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Today’s show – Giallo by Dario Argento
June 26, 2009
Today on Resonance FM
I’m ready for my close-up: Dario Argento
Dario Argento directs Adrien Brody on the set of Giallo
In an interview recorded at the Cine-Excess cult film festival in London, Alex Fitch talks to Italian film maker Dario Argento about his career from writing ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ in the 1960s such as Once Upon a time in the West to his most recent film Mother of Tears. Alex and Dario talk about the importance of music in his work, why he doesn’t like being pigeon holed as a horror director and his next project Giallo.
5pm Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast soon at www.electricsheepmagazine.wordpress.com
Links: IMDb pages on Argento, Once upon a time in the West and Giallo
The ‘Three Mothers’ trilogy: Suspiria, Inferno, Mother of Tears and Luigi Cozzi’s unofficial sequel The Black Cat
Wikipedia pages on Argento and the giallo genre
Watch the trailer for his new film Giallo on youtube
BFI page on the rerelease of Once upon a time in the West
Cine-Excess website
Panel Borders: The art of Rutu Modan part two
June 25, 2009 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
The art of Rutu Modan part two
Originally broadcast 25/06/09 in an edited version as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Panel from Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
Concluding cross cultural comics month on the show: In an interview conducted live at the Jewish Community Centre in North London, Roehampton University Illustration lecturer Ariel Kahn interviews award-winning graphic novelist Rutu Modan about her work from the acclaimed Exit Wounds to her new collection Jamilti and Other Stories. Rutu and Ariel talk about the use of computers in her work, being inspired by life and family and doing an illustrated blog for The New York Times. (part two of two)
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
Listen to part one of this interview
Links: Rutu’s wikipedia page
Review of Jamilti and other stories in The Times
Rutu’s webcomic blog in New York Times
Article on Jewish Graphic Novels by Ariel Kahn in Jewish Quarterly
Info about Ariel winning the Bloomsbury New Voices writing competition
Info on Ariel’s courses at Roehampton University
Article on Jewish Graphic Novels in The Reporter
London Jewish Community Centre website
Join our facebook group
Comics news:
LUC @ 176
The 48 hour 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, Melody Lee, 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
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
Today’s show: The art of Rutu Modan
June 25, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: The art of Rutu Modan
Panel from Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
Concluding cross cultural comics month on the show: In an interview conducted live at the Jewish Community Centre in North London, Roehampton University Illustration lecturer Ariel Kahn interviews award-winning graphic novelist Rutu Modan about her work from the acclaimed Exit Wounds to her new collection Jamilti and Other Stories. Rutu and Ariel talk about her influences, the difficulties in depicting a city as rich and diverse as Tel Aviv in print and adjusting to life in England.
5pm 25/06/09, repeated 11.30pm 28/06/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast of the second half of this show online tonight…
An expanded podcast version of the first half of this show is available to download now from www.archive.org
Links: Rutu’s wikipedia page
Review of Jamilti and other stories in The Times
Rutu’s webcomic blog in New York Times
Article on Jewish Graphic Novels by Ariel Kahn in Jewish Quarterly
Info about Ariel winning the Bloomsbury New Voices writing competition
Info on Ariel’s courses at Roehampton University
Article on Jewish Graphic Novels in The Reporter
London Jewish Community Centre website
Join our facebook group
Comics news:
LUC @ 176
Two days to go until…!
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, Melody Lee, 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
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
Wheel Me Out magazine Summer 2009
June 24, 2009
Issue 4 of Wheel Me Out magazine
The latest issue of the online magazine ‘Wheel Me Out’ is now available to download and includes transcripts of Alex Fitch’s interview with Park Chan-Wook about his film “I’m a cyborg but it’s okay”…
Compared with other people I am relatively ignorant of pop culture. I tend to listen to classical music mainly and also read classical books. I don’t really watch recent films, mostly old ones. I’ve never played a computer game!
