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Panel Borders: Doctoring Comics
June 30, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Doctoring Comics
Originally broadcast 30th June 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Ian Williams at Laydeez do comics, photo by Marcia Mihotich / Fear of Failure by Thom Ferrier
Concluding our month of shows looking at medical comics, we have a talk by Dr. Ian Williams about his work including curating Graphic Medicine and creating comic strips under the name Thom Ferrier followed by a Q and A session featuring questions by Phillipa Perry and Alex Fitch. (Recorded at Laydeez do Comics, May 2010)
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: Ian Williams’ comics produced as Thom Ferrier at www.disrepute.info
Info about Graphic Medicine
Call for papers (pdf download) for the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in Leeds
Listen to more podcasts featuring Phillipa Perry
Recommended events:
Manchester Comix Collective: BIG Drink ‘n’ Draw
This month we’re doing something a little more special than usual, the MCC and Sandbar will be hosting the first BIG Drink n’ Draw on the very first day of the Not Part Of Fringe Festival! As always the Drink ‘n’ Draw will be FREE to attend, and we’ll have the usual drawing games, FREE snacks AND pizzas, FREE comics at the Comic…
As part of the BIG Drink ‘n’ Draw we’ll have a LITTLE Comic Fair! We will have tables set aside for selling YOUR comics! We’ll have a few of table for creators with lots to sell and one communal table for anyone’s comics, minis or zines! Tables are FREE but limited, so please leave a comment to show your interest and I’ll be in touch! If you can’t make it but would like to sell your comics, please drop them off at Sandbar with a note saying “For the BIG Drink ‘n’ Draw”.
As if that wasn’t enough Matt Badham will be hosting an informal chat plus Q and A with Andy Diggle, writer of The Losers, Daredevil and former editor of 2000AD! The starting time for this is to be confirmed but will last about an hour.
Manchester Comix Collective,
June 30, 2011 4:00pm pm to July 1, 2011 2:00 am,
Sandbar, 120 Grosvenor St, Manchester, M1 7HL
More info at http://manchestercomixcollective.com
Rescored: Night of the Living Dead
June 30, 2011
Rescored:
Night of the Living Dead DJ set
Originally performed live 4th June 2011 at The Horse Hospital
Robin the Fog rescores Night of the Living dead (Reanimated) at The Horse Hospital, June 2011
As part of the launch of ‘The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology‘, DJ Robin the Fog performed a live rescore of Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated (1968 / 2009), adding a new experimental electronic soundtrack to the animated version of George Romero’s classic and ground breaking zombie film. If you would like to listen to the score while watching the film, it will synch with either the original version of Night of the Living Dead or the :reanimated version.
Night of the Living Dead / Reanimated
You can also stream the soundtrack in two parts as a higher quality recording from mixcloud, where there is additional information about the tracks featured in the mix – part 1 / part 2
Additionally, for your listening pleasure, Zoe Baxter has also uploaded the DJ session she performed at the ‘The End’ launch party to mixcloud, which includes tracks by Augustus Pablo, Josephine Siao, The Jellybeans and Ella Fitzgerald…
Links: Download / stream the film Night of the Living Dead (1968) from archive.org
Buy Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated [2009]
Robin the Fog’s website and pages on Sound Cloud and Mix Cloud
Zoe Baxter’s blog http://luckykitty.blogspot.com
Today’s show: Doctoring Comics
June 30, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Doctoring Comics
Ian Williams at Laydeez do comics, photo by Marcia Mihotich / Fear of Failure by Thom Ferrier
Concluding our month of shows looking at medical comics, we have a talk by Dr. Ian Williams about his work including curating Graphic Medicine and creating comic strips under the name Thom Ferrier followed by a Q and A session featuring questions by Phillipa Perry and Alex Fitch. (Recorded at Laydeez do Comics, May 2010)
5pm, Thursday 30/06/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Ian Williams’ comics produced as Thom Ferrier at www.disrepute.info
Info about Graphic Medicine
Call for papers (pdf download) for the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in Leeds
Listen to more podcasts featuring Phillipa Perry
Recommended events:
Manchester Comix Collective: BIG Drink ‘n’ Draw
This month we’re doing something a little more special than usual, the MCC and Sandbar will be hosting the first BIG Drink n’ Draw on the very first day of the Not Part Of Fringe Festival! As always the Drink ‘n’ Draw will be FREE to attend, and we’ll have the usual drawing games, FREE snacks AND pizzas, FREE comics at the Comic…
As part of the BIG Drink ‘n’ Draw we’ll have a LITTLE Comic Fair! We will have tables set aside for selling YOUR comics! We’ll have a few of table for creators with lots to sell and one communal table for anyone’s comics, minis or zines! Tables are FREE but limited, so please leave a comment to show your interest and I’ll be in touch! If you can’t make it but would like to sell your comics, please drop them off at Sandbar with a note saying “For the BIG Drink ‘n’ Draw”.
