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Panel Borders: David B’s Black Paths
September 29, 2011 — 1 Comment
Panel Borders:
David B’s Black Paths
Partially broadcast 29/09/11 on Resonance FM
Images from Black Paths and Epileptic by David B
Concluding our month of shows on war comics and our four years of broadcasts on Thursday evenings, Alex Fitch talks to French graphic novelist David B about his new book Black Paths, which depicts a little known footnote to the First World War, as the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire loses control of the city port of Fiume in Italy and we meet various eccentric characters trapped within the city walls. Alex and David also talk about the latter’s Ignatz Award winning comic book Epileptic and his work with the independent publishing company L’Association.
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: Wikipedia pages on David B and Epileptic
More info on Black Paths at www.selfmadehero.com
Article on the new wave of French Comics by Paul Gravett
Info about the BD Passion comics festival at the Institute Francais, Kensington, taking place on 7th-9th October
Today’s show: David B’s Black Paths
September 28, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: David B’s Black Paths
Images from Black Paths and Epileptic by David B
Concluding our month of shows on war comics and our four years of broadcasts on Thursday evenings, Alex Fitch talks to French graphic novelist David B about his new book Black Paths, which depicts a little known footnote to the First World War, as the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire loses control of the city port of Fiume in Italy and we meet various eccentric characters trapped within the city walls. Alex and David also talk about the latter’s Ignatz Award winning comic book Epileptic and his work with the independent publishing company L’Association.
5pm, Thursday 29th September, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Wikipedia pages on David B and Epileptic
More info on Black Paths at www.selfmadehero.com
Article on the new wave of French Comics by Paul Gravett
Info about the BD Passion comics festival at the Institute Francais, Kensington, taking place on 7th-9th October
Laydeez do podcasts: Female Publishers and their work
September 27, 2011
Laydeez do Podcasts:
Female Publishers and their work
Excerpts from Philip and Helena by Eileen Cassavetti and Playing the Jewish Card by Corinne Pearlman
In two talks recorded in August and January 2011, we explore the work of female comic book publishers and their work in the medium. In a Q and A recorded at the Imperial War Museum, Alex Fitch talks to Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti, about Eileen’s wartime diary Philip and Helena which Francesca republished recently in comic book format plus in a talk recorded at Laydeez Do Comics, Corinne Pearlman discusses her work for the Jewish Quarterly, her publishing endeavours with Myriad Editions and her design and editorial work for Comic Company, which produces healthcare information in comic strip format.
(Recorded by Allan Morrow and Nicola Streeten, edited and introduced 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: More info about Comics and Conflicts at the Imperial War Museum
Listen to the subsequent discussion by Francesca, Eileen and Alex with the creators of War: The Human Cost
Francesca’s website www.fabtoons.com
Corinne’s website www.comicopera.com
Enjoy Healthcare info in strip format at www.comiccompany.co.uk
More info about Myriad Editions
Read the Laydeez do comics blog
Info about Laydeez do comics
Panel Borders: War – The Human Cost
September 22, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
War – The Human Cost
Partially broadcast 22/09/11 on Resonance FM
Ben Naylor, Dan Locke, Sean Duffield, Francesca Cassavetti, Eileen Cassavetti and Alex Fitch at the Imperial War Museum (art by Dan Locke, photographed by Jim Walker)
Continuing our month of shows about War Comics, we’re proud to broadcast a final panel discussion recorded at the ‘Comics and conflicts’ conference at the Imperial War Museum, August 2011. Alex Fitch chairs a discussion on ‘The personal and the political’ as the publisher and two of the contributing artists – Sean Duffield, Daniel Locke and Ben Naylor – talk about their anthology War: The Human Cost. They are also joined on stage by writer Eileen Cassavetti and cartoonist Francesca Cassavetti who published her mother’s wartime journal Philip and Helena in comic book format.
