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Reality Check: The Problem of SF film making part two
March 28, 2010
Reality Check:
The Problem of SF film making part two
Stills from Franklyn, A woman in Winter, Exam, Stingray Sam and The City of Lost Children
In the second half of a panel discussion recorded live at last year’s London Science-Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival, Alex Fitch discusses the challenges of creating engaging and convincing SF scenarios on film with a quintet of eminent low budget film directors – Marc Caro (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children), Cory McAbee (Stingray Sam), Gerald McMorrow (Franklyn), Stuart Hazeldine (Exam) and Richard Jobson (A Woman in Winter). The panel was sponsored by The Directors Guild of Great Britain and Mr Caro’s translator was Virginie Selavy. In this second part the panel discuss the importance of lighting and sound to low budget cinema and the need to double up crew members [part two of two]…
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London (Parts one and two partially broadcast as an hour long Clear Spot on Resonance 104.4 FM, 17/03/10).
For more info about part one of this podcast, please click here…
Links: Wikipedia pages on Marc Caro, Richard Jobson, Stuart Hazeldine, Gerald McMorrow and Cory McAbee
Win a copy of Stingray Sam on DVD and the soundtrack on CD
More info about Sci-Fi London
Sci-Fi London 9: Life in 2050, April 28th - May 3rd, 2010
Panel Borders: The art of Brian Wildsmith
March 25, 2010 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
The art of Brian Wildsmith
Edited version broadcast 25/03/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Art from Animal Gallery by Brian Wildsmith
Concluding Children’s Book Month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to octogenarian illustrator Brian Wildsmith on the eve of a retrospective of his work at The Illustration Cupboard in Piccadilly. Brian is famous for his gouache paintings of animals in picture books and his narrative paintings depicting classic texts such as the Easter Story. Alex talks to Brian about his training at The Slade, breaking into illustration via the Oxford University Press and having a museum collection of his work opening in Japan.
Brian’s exhibtion at The Illustration Cupboard, 22 Bury St, London SW1Y 6AL runs from March 24th to April 24th 2010, with a chance to meet the artist on April 13th…
Brian’s exhibtion at Seven Stories: The Centre for Children’s Books
30 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2PQ runs from April 2nd – more info at www.sevenstories.org.uk
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: For Brian’s website – please visit www.brianwildsmith.com
Info about Brian’s work, published by Oxford University Press
Recommended events:
Friday 26th March, at the Oxford Literary Festival, Professor Andrzej Klimowski will be speaking about his life in illustration at the and exhibiting some of his original artwork. Apart from collaborating with Danusia Schejbal on graphic novel adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Master and Margarita for SelfMadeHero, Klimowski is a world famous film poster designer, illustrator and wordless graphic novelist.
His event is at 4pm on 26th March at the Blue Boar, Christ Church College, Oxford. More info at www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com
Saturday 27th March from 10am – 5pm, is this year’s Web and Mini Comix Thing – a one day festival of small press comics and online sequential art featuring some of the best in the business, not to mention many former guests of this show such as Roger Langridge, Howard Hardiman, Douglas Nobel, Richie K. Chander and Woodrow Phoenix– that’s taking place at Queen Mary’s University, Mile End, London – more info at www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk – please note though that mile end station itself is closed Saturday morning until 12.30 pm, so if you’d like to get there early, please use alternative transport.
Also, on Saturday 27th March, 4pm – late is the rival underground event Schmergencon IV, which also features fine members of the UK small press scene and costs nothing to attend, more info can be found at http://tinyurl.com/mileendcon
and will features the likes of Oli Smith, Emma Price, Philip Spence, David Baillie, Jon Scrivens, John Aggs, Oliver Lambden, Nick Tesco & Francesca Cassavetti in attendance from 4pm…
New Globe Pub, 359 Mile End, London E3 4QS
Saturday 27th March – Sunday 28th March, Hi-Ex the 3rd Highlands International Comic Expo is being held at Eden Court, Inverness, Scotland IV3 5SA
Guests include: Charlie Adlard, Asia Alfasi, Gary Erskine, Al Ewing, John Higgins, Cam Kennedy, Colin MacNeil, Sarah McIntyre, Jim Medway, Gary Northfield
More info at: www.hi-ex.co.uk
Monday 29th March, alongside Manga artist Kate Rubins who recently finished her artists residency at the V & A, one of last week’s guests – Kate Brown, is talking about her work at Laydeez do Comics at the Rag Factory off Brick Lane in London – more info at http://tinyurl.com/docomics
Today’s show: The art of Brian Wildsmith
March 25, 2010
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip! – The art of Brian Wildsmith
Art from Animal Gallery by Brian Wildsmith
Concluding Children’s Book Month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to octogenarian illustrator Brian Wildsmith on the eve of a retrospective of his work at The Illustration Cupboard in Piccadilly. Brian is famous for his gouache paintings of animals in picture books and his narrative paintings depicting classic texts such as the Easter Story. Alex talks to Brian about his training at The Slade, breaking into illustration via the Oxford University Press and having a museum collection of his work opening in Japan.
