Today’s show: Strip! – Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures

May 7, 2009 — Adaptation and Inspiration

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip!: Muppets, giant cuboid roosters and other weird creatures

The Muppet Show by Roger Langridge

Starting adaptation and inspiration month on the show: Alex Fitch and Robin Warren talk to two humour cartoonists – Roger Langridge and Hugh Raine (a.k.a. Shug) – about their work. Roger has just started drawing the new Muppet Show comic for Boom Studios! and has drawn the U.K. Doctor Who comic from time to time while Hugh has just completed the 37th and final issue of his comic Reet!, so Alex and Robin talk to Roger about his career so far and bringing Jim Henson’s beloved creations to the page, while Alex talks to Hugh about Northern humour, self-publishing and his influences…

5pm 07/05/09, repeated 11.30pm 10/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…

Links: Roger Langridge’s website, blog and wikipedia page
Read Fin Fang Four at marvel.com
Boom! studios website
Read the first seven pages of The Muppet Show
Info about Boom!’s American newsstand distribution
Listen to Alex and Duncan Nott’s coversation with Mark Waid about Boom! Studios

Hugh Raine’s web, livejournal and myspace sites
Review of Shug’s comics at the Forbidden Planet International blog

Info on the UK web and mini comix Thing where these interviews were recorded
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Comics / sci-fi news:
Kamishibai.org is now live, being a resource for Japan’s performance art of telling stories with sequential images, including info on the next London performance of the form on May 31st…

plus:

This weekend brings the Bristol International Comics Expo 2009
and guests including:
GARY FRANK, ALAN DAVIS, IAN GIBSON, DAVE GIBBONS, DAVID HINE, MARK BUCKINGHAM, JOHN M. BURNS, MIKE COLLINS, IAN EDGINTON, PHIL WINSLADE, GILBERT SHELTON, HUNT EMERSON, SIMON BISLEY, KEVIN O’NEILL, MIKE PLOOG, CHARLES ADLARD, SEAN PHILLIPS, and DUNCAN FEGREDO
and many more to the West of England…

A special One-Off Convention for 2009 hosted Exclusively at the RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL 9th-10th May

The Expo is sold out but the Small Press Expo 2009
on Saturday, the 9th of May at the Mercure Holland House hotel is taking plabe also in Bristol,

and features:

Darwin Story Great Graphic Give-away
250 copies of Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Simon Gurr and Eugene Byrne up for grabs!
Expo Exclusive! – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century – Rare signing by artist Kevin O’Neill
Signings by Simon Bisley, Glen Fabry, Will Simpson, Gilbert Shelton and Hunt Emerson
Guest appearance from actor Doug Bradley (Pinhead – Hellraiser)

More info at www.spexpo.co.uk and www.fantasyevents.org respectively