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I’m ready for my close-up: Comics and film by Javier Mariscal
May 27, 2011 — 1 Comment
I’m ready for my close-up:
Comics and film by Javier Mariscal
Partially broadcast 27th May 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Still from Chico and Rito by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba
Alex Fitch talks to internationally renowned designer Javier Mariscal about his career so far from drawing sketches in bars which got picked up by the design community as the basis of everything from chairs to Olympic Mascots to his comic strip Los Garriris, the subject of a recent exhibition in Brussels. Alex and Javier also discus the designer’s recent role as animator and co-director of the cartoon feature film Chico and Rita and how the movie was subsequently adapted into a graphic novel.
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream / download the recording in, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Info about the Chico and Rita graphic novel from Self Made Hero
Chico and Rita official film website
Wikipedia pages on Javier Mariscal and Chico and Rita
Info about Mariscal’s Los Garriris exhibition in Brussels
Today’s show: Comics and film by Javier Mariscal
May 27, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
I’m ready for my close-up: Comics and film by Javier Mariscal
Still from Chico and Rito by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba
Alex Fitch talks to internationally renowned designer Javier Mariscal about his career so far from drawing sketches in bars which got picked up by the design community as the basis of everything from chairs to Olympic Mascots to his comic strip Los Garriris, the subject of a recent exhibition in Brussels. Alex and Javier also discus the designer’s recent role as animator and co-director of the cartoon feature film Chico and Rita and how the movie was subsequently adapted into a graphic novel.
5pm 27/05/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com
Links: Info about the Chico and Rita graphic novel from Self Made Hero
Chico and Rita official film website
Wikipedia pages on Javier Mariscal and Chico and Rita
Info about Mariscal’s Los Garriris exhibition in Brussels
Panel Borders: Small Press Soundtracks
May 26, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Small Press Soundtracks
Partially broadcast 26th May 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Sioux Warrior cover and interiors by Sam Gardner, Jake Rowlinson and Lee O Connor / Hilarious Consequences by Babak Ganjei
Continuing our month of shows about the crossover between music and comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a couple of small press publications which feature music in their stories and contain a soundtrack to listen to while you read the comic.
Writer Sam Gardner and artists Jake Rowlinson and Lee O’Connor talk about Sioux Warrior, a new comic about a mysterious hero who is one part Sitting Bull and one part Phantom of the Opera and while enjoying his adventures, the reader is serenaded by a sound chip built into the publication itself. Alex also chats to Babak Ganjei about his graphic novel Hilarious Consequences, an irreverent but touching autobiographical book in which the author documents his travails in being a singer-songwriter and father while breaking the fourth wall in humorous asides to the reader; the book contains a compilation CD of tracks from Babak’s label, Records Records Records Records…
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 Sioux Warrior at www.capefearcomics.com
More info about Hilarious Consequences at www.recordsrecordsrecordsrecords.com
Read Jake’s 24 Hour Comic
Listen to Lee O’Connor et. al talk about City of Abacus
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Today’s show: Small Press Soundtracks
May 26, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Small Press Soundtracks
Sioux Warrior cover and interiors by Sam Gardner, Jake Rowlinson and Lee O Connor / Hilarious Consequences by Babak Ganjei
Continuing our month of shows about the crossover between music and comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a couple of small press publications which feature music in their stories and contain a soundtrack to listen to while you read the comic.
Writer Sam Gardner and artists Jake Rowlinson and Lee O’Connor talk about Sioux Warrior, a new comic about a mysterious hero who is one part Sitting Bull and one part Phantom of the Opera and while enjoying his adventures, the reader is serenaded by a sound chip built into the publication itself. Alex also chats to Babak Ganjei about his graphic novel Hilarious Consequences, an irreverent but touching autobiographical book in which the author documents his travails in being a singer-songwriter and father while breaking the fourth wall in humorous asides to the reader; the book contains a compilation CD of tracks from Babak’s label, Records Records Records Records…
5pm, Thursday 26/05/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: More info about Sioux Warrior at www.capefearcomics.com
More info about Hilarious Consequences at www.recordsrecordsrecordsrecords.com
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Laydeez do podcasts: London Print Studio Comics Collective
May 23, 2011 — 1 Comment
Laydeez do Podcasts:
London Print Studio Comics Collective
London Print Studio Comics Collective logo
In this month’s podcast we have a recording of two talks by the London Print Studio Comics Collective – Isabel Greenberg, Rachel Emily Taylor, William Goldsmith, Joe Kelly and Freya Harrisson – alongside mentor Karrie Franzman and LPS director John Philips. Karrie and her protégés talk about their work, visiting the Angoulême comics festival in France, the process of getting published and how the internship has improved their artistic practice.