Brian’s exhibtion at The Illustration Cupboard, 22 Bury St, London SW1Y 6AL runs from March 24th to April 24th 2010, with a chance to meet the artist on April 13th…
Brian’s exhibtion at Seven Stories: The Centre for Children’s Books
30 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2PQ runs from April 2nd – more info at www.sevenstories.org.uk
5pm 25/03/10, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: For Brian’s website – please visit www.brianwildsmith.com
Info about Brian’s work, published by Oxford University Press
Recommended events:
Friday 26th March, at the Oxford Literary Festival, Professor Andrzej Klimowski will be speaking about his life in illustration at the and exhibiting some of his original artwork. Apart from collaborating with Danusia Schejbal on graphic novel adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Master and Margarita for SelfMadeHero, Klimowski is a world famous film poster designer, illustrator and wordless graphic novelist.
His event is at 4pm on 26th March at the Blue Boar, Christ Church College, Oxford. More info at www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com
Saturday 27th March from 10am – 5pm, is this year’s Web and Mini Comix Thing – a one day festival of small press comics and online sequential art featuring some of the best in the business, not to mention many former guests of this show such as Roger Langridge, Howard Hardiman, Douglas Nobel, Richie K. Chander and Woodrow Phoenix– that’s taking place at Queen Mary’s University, Mile End, London – more info at www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk – please note though that mile end station itself is closed Saturday morning until 12.30 pm, so if you’d like to get there early, please use alternative transport.
Also, on Saturday 27th March, 4pm – late is the rival underground event Schmergencon IV, which also features fine members of the UK small press scene and costs nothing to attend, more info can be found at http://tinyurl.com/mileendcon
and will features the likes of Oli Smith, Emma Price, Philip Spence, David Baillie, Jon Scrivens, John Aggs, Oliver Lambden, Nick Tesco & Francesca Cassavetti in attendance from 4pm…
New Globe Pub, 359 Mile End, London E3 4QS
Saturday 27th March – Sunday 28th March, Hi-Ex the 3rd Highlands International Comic Expo is being held at Eden Court, Inverness, Scotland IV3 5SA
Guests include: Charlie Adlard, Asia Alfasi, Gary Erskine, Al Ewing, John Higgins, Cam Kennedy, Colin MacNeil, Sarah McIntyre, Jim Medway, Gary Northfield
More info at: www.hi-ex.co.uk
Monday 29th March, alongside Manga artist Kate Rubins who recently finished her artists residency at the V & A, one of last week’s guests – Kate Brown, is talking about her work at Laydeez do Comics at the Rag Factory off Brick Lane in London – more info at http://tinyurl.com/docomics
Panel Borders: The DFC Library
March 18, 2010 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
The DFC Library
Edited version broadcast 18/03/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Excerpts from The Spider Moon by Kate Brown, MeZolith by Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank, and Good Dog, Bad Dog by Dave Shelton
From May 2008 – March 2009 Children’s book publisher David Fickling launched a bold experiment in creating a new kids comic – The DFC – for the British market, which on a weekly basis featured new stories in a variety of genres from some of Britain’s best up and coming comics creators, not to mention a lead strip written by Philip Pullman. Unfortunately the comic folded after 43 issues, but now a year on, the first three volumes of The DFC Library have been released, reprinting collections of material in European Graphic Album format.
