Today’s show: Strip! – Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula

May 14, 2009 — Adaptation and Inspiration

Today on Resonance FM:

Strip!: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula

Dracula by Leah Moore and John Reppion

Continuing adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to writers Leah Moore and John Reppion about their two current comic book projects, adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula for sequential art and continuing the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a new comic for Dynamite Entertainment. Leah and John talk about the process of condensing Dracula into five 32 page comics, while including Stoker’s often neglected prologue Dracula’s guest plus adding to the saga of Sherlock Holmes by putting the Master Detective on trial for murder and terrorist activities…

5pm 14/05/09, repeated 11.30pm 17/05/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast online tonight…

Links: John and Leah’s website
Dynamite Entertainment‘s website
Interview with Leah and John at newsarama.com: part 1 / part 2
Read 4 pages of The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
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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:

The animated trailer for Bryan Talbot’s new graphic novel Grandville, a new Steampunk tale about murder and intrigue in Fin de siècle Paris, is online now:

More info at www.bryan-talbot.com

and:

This Saturday at 2.30pm at Minet Library in Camberwell, comic book artist Brendan McCarthy is talking about his work as part of the Lambeth Literary festival and will be discussing his graphic novels Skin, Rogan Josh and Bad Company, his forthcoming work on Spiderman / Doctor Strange, his work on the TV show Reboot and the as yet unfilmed movie Mad Max IV.
More info at www.lambeth.gov.uk