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Panel Borders: Adapting prose for manga, games and genre comics
May 28, 2009 — 6 Comments
Panel Borders:
Adapting prose for manga, games and genre comics
Broadcast 28/05/09 in an edited version as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Covers to Dead Space, the comic - issues 1 to 3 by Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith
Concluding adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to writer and graphic designer Antony Johnston about combining text and image in comics and other media from his illustrated novella Frightening Curves to enriching the computer game he scripted – Dead Space – with a comic book prequel and interactive websites. Alex and Antony also talk about the latter’s influences, writing the new Wolverine Manga and adapting the prose work of Alan Moore and Anthony Horowitz into comic book format.
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Read a partial transcript of this interview at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Antony’s website – www.antonyjohnston.com and pages on wikipedia and google books
Interview about, interactive website and review of Dead Space
Oni Press’ official Wasteland website
Avatar Press microsite about Antony’s first collaboration with Alan Moore – The Courtyard
Extracts from Antony’s Alex Rider adaptations at lovereading4kids.co.uk
Review of Wolverine manga
Join our facebook group
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
LUC @ 176
The one month countdown starts now!
London Underground Comics’ latest event takes place at the 176 Project Space in Chalk Farm, London and features over 40 of the UK and beyond’s finest small press creators selling their wares in one of north London’s most beautiful gallery spaces.
Free tea and coffee, live DJs, animation projected on the 40 foot wall of the gallery and much more.
Exhibitors include: .
Oli Smith, Oliver Lambden, Sean Azzopardi, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, David Baillie, Douglas Noble, Marc Ellerby, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen,Jake Harold, Dan Lester, Francesca Cassavetti, Sally-Anne Hickman, Richy K Chandler, Josceline Fenton, Phil Spence, Paul Rainey, Howard Hardiman and many more…
27th June, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT
More info: londonundergroundcomics.com / www.projectspace176.com
Today’s show: Adapting prose for manga, games and genre comics
May 28, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Adapting prose for manga, games and genre comics
Covers to Dead Space, the comic - issues 1 to 3 by Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith
Concluding adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to writer and graphic designer Antony Johnston about combining text and image in comics and other media from his illustrated novella Frightening Curves to enriching the computer game he scripted – Dead Space – with a comic book prequel and interactive websites. Alex and Antony also talk about the latter’s influences, writing the new Wolverine Manga and adapting the prose work of Alan Moore and Anthony Horowitz into comic book format.
5pm 28/05/09, repeated 11.30pm 31/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…
Links: Antony’s website – www.antonyjohnston.com and pages on wikipedia and google books
Interview about, interactive website and review of Dead Space
Oni Press’ official Wasteland website
Avatar Press microsite about Antony’s first collaboration with Alan Moore – The Courtyard
Extracts from Antony’s Alex Rider adaptations at lovereading4kids.co.uk
Review of Wolverine manga
Join our facebook group
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
LUC @ 176
The one month countdown starts now!
London Underground Comics’ latest event takes place at the 176 Project Space in Chalk Farm, London and features over 40 of the UK and beyond’s finest small press creators selling their wares in one of north London’s most beautiful gallery spaces.
Free tea and coffee, live DJs, animation projected on the 40 foot wall of the gallery and much more.
Exhibitors include: .
Oli Smith, Oliver Lambden, Sean Azzopardi, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, David Baillie, Douglas Noble, Marc Ellerby, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen,Jake Harold, Dan Lester, Francesca Cassavetti, Sally-Anne Hickman, Richy K Chandler, Josceline Fenton, Phil Spence, Paul Rainey, Howard Hardiman and many more…
27th June, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London, NW5 3PT
More info: londonundergroundcomics.com / www.projectspace176.com
Reality Check: Genre (crossing) directors – Kaufman and Vigalondo
May 24, 2009 — 3 Comments
Reality Check:
Genre (crossing) directors – Kaufman and Vigalondo
Charlie Kaufman interview originally broadcast 21/05/09 on Resonance FM as part of I’m ready for my close-up
Charlie Kaufman directs Robin Weigert in Synecdoche, New York
Continuing our series of twice annual looks at pairs of directors who combine genres on screen to beguiling effect, Alex Fitch talks to Academy Award winning screenwriter turned director Charlie Kaufman about his new film Synecdoche, New York and the processes of getting his previous scripts Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich to the screen.