Alex Fitch talks to Kate Brown, the award winning creator of Spider Moon, Dave Shelton, the creator of Good Dog, Bad Dog and Ben Haggarty, the writer of MeZolith, who with artist Adam Brockbank has created a book that one critic has already called “the most important British graphic novel of the last twenty years”.
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: More info about The DFC Library
Read extracts from The DFC Library at www.randomhouse.co.uk
DFC creators blog – Super Comics Adventure Squad
Good Dog, Bad Dog – Dave Shelton’s blog and website
Review of Good Dog, Bad Dog on the Forbidden Planet International blog
Good Dog, Bad Dog fan art on the S.C.A.S. blog
MeZolith – Info about Ben Haggarty’s Oral Storytelling group – Crick Crack Club
Adam Brockbank’s website
Review of MeZolith at the Mirablilis blog
Spider Moon – Kate Brown’s blog and website
Info about Kate winning the Arts Foundation Graphic Novelist prize
Info about the Spider Moon stage production
Previous DFC podcasts: Alex talks to Philip Pullman, John Aggs, Patrice Aggs and Jim Medway at The DFC launch in Spring 2008, to Kate Brown at the 2008 Bristol Comics Expo and to Sarah McIntyre at her studio in Deptford, Autumn 2009
Other recommended shows:
Collected Comics Library podcast
The podcast: Collected Comics Library, has been a weekly staple for almost 5 years now, Chris Marshall blogs and podcasts about Collected Editions and reprints.
Last month saw Chris do a special three part series on the career of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, covering his time working for Marvel in the 50s and 60s, his tenure at DC and return to Charlton Comics in the 70s and 80s and his return to Marvel and Independant work from the 80s to the end of his career.
The Collected Comics Library also has its own iPhone app which is well worth downloading if you’re a fan of the show
CCL Podcast #256-258 – The Career of Steve Ditko
Seqalab Express – Savannah College of Art and Design’s comics podcast
Students of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s SEQuential Art course interview comics creators and professionals to see what makes them tick. In the latest episode Jarrett and Kevin sit down with Wook-Jin (Hunter) Clark and discuss his new book from SCAD friendly publisher Oni Press.
Seqalab Express: Wook-Jin Clark
Today’s show: The DFC Library
March 18, 2010
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip! – The DFC Library
Excerpts from The Spider Moon by Kate Brown, MeZolith by Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank, and Good Dog, Bad Dog by Dave Shelton
From May 2008 – March 2009 Children’s book publisher David Fickling launched a bold experiment in creating a new kids comic – The DFC – for the British market, which on a weekly basis featured new stories in a variety of genres from some of Britain’s best up and coming comics creators, not to mention a lead strip written by Philip Pullman. Unfortunately the comic folded after 43 issues, but now a year on, the first three volumes of The DFC Library have been released, reprinting collections of material in European Graphic Album format.
Alex Fitch talks to Kate Brown, the award winning creator of Spider Moon, Dave Shelton, the creator of Good Dog, Bad Dog and Ben Haggarty, the writer of MeZolith, who with artist Adam Brockbank has created a book that one critic has already called “the most important British graphic novel of the last twenty years”.
5pm 18/03/10, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: More info about The DFC Library
Read extracts from The DFC Library at www.randomhouse.co.uk
DFC creators blog – Super Comics Adventure Squad
Good Dog, Bad Dog – Dave Shelton’s blog and website
Review of Good Dog, Bad Dog on the Forbidden Planet International blog
Good Dog, Bad Dog fan art on the S.C.A.S. blog
MeZolith – Info about Ben Haggarty’s Oral Storytelling group – Crick Crack Club
Adam Brockbank’s website
Review of MeZolith at the Mirablilis blog
Spider Moon – Kate Brown’s blog and website
Info about Kate winning the Arts Foundation Graphic Novelist prize
Info about the Spider Moon stage production
Previous DFC podcasts: Alex talks to Philip Pullman, John Aggs, Patrice Aggs and Jim Medway at The DFC launch in Spring 2008, to Kate Brown at the 2008 Bristol Comics Expo and to Sarah McIntyre at her studio in Deptford, Autumn 2009
Other recommended shows:
Collected Comics Library podcast
The podcast: Collected Comics Library, has been a weekly staple for almost 5 years now, Chris Marshall blogs and podcasts about Collected Editions and reprints.
