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Panel Borders: Gosh! It’s Electric Man!
August 25, 2011
Panel Borders:
Gosh! It’s Electric Man!
Partially broadcast 25/08/11 on Resonance FM
Exterior of Gosh! Comics, Soho + interior of Deadhead Comics, Edinburgh, as featured in Electric Man
Concluding our month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to the proprietors of Gosh! Comics in London which, after 25 years, has relocated from Great Russell Street to the heart of Soho and to Dave Barras, director, and Scott Mackay, co-writer, of the new UK comedy film Electric Man about a rare stolen comic and set in the Edinburgh independent shop, Deadhead comics…
For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Gosh! website
Interview with Josh at dazeddigital.com
Interview with Andrew at thecomicsbureau.co.uk
Electric Man website and production blog
Review of Deadhead comics at www.itchyedinburgh.co.uk
Preview of Electric Man at Forbidden International Blog
Recommended events:
Belfast Comics ‘Barcamp”
The date has been confirmed for the second Comics Barcamp in the English speaking world – essentially an “unconference”, a creative business brainstorming seminar, run along communal lines.
To take place at Blick Studios in Belfast in September, who are also co-sponsors of the event, this free gathering is aimed at anyone who likes or creates small press/ underground comix or who simply enjoys non-hierarchical events with an emphasis on spirit of creativity, alternatives and co-operation.
Blick Studios, Belfast, Saturday 3rd September
More info at http://comicsbarcampbelfast.pbworks.com
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
-Run comic workshops for 16-20 year olds.
-Receive mentoring from top professional comic artists, anthology makers, screenwriters, print makers, comic publishers and art educators.
-Develop your own artistic comic projects with supervision from mentors and feedback from your fellow interns..
-Be introduced to the London comic scene, attend events, give presentations, network and meet publishers, editors and creators in the comic industry.
-Take part in editing, planning and creating work for a comic anthology publication and a comic exhibition at londonprintstudio.
The course is run by professional comic creator Karrie Fransman whose comics have appeared in The Times, The Guardian and who is currently working on her first graphic novel due to be published by Random House.
2 days (14 hours) per week for a six-months. Interns will receive a travel and food expenses budget for two days per week. All londonprintstudio staff and volunteers are required to have a Criminal Records Bureau Check.
Deadline for return of application form: Monday 5th September 2011
Interviews: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Start date: Tuesday 20th September 2011
For job description and application click here: http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/F13-intern.html
For more information on the project click here: http://www.londonprintstudiocomics.blogspot.com/
Today’s show: Gosh! It’s Electric Man!
August 25, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Gosh! It’s Electric Man!
Exterior of Gosh! Comics, Soho + interior of Deadhead Comics, Edinburgh, as featured in Electric Man
Concluding our month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to the proprietors of Gosh! Comics in London which, after 25 years, has relocated from Great Russell Street to the heart of Soho and to Dave Barras, director, and Scott Mackay, co-writer, of the new UK comedy film Electric Man about a rare stolen comic and set in the Edinburgh independent shop, Deadhead comics…
5pm, Thursday 25/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Gosh! website
Interview with Josh at dazeddigital.com
Interview with Andrew at thecomicsbureau.co.uk
Electric Man website and production blog
Review of Deadhead comics at www.itchyedinburgh.co.uk
Preview of Electric Man at Forbidden International Blog
Recommended events:
Belfast Comics ‘Barcamp”
The date has been confirmed for the second Comics Barcamp in the English speaking world – essentially an “unconference”, a creative business brainstorming seminar, run along communal lines.
To take place at Blick Studios in Belfast in September, who are also co-sponsors of the event, this free gathering is aimed at anyone who likes or creates small press/ underground comix or who simply enjoys non-hierarchical events with an emphasis on spirit of creativity, alternatives and co-operation.
Blick Studios, Belfast, Saturday 3rd September
More info at http://comicsbarcampbelfast.pbworks.com
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
-Run comic workshops for 16-20 year olds.
-Receive mentoring from top professional comic artists, anthology makers, screenwriters, print makers, comic publishers and art educators.
-Develop your own artistic comic projects with supervision from mentors and feedback from your fellow interns..
-Be introduced to the London comic scene, attend events, give presentations, network and meet publishers, editors and creators in the comic industry.
-Take part in editing, planning and creating work for a comic anthology publication and a comic exhibition at londonprintstudio.
The course is run by professional comic creator Karrie Fransman whose comics have appeared in The Times, The Guardian and who is currently working on her first graphic novel due to be published by Random House.
2 days (14 hours) per week for a six-months. Interns will receive a travel and food expenses budget for two days per week. All londonprintstudio staff and volunteers are required to have a Criminal Records Bureau Check.
Deadline for return of application form: Monday 5th September 2011
Interviews: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Start date: Tuesday 20th September 2011
For job description and application click here: http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/F13-intern.html
For more information on the project click here: http://www.londonprintstudiocomics.blogspot.com/
Panel Borders: The shop around the corner
August 18, 2011 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
The shop around the corner
Image from Hitman by John McCrea / They Walk Among Us, Richmond, photo by Rich Johnston
Continuing our month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to the former proprietors of comic shops that existed in the 80s and 90s and have left lasting impression on their fans. Dark Horizons opened in the back of Terri Hooley’s cult record shop Good Vibrations, Belfast in 1985 before graduating into a shop in its own right; in its first incarnation, the store was co-owned by John McCrea who went on to become a popular comic book artist on such titles as Troubled Souls, Hitman and Herogasm, written by Garth Ennis. At much the same time in Richmond, Jon Browne opened They walk among us, a store he co-owned for 22 years which found fame as the comic shop featured on TV in Spaced and in the most recent series of Red Dwarf. Alex talks to John and Jon about their memories of running comic shops, the vagueries of stocking popular titles and how one shop burned down and the other became absorbed into a chain in the 2000s.
For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Article about the closure of They Walk Among Us in The Twickenham Times
Jon’s ebay shop
Article on John McCrea leaving Marvel UK
Info about Dark Horizons on Irish Comics Wiki
Recommended events:
Comics and Conflicts festival , Imperial War Museum
…will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti(Fabtoons).
On Friday 19th, there is an academic conference, in which University students and writers will be presenting papers on the subject of War Comics throughout the day, followed by a talk by Charley’s War author Pat Mills. There are tickets available for the conference which includes the talk by Pat Mills, or the talk is available as a separate ticket.
