adult novel, Between the Lines, co-written with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, as well as her interest in comic books as displayed in her novel The Tenth Circle and her short run on Wonder Woman.

Cover + interior illustration of Between the lines, cover of Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult / covers of Mortal Engines + Goblins by Philip Reeve, promotional art for Seawigs by Reeve + McIntyre

Cover + interior illustration of Between the lines, cover of Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult / covers of Mortal Engines + Goblins by Philip Reeve, promotional art for Seawigs by Reeve + Sarah McIntyre

(Originally broadcast 23/07/12 on Resonance FM)

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Panel Borders: Multimedia Comics by Edgar Wright and Dave Lander

Panel Borders: Multimedia Comics

In the third of our series on comic book collaborators, Alex Fitch talks to two pairs of creators who have created cross platform comics that exist as both as sequential art and moving pictures. Film-maker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Tommy Lee Edwards (Turf) discuss their interactive motion comic The Random adventures of Brandon Generator designed to promote Internet Explorer 9, and Dave Lander and Stathis Tsemberlidis discuss Decadence #9 plus their spin off short films Immortality and MOA-192B…

Brandon Generator by Edgar Wright and Tommy Lee Edwards / cover of Decadance #9 / stills from Immortality by Dave Lander and MOA-192B by Stathis Tsemberlidis

Brandon Generator by Edgar Wright and Tommy Lee Edwards / cover of Decadance #9 / stills from Immortality by Dave Lander and MOA-192B by Stathis Tsemberlidis

Originally broadcast 22/07/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Wavelength – Songs of the Brokenhearted

“Give Me Love. Songs of the Brokenhearted – Baghdad, 1925-1929”. In February 1925 the engineer Robert Beckett, travelling from India, recorded 200 titles for a new series on HMV, the label allotted to the region. The sessions were organised by Meir Hakkak, the eldest of 4 brothers running a record, gramophone and musical instruments shop in Baghdad. The following year, Marcus Alexander took another 367 titles. These recordings were reportedly sabotaged by Hakkak. At the close of the decade it was the turn of the engineer Arthur Twine. Unhappily, in 1929, the new compound he used to create the masters made them fragile, and many were shattered or cracked en route to the Company’s manufacturing plant in Hayes, west of London. The music collected on this double LP compiled by Mark Ainley in 2008 (HJRLP35) is diverse; Kurdish improvisations and a Hebrew hymn amidst an array of erotic overtures and expressive distress from Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait.

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OST 30.06.2012 – DJ Format

Soundtracks, library music and a generous helping of phat [sic] beatz [sic] with Jonny Trunk. This week homegrown Hip Hop artist and extraordinary record collector DJ Format (Aka Matt) joins Jonny in the broomcupboard to. Prepare yourself for two hours of quite brilliant film and library music from his enviable collection…

Word is bond: www.djformat.com/

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Panel Borders: Cabanon Press

Panel Borders: Cabanon Press

In the second of a series of shows about comic book creators who have collaborated together, Alex Fitch talks to celebrated British cartoonists Tom Gauld and Simone Lia in a conversation recorded at this year’s Spring Comiket at Bishopsgate Institute, London. Tom and Simone talk about their collaborative comics First and Second (republished together as Both by Bloomsbury) and publishing books together under the title Cabanon Press.

Art by Simone Lia and Tom Gauld

Art by Simone Lia and Tom Gauld

Originally broadcast 15/07/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: Tom Gauld’s website
Simone Lia’s website
Info about Comica festival

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Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 9

Destruction in Art continued. Deconstructed theme tune composed by DJ Numpty followed by music by William Basinski from the 4CD series “disintegration loops”. Readings from The Destruction of Art by Dario Gamboni referring to incidents of civil disobedience, guerilla tactics and open warfare by the Women’s Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1914, followed by selected texts from 4 Dada Suicides (Atlas Press 2005). The reading fades briefly towards the end due to a technical glitch which might be a happy accident.

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OST 24.03.2012 – ITC, The Saint and Cars Special with Andrews Roberts

Jonny Trunk is joined by Andrews “Aspergers” Roberts, one of the great factual dustbins in the UK. Andrews is incredible, and knows dangerous amounts about vintage TV and film. Here he chooses to hang out and talk about ITC, The Saint and cars a lot. An awful lot. Completely brilliant, but you may find your brain starting to seep out of your ears well before the end…

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Free Lab Radio – Iranian Electronica and What Not

Leaping across the pond on lily pads buoyed up by sound. Amongst others, Canadian avant garde, African-Brazilian-Indian tribal gabba, remixed Irish boy bands and various electronica of Persian descent.

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Wavelength – Chinese Experimental Music

The choice is yours: Tracks from a recent 4 CD set issued by Sub Rosa: An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music; An Overview of Experimental and Non-Academic Music in China. This anthology features 48 artists from within the Chinese area of influence. “j gmc” by Hong Qile, “Chi” by PNF, “Eat” by Li Wen Tai aka Vince Li, “It’s more than enough” by Yan Jun, “A dark knife” by D!O!D!O!D!/Li Jianhong + Huangjin. Intro and occasionally throughout: “Victory News Spreads Thru Mountain Villages” and “Tachai’s Bumper Harvest” (Tachai is the name of a commune brigade which is setting the pace in Chinese agriculture) Folk Instrumental Music from the Maoist era.

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