Last month saw Chris do a special three part series on the career of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, covering his time working for Marvel in the 50s and 60s, his tenure at DC and return to Charlton Comics in the 70s and 80s and his return to Marvel and Independant work from the 80s to the end of his career.
The Collected Comics Library also has its own iPhone app which is well worth downloading if you’re a fan of the show
CCL Podcast #256-258 – The Career of Steve Ditko
Seqalab Express – Savannah College of Art and Design’s comics podcast
Students of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s SEQuential Art course interview comics creators and professionals to see what makes them tick. In the latest episode Jarrett and Kevin sit down with Wook-Jin (Hunter) Clark and discuss his new book from SCAD friendly publisher Oni Press.
Seqalab Express: Wook-Jin Clark
Today’s show: The Problem of SF film making
March 17, 2010
Today on Resonance FM:
Clear Spot – The Problem of SF film making
Gerald McMorrow (Franklyn), Richard Jobson (A Woman in Winter), Stuart Hazeldine (Exam), Cory McAbee (Stingray Sam) and Marc Caro (The City of Lost Children)
In a panel discussion recorded live at last year’s London Sciene-Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival, Alex Fitch discusses the many aspects of creating engaging and convincing SF scenarios on film with a quintet of eminent low budget film directors – Marc Caro (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children), Cory McAbee (Stingray Sam), Gerald McMorrow (Franklyn), Stuart Hazeldine (Exam) and Richard Jobson (A Woman in Winter). The panel was sponsored by The Directors Guild of Great Britain and Mr Caro’s translator was Virginie Selavy.
8pm 17/03/10, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast of part one online now, part two to follow after broadcast…
This year’s Sci-Fi London runs from 28/04 – 03/05 at the Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street.
More info at www.sci-fi-london.com/festival
Links: Wikipedia pages on Marc Caro, Richard Jobson, Stuart Hazeldine, Gerald McMorrow and Cory McAbee
More info about Sci-Fi London
IWM podcast: The making of The Struggles for Poland
March 16, 2010 — 3 Comments
Imperial War Museum podcast: The making of The Struggles for Poland
Russian propaganda poster regarding Polish prosperity in the 1950s
Partially broadcast as part of a ‘clear spot’ 13/01/10 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
In the first Imperial War Museum podcast, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of the Channel Four TV series ‘The Struggles for Poland’, originally broadcast on Channel Four in 1987. The series comprises 9 hour long episodes, each roughly covering a two decades of life in Poland during the 20th Century, with a couple focusing on religion in Poland over a longer period, and three focusing on the Second World War.
Alex talks to Executive Producer Martin Smith, Writer Neal Ascherson, researcher Wanda Koscia and Raye Farr, the producer of episode 3, now the director of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, about their experiences of working on the series and the political and cultural landscape of the time.
Longer versions of Alex’s interviews with Martin, Neal, Wanda and Raye are available from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive. Please contact them via iwm [at] reference-service.info
To hear the companion podcast in which Alex talks to Struggles for Poland narrator and Oscar nominated actress Susannah York about her career, please click here.
For more info about this podcast please visit the home of this episode at podcasts.iwm.org.uk
Links: Film at Imperial War Museum London
Information about Polska! Year
IMDb pages on The Struggles for Poland, Martin Smith, Raye Farr and Neal Ascherson
Martin’s website – www.aboutmartinsmith.co.uk
More info about Neal Ascherson on wikipedia.org
Article by Wanda Koscia on The Warsaw Uprising at bbc.co.uk/history
Info about United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
Listen to Alex’s interviews with Polish artists Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal about their work and with Polish teacher Kinga about her experiences fleeing communist Poland as a child
Other podcasts of interest:
The Pod Delusion is a podcast about interesting things. From scepticism to lefty liberal things, it’s commentary from a secular, rationalist, ‘Guardianista’, sort of perspective. A bit like From Our Own Correspondent but with more jokes.
Latest episode: #25 on The British Humanist Association, Dangerous Dogs, DRM and Ubisoft, the UK Webcomix Thing and more by various contributors
Little Atoms is a live talk show based around ideas of the Enlightenment. We make no claims to balance, and actively promote science, freedom of expression, scepticism and secular humanism. This means we often end up talking about superstition, religious fundamentalism, censorship and conspiracy theory.