As if that wasn’t enough Matt Badham will be hosting an informal chat plus Q and A with Andy Diggle, writer of The Losers, Daredevil and former editor of 2000AD! The starting time for this is to be confirmed but will last about an hour.
Manchester Comix Collective,
June 30, 2011 4:00pm pm to July 1, 2011 2:00 am,
Sandbar, 120 Grosvenor St, Manchester, M1 7HL
More info at http://manchestercomixcollective.com
Panel Borders: Medical Manga
June 23, 2011 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
Medical Manga
Partially broadcast 23rd June 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka, Epilepsie - bleib cool! by Stefanie Wollgarten, Barbara Lillge and Heiko Krause, Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
Continuing our month of shows about looking at portrayals of illness, medicine and caregiving in comic books, we’re examining medical manga in two talks recorded at last year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Maria Vaccarella talks about a German Manga about Epilepsy – Epilepsie? Bleib cool! – an educational comic designed to help teenage epilepsy suffers in Germany cope with their condition, also Ada Palmer is talking about the heroism of doctors in the work of Osama Tesuka from Buddha to Black Jack, Astro Boy to Phoenix.
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: Order Epilepsie? Bleib cool! from www.amazon.de
Review of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack at www.anigamers.com
Listen to Helen McCarthy talk about the work of Osamu Tezuka
Info about the 2010 Graphic Medicine conference
Call for papers (pdf download) for the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in Leeds
Recommended events:
Comics County meeting, Brighton, Monday, 27th June
This month’s meeting we have three speakers for podcast representing two areas where cartoon art is being used for social good as well as entertainment.
Steve Silverwood and Laurence Stead are from Upside Comics – www.upsidecomics.org.uk – and they’ll be reporting on workshops they’ve recently held for the purpose of aiding literacy as well as spreading the word of the art form itself. Many cartoonists have been doing this work for a while (our trusty Dr Parsons and his www.crazycomicclub.co.uk for a start, not to mention all the other folks listed in www.cartoonclassroom.co.uk) and its future is under threat due to current cuts in schools and libraries, so reporting of practical results from such work is more needed than ever.
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Today’s show: Medical Manga
June 23, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Medical Manga
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka, Epilepsie - bleib cool! by Stefanie Wollgarten, Barbara Lillge and Heiko Krause, Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
Continuing our month of shows about looking at portrayals of illness, medicine and caregiving in comic books, we’re examining medical manga in two talks recorded at last year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Maria Vaccarella talks about a German Manga about Epilepsy – Epilepsie? Bleib cool! – an educational comic designed to help teenage epilepsy suffers in Germany cope with their condition, also Ada Palmer is talking about the heroism of doctors in the work of Osama Tesuka from Buddha to Black Jack, Astro Boy to Phoenix.
5pm, Thursday 23/06/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Order Epilepsie? Bleib cool! from www.amazon.de
Review of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack at www.anigamers.com
Listen to Helen McCarthy talk about the work of Osamu Tezuka
Info about the 2010 Graphic Medicine conference
Call for papers (pdf download) for the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in Leeds
Recommended events:
Comics County meeting, Brighton, Monday, 27th June
This month’s meeting we have three speakers for podcast representing two areas where cartoon art is being used for social good as well as entertainment.
Steve Silverwood and Laurence Stead are from Upside Comics – www.upsidecomics.org.uk – and they’ll be reporting on workshops they’ve recently held for the purpose of aiding literacy as well as spreading the word of the art form itself. Many cartoonists have been doing this work for a while (our trusty Dr Parsons and his www.crazycomicclub.co.uk for a start, not to mention all the other folks listed in www.cartoonclassroom.co.uk) and its future is under threat due to current cuts in schools and libraries, so reporting of practical results from such work is more needed than ever.