(Introduced and edited by Alex Fitch, recorded by Nicola Streeten)
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: London Print Studio Comics Collective blog
London Print Studio website
Panel Borders interviews with Karrie Franzman and Isabel Greenberg
Info about Laydeez do comics
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Panel Borders: City of Abacus
May 12, 2011 — 4 Comments
Panel Borders:
City of Abacus
Partially broadcast 12th May 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
V.V. Brown and David Allain discuss City of Abacus, Comics @ SCI-FI-LONDON, BFI Southbank. Photo by Fia Eamónn Wåhlin
Continuing our month of shows about the connections between music and comic-books, singer / song-writer V.V. Brown and film maker David Allain talk about their serialised graphic novel City of Abacus, a comic which fuses elements of fantasy films and dystopian science-fiction, in a presentation of their work recorded in The Blue Room, BFI Southbank as part of Comics @ SCI-FI-LONDON, April 2011.
City of Abacus #2 by V.V. Brown, David Allain + Lee O Connor
V.V. and David are then joined by moderator Alex Fitch and artists Lee O’Connor and John Spelling for a panel discussion about the project.
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: Official City of Abacus website with links to iTunes downloads and back issues
Wikipedia pages on V.V. Brown and Lee O’Connor
Interview with V.V. in Amelia’s Magazine
Info about Comics @ SCI-FI-LONDON
Recommended events:
Kate Brown and Paul Duffield exhibition
A new exhibition by Paul (FreakAngels) Duffield and Kate (The Spider Moon) Brown is currently on display in the Orbital Gallery….
The show will include both original artwork and prints from Freakangels, Signal and Fish + Chocolate. (Until 26/05/11)
More info at www.orbitalcomics.com
Bristol Small Press Expo
Although the main Bristol International Comics expo is sold out, there are still tickets for the Small Press Expo at Mercure Hotel, Bristol 14+15th May, 2011 featuring panels on Image Comics and ComX plus talks on creating Weeble and Bob and The Walking Dead with the following creators in attendance: Paul Grist, Sean Phillips, Boo Cook, Richard Starkings, Charlie Adlard, Andi Ewington, Ian Churchill and many more.
More info at: www.spexpo.co.uk
Today’s show: City of Abacus
May 12, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: City of Abacus
V.V. Brown and David Allain discuss City of Abacus, Comics @ SCI-FI-LONDON, BFI Southbank. Photo by Fia Eamónn Wåhlin
Continuing our month of shows about the connections between music and comic-books, singer / song-writer V.V. Brown and film maker David Allain talk about their serialised graphic novel City of Abacus, a comic which fuses elements of fantasy films and dystopian science-fiction, in a presentation of their work recorded in The Blue Room, BFI Southbank as part of Comics @ SCI-FI-LONDON, April 2011.
City of Abacus #2 by V.V. Brown, David Allain + Lee O Connor
V.V. and David are then joined by moderator Alex Fitch and artists Lee O’Connor and John Spelling for a panel discussion about the project.
5pm, Thursday 12/05/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Official City of Abacus website with links to iTunes downloads and back issues
Wikipedia pages on V.V. Brown and Lee O’Connor
Interview with V.V. in Amelia’s Magazine
Info about Comics @ SCI-FI-LONDON
Recommended events:
Kate Brown and Paul Duffield exhibition
A new exhibition by Paul (FreakAngels) Duffield and Kate (The Spider Moon) Brown is currently on display in the Orbital Gallery….