Our guests bring ideas that are challenging, sometimes controversial, often polemical, but always interesting.
Latest episode: 05/03/10: Tom Standage – an edible history of humanity. Tom Standage is the business editor of The Economist, previously the Science and Technology Editor at the Guardian. Tom talks about his latest book: An Edible History of Humanity, an account of the key role food has played in our history.
Panel Borders: Yetis, ghosts and other things that go bump in the night!
March 11, 2010 — 1 Comment
Panel Borders:
Yetis, ghosts and other things that go bump in the night!
Edited version broadcast 11/03/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Panels from Operation Robot Storm (c) Alex Milway and Salem Brownstone (c) Nikhil Singh and John Dunning
Continuing children’s book month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to two creators of atypical titles for kids, which are being published by Walker Books. John Dunning is the writer of Salem Brownstone: All along the watchtowers, a Graphic Album in the European format which combines his script in the style of American horror writers H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe with Nikhil Singh’s elegant artwork, reminiscent of Victorian illustrators such as Aubrey Beardsley. Salem Brownstone was originally serialised in the small press anthology Sturgeon White Moss and Alex talks to John about the process of creating this unusual title.
Alex Milway is the author of The Mousehunter trilogy of pirate novels for young adults and in his new series of books - The Mythical 9th Division - which tell the tales of a trio of crimefighting Yetis who work for the British government, he is pioneering a new kind of storytelling in which every chapter of the books segues from sequential art into more traditional text. The two Alexs talk about the first of the Yeti books – Operation Robot Storm - which is being released in June and how comics can be used as another device to get kids into reading.
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: Alex Milway – profile and info about Operation Robot Storm on Walker Books’ website
The Mousehunter website / blog
Old Hokey’s Whimsical tales blog
John Dunning – Interview with John & Nikhil on www.paulgravett.com
Info on Salem Brownstone and John Dunning on Walker Books’ website
Forbidden Planet International review
Interview with Nikhil about his Visa traumas at caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com
Other recommended shows:
Collected Comics Library podcast
The podcast: Collected Comics Library, has been a weekly staple for almost 5 years now, Chris Marshall blogs and podcasts about Collected Editions and reprints.
Last month saw Chris do a special four part series on the career of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, covering his time working for Marvel in the 50s and 60s, his tenure at DC and return to Charlton Comics in the 70s and 80s, his return to Marvel and Independant work from the 80s to the end of his career, plus Chris chats to Craig Yoe about his book The Art of Ditko.
The Collected Comics Library also has its own iPhone app which is well worth downloading if you’re a fan of the show
CCL Podcast #256-259 – The Career of Steve Ditko
Seqalab Express – Savannah College of Art and Design’s comics podcast
Students of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s SEQuential Art course interview comics creators and professionals to see what makes them tick. In the latest episode Jarrett and Kevin sit down with Wook-Jin (Hunter) Clark and discuss his new book from SCAD friendly publisher Oni Press.
Seqalab Express: Wook-Jin Clark
Today’s show: Yetis, ghosts and other things that go bump in the night!
March 11, 2010
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip! – Yetis, ghosts and other things that go bump in the night!
Panels from Operation Robot Storm (c) Alex Milway and Salem Brownstone (c) Nikhil Singh and John Dunning
Continuing children’s book month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to two creators of atypical titles for kids, which are being published by Walker Books. John Dunning is the writer of Salem Brownstone: All along the watchtowers, a Graphic Album in the European format which combines his script in the style of American horror writers H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe with Nikhil Singh’s elegant artwork, reminiscent of Victorian illustrators such as Aubrey Beardsley. Salem Brownstone was originally serialised in the small press anthology Sturgeon White Moss and Alex talks to John about the process of creating this unusual title.
Alex Milway is the author of The Mousehunter trilogy of pirate novels for young adults and in his new series of books - The Mythical 9th Division - which tell the tales of a trio of crimefighting Yetis who work for the British government, he is pioneering a new kind of storytelling in which every chapter of the books segues from sequential art into more traditional text. The two Alexs talk about the first of the Yeti books – Operation Robot Storm - which is being released in June and how comics can be used as another device to get kids into reading.