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Reality Check: Apocalypse (cinema) now
June 23, 2011 — 2 Comments
Reality Check:
Apocalypse (cinema) now
Stills from The Gerber Syndrome and The Arcadian
In a pair of on stage interviews recorded at this year’s Sci-Fi London festival, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of film makers about their recent takes on the apocalypse in film; Dekker Dreyer whose film The Arcadian stars Lance Henriksen and Brian Thompson, and mixes the iconography of shamanism with elements of the road movie in a post-apocalyptic setting and Maxì Dejoie whose film The Gerber Syndrome is an Italian take on 28 Days Later…, using a pseudo-documentary style to follow a member of a biohazard clean-up crew who is scouring the streets looking for the contagious and is the first overtly political zombie film in a long time. Alex and Maxi are also joined by Gerber producers Claudio Bronzo and Lorenzo Lotti (in Italian and English).
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Directors’ websites – www.dekkerdreyer.com and www.maxidejoie.com
Trailers: The Arcadian / The Gerber Syndrome
Panel Borders: Cancer Comics
June 16, 2011 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
Cancer Comics
Partially broadcast 16th June 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Covers of Seeds by Ross Mackintosh, Drawing the line and Drawing the line again curated by Suley Fattah and Kasra Ghanbari
Continuing our month of shows about medical comics, we have two recordings of creators’ very different approaches to tackling the issue of cancer in sequential art. In another presentation from last year’s Graphic Medicine conference, Suley Fattah talks about his anthologies Drawing the line and Drawing the line again, which collect a selection of new comics about the subject of cancer to raise money for related charities. Also, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ross Mackintosh about his moving autobiographical book Seeds which depicts his father’s battle with the disease.
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 more information about Ross Mackintosh’ Seeds, www.seedscomic.blogspot.com
For more info about Drawing the line and Drawing the line again, www.benefitcomic.com
Listen to Brian Fies talk about his work
Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
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Today’s show: Cancer Comics
June 16, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Cancer Comics
Covers of Seeds by Ross Mackintosh, Drawing the line and Drawing the line again curated by Suley Fattah and Kasra Ghanbari
Continuing our month of shows about medical comics, we have two recordings of creators’ very different approaches to tackling the issue of cancer in sequential art. In another presentation from last year’s Graphic Medicine conference, Suley Fattah talks about his anthologies Drawing the line and Drawing the line again, which collect a selection of new comics about the subject of cancer to raise money for related charities. Also, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ross Mackintosh about his moving autobiographical book Seeds which depicts his father’s battle with the disease.
5pm, Thursday 16/06/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: For more information about Ross Mackintosh’ Seeds, www.seedscomic.blogspot.com
For more info about Drawing the line and Drawing the line again, www.benefitcomic.com
Listen to Brian Fies talk about his work
Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Recommended events:
KLAUS JANSON SIGNING
Klaus Janson is a comic book legend with a career spanning over four decades from the 1970s to today. He originally shot to fame as Frank Miller’s inker on Daredevil and the legendary Dark Knight Returns, but is also an accomplished artist in his own right, having worked on Batman: Death & The Maidens with writer Greg Rucka. He is currently inking John Romita Jr on The Avengers and recently released two books about Pencilling and Inking for DC Comics.
Klaus’ signing is a London exclusive at Orbital Comics on Thursday, June 16 at 5pm.
