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Panel Borders: Inside the Fleece Station
October 30, 2009 — 5 Comments
Panel Borders:
Inside the Fleece Station
Edited broadcast 29/10/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Signs to The Fleece Station designed by Sarah McIntyre, Gary Northfield and Viviane Schwartz
Concluding ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, in an interview recorded on location at the Old Police Station The Fleece Station in Deptford, Alex Fitch talks to artists Sarah McIntyre and Viviane Schwartz about their work including books such as Morris the Mankiest Monster and There are Cats in this book plus the benefits of sharing a studio that has a web and public presence.
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: The Fleece Station blog
Sarah’s website and blog
Viviane’s website
The DFC website / “Save the DFC” blog
Super Comics Adventure Squad blog
Related events: BLACK POWERS exhibition at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
As part of Black History Month, Swiss Cottage Library Gallery presents an exhibition of comics by black creators and of African-American characters in comics. The collection coheres around black representations through the imagery and language of the comic book medium: representation as markers of both historical and contemporary struggles. The theme is developed through archival works from the 1930’s to the present-day and culminates with a display of the singular comic art of Patrice and John Aggs, Paul Peart-Smith, Woodrow Phoenix and Lance Tooks.
09 October – 06 November 2009
Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, 88 Avenue Rd, London, United Kingdom
and: London signings…
Orbital Halloween signing of epic proportions! Featuring: Glenn Fabry (Preacher, Hellblazer), Garry Leach (Marvelman, Dan Dare), Mike Carey (Unwritten, X-Men, Lucifer), David Hine (Strange Embrace, Silent War), Andy Lanning (Nova, War of Kings) and Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40,000, War of Kings)
Come to Orbital, 8 Gt Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA on 31 October 2009 from 3-5pm to take part in our Halloween festivities!
Eddie Campbell / Alex: The Years have pants Signing at Gosh! Comics, Great Russell Street – Saturday 7th November – early London availability of the behemoth that is Alec: The Years Have Pants – A Life-Sized Omnibus. Saturday 7th November 2 – 4pm
David Petersen /Mouse Guard: David Petersen is signing the gorgeous Mouse Guard Winter 1152 at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Saturday 7th November 1 – 2pm
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Panel Borders: Banal Pigs, borrowed toilets and other manly anthologies
October 30, 2009 — 1 Comment
Panel Borders:
Banal Pigs, borrowed toilets and other manly anthologies
Edited broadcast 29/10/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Cover of the Banal Pig Landscape anthology by Steve Tillotson and Gareth Brooks
Continuing ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, in an interview recorded at this year’s Small Press Expo in Bristol, Dickon Harris talks to Steve Tillotson and Gareth Brookes about their self published comics, including The Manly Boys Annual, Can I borrow your toilet? and The Banal Pig Landscape anthology; Dickon then catches up with Gareth again at the Alternative Press Fair Collaborama! in Borough to talk about performing small press comics as poetry.
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: Steve Tillotson’s Banal Pig website
Gareth Brookes’ Appalling Nonsense website
Banal Pig blog
Listen to Gareth read his poems Smell of the Wild and Jolly Bear as part of Gemma Cantlow’s Stand-up Comics
Listen to Dickon’s interview with Gareth Brookes and various other creators at last year’s Handmade and Bound festival
Related events: plus: Autumn comics conventions and events…
5th to the 26th of November: Comica, the three week festival of comics in and around the Institute of Comtemporary Arts in London includes appearances by Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd, Brian Talbot, James Jean and Tara McPherson. – more info at www.comicafestival.com
19th to the 22nd of November: The Thought Bubble sequential art festival in Leeds which includes appearances by Paul Cornell, Gary Erskine, Garen Ewing, Andy Diggle, Frank Quietly and many more – more info at www.thoughtbubblefestival.com
November Small Press events:
Handmade and bound - The Affordable book arts and zine fair, Sunday 1st November at the St Aloysius Social Club, near Euston,
The Small Press Comiket, Sunday 8th November which is part of the fortnight long Comica festival at The ICA, on The Mall, in Central London
“Are you zine friendly?”, Thursday 12th November, an Alternative Press event at the Foundry in Hoxton, promoting a new small press web resource: the Zine Friendly blog! And that’s at 86 Great Eastern Street.
For more info about all these events please visit: comicsandzines.wordpress.com
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Today’s show: Banal Pigs and Constabulary Sheep
October 29, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Banal Pigs and Constabulary Sheep
Cover of the Banal Pig Landscape anthology by Steve Tillotson and Gareth Brooks plus the inhabitants of The Fleece Station, inset, by Sarah McIntyre, Gary Northfield and Viviane Schwartz
Concluding* this month’s series of shows on “collectives and anthologies”, we’re looking at two very different animal themed collectives. In an interview recorded at this year’s Small Press Expo in Bristol, Dickon Harris talks to Steve Tillotson and Gareth Brookes about their self published comics, including The Manly Boys Annual, Can I borrow your toilet? and The Banal Pig Landscape anthology; while in an interview recorded in the Old Police Station, Deptford, Alex Fitch talks to Sarah McIntyre and Viviane Schwartz, who illustrate books for children such as Morris the Mankiest Monster and There are cats in this book respectively, and share a studio with Beano artist Gary Northfield that they affectionately call The Fleece Station…
(*an additional clear spot about the Alternative Press Fair will be broadcast in the second week of November)
5pm 29/10/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Steve Tillotson’s Banal Pig website
Gareth Brookes’ Appalling Nonsense website
Listen to Gareth read his poems Smell of the Wild and Jolly Bear as part of Gemma Cantlow’s Stand-up Comics
Listen to Dickon’s interview with Gareth Brookes and various other creators at last year’s Handmade and Bound festival
The Fleece Station blog
Sarah’s website and blog
Viviane’s website
The DFC website / “Save the DFC” blog
Super Comics Adventure Squad blog
Related events: BLACK POWERS exhibtion at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
As part of Black History Month, Swiss Cottage Library Gallery presents an exhibition of comics by black creators and of African-American characters in comics. The collection coheres around black representations through the imagery and language of the comic book medium: representation as markers of both historical and contemporary struggles. The theme is developed through archival works from the 1930’s to the present-day and culminates with a display of the singular comic art of Patrice and John Aggs, Paul Peart-Smith, Woodrow Phoenix and Lance Tooks.
09 October – 06 November 2009
Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, 88 Avenue Rd, London, United Kingdom
and: London signings…
Eddie Campbell / Alex: The Years have pants Signing at Gosh! Comics, Great Russell Street – Saturday 7th November – early London availability of the behemoth that is Alec: The Years Have Pants – A Life-Sized Omnibus. Saturday 7th November 2 – 4pm
David Petersen /Mouse Guard: David Petersen be signing the gorgeous Mouse Guard Winter 1152 at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Saturday 7th November 1 – 2pm
plus: Autumn comics conventions and events…
5th to the 26th of November: Comica, the three week festival of comics in and around the Institute of Comtemporary Arts in London includes appearances by Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd, Brian Talbot, James Jean and Tara McPherson. – more info at www.comicafestival.com
19th to the 22nd of November: The Thought Bubble sequential art festival in Leeds which includes appearances by Paul Cornell, Gary Erskine, Garen Ewing, Andy Diggle, Frank Quietly and many more – more info at www.thoughtbubblefestival.com
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Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest 2009
October 23, 2009
Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest 2009
Some of the delights of Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest
The second of this year’s Sci-Fi London festivals is shorter but perfectly formed, taking place over two nights in two different locations…
Friday 23rd October at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich:
As part of the International Year of Astronomy celebrations, SFL have teamed up with the Royal Observatory Greenwich to create a brand new Planetarium show: SCI-FI-UNIVERSE where we look at the night sky from a sci-fi perspective. Do you know where Space 1999′s Moonbase Alpha was located? In Hitchhikers’ Zaphod and Ford came from Betelgeuse, but do you know where that is in the night sky? And what would the sky look like from Vulcan? Find out which stars and planets in science fiction films and literature are real or simply journey to a ‘galaxy far far away’ in this unique planetarium experience.
Plus: panels and talks by space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, writers Paul Cornell, Simon Guerrier and Paul McAuley, journalist and film maker Timandra Harkness and many more, as well as special screenings of STAR TREK (2009) and FOR ALL MANKIND (1989)
Saturday 24th October at the Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street:
Our legendary ‘all nighters’ return with anime – including the UK premieres of Evangelion 1.0: You are (not) alone and Mamoru Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers – Aliens vs.Predator and MST3K strands. Also, following the success of the live improv redub of Labyrinth at our Spring festival, we are proud to present live stand-up comedy curated by Alex Fitch and Jessica Fostekew, featuring Sara Pascoe (Free Agents / In the thick of it), Mould and Arrowsmith, Lou Sanders, Rob Deb, Mark Restuccia and MC James Acaster.
This should be a great weekend – don’t just take our word for it, check out the coverage at the New York Times Globetrotters blog and Mould and Arrowsmith’s interview in The Guardian Science Weekly podcast…
More info: www.sci-fi-london.com
In association with: 
Other events: BOB BURNS’ HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN
For those of us that grew up having heard the stories from a mysterious place called Burbank of a horror movie fan and his wife entertaining countless trick or treaters with live Halloween shows, low and behold you too can now experience them at BOB BURNS’ HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN.COM. From now until October 31, you will be able to relive Bob, Kathy and countless others as they recount the experiences of recreating everything from HG Wells’ travels through time to the search through the bowels of the Nostromo being stalked by an ALIEN.