(Please note: this is the penultimate episode of Panel Borders to be broadcast on a Thursday evening, before the show moves to Sunday nights from October)
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
Cover of Philip and Helena by Eileen Cassavetti / interior pages from War: The Human Cost by Ben Naylor, Daniel Locke and Sean Duffield
Links: Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti, Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn and others about the Imperial War Museum Conference
Listen to Paul Gravett’s preceding panel about international War Comics with Mikkel Sommer, Dave Turbitt, David Blandy and others
Info about Francesca and Eileen Cassavetti at fabtoons.blogspot.com
Read Forbidden Planet International’s series of reviews on War: The Human Cost
Info about War: The Human Cost
Info about the Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum
(more…)
Today’s show: War – The Human Cost
September 22, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: War – The Human Cost
Ben Naylor, Dan Locke, Sean Duffield, Francesca Cassavetti, Eileen Cassavetti and Alex Fitch at the Imperial War Museum (art by Dan Locke, photographed by Jim Walker)
Continuing our month of shows about War Comics, we’re proud to broadcast a final panel discussion recorded at the ‘Comics and conflicts’ conference at the Imperial War Museum, August 2011. Alex Fitch chairs a discussion on ‘The personal and the political’ as the publisher and two of the contributing artists – Sean Duffield, Daniel Locke and Ben Naylor – talk about their anthology War: The Human Cost. They are also joined on stage by writer Eileen Cassavetti and cartoonist Francesca Cassavetti who published her mother’s wartime journal Philip and Helena in comic book format.
(Please note: this is the penultimate episode of Panel Borders to be broadcast on a Thursday evening, before the show moves to Sunday nights from October)
5pm, Thursday 22nd September, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Cover of Philip and Helena by Eileen Cassavetti / interior pages from War: The Human Cost by Ben Naylor, Daniel Locke and Sean Duffield
Links: Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti, Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn and others about the Imperial War Museum Conference
Listen to Paul Gravett’s preceding panel about international War Comics with Mikkel Sommer, Dave Turbitt, David Blandy and others
Read Forbidden Planet International’s series of reviews on War: The Human Cost
Info about Francesca and Eileen Cassavetti at fabtoons.blogspot.com
Info about War: The Human Cost
Info about the Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum
(more…)
Panel Borders: Children of the Atom
September 15, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Children of the Atom
Partially broadcast 15/09/11 on Resonance FM
Child of the Atom by Blandy and Inko / Obsolete by Mikkel Sommer / Dougies War by Glass and Turbitt
Continuing our month of shows about war comics, in a panel discussion recorded at last month’s Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London, Paul Gravett talks to Mikkel Sommer about his graphic novella Obsolete, to publisher Adrian Searle and artist Dave Turbitt about Dougie’s War and to film maker David Blandy and illustrator Inko about their project Child of the Atom. Edited and introduced by Alex Fitch.
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: Review of Obsolete at itsallaboutthecomics.blogspot.com
Interview with Mikkel Sommer at nobrow.net
Review of Dougie’s War at downthetubescomics.blogspot.com
Official website: www.dougieswar.com
Interview with David Blandy at the Arts Information Company
Official website: www.davidblandy.co.uk
Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Gravett, Blandy and others about the Imperial War Museum Conference
Today’s show: Children of the Atom
September 15, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Children of the Atom
Child of the Atom by Blandy and Inko / Obsolete by Mikkel Sommer / Dougies War by Glass and Turbitt
Continuing our month of shows about war comics, in a panel discussion recorded at last month’s Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London, Paul Gravett talks to Mikkel Sommer about his graphic novella Obsolete, to publisher Adrian Searle and artist Dave Turbitt about Dougie’s War and to film maker David Blandy and illustrator Inko about their project Child of the Atom. Edited and introduced by Alex Fitch.
5pm, Thursday 15/09/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Review of Obsolete at itsallaboutthecomics.blogspot.com
Interview with Mikkel Sommer at nobrow.net
Review of Dougie’s War at downthetubescomics.blogspot.com
Official website: www.dougieswar.com
Interview with David Blandy at the Arts Information Company
Official website: www.davidblandy.co.uk
Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Gravett, Blandy and others about the Imperial War Museum Conference
Reality Check: Autumn Sci-Fi – Source Code and Witch Mountain
September 14, 2011
Reality Check:
Autumn Sci-Fi – Source Code and Witch Mountain
In a glass brightly - Source Code and Escape to Witch Mountain
As the Autumn nights start to draw in, we have a couple of recommendations of DVDs worth staying in for, as Alex Fitch interviews a pair of directors who have both earned cult followings for their work in the SF genre. Duncan Jones talks about his new film Source Code, a time travel thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and about how themes in his new movie consciously and unconsciously reflect some of his concerns of humanity dislocated by technology in his debut Moon. Alex also chats, alongside SCI-FI-LONDON’s newest interviewer Lily Savy-Gorman, to John Hough, director of the classic Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), starring Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance. Hough followed his first family film with a couple more for Disney – Return from Witch Mountain and The Watcher in the Woods – and talks about how the company’s approach to live-action filmmaking has changed over the years.