Nacho Vigalondo in character on the set of TimeCrimes
Alex also talks to Nacho Vigalondo, the director of the new Spanish film TimeCrimes / Los cronocrimenes which mixes the style of a 1970s psycho thriller with the tropes of a modern, cerebral time travel film.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
There are the following instalments of “Genre (crossing) directors” on Reality Check; episode:
2.11 – Charlie Kaufman / Nacho Vigalondo
2.01 – Tarsem Singh / Paul W.S. Anderson
1.11 – Garth Jennings / Park Chan-Wook
Links: Charlie Kaufman -
Charlie’s pages on Wikipedia
and the IMDb
Kaufman resource site – beingcharliekaufman.com
Interview in The Guardian
Nacho Vigalondo – Official Spanish TimeCrimes website
IMDb page about the film
Read a partial transcript of the interview with Nacho in Electric Sheep Magazine
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
Rutu Modan at JCC
Rutu Modan’s work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, and her novel Exit Wounds received the Eisner award for best Graphic Novel last year. With both delicacy and clarity, her work captures the complexity, surreal humour and emotional challenges of living in contemporary Israel. The novel depicts the quest of Koby, a taxi driver, for his father in the wake of a suicide bombing, with the help of the mysterious Numi. Rutu will be at JCC Lit Café in conversation with Ariel Kahn, the winner of the Bloomsbury New Writing Competition, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Roehampton University, and contributor to The Jewish Graphic Novel. (Ed. Samantha Berman and Ranen. Omer-Sherman, Rutgers, 2008). Supported by Bank Hapoalim.
Time: 8pm
Venue: Upstairs at the Magdala, 2a South Hill Park, London NW3 2SB Price: £6 TO BOOK: www.jcclondon.org.uk
Panel Borders: Adapting the classics – Klimowski and Schejbal
May 21, 2009 — 5 Comments
Panel Borders:
Adapting the classics – Klimowski and Schejbal
Edited broadcast 21/05/09 as the first half of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Andrzej Klimowski
Continuing adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to the illustrators of some recent literary adaptations in comic book format. Self Made Hero is a relatively new publishing company who have made a name for themselves with their range of Manga Shakespeare adaptations and are now doing European style graphic novels of literary classics. Alex talks to Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal, their illustrators and adaptors of The Master and Margarita and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Publisher – www.selfmadehero.com
Andrzej’s website / Danusia’s website
Andrzej’s pages at www.polishposter.com and The Royal College of Art
Theatre design by Danusia: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Andrzej
Read extracts fromThe Master and Margaritaat www.guardian.co.uk
Review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the FPI blog
Review of The Master and Margarita from The New Statesman
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now
More info at www.bryan-talbot.com
and:
The MCM Expo is on this weekend at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands and features guests from film, TV and comics including Warren Ellis, Tony Curtis, Linda Hamilton and many more.
More info at www.londonexpo.com
also:
If you’re in South London:
Charley’s War and Manga Shakespeare at Streatham Library
Pat Mills and Ilya will be talking about their work at Streatham Library as part of Lambeth Readers and Writers festival. Pat will be discussing Charley’s War, Slaine, ABC Warriors, Marshall Law, Judge Dredd, Nemesis The Warlock and many other strips and Ilya will be talking about his roots in the small press, editing the Mammoth Best New Manga anthologies and adapting King Lear into Manga format…
7.30pm Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High Road, SW16 1PL. Saturday 23rd May 2009
More info at: www.lambeth.gov.uk
If you’re in North London:
ARGH! The Ups & Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator – I was Spider-Man’s Editor
Saturday 23rd May 2009 8.00PM
Stories told in pictures have been around for a long time .. from prehistoric cave drawings through the Bayeaux Tapestry, illustrator and editor, Tim Quinn takes you on a highly nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so-great comic characters of the last 150 years.
Tim also takes you behind-the-scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror’s Jane and Garth and America’s finest Marvel Comics. He will guide you through the creation of a brand new comic book charcter and reveal his own secret identity as Supreme Speedster, Jet Lagg.
The audience is invited to attend wearing capes and masks. Suitable for boys (of all ages and sexes). Ages 9+
Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street, North Finchley, London N12 0GA
More info at www.artsdepot.co.uk
100 Years of Korean Manwha is now on at the Korean Cultural Centre
Manhwa celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. This popular art form holds a long and cherished history that began with the first publication of Doyoung Lee’s political cartoons in “Daehanminbo.”, a print newspaper was founded on June 2, 1909, and manhwa was born along with it. Following its birth, manhwa had to endure Korea’s tumultuous history under Japanese colonial rule. Manhwa survived the time periods of national liberation, the dark years of the Korean War, and through the dismal military dictatorship. The 80’s and 90’s of the 20th century marked the renaissance of manhwa. Manhwa published during these bygone eras help us reflect on our nation’s past.
1 May – 24 June 2009. 13 Strand, London WC2N 5BW. Tel. 020 7004 2600
More info at londonkoreanlinks.net
I’m ready for my close-up: Charlie Kaufman – bringing interior worlds to the screen
May 21, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
I’m ready for my close-up: Charlie Kaufman – bringing interior worlds to the screen
Charlie Kaufman directs Robin Weigert in Synecdoche, New York
Alex Fitch talks to Academy Award winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman about his new film Synecdoche, New York, the challenges of directing his own script, working with Spike Jones and Michel Gondry on his previous screenplays such as Being John Malkovich and Human Nature and issues of post-modernism and magical realism in his work. Alex also talks to Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Selavy about Synecdoche, New York looking at Kaufman’s depictions of the internal workings of the human mind in that film and in earlier scripts such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind.
5pm 22/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online after broadcast at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio
Links: Charlie’s pages on Wikipedia and the IMDb
Kaufman resource site beingcharliekaufman.com
Interview in The Guardian
Multimedia news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now
More info at www.bryan-talbot.com
and:
The MCM Expo is on this weekend at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands and features guests from film, TV and comics including Warren Ellis, Tony Curtis, Linda Hamilton and many more.
More info at www.londonexpo.com
also:
If you’re in South London:
Charley’s War and Manga Shakespeare at Streatham Library
Pat Mills and Ilya will be talking about their work at Streatham Library as part of Lambeth Readers and Writers festival. Pat will be discussing Charley’s War, Slaine, ABC Warriors, Marshall Law, Judge Dredd, Nemesis The Warlock and many other strips and Ilya will be talking about his roots in the small press, editing the Mammoth Best New Manga anthologies and adapting King Lear into Manga format…
7.30pm Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High Road, SW16 1PL. Saturday 23rd May 2009
More info at: www.lambeth.gov.uk
If you’re in North London:
ARGH! The Ups & Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator – I was Spider-Man’s Editor
Saturday 23rd May 2009 8.00PM
Stories told in pictures have been around for a long time .. from prehistoric cave drawings through the Bayeaux Tapestry, illustrator and editor, Tim Quinn takes you on a highly nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so-great comic characters of the last 150 years.
Tim also takes you behind-the-scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror’s Jane and Garth and America’s finest Marvel Comics. He will guide you through the creation of a brand new comic book charcter and reveal his own secret identity as Supreme Speedster, Jet Lagg.
The audience is invited to attend wearing capes and masks. Suitable for boys (of all ages and sexes). Ages 9+
Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street, North Finchley, London N12 0GA
More info at www.artsdepot.co.uk
Panel Borders: Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Grey by Ian Culbard
May 21, 2009 — 5 Comments
Panel Borders:
Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Grey by Ian Culbard
Edited broadcast 21/05/09 as the second half of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extract from The Picture of Dorian Grey by Ian Culbard and Ian Edginton
Continuing adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to the illustrators of some new and recent literary adaptations in comic book format. Self Made Hero is a relatively new publishing company who have made a name for themselves with their range of Manga Shakespeare adaptations and are now doing European style graphic novels of literary classics. Alex talks to Ian Culbard, their illustrator of Ian Edginton’s adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Hound of the Baskervilles…
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Publisher – www.selfmadehero.com
Ian’s blog
Ian’s other collaboration with Ian Edginton, Retro Rockets, Go!
Ian’s “Round Robin” comics with various other creators: Huzzah and Huzzah Noir
Join our facebook group
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now
More info at www.bryan-talbot.com
and:
The MCM Expo is on this weekend at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands and features guests from film, TV and comics including Warren Ellis, Tony Curtis, Linda Hamilton and many more.
More info at www.londonexpo.com
also:
If you’re in South London:
Charley’s War and Manga Shakespeare at Streatham Library
Pat Mills and Ilya will be talking about their work at Streatham Library as part of Lambeth Readers and Writers festival. Pat will be discussing Charley’s War, Slaine, ABC Warriors, Marshall Law, Judge Dredd, Nemesis The Warlock and many other strips and Ilya will be talking about his roots in the small press, editing the Mammoth Best New Manga anthologies and adapting King Lear into Manga format…
7.30pm Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High Road, SW16 1PL. Saturday 23rd May 2009
More info at: www.lambeth.gov.uk
If you’re in North London:
ARGH! The Ups & Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator – I was Spider-Man’s Editor
Saturday 23rd May 2009 8.00PM
Stories told in pictures have been around for a long time .. from prehistoric cave drawings through the Bayeaux Tapestry, illustrator and editor, Tim Quinn takes you on a highly nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so-great comic characters of the last 150 years.
Tim also takes you behind-the-scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror’s Jane and Garth and America’s finest Marvel Comics. He will guide you through the creation of a brand new comic book charcter and reveal his own secret identity as Supreme Speedster, Jet Lagg.
The audience is invited to attend wearing capes and masks. Suitable for boys (of all ages and sexes). Ages 9+
Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street, North Finchley, London N12 0GA
More info at www.artsdepot.co.uk
100 Years of Korean Manwha is now on at the Korean Cultural Centre
Manhwa celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. This popular art form holds a long and cherished history that began with the first publication of Doyoung Lee’s political cartoons in “Daehanminbo.”, a print newspaper was founded on June 2, 1909, and manhwa was born along with it. Following its birth, manhwa had to endure Korea’s tumultuous history under Japanese colonial rule. Manhwa survived the time periods of national liberation, the dark years of the Korean War, and through the dismal military dictatorship. The 80’s and 90’s of the 20th century marked the renaissance of manhwa. Manhwa published during these bygone eras help us reflect on our nation’s past.
1 May – 24 June 2009. 13 Strand, London WC2N 5BW. Tel. 020 7004 2600
More info at londonkoreanlinks.net
Today’s shows: Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York / Andrzej Klimowski, Danusia Schejbal and Ian Culbard on adapting the classics
May 21, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Andrzej Klimowski
Continuing adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to the illustrators of some new and recent literary adaptations in comic book format. Self Made Hero is a relatively new publishing company who have made a name for themselves with their range of Manga Shakespeare adaptations and are now doing European style graphic novels of literary classics. Alex talks to Ian Culbard, artist of Ian Edginton’s adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Hound of the Baskervilles and to Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal, illustrators and adaptors of The Master and Margarita and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
5pm 21/05/09, repeated 11.30pm 24/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online at www.panelborders.wordpress.com after broadcast…
I’m ready for my close-up: Charlie Kaufman – bringing interior worlds to the screen
Charlie Kaufman directs Robin Weigert in Synecdoche, New York
Alex Fitch talks to Academy Award winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman about his new film Synecdoche, New York, the challenges of directing his own script, working with Spike Jones and Michel Gondry on his previous screenplays such as Being John Malkovich and Human Nature and issues of post-modernism and magical realism in his work. Alex also talks to Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Selavy about Synecdoche, New York looking at Kaufman’s depictions of the internal workings of the human mind in that film and in earlier scripts such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind.
10.30pm 21/05/09, repeated 5pm 22/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online after broadcast at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio
Links: www.selfmadehero.com
Ian Culbard – Ian’s blog
Ian’s other collaboration with Ian Edginton, Retro Rockets, Go!
Ian’s “Round Robin” comics with various other creators: Huzzah and Huzzah Noir
Andrzej Klimowski – Andrzej’s website
Andrzej’s pages at www.polishposter.com and The Royal College of Art
Article by Paul Gravett on The Secret
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Andrzej
Danusia Schejbal – Danusia’s website
Read extracts from The Master and Margarita at www.guardian.co.uk
Review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the FPI blog
Review of The Master and Margarita from The New Statesman
Charlie Kaufman – Charlie’s pages on Wikipedia and the IMDb
Kaufman resource site beingcharliekaufman.com
Interview in The Guardian
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now
More info at www.bryan-talbot.com
and:
The MCM Expo is on this weekend at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands and features guests from film, TV and comics including Warren Ellis, Tony Curtis, Linda Hamilton and many more.