You can watch online chapters of this amazing documentary along with photo gallery, bios and links to other classic movie websites. Every week there will be 4 new chapters available to watch, with the entire documentary viewable from Oct 31st.
Experience Halloween the way it was meant to …through the eyes of Bob Burns and Friends.
www.bobburnshollywoodhalloween.com
and: Autumn comics conventions
October 24th and 25th: The MCM Expo at the Excel centre in London’s Docklands includes appearances by Andy Diggle, Jock, Leigh Gallagher, Alan Grant, Ben Templesmith ,Kieron Gillen and Emma Vieceli – more info at www.londonexpo.com
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Panel Borders: Eclectic Micks and stars of Solipsistic Pop!
October 22, 2009 — 4 Comments
Panel Borders:
Eclectic Micks and stars of Solipsistic Pop!
Edited broadcast 22/10/09 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Cover of Solipsistic pop volume one by Philippa Johnson and cover of the Eclectic Micks sketchbook by various
Continuing ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, in an interview recorded at last month’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to four members of a group of Irish comic book artists – Stephen Mooney, PJ Holden, Will Sliney and Declan Shalvey – who work for a variety of British and American comic publishers and collectively promote their work through a blog with the title “Eclectic Micks”.
Alex also talks to the creator and editor – Tom Humberstone – and some of the contributors – Julia Scheele, Matthew Sheret and Stephen Collins – of the new anthology “Solipsistic Pop” which intends to bring the sensibilities of high-end American Indie comic anthologies to the under represented world of British small press creators. Julia and Matthew also talk about disseminating their own self published comics – “We are words and pictures” – to the public via market stalls and club nights.
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: Solipsistic Pop … group website
Individual websites for Tom Humberstone, Matthew Sheret, Julia Scheele, Stephen Collins and Philippa Johnson
We are words and pictures website
Info about this year’s Comica Comiket, curated by Sol. Pop and WAW+P
Eclectic Micks… group blog
Individual blogs for Stephen Mooney, PJ Holden, Will Sliney and Declan Shalvey
Info about the Eclectic Micks sketchbook
Related events: Hunterian Museum Film Screening – Medical Miniaturisation – Thursday 22 October, 7pm
Join us for our first ever Hunterian Museum film screening of two works on the theme of medical miniaturisation. Anime expert Helen McCarthy will introduce the classic 1963 anime Astroboy: Mighty Microbe Army about the robot boy miniaturised to fight bacteria inside the body, followed by the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage inspired by one of Osamu Tezuka’s early Manga works ‘The Monster on the 38th Parallel’. The museum and the exhibition ‘Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots’ will be open from 6pm so that you can see the mini-bots that turn fantasy into reality. Screenings supported by the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society and Right Stuf, Inc. FREE, booking essential on 0207 869 6560
plus: BLACK POWERS exhibtion at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
As part of Black History Month, Swiss Cottage Library Gallery presents an exhibition of comics by black creators and of African-American characters in comics. The collection coheres around black representations through the imagery and language of the comic book medium: representation as markers of both historical and contemporary struggles. The theme is developed through archival works from the 1930’s to the present-day and culminates with a display of the singular comic art of Patrice and John Aggs, Paul Peart-Smith, Woodrow Phoenix and Lance Tooks.
09 October – 06 November 2009
Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, 88 Avenue Rd, London, United Kingdom
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Today’s show: Eclectic Micks and stars of Solipsistic Pop!
October 22, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Eclectic Micks and stars of Solipsistic Pop
Cover of Solipsistic pop volume one by Philippa Johnson and cover of the Eclectic Micks sketchbook by various
Continuing ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, in an interview recorded at last month’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to four members of a group of Irish comic book artists – Stephen Mooney, PJ Holden, Will Sliney and Declan Shalvey – who work for a variety of British and American comic publishers and collectively promote their work through a blog with the title “Eclectic Micks”.
Alex also talks to the creator and editor – Tom Humberstone – and some of the contributors – Julia Scheele, Matthew Sheret and Stephen Collins – of the new anthology “Solipsistic Pop” which intends to bring the sensibilities of high-end American Indie comic anthologies to the under represented world of British small press creators. Julia and Matthew also talk about disseminating their own self published comics – “We are words and pictures” – to the public via market stalls and club nights.