On Saturday 20th, there are talks, panels and workshops by small press creators and international authors, including a hour long discussion with Garth Ennis on stage in his first UK appearance at a comics festival in many years.
All Saturday events are £6 / the final event of the weekend, The Comics go to War film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children’s literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Full listing of events at www.panelborders.com/events
Today’s show: The shop around the corner
August 18, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: The shop around the corner
Image from Hitman by John McCrea / They Walk Among Us, Richmond, photo by Rich Johnston
Continuing our month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to the former proprietors of comic shops that existed in the 80s and 90s and have left lasting impression on their fans. Dark Horizons opened in the back of Terri Hooley’s cult record shop Good Vibrations, Belfast in 1985 before graduating into a shop in its own right; in its first incarnation, the store was co-owned by John McCrea who went on to become a popular comic book artist on such titles as Troubled Souls, Hitman and Herogasm, written by Garth Ennis. At much the same time in Richmond, Jon Browne opened They walk among us, a store he co-owned for 22 years which found fame as the comic shop featured on TV in Spaced and in the most recent series of Red Dwarf. Alex talks to John and Jon about their memories of running comic shops, the vagueries of stocking popular titles and how one shop burned down and the other became absorbed into a chain in the 2000s.
5pm, Thursday 18/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Article about the closure of They Walk Among Us in The Twickenham Times
Jon’s ebay shop
Article on John McCrea leaving Marvel UK
Info about Dark Horizons on Irish Comics Wiki
Recommended events:
Comics and Conflicts festival , Imperial War Museum
…will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti(Fabtoons).
On Friday 19th, there is an academic conference, in which University students and writers will be presenting papers on the subject of War Comics throughout the day, followed by a talk by Charley’s War author Pat Mills. There are tickets available for the conference which includes the talk by Pat Mills, or the talk is available as a separate ticket.
On Saturday 20th, there are talks, panels and workshops by small press creators and international authors, including a hour long discussion with Garth Ennis on stage in his first UK appearance at a comics festival in many years.
All Saturday events are £6 / the final event of the weekend, The Comics go to War film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children’s literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Full listing of events at www.panelborders.com/events
Panel Borders: War (comic), what is it good for?
August 17, 2011 — 4 Comments
Panel Borders:
War (comic), what is it good for?
Alex Fitch, Ariel Kahn, Paul Gravett, Eileen Cassavetti and Francesca Cassavetti in the studio at Resonance FM, photo by Nick Tesco
In an episode of Panel Borders previously broadcast as a live ‘Clear Spot’ on Resonance FM, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn, Eileen Cassavetti, Francesca Cassavetti and David Blandy about about the importance of war comics in culture and bringing the experience of war and conflict to new readers in a way that text alone can’t fully realise, plus the forthcoming Comics and Conflicts conference and events at the Imperial War Museum. Paul and Ariel discuss classic war comics and Francesca and Eileen talk about publishing the latter’s war time diary in comic book format, plus, in excerpts from a couple of classic episodes, Alex talks to Garth Ennis, and Grant Rogers interviews Pat Mills about Charley’s War.
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Listen to the full length interview with Pat Mills about Charley’s War conducted by Garth Rogers
Links: Info about the Comics and Conflicts events at the Imperial War Museum
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk (scroll down to find individual events
Info about Francesca and Eileen Cassavetti at fabtoons.blogspot.com
David Blandy’s film Child of the Atom
Info about War: The Human Cost
Charley’s War website
Wikipedia pages on Garth Ennis’ War Stories and Battlefields
Recommended events:
Comics and Conflicts festival , Imperial War Museum
…will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti(Fabtoons).
On Friday 19th, there is an academic conference, in which University students and writers will be presenting papers on the subject of War Comics throughout the day, followed by a talk by Charley’s War author Pat Mills. There are tickets available for the conference which includes the talk by Pat Mills, or the talk is available as a separate ticket.
On Saturday 20th, there are talks, panels and workshops by small press creators and international authors, including a hour long discussion with Garth Ennis on stage in his first UK appearance at a comics festival in many years.
All Saturday events are £6 / the final event of the weekend, The Comics go to War film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children’s literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Full listing of events at www.panelborders.com/events
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Today’s show: War (comic) what is it good for?
August 16, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Clear Spot: War (comic) what is it good for?
Covers of Charleys War by Mills and Colquhoun, War: The Human Cost by Duffield, Parkard et al. and Philip and Helena by Eileen Cassavetti
In advance of the Comics and Conflicts two day festival at the Imperial War Museum on 19th and 20th August 2011, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn, Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti about the importance of war comics in culture and bringing the experience of war and conflict to new readers in a way that text alone can’t fully realise. The show will also include extracts from episodes of Panel Borders featuring Garth Ennis and Pat Mills who are both talking at the IWM comics events.
8pm, Tuesday 16/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Info about the Comics and Conflicts events at the Imperial War Museum
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk (scroll down to find individual events
Info about Francesca and Eileen Cassavetti at fabtoons.blogspot.com
Info about War: The Human Cost
Charley’s War website
Wikipedia pages on Garth Ennis’ War Stories and Battlefields
Recommended events:
Comics and Conflicts festival , Imperial War Museum
…will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti(Fabtoons).
On Friday 19th, there is an academic conference, in which University students and writers will be presenting papers on the subject of War Comics throughout the day, followed by a talk by Charley’s War author Pat Mills. There are tickets available for the conference which includes the talk by Pat Mills, or the talk is available as a separate ticket.
On Saturday 20th, there are talks, panels and workshops by small press creators and international authors, including a hour long discussion with Garth Ennis on stage in his first UK appearance at a comics festival in many years.
All Saturday events are £6 / the final event of the weekend, The Comics go to War film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children’s literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Full listing of events at www.panelborders.com/events
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Comics and conflict at the Imperial War Museum
August 13, 2011 — 6 Comments
Comics and conflict
19th-20th August, 2011
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
The Comics and Conflicts Conference will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti (Fabtoons).