5pm 11/03/10, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Alex Milway – profile and info about Operation Robot Storm on Walker Books’ website
The Mousehunter website / blog
Old Hokey’s Whimsical tales blog
John Dunning – Interview with John & Nikhil on www.paulgravett.com
Info on Salem Brownstone and John Dunning on Walker Books’ website
Forbidden Planet International review
Interview with Nikhil about his Visa traumas at caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com
Other recommended shows:
Collected Comics Library podcast
The podcast: Collected Comics Library, has been a weekly staple for almost 5 years now, Chris Marshall blogs and podcasts about Collected Editions and reprints.
Last month saw Chris do a special three part series on the career of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, covering his time working for Marvel in the 50s and 60s, his tenure at DC and return to Charlton Comics in the 70s and 80s and his return to Marvel and Independant work from the 80s to the end of his career.
The Collected Comics Library also has its own iPhone app which is well worth downloading if you’re a fan of the show
CCL Podcast #256-258 – The Career of Steve Ditko
Seqalab Express – Savannah College of Art and Design’s comics podcast
Students of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s SEQuential Art course interview comics creators and professionals to see what makes them tick. In the latest episode Jarrett and Kevin sit down with Wook-Jin (Hunter) Clark and discuss his new book from SCAD friendly publisher Oni Press.
Seqalab Express: Wook-Jin Clark
Lucky Cat podcast: The films of Park Chan-Wook
March 10, 2010 — 1 Comment
Lucky Cat podcast:
The films of Park Chan-Wook
Originally broadcast 25/02/10 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Song Kang-ho and Kim Ok-bin in the film Thirst by Park Chan-Wook
Episode 4.6 of Resonance FM’s Asian culture show presented by Zoe Baxter. This episode is a Park Chan-Wook special to coincide with the UK DVD release of the Korean auteur’s vampire film Thirst. Zoë Baxter is joined in the studio by Mira Stout (author of bestselling novel “One Thousand Chestnut Trees”, playwright, and film critic) and Alex Fitch (broadcaster and assistant editor of Electric Sheep film magazine) to discuss Thirst and Chan-Wook’s oeuvre.
Lucky Cat series 4 continunes Thursdays at 7pm on www.resonancefm.com
For more info about this podcast, please visit www.luckykitty.blogspot.com
Links: Wikipedia pages on Thirst and Park Chan-Wook
Listen to Alex’s appearance on Lucky Cat last year regarding the films of Tetsuya Nakashima
Listen to Alex’s 2008 interview with Park Chan-Wook, also available as a transcript in Wheel Me Out magazine
Other recommended shows:
Collected Comics Library podcast
The podcast: Collected Comics Library, has been a weekly staple for almost 5 years now, Chris Marshall blogs and podcasts about Collected Editions and reprints.
Last month saw Chris do a special four part series on the career of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, covering his time working for Marvel in the 50s and 60s, his tenure at DC and return to Charlton Comics in the 70s and 80s, his return to Marvel and Independant work from the 80s to the end of his career, plus Chris chats to Craig Yoe about his book The Art of Ditko.
The Collected Comics Library also has its own iPhone app which is well worth downloading if you’re a fan of the show
CCL Podcast #256-259 – The Career of Steve Ditko
Seqalab Express – Savannah College of Art and Design’s comics podcast
Students of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s SEQuential Art course interview comics creators and professionals to see what makes them tick. In the latest episode Jarrett and Kevin sit down with Wook-Jin (Hunter) Clark and discuss his new book from SCAD friendly publisher Oni Press.
Seqalab Express: Wook-Jin Clark
Today’s screening: Guy Maddin Double Bill – Careful + The Saddest Music in the World
March 10, 2010
Electric Sheep Film Club: Careful (1992) + The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
We celebrate the genius of Guy Maddin, who over the last two decades has developed an entirely personal and always enchanting world, poetic, macabre and playful in equal measures.
The films of Guy Maddin by Sean Azzopardi
Still from Careful by Guy Maddin
Still from the Saddest music in the world by Guy Maddin
Hilarious, dreamlike and full of wonders, these are films like no others. Watch and be amazed!