5pm 22/10/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Solipsistic Pop … group website
Individual websites for Tom Humberstone, Matthew Sheret, Julia Scheele, Stephen Collins and Philippa Johnson
We are words and pictures website
Info about this year’s Comica Comiket, curated by Sol. Pop and WAW+P
Eclectic Micks… group blog
Individual blogs for Stephen Mooney, PJ Holden, Will Sliney and Declan Shalvey
Info about the Eclectic Micks sketchbook
Related events: Hunterian Museum Film Screening – Medical Miniaturisation – Thursday 22 October, 7pm
Join us for our first ever Hunterian Museum film screening of two works on the theme of medical miniaturisation. Anime expert Helen McCarthy will introduce the classic 1963 anime Astroboy: Mighty Microbe Army about the robot boy miniaturised to fight bacteria inside the body, followed by the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage inspired by one of Osamu Tezuka’s early Manga works ‘The Monster on the 38th Parallel’. The museum and the exhibition ‘Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots’ will be open from 6pm so that you can see the mini-bots that turn fantasy into reality. Screenings supported by the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society and Right Stuf, Inc. FREE, booking essential on 0207 869 6560
plus: BLACK POWERS exhibtion at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
As part of Black History Month, Swiss Cottage Library Gallery presents an exhibition of comics by black creators and of African-American characters in comics. The collection coheres around black representations through the imagery and language of the comic book medium: representation as markers of both historical and contemporary struggles. The theme is developed through archival works from the 1930’s to the present-day and culminates with a display of the singular comic art of Patrice and John Aggs, Paul Peart-Smith, Woodrow Phoenix and Lance Tooks.
09 October – 06 November 2009
Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, 88 Avenue Rd, London, United Kingdom
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Today’s screening / performance: Bela Emerson and Bibio featuring Tusalava (1929)
October 19, 2009
Electric Sheep / 7 Inch Cinema screening / performance: Bela Emerson and Bibio featuring Tusalava (1929)
Images from the 1929 short film Tusalava
7 Inch Cinema and Electric Sheep present live sets from BELA EMERSON and BIBIO + a programme of shorts.
By way of a warm-up for next year’s Flatpack Festival (23-28 March, Birmingham), roving film exhibitors 7 Inch Cinema are teaming up with Electric Sheep magazine for a night of visual music and films you can dance to. Within the velvet-draped refuge of the Roxy Bar and Screen, south London, you’ll find a freewheeling lineup of film and two very special guests…
BELA EMERSON: Mesmerising electric cellist who combines improvised performance with live processing using a host of pedals and gadgets. At the Roxy she’ll be accompanying a selection of classic avant-garde shorts including Len Lye’s debut Tusalava.
BIBIO: Since signing to Warp this year Bibio has produced some of his most ambitious and memorable work, stirring up textured electronica with elements of soul and hip hop to mighty effect. Tonight he’ll be accompanying cinefilm road-movies with a genre-hopping DJ set.
And with the London Film Festival going on up the road, there will also be a lucky dip of shorts, animation and music videos put together by 7 Inch Cinema and Electric Sheep.
MONDAY 19 OCTOBER, Roxy Bar and Screen, 7pm, £4
128-132 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB
Links: Info about Tusalava at Screen Online
BELA EMERSON and BIBIO
Flatpack Festival
Roxy Bar and Screen
For info on the latest print issue of Electric Sheep magazine, please click here
Also, the October 2009 online issue of Electric Sheep is now available and includes Alex Fitch’s interview with with Marc Price about his ‘£45′ Zombie film Colin , our round-up of the 2009 Frightfest including mini-reviews of Pontypool, Triangle and Trick ‘r Treat plus Alex’s article on ‘Retrofitting the future’ in Ghost in the Shell 2.0 and Evangelion 1.0…
In association with 
Related events: BOB BURNS’ HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN
For those of us that grew up having heard the stories from a mysterious place called Burbank of a horror movie fan and his wife entertaining countless trick or treaters with live Halloween shows, low and behold you too can now experience them at BOB BURNS’ HOLLYWOOD HALLOWEEN.COM. From now until October 31, you will be able to relive Bob, Kathy and countless others as they recount the experiences of recreating everything from HG Wells’ travels through time to the search through the bowels of the Nostromo being stalked by an ALIEN.
You can watch online chapters of this amazing documentary along with photo gallery, bios and links to other classic movie websites. Every week there will be 4 new chapters available to watch, with the entire documentary viewable from Oct 31st.
Experience Halloween the way it was meant to …through the eyes of Bob Burns and Friends.
www.bobburnshollywoodhalloween.com
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Electric Sheep podcast: New approaches to Zombie cinema
October 16, 2009 — 4 Comments
Electric Sheep podcast:
New approaches to Zombie cinema
Originally broadcast 16/10/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alastair Kirton as Colin and Stephen McHattie in Pontypool
In a special early Halloween edition, Alex Fitch talks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the producer of the innovative Canadian Horror film Pontypool and Marc Price, director of the excellent British living dead film Colin about their new approaches to the zombie genre on a limited budget.