Here’s a run down of the two days of events:
Friday 19th August:
9.00am – War Comics Conference opens; coffee and registration
10.00am – introductory talk by MARTIN BAKER and ROGER SABIN about the depiction of war in the Guardian’s comic strip Doonesbury
11.00am – choice of parallel sessions: REPRESENTING TRAUMA (Chair, Ariel Kahn) / ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM AND REPRESENTATION
(Chair, Paul Gravett)
12.20pm – Lunch
1.20pm – Panel on THE IMAGE AND REALITY OF WAR: (Chair, Garth Ennis) featuring Tim Pilcher, Darin Jensen, Isabelle Delorme
2.40pm – choice of parallel sessions: FORM AND CONTENT: (Chair, Roger Sabin) / CONFLICT AND IDEOLOGY: (Chair, Alex Fitch)
4.00pm – Coffee break
4.20pm – In conversation with PAT MILLS, from Charley’s War to Ayatollah’s Son followed by signing
Listen to the full length interview with Pat Mills about Charley’s War conducted by Garth Rogers in 2008
6.00pm – Close
Please note: ticket cost for the entire day is £30.00 / Students £15.00 including Pat Mills talk or £6 for Mills talk only.
Saturday 20th August
10.30am – Artist DAVID COLLIER talks about his work from American Splendor to Chimo, followed by comic making master class at noon (separate ticket)
11.30am Artists and publishers discuss Trauma and Conflict (Chair, Paul Gravett) with Danish artist MIKKEL SOMMER, writer and illustrator of Obsolete, and ADRIAN SEARLE, the publisher of Dougie’s War, plus artist DAVE TURBITT.
2.00pm Artists and publishers discuss The Personal and the Political (Chair, Alex Fitch) with FRANCESCA CASSAVETTI and her mother, EILEEN CASSAVETTI talking about the latter’s wartime diary which Francesca has published as a comic; joined by SEAN DUFFIELD, publisher of War – the Human Cost plus contributing artists DANIEL LOCKE and BEN NAYLOR; and DAVID BLANDY talking about his short film Child of the Atom.
3.00pm In Conversation with GARTH ENNIS – from Troubled Souls to Battlefields; a rare UK appearance by the writer, followed by signing
Listen to Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott’s 2008 interview with Garth Ennis – part one / part two
4.30pm Film Screening: COMIC BOOKS GO TO WAR, directed by Mark Daniels, which looks at the work of Joe Sacco, Keiji Nakazawa (Barefoot Gen) and Marjane Satrapi among others, featuring new interviews with the creators + short film: CHILD OF THE ATOM by David Blandy, which explores a return visit to Hiroshima by the child of a local man and the representation of Nuclear Holocaust in Japanese animation.
All Saturday events are £6 / the film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
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Panel Borders: Buying and selling comics
August 11, 2011
Panel Borders:
Buying and selling comics
Interior of Plan B books, Glasgow and exterior of the Royal National Hotel, London
Continuing our month long look at comic book shops, we have interviews with the proprietors of a couple of venues that are unlike your average comic shop. Veteran publisher Mike Lake and colleague Colin Strawbridge talk to Dickon Harris about their regular stall selling classic comics at the monthly Royal National Hotel Comic Mart off Russell Square. Also, in an interview recorded at last week’s Caption festival in Oxford, Alex Fitch talks to comic book creator Pete Renshaw, author of Burke and Hare: The West Port Murders, about Plan B, the graphic novels and coffee shop that he co-owns in Glasgow.
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: Plan B Books, Glasgow
Pete’s myspace blog on Burke and Hare
Info about London Comic Marts
Blog post about Mike Lake and Forbidden Planet
Recommended events:
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
-Run comic workshops for 16-20 year olds.
-Receive mentoring from top professional comic artists, anthology makers, screenwriters, print makers, comic publishers and art educators.
-Develop your own artistic comic projects with supervision from mentors and feedback from your fellow interns..
-Be introduced to the London comic scene, attend events, give presentations, network and meet publishers, editors and creators in the comic industry.
-Take part in editing, planning and creating work for a comic anthology publication and a comic exhibition at londonprintstudio.
The course is run by professional comic creator Karrie Fransman whose comics have appeared in The Times, The Guardian and who is currently working on her first graphic novel due to be published by Random House.
(more…)
Today’s show: Buying and selling comics
August 11, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Buying and selling comics
Interior of Plan B books, Glasgow and exterior of the Royal National Hotel, London
Continuing our month long look at comic book shops, we have interviews with the proprietors of a couple of venues that are unlike your average comic shop. Veteran publisher Mike Lake and colleague Colin Strawbridge talk to Dickon Harris about their regular stall selling classic comics at the monthly Royal National Hotel Comic Mart off Russell Square. Also, in an interview recorded at last week’s Caption festival in Oxford, Alex Fitch talks to comic book creator Pete Renshaw, author of Burke and Hare: The West Port Murders, about Plan B, the graphic novels and coffee shop that he co-owns in Glasgow.
5pm, Thursday 11/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Plan B Books, Glasgow
Pete’s myspace blog on Burke and Hare
Info about London Comic Marts
Blog post about Mike Lake and Forbidden Planet
Recommended events:
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
-Run comic workshops for 16-20 year olds.
-Receive mentoring from top professional comic artists, anthology makers, screenwriters, print makers, comic publishers and art educators.
-Develop your own artistic comic projects with supervision from mentors and feedback from your fellow interns..
-Be introduced to the London comic scene, attend events, give presentations, network and meet publishers, editors and creators in the comic industry.
-Take part in editing, planning and creating work for a comic anthology publication and a comic exhibition at londonprintstudio.
The course is run by professional comic creator Karrie Fransman whose comics have appeared in The Times, The Guardian and who is currently working on her first graphic novel due to be published by Random House.
(more…)
Panel Borders: Comic Book Caption(s)
August 4, 2011 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
Comic Book Caption(s)
Will Morgan, Al Davison and P.J. Holden sell their wares at Caption and other locations
Starting a month of shows about comic book shops, we have three interviews recorded at Oxford’s small press comics convention ‘Caption’. Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who comic illustrator Al Davison, who runs a graphic novels and art supply shop in Coventry and to former Gay Comics writer Will Morgan, one of the proprietors of a comic book shop in Putney which specialises in classic British titles. Also, 2000AD artist P.J. Holden is interviewed by comics journalist Matt Badham, about the shops he frequented while growing up in Belfast.
Read Alex’s article about Caption in The Oxford Journal
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: Will Morgan‘s shop 30th Century Comics, Putney
Will’s profile on prismcomics.org
Buy Prime Cuts by Will Morgan writing as Howard Strangroom from amazon.co.uk
Al Davison‘s shop The Astral Gypsy, Coventry
Al’s Astral Gypsy and Muscle Memory blogs
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Al Davison about Doctor Who comics
P.J. Holden‘s website
Articles about P.J. at Irish Comic News
Additional interview with P.J. by Matt Badham about breaking in to 2000AD
Caption website
Selina Locke’s photos of Caption 2010
Matt Badham’s blog
2000AD online
Recommended events:
Caption Comics festival 2011
Oxford’s small press comics festival is taking place this weekend, the 6th and 7th of August at the East Oxford Community centre.