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: Read a transcript of Alex’s interview with Duncan Jones
Info about the Escape to Witch Mountain screening at SCI-FI-LONDON
Recommended events:
New Science Fiction Reading Group
In discussion: Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (we have some copies for loan).
1st meeting on Wednesday 21st September @ 7pm
Streatham Library
63 Streatham High Road
London SW16 1PL
For more info contact 020 7926 6768 and ask for Pat / e-mail: pdunne@lambeth.gov.uk
Panel Borders: Exploring War in popular comics
September 8, 2011 — 2 Comments
Panel Borders:
Exploring War in popular comics
Partially broadcast 08/09/11 on Resonance FM
Doonesbury, Martin Baker and Roger Sabin at the Imperial War Museum / Commando livery outside the National Army museum
Continuing our month of shows about war comics, Panel Borders is pleased to present a selection of interviews recorded at the launch of “Draw your Weapons – the art of Commando comics”, a new exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, as Alex Fitch talks to curator Robert Fleming, current Commando editor Calum Laird, and former editor George Low about the history of the comic and the art on display at the museum. Also in another recording taken from last month’s ‘Comics and conflicts’ festival at the Imperial War Museum, Roger Sabin and Martin Baker give a presentation about the depiction of the Iraq war and PTSD in the US comic strip Doonesbury.
Please note: Martin and Roger’s presentation contains strong language and challenging ideas, so we recommend younger listeners (or parents who share the podcast with younger listeners) stop playback of the podcast after the Commando interviews.
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: Buy A ‘Toxic Genre’: The Iraq War Films by Martin Baker, Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art by Roger Sabin,
The Doonesbury trilogy: The Long Road Home, The War within and Signature Wound,
Commando: 50 Years – A Home for Heroes, Rogue Raiders, Achtung! and Scramble!: The Ten Best Battle of Britain Comic Books Ever! from amazon.co.uk
Commando website
More info about Draw your Weapons – 50 years of Commando comics at the National Army Museum
Comics and Conflicts at the Imperial War museum
Listen to last week’s War comics show: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
Today’s show: Exploring War in popular comics
September 8, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Exploring War in popular comics
Doonesbury, Martin Baker and Roger Sabin at the Imperial War Museum / Commando livery outside the National Army museum
Continuing our month of shows about war comics, Panel Borders is pleased to present a selection of interviews recorded at the launch of “Draw your Weapons – the art of Commando comics”, a new exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, as Alex Fitch talks to curator Robert Fleming, current Commando editor Calum Laird, and former editor George Low about the history of the comic and the art on display at the museum. Also in another recording taken from last month’s ‘Comics and conflicts’ festival at the Imperial War Museum, Roger Sabin and Martin Baker give a presentation about the depiction of the Iraq war and PTSD in the US comic strip Doonesbury.
5pm, Thursday 08/09/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links:
Buy A ‘Toxic Genre’: The Iraq War Films by Martin Baker, Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art by Roger Sabin,
The Doonesbury trilogy: The Long Road Home, The War within and Signature Wound,
Commando: 50 Years – A Home for Heroes, Rogue Raiders, Achtung! and Scramble!: The Ten Best Battle of Britain Comic Books Ever! from amazon.co.uk
Commando website
More info about Draw your Weapons – 50 years of Commando comics at the National Army Museum
Comics and Conflicts at the Imperial War museum
Listen to last week’s War comics show: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
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.
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: Autumn Sci-Fi
September 7, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
I’m ready for my close-up: Autumn Sci-Fi
In a glass brightly - Source Code and Escape to Witch Mountain
As the Autumn nights start to draw in, we have a couple of recommendations of DVDs worth staying in for, as Alex Fitch interviews a pair of directors who have both earned cult followings for their work in the SF genre. Duncan Jones talks about his new film Source Code, a time travel thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and about how themes in his new movie consciously and unconsciously reflect some of his concerns of humanity dislocated by technology in his debut Moon. Alex also chats to John Hough, director of the classic Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), starring Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance. Hough followed his first family film with a couple more for Disney – Return from Witch Mountain and The Watcher in the Woods – and talks about how the company’s approach to live-action filmmaking has changed over the years.