However, I am very interested in new technology so I’m trying to employ it in my films and am very positive about using computer graphics. In I’m a Cyborg… it’s quite visible that I relied on CGI, compared with my previous films where the CGI is invisible.
Sarah Lightman’s interview with David Lloyd about his artistic practice and influences on his work from the start of his career in advertising to his most recent graphic novel, “Kickback” …
It’s tougher to enter this business now than it was for me. There’s much more competition. Despite the fact that comic books aren’t selling as they used to, there’s no apparent reduction in the number of people who want to work in the field. I think this is because sequential art is something that people fall in love with and want passionately to work at.
Ananda Pellerin’s interview with Cosey Fanni Tutti, a founding member of the art / music collective Throbbing Gristle…
My dad was a Fire Chief but he also did electronics. He used to build wirelesses and TVs and things. I look back now and see exactly why I am the way I am. I was listening to all this weird noise as he was tuning things in, circuit boards going off. He bought me a tape recorder when I was ten and said “you don’t need a record player, you can take this and do things instead.”
…and much more, including competitions to win mugs, CDs and posters…
Available now at www.wheelmeout.com / info about the previous issue
Also, at Sci-Fi London, there’s a partial transcript of Alex’s interview with Antony Johnston looking at writing the Dead Space comic book and in game dialogue…
With something like “Dead Space”, there are so many different media to take into account and the storyline, the master, overall storyline is so large, complex and there’s so much of it. With the comic, we knew we wanted to do a prequel and we knew roughly at that point how the game was going to pan out, so it was a question of “How are we going to establish the back story?”. We have to establish the tone the game is going to take, but we can’t give away clues that would help people to sort of cheat or beat the game. We can’t give away too many secrets that will spoil the game for people.
Read online now at www.sci-fi-london.com/news / listen to the full version of Alex’s interview with Antony as a podcast…
Panel Borders: The art of Rutu Modan part one
June 19, 2009 — 4 Comments
Panel Borders:
The art of Rutu Modan part one
To be broadcast 25/06/09 in an edited version as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extract from Your number one fan by Rutu Modan, featured in Jamilti and other stories
Continuing cross cultural comics month on the show: In an interview conducted live at the Jewish Community Centre in North London, Roehampton University Illustration lecturer Ariel Kahn interviews award-winning graphic novelist Rutu Modan about her work from the acclaimed Exit Wounds to her new collection Jamilti and Other Stories. Rutu and Ariel talk about her influences, the difficulties in depicting a city as rich and diverse as Tel Aviv in print and adjusting to life in England.
(part one of two)
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
Listen to part two of this interview
Links: Rutu’s wikipedia page
Review of Jamilti and other stories in The Times
Rutu’s webcomic blog in New York Times
Article on Jewish Graphic Novels by Ariel Kahn in Jewish Quarterly
Info about Ariel winning the Bloomsbury New Voices writing competition
Info on Ariel’s courses at Roehampton University
Article on Jewish Graphic Novels in The Reporter
London Jewish Community Centre website
Join our facebook group
Comics news:
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, Melody Lee, 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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
and:
LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE: ÉMILE BRAVO & EMMANUEL GUIBERT
A new movement, La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée, has swept through French comics – the equivalent of La Nouvelle Vague in cinema – expanding their styles and subjects exponentially. Now two of its most dynamic members, both winners of Angoulême Essentials Awards, have their acclaimed graphic novels in English.
Émile Bravo draws My Mommy about a young son’s yearning for his vanished mother and brings historical relevance and pathos to Belgian classic Spirou.
Biographer Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one American G.I.‘s experiences in Alan’s War. In The Photographer he collaborates with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record his mission in Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders.
In conversation with Comica Festival director Paul Gravett. Followed by book signings.
Where: Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 6.30pm to 8pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Today’s show: The Phoenix Games Club
June 19, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Midi Clear Spot: The Phoenix Games Club
Descent board game laid out for a session at The Phoenix Games Club
Alex Fitch talks to Hugh and Matt, members of The Phoenix Games Club, a group who meet at least once every week at the Black Lion pub in Plaistow to play board games, strategy games and RPGs together. The Phoenix Club is one of many up and down the country who also play games together at regional meets and national ones, so Alex asks the guys about the type of games they play, the demographic of their membership and the social and intellectual aspects of gaming.