Pontypool goes on limited release in the UK today, while Colin in released on 23rd October.
Links: Pontypool – IMDb page and Official website
Review at Cinematropolis blog
Alex’s mini-review as part of a Frightfest 2009 article at Electric Sheep Magazine
Listen to the radio version at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
Colin – IMDb page and Official site
Review in Revenant Magazine
Info about the Colin panels at this month’s MCM Expo
Read a transcript of Alex’s interview with Marc at Electric Sheep Magazine
For info on the latest issue of Electric Sheep magazine, please click here
In association with
Related news:
London signings…
Orbital Halloween signing of epic proportions! Featuring: Glenn Fabry (Preacher, Hellblazer), Garry Leach (Marvelman, Dan Dare), Mike Carey (Unwritten, X-Men, Lucifer), David Hine (Strange Embrace, Silent War), Andy Lanning (Nova, War of Kings) and Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40,000, War of Kings)
Come to Orbital, 8 Gt Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA on 31 October 2009 from 3-5pm to take part in our Halloween festivities!
Eddie Campbell / Alex: The Years have pants Signing at Gosh! Comics, Great Russell Street – Saturday 7th November – early London availability of the behemoth that is Alec: The Years Have Pants – A Life-Sized Omnibus. Saturday 7th November 2 – 4pm
David Petersen /Mouse Guard: David Petersen is signing the gorgeous Mouse Guard Winter 1152 at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Saturday 7th November 1 – 2pm
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Today’s show: New approaches to Zombie cinema
October 16, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
I’m ready for my close-up: New approaches to Zombie cinema
Alastair Kirton as Colin and Stephen McHattie in Pontypool
In a special early Halloween special, Alex Fitch talks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the producer of the innovative Canadian Horror film Pontypool and Marc Price, director of the excellent British living dead film Colin about their new approaches to the zombie genre on a limited budget.
Pontypool goes on limited release in the UK today, while Colin in released on 23rd October.
10pm 16/10/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Pontypool – IMDb page and Official website
Review at Cinematropolis blog
Alex’s mini-review as part of a Frightfest 2009 article at Electric Sheep Magazine
Listen to the radio version at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
Colin – IMDb page and Official site
Review in Revenant Magazine
Info about the Colin panels at this month’s MCM Expo
Read a transcript of Alex’s interview with Marc at Electric Sheep Magazine
Related news:
We Are Words + Pictures stall: Saturday 17th October, Girl Germs club night @ The Camden Head (from 8pm)
Join WAW+P creators Julia Scheele and Matthew Sheret as they sell and personalise the cream of the UK’s small press output from a stall with the ‘Girl Germs’ female pop and punk night at 100 Camden High Street, London NW1 0LU
also: Hunterian Museum Film Screening – Medical Miniaturisation – Thursday 22 October, 7pm
Join us for our first ever Hunterian Museum film screening of two works on the theme of medical miniaturisation. Anime expert Helen McCarthy will introduce the classic 1963 anime Astroboy: Mighty Microbe Army about the robot boy miniaturised to fight bacteria inside the body, followed by the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage inspired by one of Osamu Tezuka’s early Manga works ‘The Monster on the 38th Parallel’. The museum and the exhibition ‘Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots’ will be open from 6pm so that you can see the mini-bots that turn fantasy into reality. Screenings supported by the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society and Right Stuf, Inc. FREE, booking essential on 0207 869 6560
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Panel Borders: Swedish Manga
October 14, 2009 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Swedish Manga
Originally broadcast 05/06/08 as part of an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Please note – there will be no broadcast episode of Strip! today (15/10/09), due to live Resonance broadcasts from the Frieze art fair in London…
Yokaj studio x 4 plus Dickon Harris with Sofia and Fredrik
Continuing ‘anthologies and collectives month’ on the show, Dickon Harris presents Fredrik Strömberg and Sofia Falkenhem’s panel on Swedish Manga from the 2008 Bristol International Comics Expo, about a Manga studio (Yokaj) imported to Europe from Japan! Since this panel was recorded Yokaj studio have gone on to win the 2008 award for best Swedish comic book…
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: Yokaj Studio’s blog
(Swedish) wikipedia page on Fredrik Strömberg
Sofia Falkenhem’s website
Comics news:
We Are Words + Pictures stall: Saturday 17th October, Girl Germs club night @ The Camden Head (from 8pm)
Join WAW+P creators Julia Scheele and Matthew Sheret as they sell and personalise the cream of the UK’s small press output from a stall with the ‘Girl Germs’ female pop and punk night at 100 Camden High Street, London NW1 0LU
also: Hunterian Museum Film Screening – Medical Miniaturisation – Thursday 22 October, 7pm
Join us for our first ever Hunterian Museum film screening of two works on the theme of medical miniaturisation. Anime expert Helen McCarthy will introduce the classic 1963 anime Astroboy: Mighty Microbe Army about the robot boy miniaturised to fight bacteria inside the body, followed by the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage inspired by one of Osamu Tezuka’s early Manga works ‘The Monster on the 38th Parallel’. The museum and the exhibition ‘Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots’ will be open from 6pm so that you can see the mini-bots that turn fantasy into reality. Screenings supported by the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society and Right Stuf, Inc. FREE, booking essential on 0207 869 6560
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Sunday Screening – The Third Man (1949) / The Phantom Empire: The Singing Cowboy (1935)
October 9, 2009
Electric Sheep Subterranea – The Third Man / The Phantom Empire: The Singing Cowboy
Starting in October, Electric Sheep presents subterranean screenings of minor masterpieces, oddball B-movies and genre classics in the convivial surroundings of Cinéphilia West.