Guests include Al Davison, Ian Culbard, Kate Brown, Paul Rainey, David O’Connell and Paul Duffield and tickets are a very reasonable five pounds per day, plus workshops on comic book creating, the annual Caption auction featuring original art pages and new pieces by attending creators and much, much more…
Find more info at www.caption.org
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
(more…)
Today’s show: Comic Book Caption(s)
August 4, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Comic Book Caption(s)
Will Morgan, Al Davison and P.J. Holden sell their wares at Caption and other locations
Starting a month of shows about comic book shops, we have three interviews recorded at Oxford’s small press comics convention ‘Caption’. Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who comic illustrator Al Davison, who runs a graphic novels and art supply shop in Coventry and to former Gay Comics writer Will Morgan, one of the proprietors of a comic book shop in Putney which specialises in classic British titles. Also, 2000AD artist P.J. Holden is interviewed by comics journalist Matt Badham, about the shops he frequented while growing up in Belfast.
Read Alex’s article about Caption in The Oxford Journal
5pm, Thursday 04/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Will Morgan‘s shop 30th Century Comics, Putney
Will’s profile on prismcomics.org
Buy Prime Cuts by Will Morgan writing as Howard Strangroom from amazon.co.uk
Al Davison‘s shop The Astral Gypsy, Coventry
Al’s Astral Gypsy and Muscle Memory blogs
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Al Davison about Doctor Who comics
P.J. Holden‘s website
Articles about P.J. at Irish Comic News
Additional interview with P.J. by Matt Badham about breaking in to 2000AD
Caption website
Selina Locke’s photos of Caption 2010
Matt Badham’s blog
2000AD online
Recommended events:
Caption Comics festival 2011
Oxford’s small press comics festival is taking place this weekend, the 6th and 7th of August at the East Oxford Community centre.
Guests include Al Davison, Ian Culbard, Kate Brown, Paul Rainey, David O’Connell and Paul Duffield and tickets are a very reasonable five pounds per day, plus workshops on comic book creating, the annual Caption auction featuring original art pages and new pieces by attending creators and much, much more…
Find more info at www.caption.org
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
(more…)
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Kosmos – Polish and Russian Sci-Fi cinema
August 4, 2011
Electric Sheep podcast:
Kosmos – Polish and Russian Sci-Fi cinema
Stills from The Interrogation of Pilot Pirx and Icarus XB-1 based on the work of Stanislaw Lem
Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to Russian scholar Sergei Kapterev (Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow) about Soviet science fiction and the connection between SF cinema and politics, the impact of the space race and the Cold War period, and Roger Corman’s re-edits of popular Soviet SF films. (Originally broadcast 15/07/11 on Resonance FM)
Plus, in a Q and A recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, April, 2010, Alex Fitch talks to Polish poster designer Andrzej Klimowski and SF writer / journalist Wojciech Orliński about cinematic adaptations of the work of Stanisław Lem from Steven Soderbergh and Andrei Tarkovsky’s adaptations of Solaris to more offbeat films such as Edward Zebrowski’s The Hospital of Transfiguration.
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 partial broadcast of this show
Buy tickets for the Kosmos season at BFI Southbank
Info on British Library Lem event
Buy DVD box sets: Pojechane w kosmos – Masterpieces of Polish SF Cinema (including Test Pilot Pirxa [1978]) / the films of Piotr Szulkin (including Golem [1980] and War of the Worlds: Next Century [1981]) and the book Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem from amazon.co.uk
Read a discussion of Polish cinema on DVD at criterionforum.org
Previous interviews with Andrzej Klimowski
June 2010 Electric Sheep podcast with Klimowski and Andrzej Żuławski about ‘the Polish New Wave’
Info about the 2010 SCI-FI-LONDON screening of The Hospital of Transfiguration
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Panel Borders: The art of P.J. Holden
August 4, 2011 — 3 Comments
Panel Borders:
The art of P.J. Holden
Excerpt from a Judge Dredd strip by P.J. Holden and Gordon Rennie
A special online exclusive episode of Panel Borders – in an interview recorded at Oxford’s Caption comic book festival in 2010, comics journalist Matt Badham talks to 2000AD artist P.J. Holden about his work, from his formative years combining art and computers to getting his first Judge Dredd assignment and his most recent projects.
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
Read Alex Fitch’s article about Caption in The Oxford Journal
Links: P.J.’s website
Matt Badham’s blog
Caption website
2000AD online
Listen to the companion podcast to this interview in which P.J. talks to Matt about his formative years in Belfast and Alex Fitch talks to Al Davison and Will Morgan about Caption
Recommended events:
Caption Comics festival 2011
Oxford’s small press comics festival is taking place this weekend, the 6th and 7th of August at the East Oxford Community centre.
Guests include Al Davison, Ian Culbard, Kate Brown, Paul Rainey, David O’Connell and Paul Duffield and tickets are a very reasonable five pounds per day, plus workshops on comic book creating, the annual Caption auction featuring original art pages and new pieces by attending creators and much, much more…
Find more info at www.caption.org
Film Podcasts
August 1, 2011
While there are a variety of different ways to navigate this site – see the tabs at the top – here’s a list of all the audio interviews (conducted by Alex Fitch unless otherwise noted) available to download:
[Currently covers 01/01/07 - 30/07/11, index last updated 01/08/11
Interviews conducted between 27/02/05 and 29/04/08 are indexed at alexfitch.com]
Actors
Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who) – interview by Simon Guerrier
Monica Baccarin (V / Firefly)
Bérénice Bejo (OSS 117 – Cairo, Nest of Spies)
Lisa Bowerman (Doctor Who / The adventures of Prof. Bernice Summerfield)
Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead)
Craig Charles (Red Dwarf)
Rupert Degas (The Brightonomicon)
Jurgen Delnaet (Moscow, Belgium)
Stephen Fewell (Doctor Who / The adventures of Prof. Bernice Summerfield)
Rich Fulcher (The Mighty Boosh)
Philip Glenister (Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes)
Dean Haglund (The X-Files)
Linda Hamilton (Terminator 2 / Dante’s Peak)
David Hewlett (Cube / Splice)
Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica) – interview by Joel Meadows
Michael Jayston (Doctor Who / Nicholas and Alexandra)
Rachel Luttrell (Stargate: Atlantis) – interview by Liz George
Francis Matthews (Captain Scarlet / Paul Temple)
Sylvester McCoy (Doctor Who / Dracula)
Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange / Never Apologise)
Bill Moseley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 / 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams)
Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
George Takei (Star Trek) – interview by Chris Patmore
Jonathan Woodward (Drones / Angel)
Susannah York (They shoot horses don’t they? / The Struggles for Poland)
Animation
Nick Goldsmith (Executive producer: A Town called Panic)
Oscar Grillo (Animator: Dad / Monsters Inc.)
Ray Harryhausen (Animator: Jason and the Argonauts / Clash of the Titans)
Javier Mariscal (Designer: Chico and Rita)
Tom Purcell (Animator: The Long Weekend)
Grant Rogers (Animator: Tales of Beatrix Potter, Father Christmas)
Carol Anne Strohmeier (Editor: Beowulf / Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Vincent Woodcook (Animator: The Tigger Movie / Ducktales)
Cinema programming
Indigo Andersson (Club Whatever @ Central Station)
Geoff Andrew (BFI)
Suzanne Ballantyne (Raindance Film festival) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Noel Lawrence (Other Cinema, San Francisco / DVD label)
Dennis Laws (BFI IMAX)
Xavier Mendik (Cine Excess) interview by Virginie Sélavy
Robert Rider (The Barbican)
Louis Savy (Sci-Fi London – The London International Science-Fiction Film Festival)
Emma Smart (BFI / London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival)
Pete Tombs / Tejinder Jouhal (‘Bolly-horror’ at the ICA)
Directors
Michael Almereyda (Nadja / Shooting Paradise)
Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds / Fireball XL5)
Paul W.S. Anderson (Death Race / Event Horizon)
Kenneth Anger (Scorpio Rising) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Dario Argento (Suspiria / Tenebre)
Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls)
Max Bartoli (Atlantis Down)
Rex Bloomstein (KZ / An Independent Mind)
Marc Caro (The City of Lost Children / Dante 01)
Rigoberto Castaneda (KM31) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Joe Dante (Gremlins / The Movie Orgy)
Jasmine Dellal (Gypsy Caravan)
Maxì Dejoie (The Gerber Syndrome)
Dekker Dreyer (The Arcadian)
Julian Doyle (Chemical Wedding) – interview by Chris Patmore
Gareth Edwards (Monsters)
Nick and Marc Francis (Black Gold)
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator / Robot Jox)
Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching / The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover)
Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117 – Cairo, Nest of Spies)
John Hilcoat (The Road / The Proposition) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Eggshells)
Malcolm Ingram (Small Town Gay Bar)
Garth Jennings (The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Son of Rambow)
Alejandro Jodorowski (El Topo / The Holy Mountain) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Mike Kaplan (Never Apologise – a personal visit with Lindsay Anderson)
Danny Kuchuk (Cryptic)
Joe Lawlor (Civic Life / Helen)
Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World / My Winnipeg)
Christine Malloy (Civic Life / Helen)
Tesuaki Matsue (Annyong Yumika / Live Tape) – interview by Jasper Sharp
Jack Moik (Nydenion)
Anders Morgenthaler (Princess) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Paul Morrison (Little Ashes) – interview by Chris Patmore
Allan Moyle (Weirdsville / Pump up the volume)
Vincenzo Natali (Cube / Splice)
Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy / I’m a Cyborg, but it’s okay)
Sally Potter (Orlando / Rage) – interview by Sophie Mayer
Mark Price (Colin)
Christophe Van Rompaey (Moscow, Belgium)
Eli Roth (Hostel / Cabin Fever)
Duncan Roy (A.K.A. / The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Tarsem Singh (The Cell / The Fall) – interview by Chris Patmore
Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) – interview by Jessica Fostekew
Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files)
Paul Spurrier (P / Underground)
Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism / A Necessary Death)
Joseph Strick (Ulysses / Portrait of the artist as a young man)
David Strohmeier (Cinerama Adventure)
Sandhya Suri (I for India)
Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners)
Monika Treut (Ghosted) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Mirjam Van Veelan (Megumi)
Nacho Vigalondo (TimeCrimes)
Howard Webster (The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore / Dragon Soccer)
Michael Winterbottom (Code 46 / 24 hour party people)
Andrzej Żuławski (On the Silver Globe / The Third part of the night)
Entertainment panels / Q and As
’8th Wonderland’ (featuring Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach)
‘Bird’s Eye View’ (feat. Melanie Light, Kate Shenton and Jennifer Eiss) – interview by Sélavy
‘Blake’s 7′ (Radio drams @ Bristol Comics Expo)
‘Dragon Hunters’ (CGI cartoon @ Sci-Fi London)
‘Eyeborgs’ (SF Thriller @ Sci-Fi London)
Goblin (Scoring genre movies @ The Supersonic festival)
‘Lover’s Lane’ (Short films @ The Raindance Film Festival)
‘The Hunt for Golem’ (Lord of the Rings fan film @ Sci-Fi London)
Low budget Sci-Fi filmmaking (McMorrow / Jobson / Hazeldine / McAbee / Caro)
‘Midnight Magic’ (Basketball documentary @ The Raindance Film Festival)
‘Secret Societies’ one (feat. Mark Pilkington and Richard Bancroft) – interviews by Virginie Sélavy
‘The Struggles for Poland’ @ (Imperial War Museum)
‘Twisted Tales’ (cast of Roald Dahl play discuss his work)
Video shop closures / openings (HomeView, Brockley / Close-Up, Hoxton)
‘Wasting Away’ (Zombie movie @ Sci-Fi London)
‘Zoo’ (Documentary discussion @ The Prince Charles Cinema)
‘Lucky Cat’ – episodes of Resonance FM’s Asian Culture show presented by Zoe Baxter
The Films of Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls / Memories of Matsuko)
The Films of Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy / Thirst)
Reviews
Jessica Fostekew (Various film reviews)
Tania Glyde ( Films by Jeff Keen)
Michael Hall (Fright Fest ’07)
Joel Karamath (Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Granville Markland (Magic on film / Houdini expert)
Greta Mills (Frightfest ’06)
Virginie Sélavy (Various film reviews)
Robin Warren (Notorious / Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
Comics podcasts
August 1, 2011
N.B./ In the case of subjects interviewed on more than one occasion, the link goes to a page containing all the interviews with that person, so scroll down to find the interview you want…
[Currently covers 01/01/07 - 30/07/11, index last updated 01/08/11
Interviews conducted between 27/02/05 and 29/04/08 are indexed at alexfitch.com]
Comic book artists
Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
John and Patrice Aggs (The DFC / Liquid City)
Gabriel Bá (The Umbrella Academy / Casanova)
Glenn Baxter (The Billiard Table Murders)
Arne Bellsdorf (Baby’s in Black)
Hannah Berry (Britten and Brülightly)
Doug Braithwaite (Universe X / Justice)
Raymond Briggs (The Snowman / When the wind blows)
Martin Brown (Horrible Histories)
Mark Buckingham (Fables / Spiderman)
Charles Burns (Black Hole) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Eddie Campbell (From Hell / Alec) – interviews by Oli Smith and Alex Fitch
Howard Chaykin (American Flagg! / Die Hard Year One)
Becky Cloonan (Demo / East Coast Rising)
Daniel Clowes (Ghost World / Wilson)
Amy Colburn (Manly)
Paul Collicutt (Robot City Adventures)
Ian Culbard (The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Picture of Dorian Grey)
Vince Danks (Harker / Gravestown)
Huw J. Davies (Garth / Freeman)
Alan Davis (Captain Britain / X-Men)
Al Davison (Doctor Who / The Spiral Cage)
D’israeli (Lazarus Churchyard / Scarlet Traces)
Peter Doherty (Judge Dredd Megazine / The Dreaming)
Hunt Emerson (Lady Chatterly’s Lover) – interview by Dickon Harris
Gary Erskine (Knights of Pendragon / Dan Dare)
Garen Ewing (The Rainbow Orchid / The Tempest)
Glenn Fabry (Slaine / Preacher)
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer)
Karrie Fransman (The Night I lost my love)
Dave Gibbons (Watchmen / Give me Liberty)
Roger Gibson (Harker / Torchwood)
Melinda Gebbie (Lost Girls) interview by Jenni Scott
Henri Goldsmann (Henry, a dog’s best friend / Secret Agent Spanky Sheep)
Katie Green (Lighter than my shadow)
Peter Gross (The Books of Magic / Lucifer)
Pia Guerra (Y: The Last Man) – interview by Tom Humberstone
Rian Hughes (Dare / Tales from beyond science)
Frazer Irving (Gutsville) – interviews by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Jock (The Losers / 2000AD)
Reinhard Kleist (Johnny Cash: I see a darkness)
Andrzej Klimowski (The Secret / Horace Dorlan)
Roger Langridge (The Muppet Show) – interview by Robin Warren and Alex Fitch
David Lloyd (V for Vendetta / Kickback)
Ross Mackintosh (Seeds)
Jim Mahfood (Clerks / Grrrl Scouts)
Alex Maleev (Daredevil)
Brendan McCarthy (Skin / Rogan Gosh) – interview by Pedro Galvao
John McCrea (Hitman / Troubled Souls)
Sarah McIntyre (Vern and Lettuce / Morris the Mankiest Monster)
Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram / Cable)
Jim Medway (The DFC)
Mike Mignola (Hellboy / Bram Stoker’s Dracula)
Alex Milway (The Mythical 9th Division / The Mousehunter)
Rutu Modan (Exit Wounds) – interview by Ariel Kahn
Fábio Moon (De: Tales / Casanova)
Gary Northfield (Derek the sheep / The Beano)
Kevin O’Neill (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Nemesis the Warlock)
Yanick Paquette (Wolverine / Batman, Inc.) – interview by Dickon Harris
David Petersen (Mouse Guard)
Woodrow Phoenix (Rumble Strip / Donny Digits)
John Romita Jr. (Daredevil / Batman)
Martin Rowson (Tristram Shandy / The Wasteland)
Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Gerald Scarfe (Pink Floyd: The Wall / Monsters)
Danusia Schejbal (The Master and Margarita / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Viviane Schwartz (There are Cats in this book / Shark and Lobster)
Nicola Scott (Titans / Wonder Woman)
Geoff Senior (Transformers) – interview conducted by Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott
Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers)
Walter Simonson (The Mighty Thor)
Art Spielgelman (Maus / Breakdowns) – interview by Grant Rogers
Bryan Talbot (The Tale of One Bad Rat / The Adventures of Luther Arkwright)
Shaun Tan (The Arrival)
Ben Templesmith (30 days of night)
Jill Thompson (Sandman / Scary Godmother)
Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve / Shortcomings) – interview by Tom Humberstone
Charles Vess (Stardust / Sandman)
Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan / ACME Novelty Library)
Ian Williams (Thom Ferrier’s Fear of Flying)
J.H. Williams III (Promethea / Batwoman)
Steve Yeowell (Zenith / The Invisibles)
Comic book writers
Dan Abnett (Knights of Pendragon / Sinister Dexter)
Zan Christensen (The Mark of Aeacus)
Chris Claremont (X-Men / Captain Britain)
Paul Cornell (Doctor Who)
Peter David (X-Factor / Incredible Hulk) – interview by Paul Cornell
Jamie Delano (Nevermore / Hellblazer) – interview by Virginie Sélavy
Apostolos Doxiadis (Logicomix)
John Dunning (Salem Brownstone: All along the watchtowers)
Ian Edginton (Scarlet Traces)
Garth Ennis (Preacher / The Boys) – interviews by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Mark Evanier (Kirby – King of Comics / Groo the Wanderer)
Simon Furman (Transformers) – interviews by Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott
Neil Gaiman (Sandman / Stardust)
Kieron Gillen (Phonogram / Beta Ray Bill)
David Hine (X-Men: The 198) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion / Ctrl Alt Shift Unmasks Corruption)
Alex Irvine (Daredevil Noir)
Antony Johnston (Dead Space / Wasteland)
Rich Johnston (The Flying Friar) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Dale Lazarov (Manly)
Tony Lee (Doctor Who: The Forgotten)
Josie Long (Dodgem Logic / Kindness and exuberance) – interview by Dickon Harris