2.30pm 19/06/09 Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online at www.sci-fi-london.com now…
Links: Phoenix games club website
Info about the Dragonmeet role playing games convention
The West London board games club
UK Role Players website
Comics news:
LUC @ 176
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, Melody Lee, 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
and:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
and:
LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE: ÉMILE BRAVO & EMMANUEL GUIBERT
A new movement, La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée, has swept through French comics – the equivalent of La Nouvelle Vague in cinema – expanding their styles and subjects exponentially. Now two of its most dynamic members, both winners of Angoulême Essentials Awards, have their acclaimed graphic novels in English.
Émile Bravo draws My Mommy about a young son’s yearning for his vanished mother and brings historical relevance and pathos to Belgian classic Spirou.
Biographer Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one American G.I.‘s experiences in Alan’s War. In The Photographer he collaborates with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record his mission in Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders.
In conversation with Comica Festival director Paul Gravett. Followed by book signings.
Where: Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 6.30pm to 8pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Reality Check: For all mankind – Sir Patrick Moore and Dr. Kevin Fong
June 18, 2009 — 1 Comment
Reality Check:
For all mankind
Sir Patrick Moore and Apollo 11, photo by Paul Grover / Dr. Kevin Fong and Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica, photo by Graeme Robertson
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing, we’re looking at space exploration in fact and fiction. Alex Fitch talks to Sir Patrick Moore about the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, which saw man first take a small step onto another world, and about entering his sixth decade as presenter of The Sky at Night. Also, Chris Patmore talks to NASA advisor Dr. Kevin Fong about current research into keeping men and women alive on future space missions and how this is reflected in the depiction of such science in Battlestar Galactica.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
Links: Sir Patrick’s website
Info about Dr. Fong at www.britishscienceassociation.org
Buy the final season of Battlestar Galactica / The Sky at Night: Apollo 11 at play.com
Article about lunar conservation at boingboing.net
Articles on The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation Satellite at www.spaceflightnow.com
The Sky at Night page at www.bbc.co.uk
Battlestar Galactica page at www.skyone.co.uk
Wikipedia pages on Sir Patrick Moore and Dr. Kevin Fong
Photo attributes:
Sir Patrick, interviewed by The Telegraph about The Sky at night‘s 650th edition
Dr. Fong, interviewed by The Guardian about his hopes to be an astronaut
Comics / Sci-Fi news:
Ichi screening at Sci-Fi London
Info about the 18th June Sci-Fi London Ichi screening
A special screening of the female reimagining of ‘Zatoichi – the blind swordsman’ as part of Sci-Fi London
18th June, 8.15 pm Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, 19 Regent Street, London, SW1Y 4LR
also:
LUC @ 176
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, Melody Lee, 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
and:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
and:
LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE: ÉMILE BRAVO and EMMANUEL GUIBERT
A new movement, La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée, has swept through French comics – the equivalent of La Nouvelle Vague in cinema – expanding their styles and subjects exponentially. Now two of its most dynamic members, both winners of Angoulême Essentials Awards, have their acclaimed graphic novels in English.
Émile Bravo draws My Mommy about a young son’s yearning for his vanished mother and brings historical relevance and pathos to Belgian classic Spirou.
Biographer Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one American G.I.‘s experiences in Alan’s War. In The Photographer he collaborates with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record his mission in Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders.
In conversation with Comica Festival director Paul Gravett. Followed by book signings.
Where: Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 6.30pm to 8pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Reality Check: Phoenix Gamers
June 12, 2009 — 1 Comment
Reality Check:
Phoenix Gamers
Descent board game laid out for a session at The Phoenix Games Club
Alex Fitch talks to Hugh and Matt, members of The Phoenix Games Club, a group who meet at least once every week at the Black Lion pub in Plaistow to play board games, strategy games and RPGs together. The Phoenix Club is one of many up and down the country who also play games together at regional meets and national ones, so Alex asks the guys about the type of games they play, the demographic of their membership and the social and intellectual aspects of gaming.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
Links: Phoenix games club website
Info about the Dragonmeet role playing games convention
The West London board games club
UK Role Players website
Comics / Sci-Fi news:
Ichi screening at Sci-Fi London
Info about the 18th June Sci-Fi London Ichi screening
A special screening of the female reimagining of ‘Zatoichi – the blind swordsman’ as part of Sci-Fi London
18th June, 8.15 pm Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, 19 Regent Street, London, SW1Y 4LR
also:
LUC @ 176
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, Melody Lee, 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
and:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
and:
LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE: ÉMILE BRAVO & EMMANUEL GUIBERT
A new movement, La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée, has swept through French comics – the equivalent of La Nouvelle Vague in cinema – expanding their styles and subjects exponentially. Now two of its most dynamic members, both winners of Angoulême Essentials Awards, have their acclaimed graphic novels in English.
Émile Bravo draws My Mommy about a young son’s yearning for his vanished mother and brings historical relevance and pathos to Belgian classic Spirou.
Biographer Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one American G.I.‘s experiences in Alan’s War. In The Photographer he collaborates with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record his mission in Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders.
In conversation with Comica Festival director Paul Gravett. Followed by book signings.
Where: Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 6.30pm to 8pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Panel Borders: The art of Shaun Tan
June 11, 2009 — 9 Comments
Panel Borders:
The art of Shaun Tan
Broadcast 11/06/09 in an edited version as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Illustration from Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Continuing cross cultural comics month on the show: Alex Fitch talks to Australian artist Shaun Tan about his work, including his award winning graphic novel The Arrival which tells tales of immigrants arriving in fantastical worlds and was loosely based on his Malaysian family’s history, childrens’ picture books such as The Lost Thing and his new book Tales from Outer Suburbia, which superbly mixes a whole variety of story telling techniques from comic strips, to poetry and collage. Alex and Shaun talk about breaking into the illustration business, the art of designing books and the influence of Raymond Briggs on Shaun’s work.
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: Shaun’s website and wikipedia entry
Interview with Shaun at The Comics Journal about The Arrival and his earlier picture books
Article about Shaun in The Australian online newspaper
Info about Tales of Outer Suburbia at the publisher’s website
Buy Shaun’s books from Forbidden Planet International
Watch a 2011 video interview with Shaun Tan at www.sci-fi-london.com/pulse
Comics news:
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, Melody Lee, 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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
and:
LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE: ÉMILE BRAVO & EMMANUEL GUIBERT
A new movement, La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée, has swept through French comics – the equivalent of La Nouvelle Vague in cinema – expanding their styles and subjects exponentially. Now two of its most dynamic members, both winners of Angoulême Essentials Awards, have their acclaimed graphic novels in English.
Émile Bravo draws My Mommy about a young son’s yearning for his vanished mother and brings historical relevance and pathos to Belgian classic Spirou.
Biographer Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one American G.I.‘s experiences in Alan’s War. In The Photographer he collaborates with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record his mission in Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders.
In conversation with Comica Festival director Paul Gravett. Followed by book signings.
Where: Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 6.30pm to 8pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Today’s show: The art of Shaun Tan
June 11, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: The art of Shaun Tan
Illustration from Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Continuing cross cultural comics month on the show: Alex Fitch talks to Australian artist Shaun Tan about his work, including his award winning graphic novel The Arrival which tells tales of immigrants arriving in fantastical worlds and was loosely based on his Malaysian family’s history and his new book Tales from Outer Suburbia, which superbly mixes a whole variety of story telling techniques from comic strips, to poetry and collage. Alex and Shaun talk about breaking into the illustration business, the art of designing books and the influence of Raymond Briggs on Shaun’s work.