Join us every second Sunday of the month for a feature film and a chat, preceded by an episode from a serial or series, which will be shown over a season of screenings.
Japanese poster for The Third Man
The Phantom Empire Poster
This will be preceded by the first episode from the sci-fi Western musical The Phantom Empire (1935), in which a cowboy, who is also a radio show host, stumbles upon an ancient but highly advanced civilisation living under his ranch…
Has to be seen to be believed!
Every second Sunday of the month, Cinéphilia West.
ENTRY TO THIS SCREENING, AS TO ALL CINEPHILIA EVENTS, IS LIMITED TO MEMBERS. You can buy membership on the door.
For £10 a month, members, and one guest, are allowed free entry to all scheduled screenings and special film events, as well as 10% discounts off all books and DVDs in the shop and all the food and drink at the café; alternatively, members can pay £55 for a six-month membership or £100 for a 12-month membership. There will be up to a dozen monthly exclusive events, please check the Cinéphilia website for details.
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER, Cinéphilia West, 171 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RS, 7pm
More info at www.cinephilia.co.uk
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Panel Borders: London / Quebec / Cape Town
October 8, 2009 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
London / Quebec / Cape Town
Originally broadcast 08/10/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Covers from The Comics Creators Guild annual, 10x by Premieres Lignes and Semiotic Cohesion no.3
Starting ‘anthologies and collectives’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to three comic book creators who produce anthologies of their wares in a trilogy of interviews recorded at last weekend’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham.
Giovanni Spinella, secretary of the ‘Comic Creators Guild’ discusses their work in helping new creators find their feet in the industry while Christian Quesnel talks about publishing sequential art with ‘Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes’ and representing Québécoise comics in London. Alex also talks to Tom McNally about his anthology Semiotic Cohesion which publishes strips by the finest comic book creators from Cape Town.
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: Giovanni Spinella - Comics Creators Guild website
Review of Comics forum, the CCG annual anthology
Review of Giovanni’s horror comic Atrox
Christian Quesnel - Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes website (in French)
Premières Lignes blog (in French)
Christian’s page at lambiek.net
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec website (in English)
Tom McNally – Semiotic Cohesion website and blog
Review of issue one at comicsbulletin.com
Info about Camden Lock Market
Join our facebook group / follow Panel Borders on twitter
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Today’s show: London / Quebec / Cape Town
October 8, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: London / Quebec / Cape Town
Covers from The Comics Creators Guild annual, 10x by Premieres Lignes and Semiotic Cohesion no.3
Starting ‘anthologies and collectives’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to three comic book creators who produce anthologies of their wares in a trilogy of interviews recorded at last weekend’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham.
Giovanni Spinella, secretary of the ‘Comic Creators Guild’ discusses their work in helping new creators find their feet in the industry while Christian Quesnel talks about publishing sequential art with ‘Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes’ and representing Québécoise comics in London. Alex also talks to Tom McNally about his anthology Semiotic Cohesion which publishes strips by the finest comic book creators
from Cape Town.