Pat Mills (Charley’s War) – interviews by Grant Rogers, Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Alan Moore (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / From Hell)
Leah Moore (Sherlock Holmes / Albion) – interviews by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Audrey Niffenegger (The Night Bookmobile / The Time Traveller’s Wife)
Greg Pak (Incredible Hulk / Incredible Hercules)
Philippa Perry (Couch Fiction)
Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials / The DFC)
John Reppion (Sherlock Holmes / Albion) – interviews by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Gary Russell (Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur)
Simon Spurrier (Gutsville) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Paul Tanter (Jack Said / Jack Falls)
Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules / Marvel Zombies)
Gene Luen Yang (Level Up / American Born Chinese)
Comics and literature events
The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2008 – interviews by Graham Sleight
The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2009 – interviews by Graham Sleight
The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2010 – interviews by Graham Sleight and Alex Fitch
Caption 2010 (small press comics fest. featuring Selina Lock and Jeremy Day)
‘City of Abacus’ (Feat. V.V. Brown, David Allain, Lee O’Connor, John Spelling)
‘Dan Dare’ (Garry Leach, Rian Hughes, Rod Barzilay and Gary Erskine) – interviews by John Freeman
The DFC comic book launch (featuring David Fickling and Nick Abadzis)
The DFC Library panel (featuring Kate Brown, Dave Shelton and Ben Haggarty)
Eastercon 2008 part 1 (Nickey Barnard and Christopher Teague)
Eastercon 2008 part 2 (Jetse de Vries, Aliette de Bodard and John Coxon)
Eastside Educational Trust (Graphic Truths project) – interviews by Sarah Lightman
‘Eclectic Micks’ (British International Comics Show)
Future of publishing panel (Sci-Fi London) – interviews by Tom Hunter
Gay Comics Panel (Bristol Comics Expo) – additional questions by Smith and Musson
Handmade and Bound (Comics and ‘zines fair) – interviews by Dickon Harris
London Print Studios Comics Collective (recorded at Laydeez do comics)
Manga Jiman 2007: The UK Japanese Embassy’s ‘Pride in Manga’ competition winners
Manga Jiman 2009 competition winners – interviews by Dickon Harris and Alex Fitch
‘Medical Comics’ (feat. Brian Fies, Philippa Perry, Darryl Cunningham) – interview by Paul Gravett
‘Medical Manga’ (featuring Maria Vaccarella and Ada Palmer)
New Cross Pen Club (Solipsistic Pop / We are Words and Pictures creators)
Sci-Fi Comics Panel (Sci-Fi London)
‘Sioux Warrior’ (Sam Gardner, Jake Rowlinson and Lee O’Connor)
‘Spirit of Hope’ (featuring ed.: Alan Cowsill and publisher: Tim Pilcher)
Stand Up Comics (Stories / music by comic creators) – hosted by Gemma Cantlow
Streatham Library Graphic Novels Readers Group (plus review of Black Hole)
‘Swedish Manga’ panel (Bristol Comics Expo) – introduced by Dickon Harris
Osamu Tezuka panel (Bristol Comics Expo) – hosted by Helen McCarthy
Torchwood novels panel (British Fantasy Society) – hosted by Andrew Cartmel
The UK Web and Mini Comix Thing 2008 various interviews by Oliver Lambden
Louis Wain panel at Comica (Savage Pencil and David Quantick)
Manga / Manhua
Asia Alfasi (JinNarration)
Benjamin (Orange)
Kate Brown (The DFC / A Midsummer night’s dream)
Nie Chongrui (Son of the Merchant)
Mr Clement (Yeah Kou Phobia)
Gillian Sein Ying Ha (Darumafish)
Kate Holden (Indie Manga)
Michael Kacar (Ramen Jiman)
Yuri Kore (The boy who runs from the sun)
Chihoi Lee (The Writer)
Melody Lee (Prick)
Yishan Li (Midnight Blue)
Zarina Liew (The Sun and the Moon / Le Mime) – interview by Dickon Harris
Karen Rubins (Manga Jiman 150 / Urban Beasts)
Sally Jane Thompson (Indie Manga)
Emma Vieceli (Dragon Heir / Much ado about nothing)
Coco Wang (China 5.12)
Zhang Xiaoyu (The Clown)
Hok Tak Yeung (How Blue was my Valley)
Tim (TH) Yu (Red Snow)
Publishing
John Anderson (Soaring Penguin Press)
David Brawn (Harper Collins)
Suley Fattah (Drawing the line)
Dan Franklin (Jonathan Cape)
John Freeman (Editor: Marvel UK / Doctor Who Magazine)
Steffen P. Maarup (Aben Maler)
Joel Meadows (Tripwire) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Terome McNally (Semiotic Cohesion)
Kenny Penman (Blank Slate)
Tim Pilcher (Erotic Comics) – interview by Dickon Harris
Ed Pinsent (Fast Fiction)
Christian Quesnel (Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes)
Matt Smith (Editor: 2000 AD)
Giovanni Spinella (Comic Creators Guild)
Alex Spiro and Nick White (Nobrow Press) – interview by Dickon Harris
Chris Staros (Top Shelf) – interview by Dickon Harris
Mark Waid (Boom! comics) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Karen Wenborn (Classical Comics) – interview by Duncan Nott
Small press
David Baillie (Tongue of the dead / 2000AD)
Gareth Brookes (Man Man / The smell of the wild) – interview by Dickon Harris
Paul Ashley Brown (Browner Knowle) – interview by Dickon Harris
Francesca Cassavetti (Re: Members / The Most Natural Thing In The World)
Richy K. Chandler (Lucy the Octopus / Govinda the Meditating Rabbit)
Jacob Ciocci (Paper Rad / Extreme Animals)
Richard Cowdry (The Comix Reader)
George Cullen (Throw away) – interview by Dickon Harris
Martin Eden (Spandex / The O Men)
Marc Ellerby (Love the way you love / Ellerbisms)
Laura Oldfield Ford (Savage Messiah / Ctrl Alt Shift Unmasks Corruption)
Babak Ganjei (Hilarious Consequences)
Jimi Gherkin (Electric Baby) – interviews by Dickon Harris and Alex Fitch
Andrew Godfrey (The Clichéd Artist / The Selfish Gene)
Isabel Greenberg (Cheer up, love…) – interview by Dickon Harris
David Golding (The Hunter)
Justin Hall (Glamazonia)