5pm 11/06/09, repeated 11.30pm 14/06/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…
Links: Shaun’s website and wikipedia entry
Interview with Shaun at The Comics Journal about The Arrival and his earlier picture books
Article about Shaun in The Australian online newspaper
Info about Tales of Outer Suburbia at the publisher’s website
Buy Shaun’s books from Forbidden Planet International
Comics news:
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, Melody Lee, 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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
plus:
Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book “Orange” by Tokyopop)
Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan’s, “FLASH”. His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in “Orange” is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.
He’ll be demonstrating his remarkable technique and signing copies of his books including the limited edition landscape-format hardback of “Orange”, his latest lavish art book “Flash”, Chinese Youth, Remember, One Day (in French) and Images and Prints on the day of the signing.
Friday 26th June 5pm – 7pm
Orbital Manga
4c Orion House
Upper St Martins Lane
London WC2H 9NY
and:
LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE: ÉMILE BRAVO & EMMANUEL GUIBERT
A new movement, La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée, has swept through French comics – the equivalent of La Nouvelle Vague in cinema – expanding their styles and subjects exponentially. Now two of its most dynamic members, both winners of Angoulême Essentials Awards, have their acclaimed graphic novels in English.
Émile Bravo draws My Mommy about a young son’s yearning for his vanished mother and brings historical relevance and pathos to Belgian classic Spirou.
Biographer Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one American G.I.‘s experiences in Alan’s War. In The Photographer he collaborates with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record his mission in Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders.
In conversation with Comica Festival director Paul Gravett. Followed by book signings.
Where: Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London
When: Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 6.30pm to 8pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Panel Borders: Manhwa Galleries, Mixed media Graduates and Manga Girls…
June 4, 2009 — 4 Comments
Panel Borders:
Manhwa Galleries, Mixed media Graduates and Manga Girls…
Broadcast 04/06/09 in an edited version as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extract from Prick by Melody Lee
Starting cross cultural comics month on the show: Dickon Harris introduces the 100 years of Manhwa exhibition at the London Korean Cultural Centre and talks to Alex Wilmore and Lauren Ann Sharp, a couple of recent illustration graduates.
Alex Fitch interviews a couple of female indie manga creators – Sally Jane Thompson and Kate Holden – at the Docklands Manga Expo and discusses the brutality of nature with Melody Lee, whose comics depict woodland animals in the style of Beatrix Potter but who also shoot, shag and swear like troopers!
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: NWSAD graduates -
Alex Wilmore’s blog
Lauren Ann Sharp’s blog
Alex and Lauren’s joint website
Info about Insomnia Publications
Listen to Alex’s interview with Dan Berry about lecturing at NWSAD
North Wales School of Art and Design – N.B./ there are still spaces available for entry on Autumn ’09 courses
Indie Manga -
Sally Jane Thompson and Kate Holden‘s pages at www.indiemanga.com
Sally Jane’s website
Kate’s webcomic FanDanGo
Willie Hewes’ publishing company www.itchpublishing.com
Melody Lee -
Website and Swatchbook page
Howard Hardiman’s favourite animal comics (including Melody’s Prick)
Info about ’176′, where Melody will be selling her comics on 27th June
Info about the Movies, Comics and Manga Expo
100 years of Manhwa -
Korean Cultural Centre website
Info about the exhibtion at londonkoreanlinks.net
Review of the exhibition in The Korean Times
Wikipedia page on Manhwa
Comics / sci-fi news:
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, Melody Lee, 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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
Electric Sheep Magazine Summer 2009
June 4, 2009 — 17 Comments
Electric Sheep Magazine Summer 2009 cover
