Panel Borders: Unusual City Dwellers

June 12, 2023 — British Mavericks

Cover and interior art from The Bogie Man by Robin Smith, and a 2000AD cover by Smith / photos of Ellice Weaver, Alex Fitch and Robin Smith / Covers and Interior Art from Big Ugly and Something City by Ellice Weaver

Unusual City Dwellers: In a programme looking at comics which depict unusual city dwellers, Alex Fitch talks to artists Ellice Weaver and Robin Smith about their work. Weaver discusses her urban graphic novels Big Ugly and Something City which tell the lives of friends and neighbours in city environments, Smith chats about the kickstarter campaign to collect the small press British comic The Bogie Man ,a pastiche of Bogart noir films set in Glasgow, plus his career in British comics.
The kickstarter campaign for The Bogie Man collected edition runs until Sunday July 9th, 2023

Originally broadcast 7th June 2023 on Resonance 104.4 FM / DAB (London)

For more formats to stream or download, please visit archive.org

Links: Ellice Weaver’s website
Order Big Ugly and Something City from publisher Avery Hill
Robin Smith’s pages on Lambiek and the British Comics Database
Listen to Alex’s interview with 2000AD and The Bogie Man writer John Wagner