5pm 08/10/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Giovanni Spinella - Comics Creators Guild website
Review of Comics forum, the CCG annual anthology
Review of Giovanni’s horror comic Atrox
Christian Quesnel - Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes website (in French)
Premières Lignes blog (in French)
Christian’s page at lambiek.net
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec website (in English)
Tom McNally – Semiotic Cohesion website and blog
Review of issue one at comicsbulletin.com
Info about Camden Lock Market
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Comics news:
BLACK POWERS exhibtion at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery
As part of Black History Month, Swiss Cottage Library Gallery presents an exhibition of comics by black creators and of African-American characters in comics. The collection coheres around black representations through the imagery and language of the comic book medium: representation as markers of both historical and contemporary struggles. The theme is developed through archival works from the 1930’s to the present-day and culminates with a display of the singular comic art of Patrice and John Aggs, Paul Peart-Smith, Woodrow Phoenix and Lance Tooks.
09 October – 06 November 2009
Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, 88 Avenue Rd, London, United Kingdom
The Observer / Jonathan Cape / Comica Graphic Short Story Prize 2009
Are you an aspiring graphic novelist? Do you have an original story to tell? Win £1,000 and have your story printed in The Observer.
More info…
Deadline: 19th October 2009
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Today’s screening: Rollerball (1975)
October 7, 2009
Electric Sheep Film Club: Rollerball (1975)
For the sixth meeting of the Electric Sheep Film Club at the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square, we’re proud to be showing the classic SF movie:
Rollerball (1975)
Rollerball illustration by Sean Azzopardi
One of the best dystopian sci-fi movies to come out of the 70s, Rollerball focuses on an ultra-violent sport used to keep an overpopulated planet under control and probes its links to politics, the media and big conglomerates. When a star player refuses to obey the owners of his team, the stage is set for a Gladiator-like confrontation between a rebellious individual and the corporate power that seeks to crush him.
With thanks to Park Circus. The film will be followed by informal discussion with Electric Sheep editor Virginie Selavy and other writers from the magazine in the bar.
Price: £5/£3.50 Prince Charles members
Certificate 15
Dir: Norman Jewison, USA 1975
Wednesday 7th October, 8pm, Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2
More info at www.princecharlescinema.com and www.electricsheepmagazine.com
FILM WRITING COMPETITION:
We are launching a new competition in connection with our Prince Charles film club for film students and aspiring film writers: to enter the competition, you need to write a 200-word review of Rollerball and send it to ladyvengeance (at) electricsheepmagazine.com, marked ‘Film writing competition’ in the subject line. An ‘industry’ expert will select the best review, in this case SCI-FI-LONDON director Louis Savy. Deadline: October 21. The selected review will be published on the Electric Sheep website. This is to be a regular addition to the Electric Sheep Film Club.
IMDb page for Rollerball
For info on the latest print issue of Electric Sheep magazine, please click here
Also, the October 2009 online issue of Electric Sheep is now available and includes Alex Fitch’s interview with with Marc Price about his ‘£45′ Zombie film Colin , our round-up of the 2009 Frightfest including mini-reviews of Pontypool, Triangle and Trick ‘r Treat plus Alex’s article on ‘Retrofitting the future’ in Ghost in the Shell 2.0 and Evangelion 1.0…
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Recommended events: Autumn comics conventions and events…
5th to the 26th of November: Comica, the three week festival of comics in and around the Institute of Comtemporary Arts in London includes appearances by Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd, Brian Talbot, James Jean and Tara McPherson. – more info at www.comicafestival.com
19th to the 22nd of November: The Thought Bubble sequential art festival in Leeds which includes appearances by Paul Cornell, Gary Erskine, Garen Ewing, Andy Diggle, Frank Quietly and many more – more info at www.thoughtbubblefestival.com
November Small Press events:
Handmade and bound - The Affordable book arts and zine fair, Sunday 1st November at the St Aloysius Social Club, near Euston,
The Small Press Comiket, Sunday 8th November which is part of the fortnight long Comica festival at The ICA, on The Mall, in Central London
“Are you zine friendly?”, Thursday 12th November, an Alternative Press event at the Foundry in Hoxton, promoting a new small press web resource: the Zine Friendly blog! And that’s at 86 Great Eastern Street.
For more info about all these events please visit: comicsandzines.wordpress.com
Panel Borders: Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells
October 1, 2009 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells
Originally broadcast 01/10/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extracts from Britten and Brulightly by Hannah Berry plus Fried Egg and Cherry Cake by Sally-Anne Hickman
Concluding ‘women in comics month’ on the show, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of illustrators about their genre bending work. Hannah Berry‘s debut graphic novel Britten and Brülightly tells the tale of a harried private detective with the nickname of ‘The Heartbreaker’ whose final case sees his career catch up with him, in a terrific comic book that combines the tenets of noir with gentle surrealism – his confidant is his pet teabag, Stewart – and assured cinematic visuals. Sally-Anne Hickman is a self-published comic book artist and writer whose work ranges from affectionate parodies of pop culture icons such as Spider-man and the Powerpuff Girls to intricate diary comics that give an intimate portrayal of the self-publishing world, packaged as collectible items with textured covers that incorporate fur, metallic sparkle and googly puppet eyes.