The latest edition of Electric Sheep magazine has just been released and is available from various stockists… Electric Sheep is edited by Virginie Sélavy with assistance by Alex Fitch and has reviews / interviews by various Resonance programme makers including Virginie, Alex and Philip Winter (all contributors to I’m ready for my close-up)…
It’s a measly £3.25 in shops / £12 for 4 issues on subscription; ESM is in good bookshops now and available online (with a 15% discount) at www.wallflowerpress.co.uk
Click here for more details of the current issue, or here for the previous one…
Electric Sheep Magazine Summer 2009 illustrations by Sean Azzopardi, Douglas Noble and Daniel Locke
This month’s illustrators include: Sean Azzopardi - Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978) / The Invasion (2007 – not shown), Douglas Noble – Hardware (1990), comic strip review – and Daniel Locke – Westworld (1973) / I, Robot (2004 – not shown) and articles on the work of ‘Beat’ Takeshi, Joseph Losely and Patricia Highsmith’s (talented) Mr. Ripley plus interviews with Marc Caro, Ole Bornedal and Helen McCarthy…
ESM also continues online as a monthly magazine between print issues including exclusive interviews like Alex Fitch talking to acclaimed Britsh directors Peter Greenaway and Michael Winterbottom and reviews such as Mark Stafford looking at The Good, the bad and the weird…
Illustration news:
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, Melody Lee, 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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
Today’s show: Manhwa Galleries, Mixed media Graduates and Manga Girls…
June 4, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Manhwa Galleries, Mixed media Graduates and Manga Girls…
Extract from Prick by Melody Lee
Starting cross cultural comics month on the show: Dickon Harris introduces the 100 years of Manhwa exhibition at the London Korean Cultural Centre and talks to Alex Wilmore and Lauren Ann Sharp, a couple of recent illustration graduates.
Alex Fitch interviews a couple of female indie manga creators – Sally Jane Thompson and Kate Holden – at the Docklands Manga Expo and discusses the brutality of nature with Melody Lee, whose comics depict woodland animals in the style of Beatrix Potter but who also shoot, shag and swear like troopers!
5pm 04/06/09, repeated 11.30pm 07/06/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…
Links: NWSAD graduates -
Alex Wilmore’s blog
Lauren Ann Sharp’s blog
Alex and Lauren’s joint website
Info about Insomnia Publications
Listen to Alex’s interview with Dan Berry about lecturing at NWSAD
North Wales School of Art and Design – N.B./ there are still psaces available for entry on Autumn ’09 courses
Indie Manga -
Sally Jane Thompson and Kate Holden‘s pages at www.indiemanga.com
Sally Jane’s website
Kate’s webcomic FanDanGo
Willie Hewes’ publishing company www.itchpublishing.com
Melody Lee -
Website and Swatchbook page
Howard Hardiman’s favourite animal comics (including Melody’s Prick)
Info about ’176′, where Melody will be selling her comics on 27th June
100 years of Manhwa -
Korean Cultural Centre website
Info about the exhibtion at londonkoreanlinks.net
Review of the exhibition in The Korean Times
Wikipedia page on Manhwa
Comics / sci-fi news:
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, Melody Lee, 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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
Today’s screening: Takashi Miike’s Audition
June 3, 2009 — 3 Comments
Electric Sheep Film Club: Audition / Ôdishon
For the second meeting of the all new Electric Sheep Film Club at the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square, we’re proud to be showing:
Takashi Miike’s Audition (1999)
Still from Audition by Takashi Miike
Enfant terrible Takashi Miike’s most notorious work remains genuinely shocking. The story of a middle-aged man who, following his son’s advice, holds auditions to find a new wife is the pretext for an exploration of fantasy, desire, cruelty and obsession that is as visually beautiful as it is gruesomely disturbing.
…and then chat with other film-goers and Electric Sheep writers about the film in the bar after the screening. (with thanks to Palisades Tartan)
Wednesday 3rd June, 8pm, Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2
More info at www.princecharlescinema.com and www.electricsheepmagazine.com/events
IMDb page for Audition
Comics news:
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
also:
An exhibition of Shaun (The Arrival) Tan’s prints, and 4 original pastels, is on at
The Illustration Cupboard at 22 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL until 22nd June
More info at www.illustrationcupboard.com