Price: single film – £6.50/£4.00 Prince Charles members
Double bill: £11/£7 PCC members
Certificate 15
Dir: Guy Maddin, Canada 1992 / 2003
Wednesday 10th March, 6pm, Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2
More info at www.princecharlescinema.com
FILM WRITING COMPETITION:
Film students and aspiring film writers are invited to enter our film writing competition: write a 200-word review of Careful or The Saddest Music in the World and send it to ladyvengeance [at] electricsheepmagazine.com, marked ‘Film writing competition’ in the subject line. We are delighted to announce that Greg Klymkiv, the producer of Careful, will select the best review. Deadline: Thursday 25 March. The selected review will be published on the Electric Sheep website in April. This is a regular feature of the Electric Sheep Film Club.
Links: Reviews of Careful and The Saddest Music in the World in Electric Sheep Magazine
Video / podcast of Alex Fitch’s interview with Guy Maddin
Alex’s reviews of Maddin’s Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary and My Winnipeg
electricsheepmagazine.co.uk avoids industry chit-chat and cheap abuse. The writing is confident and well-informed and the scope encompasses everywhere from Spain to South Korea. It writes about film for people who like film: a classic approach.
New Statesman 01/03/10
Panel Borders: Robots of various sizes
March 4, 2010 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
Robots of various sizes
Edited version broadcast 04/03/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Pages from Freak Leap by Joe List and Robot City Adventures by Paul Collicutt
Starting Children’s Books month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to two artists who have inadvertently found themselves making comics for younger audiences. Joe List is a graphic designer and animator who, with his first collection of comic strips inspired by Saturday morning cartoons – Freak Leap – has compiled a whimsical series of adventures starring pirates, monsters and giant robots with spindly legs suitable for all ages. Paul Collicutt is a children’s book illustrator who has previously been engaged in fully pained artwork for traditional picture books but now, as the creator of a series of Robot City Adventures, is telling tales of a Retro Sci-Fi future where robot Private Detectives and coastguards mix with humans and sea monsters alike.
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: Joe List – website / flickr site
Freak Leap website
Annotated Weekender blog
Paul Collicutt – Info on Robot City Adventures from Templar Publishing
Info on Paul’s books at librarything.com
Paul’s contact details at illustrator.org.uk
Interview at mindlessones.com
Recommended events:
Lost Treasures of the Black Heart
Josie Long’s monthly comedy night at the Black Heart Pub in Camden features an eclectic mix of comedians intructing the audience about esoteric trivia and facts you never knew you needed to know! Alongside this fol-de-rol is the paper magnificence of the We are words + pictures stall selling their four colour treats, comics and merchandise…
8pm, Tuesday 9th March, The Black Heart, 2 Greenland Place, Camden, London NW1 0AP
Today’s show: Robots of various sizes
March 4, 2010
Today on Resonance FM:
Strip! – Robots of various sizes
Pages from Freak Leap by Joe List and Robot City Adventures by Paul Collicutt
Starting Children’s Books month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to two artists who have inadvertently found themselves making comics for younger audiences. Joe List is a graphic designer and animator who, with his first collection of comic strips inspired by Saturday morning cartoons – Freak Leap – has compiled a whimsical series of adventures starring pirates, monsters and giant robots with spindly legs suitable for all ages. Paul Collicutt is a children’s book illustrator who has previously been engaged in fully pained artwork for traditional picture books but now, as the creator of a series of Robot City Adventures, is telling tales of a Retro Sci-Fi future where robot Private Detectives and coastguards mix with humans and sea monsters alike.
5pm 04/03/10, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online tonight…
Links: Joe List – website / flickr site
Freak Leap website
Annotated Weekender blog
Paul Collicutt – Info on Robot City Adventures from Templar Publishing
Info on Paul’s books at librarything.com
Paul’s contact details at illustrator.org.uk
Interview at mindlessones.com
Recommended events:
Lost Treasures of the Black Heart
Josie Long’s monthly comedy night at the Black Heart Pub in Camden features an eclectic mix of comedians intructing the audience about esoteric trivia and facts you never knew you needed to know! Alongside this fol-de-rol is the paper magnificence of the We are words + pictures stall selling their four colour treats, comics and merchandise…
8pm, Tuesday 9th March, The Black Heart, 2 Greenland Place, Camden, London NW1 0AP