Orbital Comics
8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA
Panel Borders: Comic Therapy
June 9, 2011 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
Comic Therapy
Partially broadcast 9h June 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Medical comics panellists: Paul Gravett, Philippa Perry, Darryl Cunningham and Brian Fies, photo by Ian Williams
In a panel discussion recorded at the 2010 Comics and Medicine conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Paul Gravett talks to Brian Fies, Phillipa Perry and Darryl Cunningham about their work in portraying aspects of medical care and therapy in sequential art. Paul and the panel discuss issues of biography and autobiography on the page, the process of portraying a narrative that has a story structure as well as an element of education to it and what they learned from the experience. (Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch)
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 Mom’s Cancer website
Graphic Medicine website
including info on the 2010 conference
Read Brian Fies’ blog posts about his trip to London and Graphic Medicine 2011
Publisher’s page on Couch Fiction
Review by Alain de Botton
Interview with Philippa Perry in The Observer
Darryl Cunningham’s website: www.darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com
Publisher’s page on Psychiatric Tales
Listen to Philippa Perry talk about her therapy graphic novel Couch Fiction and Brian Fies talk about Mom’s Cancer
Listen to Alex Fitch interview Darryl Cunningham about Psychiatric Tales and his other work
Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Today’s show: Comic Therapy
June 9, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Comic Therapy
Medical comics panellists: Paul Gravett, Philippa Perry, Darryl Cunningham and Brian Fies, photo by Ian Williams
In a panel discussion recorded at the 2010 Comics and Medicine conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Paul Gravett talks to Brian Fies, Phillipa Perry and Darryl Cunningham about their work in portraying aspects of medical care and therapy in sequential art. Paul and the panel discuss issues of biography and autobiography on the page, the process of portraying a narrative that has a story structure as well as an element of education to it and what they learned from the experience. (Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch)
5pm, Thursday 09/06/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Official Mom’s Cancer website
Graphic Medicine website
including info on the 2010 conference
Read Brian Fies’ blog posts about his trip to London and Graphic Medicine 2011
Publisher’s page on Couch Fiction
Review by Alain de Botton
Interview with Philippa Perry in The Observer
Darryl Cunningham’s website: www.darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com
Publisher’s page on Psychiatric Tales
Listen to additional podcasts of Philippa Perry talking about her therapy graphic novel Couch Fiction and to Brian Fies talking about Mom’s Cancer
Listen to Alex Fitch interview Darryl Cunningham about Psychiatric Tales and his other work
Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Kim Newman’s Nightmare Movies
June 5, 2011 — 1 Comment
Electric Sheep podcast:
Kim Newman’s Nightmare Movies
Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman, 2011 edition, published by Bloomsbury
Horror maestro Kim Newman discusses the new, updated edition of his essential book Nightmare Movies: Horror on the Screen since the 1960s with Electric Sheep editor Virginie Sélavy; Kim and Virginie discuss seminal modern horror movies such as Night of the Living Dead. (Previously broadcast 20/05/11 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
Visit the page at bloomsbury.cm about Nightmare Movies
Kim Newman’s website: www.johnnyalucard.com
Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Kim Newman about Doctor Who
Panel Borders: Mom’s Cancer
June 2, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Mom’s Cancer
Partially broadcast 2nd June 2011 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Excerpt from Moms Cancer by and (c) Brian Fies
Starting a month of shows about medical comics, Panel Borders is proud to present a talk given by cartoonist Brian Fies about his web comic / graphic novel Mom’s Cancer, recorded at last year’s Graphic Medicine conference in London. Brian talks about the history of the comic, his experiences of working on a strip with such emotive content and his thoughts regarding the comics medium as a whole as a method for helping people deal with medical and life threatening situations.
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 Mom’s Cancer website
Graphic Medicine website including info on the 2010 conference
Read Brian Fies’ blog posts about his trip to London and Graphic Medicine 2011
Listen to Philippa Perry talk about her therapy graphic novel Couch Fiction
Listen to Alex Fitch interview Darryl Cunningham about Psychiatric Tales and his other work
Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
Today’s show: Mom’s Cancer
June 2, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Mom’s Cancer
Excerpt from Moms Cancer by and (c) Brian Fies
Starting a month of shows about medical comics, Panel Borders is proud to present a talk given by cartoonist Brian Fies about his web comic / graphic novel Mom’s Cancer, recorded at last year’s Graphic Medicine conference in London. Brian talks about the history of the comic, his experiences of working on a strip with such emotive content and his thoughts regarding the comics medium as a whole as a method for helping people deal with medical and life threatening situations.
5pm, Thursday 02/06/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Official Mom’s Cancer website
Graphic Medicine website
including info on the 2010 conference
Read Brian Fies’ blog posts about his trip to London and Graphic Medicine 2011
Listen to Philippa Perry talk about her therapy graphic novel Couch Fiction
Listen to Alex Fitch interview Darryl Cunningham about Psychiatric Tales and his other work
Info about the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference, 9-11 June 2011, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago