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: Read Fried Egg and Cherry Cake by Sally-Anne Hickman online at Paper Tiger Comix and early comics (2002-2004) at Cheese Comics’ website
Reviews of Sex, drawn and Rock and Roll & A Smelly Tail at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Interview with Hannah Berry at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Review of Britten and Brülightly at Down the Tubes
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Comics news:
The Observer / Jonathan Cape / Comica Graphic Short Story Prize 2009
Are you an aspiring graphic novelist? Do you have an original story to tell? Win £1,000 and have your story printed in The Observer.
More info…
Deadline: 19th October 2009
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Today’s show: Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells
October 1, 2009
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip!: Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells
Extracts from Britten and Brulightly by Hannah Berry plus Fried Egg and Cherry Cake by Sally-Anne Hickman
Concluding ‘women in comics month’ on the show, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of illustrators about their genre bending work. Hannah Berry‘s debut graphic novel Britten and Brülightly tells the tale of a harried private detective with the nickname of ‘The Heartbreaker’ whose final case sees his career catch up with him, in a terrific comic book that combines the tenets of noir with gentle surrealism – his confidant is his pet teabag, Stewart – and assured cinematic visuals. Sally-Anne Hickman is a self-published comic book artist and writer whose work ranges from affectionate parodies of pop culture icons such as Spider-man and the Powerpuff Girls to intricate diary comics that give an intimate portrayal of the self-publishing world, packaged as collectible items with textured covers that incorporate fur, metallic sparkle and googly puppet eyes.
5pm 01/10/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Read Fried Egg and Cherry Cake by Sally-Anne Hickman online at Paper Tiger Comix and early comics (2002-2004) at Cheese Comics’ website
Reviews of Sex, drawn and Rock and Roll & A Smelly Tail at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Interview with Hannah Berry at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Review of Britten and Brülightly at Down the Tubes
Join our facebook group / follow Panel Borders on twitter
Comics news:
The Observer / Jonathan Cape / Comica Graphic Short Story Prize 2009
Are you an aspiring graphic novelist? Do you have an original story to tell? Win £1,000 and have your story printed in The Observer.
More info…
Deadline: 19th October 2009
(more…)
Reality Check: Man vs. the Eyeborgs
October 1, 2009 — 2 Comments
Reality Check:
Man vs. the Eyeborgs
From Eyeborgs, left to right, actor Luke Eberl, producer John Rushton, actors Megan Blake and Adrian Paul and director Richard Clabaugh, interviewed by Alex Fitch
Continuing our podcasts of talks and Q & As recorded live at this year’s Spring Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to the cast and crew of the new Science Fiction thriller Eyeborgs which sees surveillance cameras combined with miniature robots to create deadly machines that give Critters and Gremlins a run for their money! Featuring director Richard Clabaugh, producer John Rushton and stars Adrian (Highlander) Paul, Megan Blake and Luke Eberl…
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
Links: More info about Eyeborgs can be found at the official website www.eyeborgs.com
Wikipedia pages on Adrian Paul and Megan Blake
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Info about the Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest can be found here, including events at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, such as SCI-FI-UNIVERSE, a planetarium show from an SF perspective, talks with Doctor Who writers Simon Guerrier and Paul Cornell, a special screening of Star Trek (2009) and at the Apollo Piccadilly cinema, SF themed stand-up comedy with Sara Pascoe (Free Agents / In the thick of it), Mould and Arrowsmith, James Acaster, Mark Restuccia, Lou Sanders and Rob Deb. Also, (not) live at the Apollo, our legendary all-night screenings including an Aliens / Predator marathon, the customary MST3K quintupal bill and five new Anime films in a row including the UK premieres of Evangelion 1.0 – You are (not) alone and Mamoru Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers.
Electric Sheep podcast: The Films of Sally Potter
October 1, 2009 — 2 Comments
Electric Sheep podcast:
The Films of Sally Potter
Clockwise from top middle, Sally Potter and the cast of her film Rage, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest, Eddie Izzard, Steve Buscemi
In an hour long talk / Q and A recorded at Cinephila West in Westbourne Grove, London, Sophie Mayer interviews director Sally Potter about her career with additional questions from the audience. Sally talks about getting advice from Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell while raising funding for her second feature, Orlando and conducting a Q & A via skype with Jude Law at the premiere of Rage at the NFT. Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.
Links:
wikipedia and IMDb pages about Rage
Official movie website
Sally Potter’s website
More info about Sophie’s book The films of Sally Potter: A politics of love
For info on the latest issue of Electric Sheep magazine, please click here
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