Panel Borders and other podcasts

Panel Borders and other podcasts

Podcasts, radio shows, writing and more by Alex Fitch

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Welcome

Alex Fitch (and friend) drawn by Sarah McIntyre (http://jabberworks.livejournal.com)

Alex Fitch (and friend) drawn by Sarah McIntyre (http://jabberworks.livejournal.com)

This website is a blog to provide info, feedback, broadcast info and links for episodes of the radio shows “Panel Borders” (8pm, 2nd Wednesday of the month) and “Electric Sheep Film Show” (8pm, 3rd Tuesday of the month) on Resonance 104.4FM London (Arts Council) / streamed at resonancefm.com.

Panel Borders is the UK’s only monthly broadcast radio show about comics and is generally presented by Alex Fitch, with guest presenters including Duncan Nott, Dickon Harris, Grant Rogers and Virginie Sélavy.

Previous guests have included British comic creators such as: Alan Moore, Philip Pullman,  Raymond Briggs, Eddie Campbell, Garth Ennis, Bryan Talbot, Davids Gibbons and Lloyd…

Alex Fitch interviews Oscar winner Shaun Tan

Alex Fitch interviews Oscar winner Shaun Tan

…and international creators such as Peter David, Gilbert Shelton, Adrian Tomine, Art Spiegelman, Alex Maleev, John Romita Jr, Shaun Tan, Jill Thompson, Chris Ware, Marjane Satrapi, Rutu Modan and Walt Simonson.

Reality Check is Sci-Fi London’s monthly podcast and includes Alex’s interviews with Park Chan-Wook, Chris Carter, Bruce Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Paul Cornell, Michael Winterbottom, Brent Spiner, Philip Glenister, Rich Fulcher, Charlie Higson, Sylvester McCoy, Charlie Kaufman and many more.

The blog also contains info about publications and events involving Alex (see tabs above) and other podcasts such as Lucky Cat and Resonance FM’s film show: I’m ready for my close-up (which Alex was the regular presenter of during its first and seventh years – review here) and episodes of Resonance’s ‘open mic’ slot, Clear Spot among others…

Please click here for the most recent shows / blog entries…

What do you think?

Please keep your comments polite and on-topic.

comments

Hi, nice to meet you !

ReadersHeaven

September 23, 2010

Dear Alex,

I’m so pleased to come across your website and the radio programme, and especially enjoyed the last month’s focus on LGTB comics. I’d like to invite you to speak at a reading group that runs at Senate House in London — is there an email address where I could contact you in order to elaborate a bit? Also do feel free to drop us a note if that’s easier: literarylondonrg [at] gmail.com

Hope to hear from you!

Best Wishes,

Lisa Robertson

literarylondonrg

August 20, 2013

Good day, Mr. Fitch,

I am thrilled to find your radio program and envious that the Brits are so far ahead of the curve on public perception of comics than we Americans. I don’t see a way to contact you more directly, but I want to pass along information on my project, 1000 Great Graphic Novels at my site comicsjuice.com. This two-minute-twenty-second video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87iz5fuflAI – will show you the gist, as well as mild dizziness and eye-strain. Try hard not to blink.

I have a press release sorting out the details if you let me know where I can send it.

Regards,
Allen Rubinstein

rubinsteinallen

June 5, 2014

Oh, you might need to know – rubinsteinallen (at) gmail.com

rubinsteinallen

June 6, 2014

Dear Alex,

I hope my message finds you well. My name is Ahmed and I am the creator of a comic book that features a superhero with Autism. The story is inspired by my nephew, who is an awesome autistic kid, and by our Mesopotamian myths. I am writing to you in hopes that you might help me promote my upcoming campaign during the month of April, which is Autism Awareness month.
The campaign will start next month. Here is the pre-launch page on Indiegogo where you can learn more. There is a video teaser followed by an explanation for the comic to help you understand more about my project. I hope you will find it interesting.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-epics-of-enkidu/coming_soon

Thank you very much. I’ll be looking forward to your reply.

Kindest regards,

Ahmed

ahamin

April 16, 2020

Hi Alex, remember me, Brick, from ‘To End All Wars’ and ‘Depresso’? Wondered if you’d be interested in ‘The Curious Case of Leonardo’s Bicycle’, a book Down the Tubes called ‘absolutely incredible’ and John Freeman found himself ‘utterly hooked’ by? If you send me your email I’ll send through a pdf of the whole book (256 pages) to see if it’s your scene. Cheers, Brick
brick@ntlworld.com

suzybywater

October 5, 2020

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