The show will include both original artwork and prints from Freakangels, Signal and Fish + Chocolate. (Until 26/05/11)
More info at www.orbitalcomics.com
Bristol Small Press Expo
Although the main Bristol International Comics expo is sold out, there are still tickets for the Small Press Expo at Mercure Hotel, Bristol 14+15th May, 2011 featuring panels on Image Comics and ComX plus talks on creating Weeble and Bob and The Walking Dead with the following creators in attendance: Paul Grist, Sean Phillips, Boo Cook, Richard Starkings, Charlie Adlard, Andi Ewington, Ian Churchill and many more.
More info at: www.spexpo.co.uk
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: An introduction to Secret Societies
May 11, 2011 — 4 Comments
Electric Sheep podcast:
An introduction to Secret Societies
Johnny Depp on the set of From Hell
Virginie Sélavy hosts a discussion on secret societies to tie in with the East End Film Festival’s themed day of screenings on May 2. With her guests, Strange Attractor Press editor Mark Pilkington and horror film expert Richard Bancroft, they discuss the links between crime and the occult, looking at Jack the Ripper and the Masons theory and other filmed examples of the arcane and conspiratorial. (Previously broadcast 22/04/11 as an episode of “I’m ready for my close-up” on Resonance 104.4 FM)
For more information and a variety of formats you can stream / download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
In association with 
Info about the broadcast of this show
Read other articles on Secret Societies in Electric Sheep Magazine
Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Alan Moore about From Hell
Panel Borders: Beatles in Black (and White)
May 5, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Beatles in Black (and White)
Partially broadcast 5th May 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extract from Babys in black by Arne Bellstorf
Starting a month of shows about the crossover between comics books and music, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Arne Bellstorf about his new book, Baby’s in black which retells the story of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe in cartoon form. Alex and Arne talk about the travails of depicting 1960s Hamburg on the page, what led to the creation of the graphic novel and his use of cinematic pacing in the 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: Arne Bellstorf’s webiste
More info about Baby’s in Black at www.selfmadehero.com including photos from the London and Glasgow launches
Recommended events:
Free Comic Book Day Signings
(May 7, 1:00pm – 2:30pm) with 2000AD’s Dan Abnett, Al Ewing and Robbie Morrison. Gosh! Comics, Great Russell Street, London (opposite The British Museum)
We’ll also have stacks of free comics to give away from Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, Top Shelf, and even some local small press folk.
More info at: goshlondon.blogspot.com
(May 7, 5:00pm – 6:30pm) with Shaky Kane and David Hine + film screening by Steven Cook about Shaky’s work. Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London (near Leicester Square)
Also: Paul (FreakAngels) Duffield and Kate (The Spider Moon) Brown exhibition on display in the Orbital Gallery….
More info at www.orbitalcomics.com
Today’s show: Beatles in Black (and White)
May 4, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Beatles in Black (and White)
Extract from Babys in black by Arne Bellstorf
Starting a month of shows about the crossover between comics books and music, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Arne Bellstorf about his new book, Baby’s in black which retells the story of Astrid Kirchherr & Stuart Sutcliffe in cartoon form. Alex and Arne talk about the travails of depicting 1960s Hamburg on the page, what led to the creation of the graphic novel and his use of cinematic pacing in the book.
5pm, Thursday 05/05/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Arne Bellstorf’s webiste
More info about Baby’s in Black at www.selfmadehero.com including photos from the London and Glasgow launches
Recommended events:
Free Comic Book Day Signings
(May 7, 1:00pm – 2:30pm) with 2000AD’s Dan Abnett, Al Ewing and Robbie Morrison. Gosh! Comics, Great Russell Street, London (opposite The British Museum)
We’ll also have stacks of free comics to give away from Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, Top Shelf, and even some local small press folk.
More info at: goshlondon.blogspot.com
(May 7, 5:00pm – 6:30pm) with Shaky Kane and David Hine + film screening by Steven Cook about Shaky’s work. Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London (near Leicester Square)
Also: Paul (FreakAngels) Duffield and Kate (The Spider Moon) Brown exhibition on display in the Orbital Gallery….
More info at www.orbitalcomics.com