Adam Hamdy (The Hunter)
Julian Hanshaw (Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms) – interview by Dickon Harris
Howard Hardiman (Badger)
Pam Harrison (House of the Muses – the latter days of Sappho of Lesbos)
Sally-Anne Hickman (Sex, drawn and Rock and Roll and A Smelly Tail )
Tom Humberstone (How to date a girl in ten days / My Fellow Americans)
Oliver Lambden (Tales from the flat / Bloc)
David ‘Lando’ Lander (Decadance / Last Drink) – interviews by Dickon Harris
Beatrice Lane (The most splendid bands I know) – interview by Dickon Harris
Dan Lester (Monkeys might puke / The Dan Lester Mysteries)
Joe List (Freak Leap / Guardian Weekender)
Andy Luke (Sheridan Cottage / Gran)
Lizz Lunney (I Love Dinosaurs and they Love Me) – interview by Dickon Harris
Steve Marchant (Cartoon Classroom / Stupidface)
Bevis Musson (Queen of Diamonds)
Kala Newman (Impulsive Random Pattern) – interview by Dickon Harris
Paul O’Connell (The Sound of Drowning) – interview by Dickon Harris
Paul Rainey (There’s no time like the present)
Tommy Roddy (Pride High)
Lauren Ann Sharp (Kronos City) – interview by Dickon Harris
Matthew Sheret (We are Words + Pictures)
Oli Smith (Bloc / Weekend Friends) – interviews by Oliver Lambden and Alex Fitch
Steve Tillotson (Banal Pig Comics) – interview by Dickon Harris
Alex Wilmore (Kronos City) – interview by Dickon Harris
Web comics
Sean Azzopardi (Necessary Monsters / 12 Hour Shift)
Brian Andersen (So Super Duper / Unabashedly Billie)
Darryl Cunningham (Psychiatric Tales / Super Sam)
Alex De Campi (Valentine)
Paul Duffield (Freak Angels / The Tempest)
Joumana Medlej (Malaak: Angel of peace)
Jim Medway (Comical Animal / Crab Lane Crew)
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (Iron Man 2020 / The Rule of Death)
John Miers (Tower of Babel)
Rich Morris (Doctor Who: The Ten Doctors / Yet another fantasy gamer comic)
David O’Connell (Tozo: the Public Servant) – interview by Dickon Harris
Philippa Rice (My Cardboard Life)
Jon Scrivens (Little Terrors / When’s Graham?)
Philip Spence (The adventures of Ninja Bunny)
Transmission X (Cameron Stewart / Ramón Pérez / Karl Kershl)
Miscellaneous podcasts
August 1, 2011
In this list is everything not covered under ‘film’ and ‘comics’, so includes writers, art, gallery shows and so on…
Gallery shows and museums
Chloe Brooks (Dreamspace Gallery)
Jeremy Deller (It is what it is: Baghdad [car] 2007) – interview by Roger Tolson
Andrew Hewish (Islington Drawing Centre)
Jo Hatton (Keeper of the Robot Zoo, Horniman Museum)
Sarah Lightman (Curating ‘Diary Drawing’ show)
Martin Myrone (Curator: ‘Rude Britannia’ at Tate Britain)
Anita O’Brien (Curator: The Cartoon Museum / Heath Robinson exhibition)
Curating art as Play (Interviews with curator Julia Alvarez and collector Sara Pierce)
Exhibiting art as Play (Artists: Natasha Kissell, Sarah Baker and Niel Zakiewicz)
James Taylor (Historian, Imperial War Museum – Ian Fleming and James Bond)
Brian Wildsmith (Animal Gallery @ The Illustration Cupboard)
Lydia Yee (Curator: The Martian Museum of Terrestrial art)
Radio producers
Steve Eley (Escape Pod)
Dirk Maggs (Dirk Gently’s…) – interview by Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch
Dexter O’Neil (Fantom Films / Time Hunter)
Andrew Sewell (Blake’s 7)
Jo Tyler (Lobo / Salmon Doubts)
Writers
Stephen Baxter (Voyage / The H-Bomb Girl) – interview by Graham Sleight
Chris Carter (The X-Files)
John Clarke (Music Journalist: The Times)
Terry Deary (Horrible Histories)
Terrance Dicks (Doctor Who) – interview by Tim Phipps
Cory Doctorow (Little Brother / Overclocked)
Barry Forshaw (Jack Kirby Collector)
Matthew Graham (Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes)
Paul Gravett (Great British Comics) – interviews by Oli Smith, Duncan Nott, Alex Fitch
Simon Guerrier (Doctor Who / The adventures of Prof. Bernice Summerfield)
Charlie Higson (The Fast Show / The Enemy / Young Bond)
Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York / Being John Malkovich)
Joe Lidster (Torchwood)
Ian R. Macleod (Song of Time) – interview by Graham Sleight
Helen McCarthy (The Anime Encyclopedia)
David McGillivray (Frightmare / Satan’s Slave)
Richard Morgan (Black Man / The Steel Remains) – interview by Graham Sleight
Kim Newman (Empire / Sight and Sound)
Michael Punter (Playwright: Darker Shores / The Wolves)
Ian Rakoff (The Prisoner: Living in Harmony)
Gareth Roberts (Doctor Who) – interview by Simon Guerrier
Trina Robbins (Underground Comix)
Rob Shearman (Love songs for the shy and cynical / Doctor Who)
Alan Shubrook (Century 21 FX)
Stephen Thrower (Nightmare USA / Eyeball Magazine)
Matthew Sweet (Shepperton Babylon / Doctor Who audio)
Rachel Welch (Involution)
Toby Whithouse (Being Human / Doctor Who)
Mark Wright (Adventures of Luther Arkwright [radio] / Dr Who – Project: Lazarus)
Benjamin Yeoh (Nakamitsu / Yellow Gentlemen)
Miscellaneous
Dan Berry (Illustration for comics lecturer, North Wales School of art and design)
Charles Brownstein (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund)
Jeffrey Coghlan (producer Pontypool)
Dr. Kevin Fong (NASA advisor, Battlestar Galactica) – interview by Chris Patmore
Alex Hogg (Musician: Minima, Silent Movie scores)
Ivo van Hove (Theatre director: The Antonioni Project)
Patricia Jeres (Co-President, Prism Comics)
Ceri May (Y Tuesday Poetry Club) – interview by Dickon Harris
Johanna Mead (Cospaly expert / Costume designer)
Farah Mendlesohn (The British Science-Fiction Association)
Sir Patrick Moore (The Sky at Night)
The Phoenix Games Club (Role Playing and Board games club, Plaistow)
James Rowley-Ashwood (Indie Movies Online)
Wing Commander Ken Wallis (Gyrocopter designer, You only live twice)
Wajid Yaseen (Artistic director, Ear Cinema)