More info at www.londonexpo.com
also:
If you’re in South London:
Charley’s War and Manga Shakespeare at Streatham Library
Pat Mills and Ilya will be talking about their work at Streatham Library as part of Lambeth Readers and Writers festival. Pat will be discussing Charley’s War, Slaine, ABC Warriors, Marshall Law, Judge Dredd, Nemesis The Warlock and many other strips and Ilya will be talking about his roots in the small press, editing the Mammoth Best New Manga anthologies and adapting King Lear into Manga format…
7.30pm Streatham Library, 63 Streatham High Road, SW16 1PL. Saturday 23rd May 2009
More info at: www.lambeth.gov.uk
If you’re in North London:
ARGH! The Ups & Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator – I was Spider-Man’s Editor
Saturday 23rd May 2009 8.00PM
Stories told in pictures have been around for a long time .. from prehistoric cave drawings through the Bayeaux Tapestry, illustrator and editor, Tim Quinn takes you on a highly nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so-great comic characters of the last 150 years.
Tim also takes you behind-the-scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror’s Jane and Garth and America’s finest Marvel Comics. He will guide you through the creation of a brand new comic book charcter and reveal his own secret identity as Supreme Speedster, Jet Lagg.
The audience is invited to attend wearing capes and masks. Suitable for boys (of all ages and sexes). Ages 9+
Arts Depot, 5 Nether Street, North Finchley, London N12 0GA
More info at www.artsdepot.co.uk
Panel Borders: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
May 14, 2009 — 5 Comments
Panel Borders:
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
Originally broadcast 14/05/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Dracula by Leah Moore and John Reppion
Continuing adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to writers Leah Moore and John Reppion about their two current comic book projects, adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula for sequential art and continuing the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a new comic for Dynamite Entertainment. Leah and John talk about the process of condensing Dracula into five 32 page comics, while including Stoker’s often neglected prologue Dracula’s guest plus adding to the saga of Sherlock Holmes by putting the Master Detective on trial for murder and terrorist activities…
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: John and Leah’s website
Dynamite Entertainment‘s website
Interview with Leah and John at newsarama.com: part 1 / part 2
Read 4 pages of The Trial of Sherlock Holmes and 5 pages of Draculaonline
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now:
More info at www.bryan-talbot.com
and:
This Saturday at 2.30pm at Minet Library in Camberwell, comic book artist Brendan McCarthy is talking about his work as part of the Lambeth Literary festival and will be discussing his graphic novels Skin, Rogan Josh and Bad Company, his forthcoming work on Spiderman / Doctor Strange, his work on the TV show Reboot and the as yet unfilmed movie Mad Max IV.
More info at www.lambeth.gov.uk
Today’s show: Strip! – Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
May 14, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
Dracula by Leah Moore and John Reppion
Continuing adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to writers Leah Moore and John Reppion about their two current comic book projects, adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula for sequential art and continuing the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a new comic for Dynamite Entertainment. Leah and John talk about the process of condensing Dracula into five 32 page comics, while including Stoker’s often neglected prologue Dracula’s guest plus adding to the saga of Sherlock Holmes by putting the Master Detective on trial for murder and terrorist activities…
5pm 14/05/09, repeated 11.30pm 17/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…
Links: John and Leah’s website
Dynamite Entertainment‘s website
Interview with Leah and John at newsarama.com: part 1 / part 2
Read 4 pages of The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
Join our facebookgroup
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now:
More info at www.bryan-talbot.com
and:
This Saturday at 2.30pm at Minet Library in Camberwell, comic book artist Brendan McCarthy is talking about his work as part of the Lambeth Literary festival and will be discussing his graphic novels Skin, Rogan Josh and Bad Company, his forthcoming work on Spiderman / Doctor Strange, his work on the TV show Reboot and the as yet unfilmed movie Mad Max IV.
More info at www.lambeth.gov.uk
Reality Check: The Arthur C. Clarke awards 2009
May 14, 2009 — 5 Comments
Reality Check:
The Arthur C. Clarke awards 2009
Arthur C. Clarke awards 2009 longlist
Tom Hunter presents the Arthur C. Clarke awards
In the first of our podcasts recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London Festival, guest presenter Graham Sleight talks to a nominee and two former judges of the Arthur C. Clarke awards. In case you don’t know who won, why not listen to the podcast and hear the opening of the envelope and the winner’s reaction! Authors interviewed include Niall Harrison, Tanya Brown and Ian R. Macleod, with the award ceremony presented by Dr. Marek Kukula (Royal Greenwich Observatory) and Tom Hunter. Edited and recorded by Alex Fitch.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
Links: For more info about the Clarke Awards, please visit www.clarkeaward.com
For more info on Dr. Kukula, please visit www.nmm.ac.uk
Ian R Macleod’s website
Graham Sleight’s website
Info on Tanya Brown and Niall Harrison‘s contibutions to Vector
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
Hectic Peelers screening: An Independent Mind
May 12, 2009
Hectic Peelers screening: An Independent Mind
Rex Bloomstein filming An Independent Mind
TUESDAY 12th MARCH, Roxy Bar and Screen, 7:30pm, FREE: Resonance FM and Electric Sheep Magazine proudly present An Independent Mind. The film explores the state of freedom of expression around the world in 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which protects freedom of expression under Article 19. An Independent Mind interviews people from diverse walks of life who have faced oppression and censorship for expressing unpopular or radical opinions. The interviewees include: The Moustache Brothers, a comedy troupe in Burma, Tiken Jah Fakoly, a reggae star from Côte d’Ivoire, Ali Dilem, an Algerian cartoonist, David Irving, a controversial British writer and historian, Mu Zimei, a Chinese sex blogger, Soziedad Alkoholika, a Basque rock band, Marielos Monzon, a Guatemalan radio journalist and Faraj Bayrakdar, a Syrian poet and journalist.
The film will be introduced by Alex Fitch, assistant editor of Electric Sheep Magazine and the director, Rex Bloomstein, will take part in a Q & A after the screening.
With thanks to Rex Entertainment.
7.30pm, 12/05/09, Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street London SE1 1LB
To find out more about other Electric Sheep Screenings, please click here and for the latest issue of the magazine, please click here
Links: Rex’s website
Interview with Rex following a screening of KZ at the Sundance Film Festival
Rex’s page at the “British Documentary Website” dfgdocs.com
Rex’s filmography at the University of Leicester website
Listen to Alex interview Rex about his films KZ and Traitors to Hitler
Reality Check: Gentlemen in Flight
May 8, 2009 — 2 Comments
Reality Check:
Gentlemen in Flight
Illustration of Little Nellie by Edgar Aromin
George Takei is Captain Hikaru Sulu
In a special episode looking at two of the great gentlemen of the sky, who first found fame in the 1960s with their piloting of classic Sci-Fi air/spacecraft, Chris Patmore talks to George Takei about being the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek in both the classic TV series and beyond while Alex Fitch talks to Wing Commander Ken Wallis about building and flying the gyrocopter ‘Little Nellie’ in You only live twice and its stablemate in The Martian Chronicles…
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
Links: For more info about George and the re-release of the classic series of Star Trek on Blu Ray please visit www.georgetakei.com and www.startrek.com
For more info about Ken and the BFI’s current Bond and Beyond season… www.kenwallisautogyro.com and www.bfi.org.uk
Listen to Alex interview Brent (Data) Spiner about his career…
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
This weekend brings the Bristol International Comics Expo 2009
and guests including:
GARY FRANK, ALAN DAVIS, IAN GIBSON, DAVE GIBBONS, DAVID HINE, MARK BUCKINGHAM, JOHN M. BURNS, MIKE COLLINS, IAN EDGINTON, PHIL WINSLADE, GILBERT SHELTON, HUNT EMERSON, SIMON BISLEY, KEVIN O’NEILL, MIKE PLOOG, CHARLES ADLARD, SEAN PHILLIPS, and DUNCAN FEGREDO
and many more to the West of England…
A special One-Off Convention for 2009 hosted Exclusively at the RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL 9th-10th May
The Expo is sold out but the Small Press Expo 2009
on Saturday, the 9th of May at the Mercure Holland House hotel is taking plabe also in Bristol,
and features:
Darwin Story Great Graphic Give-away
250 copies of Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Simon Gurr and Eugene Byrne up for grabs!
Expo Exclusive! – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century – Rare signing by artist Kevin O’Neill
Signings by Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry, Will Simpson, Gilbert Shelton and Hunt Emerson
Guest appearance from actor Doug Bradley (Pinhead – Hellraiser)
More info at www.spexpo.co.uk and www.fantasyevents.org respectively
Panel Borders: Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures!
May 7, 2009 — 5 Comments
Panel Borders:
Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures!
Originally broadcast 07/05/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
The Muppet Show by Roger Langridge
Starting adaptation and inspiration month on the show: Alex Fitch and Robin Warren talk to two humour cartoonists – Roger Langridge and Hugh Raine (a.k.a. Shug) – about their work. Roger has just started drawing the new Muppet Show comic for Boom Studios! and has drawn the U.K. Doctor Who comic from time to time while Hugh has just completed the 37th and final issue of his comic Reet!, so Alex and Robin talk to Roger about his career so far and bringing Jim Henson’s beloved creations to the page, while Alex talks to Hugh about Northern humour, self-publishing and his influences…
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Roger Langridge’s website, blog and wikipedia page
Read Fin Fang Four at marvel.com
Boom! studios website
Read the first seven pages of The Muppet Show
Info about Boom!’s American newsstand distribution
Listen to Alex and Duncan Nott’s coversation with Mark Waid about Boom! Studios
Hugh Raine’s web, livejournal and myspace sites
Review of Shug’s comics at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Info on the UK web and mini comix Thing where these interviews were recorded
Join our facebookgroup
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
This weekend brings the Bristol International Comics Expo 2009
and guests including:
GARY FRANK, ALAN DAVIS, IAN GIBSON, DAVE GIBBONS, DAVID HINE, MARK BUCKINGHAM, JOHN M. BURNS, MIKE COLLINS, IAN EDGINTON, PHIL WINSLADE, GILBERT SHELTON, HUNT EMERSON, SIMON BISLEY, KEVIN O’NEILL, MIKE PLOOG, CHARLES ADLARD, SEAN PHILLIPS, and DUNCAN FEGREDO
and many more to the West of England…
A special One-Off Convention for 2009 hosted Exclusively at the RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL 9th-10th May
The Expo is sold out but the Small Press Expo 2009
on Saturday, the 9th of May at the Mercure Holland House hotel is taking plabe also in Bristol,
and features:
Darwin Story Great Graphic Give-away
250 copies of Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Simon Gurr and Eugene Byrne up for grabs!
Expo Exclusive! – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century – Rare signing by artist Kevin O’Neill
Signings by Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry, Will Simpson, Gilbert Shelton and Hunt Emerson
Guest appearance from actor Doug Bradley (Pinhead – Hellraiser)
More info at www.spexpo.co.uk and www.fantasyevents.org respectively
Today’s show: Strip! – Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures
May 7, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures
The Muppet Show by Roger Langridge
Starting adaptation and inspiration month on the show: Alex Fitch and Robin Warren talk to two humour cartoonists – Roger Langridge and Hugh Raine (a.k.a. Shug) – about their work. Roger has just started drawing the new Muppet Show comic for Boom Studios! and has drawn the U.K. Doctor Who comic from time to time while Hugh has just completed the 37th and final issue of his comic Reet!, so Alex and Robin talk to Roger about his career so far and bringing Jim Henson’s beloved creations to the page, while Alex talks to Hugh about Northern humour, self-publishing and his influences…
5pm 07/05/09, repeated 11.30pm 10/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…
Links: Roger Langridge’s website, blog and wikipedia page
Read Fin Fang Four at marvel.com
Boom! studios website
Read the first seven pages of The Muppet Show
Info about Boom!’s American newsstand distribution
Listen to Alex and Duncan Nott’s coversation with Mark Waid about Boom! Studios
Hugh Raine’s web, livejournal and myspace sites
Review of Shug’s comics at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Info on the UK web and mini comix Thing where these interviews were recorded
Join our facebookgroup
Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…
plus:
This weekend brings the Bristol International Comics Expo 2009
and guests including:
GARY FRANK, ALAN DAVIS, IAN GIBSON, DAVE GIBBONS, DAVID HINE, MARK BUCKINGHAM, JOHN M. BURNS, MIKE COLLINS, IAN EDGINTON, PHIL WINSLADE, GILBERT SHELTON, HUNT EMERSON, SIMON BISLEY, KEVIN O’NEILL, MIKE PLOOG, CHARLES ADLARD, SEAN PHILLIPS, and DUNCAN FEGREDO
and many more to the West of England…
A special One-Off Convention for 2009 hosted Exclusively at the RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL 9th-10th May
The Expo is sold out but the Small Press Expo 2009
on Saturday, the 9th of May at the Mercure Holland House hotel is taking plabe also in Bristol,
and features:
Darwin Story Great Graphic Give-away
250 copies of Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Simon Gurr and Eugene Byrne up for grabs!
Expo Exclusive! – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century – Rare signing by artist Kevin O’Neill
Signings by Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry, Will Simpson, Gilbert Shelton and Hunt Emerson
Guest appearance from actor Doug Bradley (Pinhead – Hellraiser)
More info at www.spexpo.co.uk and www.fantasyevents.org respectively
Today’s Screening: Bad Timing
May 6, 2009
Electric Sheep Film Club: Bad Timing
For the first meeting of the all new Electric Sheep Film Club at the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square, we’re proud to be showing:
Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing (1980)
Still from Bad Timing by Nicolas Roeg
Billed as ‘a terrifying love story’, this controversial, unjustly overlooked film by Nicolas Roeg is a dazzling, provocative and ferocious dissection of a couple’s disintegration, starring Theresa Russell and Art Garfunkel. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this stunning film by the director of Performance and Don’t look Now on the big screen!
…and then chat with other film-goers and Electric Sheep writers about the film in the bar after the screening. (with thanks to Park Circus)
Wednesday 6th May, 8pm, Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2
More info at www.princecharlescinema.com and www.electricsheepmagazine.com/events
Electric Sheep podcast: Figures in a landscape
May 1, 2009 — 2 Comments
Electric Sheep podcast: Figures in a landscape
Interviews originally broadcast 01/05/09 in an edited version on www.resonancefm.com
Still from Helen by Desperate Optimists
Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two new films which take the starting point of a character walking through a landscape and twist it into unexpected directions. Alex talks to Bent Hamer, the director of the gentle new Norwegian comedy O’Horten which depicts the tale of a recently retired train driver who gets embroiled in a series of misadventures of the kind Victor Meldrew would be proud of from losing his shoes in a locker room and ending up with red stilettos to ending up in a car driven by a blind man. Alex also talks to Christine Molloy, one half of the film making duo Desperate Optimists, about their new film Helen, which concerns a young woman who takes part in a police reconstruction of a girl going missing and starts to take over her life from dating her boyfriend to getting maths advice from her parents.
Helen is released in selected UK cinemas on May 1st /
O’Horten is released in selected UK cinemas on May 8th
Links: Desperate Optimists‘ official website for info on Helen
Artificial Eye‘s official website for info about O’Horten
Listen to Alex’s interview with Joe Lawlor, the other half of Desperate Optimists about their series of short films – Civic Life
For info on the latest issue of Electric Sheep magazine, please click here
Electric Sheep Events:
Alex Fitch and Electric sheep magazine editor Virginie Selavy will be interviewing Marc Caro co-director of The City of Lost Children about his work on stage after a screening of the film at the Apollo Piccadilly on Lower Regent Street at 9pm tonight, 01/05/09
and tomorrow, 02/05/09, at the same location at 4.15 Alex is chairing a panel with Marc Caro, Richard Jobson, director of A woman in winter, Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) and Gerald McMorrow (Franklyn) called The problem of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film-making and you can find more details about both at www.sci-fi-london.com
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Today’s show: Figures in a landscape
May 1, 2009
Today on Resonance FM
I’m ready for my close-up: Figures in a landscape
Still from Helen by Desperate Optimists
Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two new films which take the starting point of a character walking through a landscape and twist it into unexpected directions. Alex talks to Bent Hamer, the director of the gentle new Norwegian comedy O’Horten which depicts the tale of a recently retired train driver who gets embroiled in a series of misadventures of the kind Victor Meldrew would be proud of from losing his shoes in a locker room and ending up with red stilettos to ending up in a car driven by a blind man. Alex also talks to Christine Molloy, one half of the film making duo Desperate Optimists, about their new film Helen, which concerns a young woman who takes part in a police reconstruction of a girl going missing and starts to take over her life from dating her boyfriend to getting maths advice from her parents.
Helen is released in selected UK cinemas on May 1st /
O’Horten is released in selected UK cinemas on May 8th
5pm Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast 06/05/09 at www.electricsheepmagazine.wordpress.com
Links: Desperate Optimists‘ official website for info on Helen
Artificial Eye‘s official website for info about O’Horten
Listen to Alex’s interview with Joe Lawlor, the other half of Desperate Optimists about their series of short films – Civic Life
Electric Sheep Events:
Alex Fitch and Electric sheep magazine editor Virginie Selavy will be interviewing Marc Caro co-director of The City of Lost Children about his work on stage after a screening of the film at the Apollo Piccadilly on Lower Regent Street at 9pm tonight, 01/05/09
and tomorrow, 02/05/09, at the same location at 4.15 Alex is chairing a panel with Marc Caro, Richard Jobson, director of A woman in winter, Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) and Gerald McMorrow (Franklyn) called The problem of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film-making and you can find more details about both at www.sci-fi-london.com