6.30pm, Wednesday 06/09/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online, featuring an additional interview with John Hough on Sunday 10/09/11 at www.scifilondon.com/podcast
Links: Read a transcript of Alex’s interview with Duncan Jones
Info about the Escape to Witch Mountain screening at SCI-FI-LONDON
Electric Sheep Podcast: Infiltrating Secret Societies
September 5, 2011
Electric Sheep podcast:
Infiltrating Secret Societies
Christopher Plummer and James Mason investigate Murder by Decree / the interior of the Masonic Lodge, Andaz Hotel, London / Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man
A companion piece to our May podcast on Secret Societies, a we have panel discussion on the subject recorded in the atmospheric confines of a Masonic Lodge on Liverpool Street in London as part of the East End Film Festival, including talks on Jack the Ripper, witches’ covens and religious cults in film. Speakers include Electric Sheep editor Virginie Selavy, assistant editor Alex Fitch, Nollywood scholar Nicola Woodham, filmmaker and horror specialist Jennifer Eiss, and Jim Harper, author of Flowers From Hell: The Modern Japanese Horror Film. Includes clips from Murder by Decree, Season of the Witch, The Wicker Man and Rosemary’s Baby.
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 original event, in the East End Film Festival
If you’d like to buy a copy of the most recent dramatisation of Sherlock Holmes vs. the Ripper and the Masons, head to www.bigfinish.com
Summer 2011 in print
September 1, 2011
Reviews…
Akira
Release date: 27/05/11 (Blu-Ray)
Musashi – Dream of the last Samurai
Release date: 04/07/11 (DVD)
Batman Live
Release date: 24/08/11 (Theatre)
The Skin I live in
Release date: 26/08/11 (Cinema)
Electric Sheep comics…
Hardware
Release date: 22/06/09 (DVD)
Review by Douglas Noble
The Twilight Zone, season one
Release date: 02/05/11 (Blu-Ray)
Review by John Spelling
The Silent House
Release date: 01/08/11 (Blu-Ray)
Review by Andrew Cheverton
Articles…
Richard Kelly’s ‘Apocalypse Trilogy’:
Donnie Darko / Southland Tales / The Box
Panel Borders: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
September 1, 2011 — 5 Comments
Panel Borders:
Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
Partially broadcast 01/09/11 on Resonance FM
Garth Ennis interviewed by Alex Fitch at the Imperial War Museum, London. Photo by Joe Shahabuddin
Starting a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to award winning writer Garth Ennis about his interest in the genre, from the backdrop of conflict in his debut strip Troubled Souls to his exploration of wars throughout the 20th Century and beyond in his series War Stories and Battlefields. Alex and Garth also discuss his past and forthcoming projects for Avatar, Dynamite and Marvel Comics and there are questions from the audience on the subjects of putting his stories into context for younger readers and the use of drones on the battlefield. This interview was recorded live at the Imperial War Museum, London as part of the ‘Comics and Conflicts Festival‘, August 2011.
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: Watch an interview with Garth recorded on the same day by Talk Comix
Read an interview with Garth transcribed on the day by The Irish Times
Wikipedia pages on War Stories and Battlefields
Listen to Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott’s previous interview with Garth Ennis – part one / part two / part three
Listen to Alex’s interviews with John McCrea – 2007 part one, featuring Glen Fabry / part two / 2011 interview featuring Jon Browne
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
Today’s show: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
September 1, 2011
Today on Resonance FM…
Panel Borders: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
Garth Ennis interviewed by Alex Fitch at the Imperial War Museum, London. Photo by Joe Shahabuddin
Starting a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to award winning writer Garth Ennis about his interest in the genre, from the backdrop of conflict in his debut strip Troubled Souls to his exploration of wars throughout the 20th Century and beyond in his series War Stories and Battlefields. Alex and Garth also discuss his past and forthcoming projects for Avatar, Dynamite and Marvel Comics and there are questions from the audience on the subjects of putting his stories into context for younger readers and the use of drones on the battlefield. This interview was recorded live at the Imperial War Museum, London as part of the ‘Comics and Conflicts Festival‘, August 2011.
5pm, Thursday 01/09/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Watch an interview with Garth recorded on the same day by Talk Comix
Read an interview with Garth transcribed on the day by The Irish Times
Wikipedia pages on War Stories and Battlefields
Listen to Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott’s previous interview with Garth Ennis – part one / part two / part three
Listen to Alex’s interviews with John McCrea – 2007 part one, featuring Glen Fabry / part two / 2011 interview featuring Jon Browne
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/
