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Panel Borders: Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash
November 7, 2018
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Images from Black Dog by Dave McKean including performance in Amiens
Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash: To coincide with Armistice Week, Panel Borders presents a Q and A originally recorded at Graphic Brighton (University of Brighton, 2016).Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist and filmmaker Dave McKean about his book and multimedia live production Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash which dramatises the life of the talented war artist, made in association with 14-18 Now, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and Amiens BD festival.
Black Dog will next be performed at Macready Theatre, Rugby on November 9th / 10th 2018.
Partially broadcast 7th November 2018, on Resonance 104.4 FM / DAB (London)
For more audio formats to download and stream, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Dave McKean’s website
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with McKean
Watch an extract from Black Dog performed at Amiens comics festival
Next week’s show: Legacies of The Great War
November 2, 2018
On Wednesday, November 7th at 5.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB, Panel Borders: Legacies of The Great War
Interior art from Black Dog by Dave McKean / promotional art and interior art from Red Rosa by Kate Evans
To coincide with Armistice Week, Panel Borders is proud to present a couple of interviews recorded at Graphic Brighton (University of Brighton, 2016), in which Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a pair of graphic novels that illuminate the lives of two notable people affected by The Great War. Dave McKean discusses his Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash made in association with 14-18 Now, and the touring musical presentation of the book; Kate Evans explores her Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Red Rosa, which illustrates the life of the Polish Revolutionary.
Black Dog will next be performed at Macready Theatre, Rugby on November 9th / 10th 2018.
5.30pm Wednesday 7th November 2018, repeat 2.30am Friday 9th November, Resonance 104.4 FM and DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / Resonance Replay stream on mixcloud.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
Panel Borders: Join the Army Fear Channel
November 5, 2014
Art from ‘Join the Army’, ‘Below’ and ‘Fear Channel’ by Darren Cullen
Join the Army Fear Channel: Concluding a month of episodes about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to fine artist Darren Cullen about his comics Join the Army and Below, the first a satirical look at Military propaganda from the Bayeux Tapestry to the present day and the latter updating the genre of subterranean Sci-Fi invented by Verne and Rice Burroughs. Fitch and Cullen also discuss the Fear Channel collage website and current interactive installation ‘Pocket Money Loans’ at Atom Gallery in Finsbury Park. (Originally broadcast 30th October 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Darren’s website and shop
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives and Darren Cullen’s art tumblr sites
Article about Pocket Money Loans in The Independent
Tomorrow’s show: Join the Army Fear Channel
October 29, 2014
Tomorrow at 11am on Resonance 104.4 FM, Panel Borders: Join the Army Fear Channel
Art from ‘Join the Army’, ‘Below’ and ‘Fear Channel’ by Darren Cullen
Concluding a month of episodes about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to fine artist Darren Cullen about his comics Join the Army and Below, the first a satirical look at Military propaganda from the Bayeux Tapestry to the present day and the latter updating the genre of subterranean Sci-Fi invented by Verne and Rice Burroughs. Fitch and Cullen also discuss the Fear Channel collage website and current interactive installation ‘Pocket Money Loans’ at Atom Gallery in Finsbury Park.
11am Thursday 30th October, repeated 7am Saturday 1st November 2014, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
More info: Darren’s website and shop
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives and Darren Cullen’s art tumblr sites
Article about Pocket Money Loans in The Independent
Panel Borders: To End All Wars
October 28, 2014
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Cover and interior pages from To End All Wars by Brick, Jonathan Clode, Stuart Richards and Selina Lock
To End All Wars: Continuing a month of shows about the depiction of war in sequential art, guest presenter John Stuart Clark (who draws under the pen-name Brick) hosts a panel discussion about the new War Comics anthology To End All Wars, published by Soaring Penguin Press, featuring co-editor Jonathan Clode and contributors Selina Locke and Stuart Richards. The two Johns discuss editing the anthology, from commissioning creators to suggesting tweaks that clarify their stories; Selina discusses having to change artists shortly before the deadline and Stuart talks about the sources for his story ‘Il Gatto’. (Recorded by Alex Fitch in front of an audience at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, originally broadcast 23rd October 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: To End All Wars
October 22, 2014
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Tomorrow at 11am on Resonance 104.4 FM, Panel Borders: To End All Wars
Cover and interior pages from To End All Wars by Brick, Jonathan Clode, Stuart Richards and Selina Lock
Continuing a month of shows about the depiction of war in sequential art, guest presenter John Stuart Clark (who draws under the pen-name Brick) hosts a panel discussion about the new War Comics anthology To End All Wars, published by Soaring Penguin Press, featuring co-editor Jonathan Clode and contributors Selina Locke and Stuart Richards. The two Johns discuss editing the anthology, from commissioning creators to suggesting tweaks that clarify their stories; Selina discusses having to change artists shortly before the deadline and Stuart talks about the sources for his story ‘Il Gatto’. (Recorded by Alex Fitch in front of an audience at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival)
11am Thursday 23rd October, repeated 7am Saturday 25th October 2014, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
Panel Borders: Pat Mills’ Great War comics
October 22, 2014
Covers of Charley’s War omnibus and Above the dreamless dead / interior art from Dead Man’s Dump / cover of To end all Wars
Pat Mills’ Great War comics: Continuing a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to Pat Mills, one of the acclaimed masters of the genre. Alex and Pat discuss the completion of Titan Books’ reprints of his classic strip Charley’s War, his adaptation of Isaac Rosenberg’s “Dead man’s Dump” in the war poetry and comics collection Above the Dreamless Dead published by First Second Books, and his introduction to the anthology To End all Wars from Soaring Penguin Press. (Originally broadcast 16th October 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Pat Mills’ Great War comics
October 15, 2014
Tomorrow at 11am on Resonance 104.4 FM, Panel Borders: Pat Mills’ Great War comics
Covers of Charley’s War omnibus and Above the dreamless dead / interior art from Dead Man’s Dump / cover of To end all Wars
Continuing a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to Pat Mills, one of the acclaimed masters of the genre. Alex and Pat discuss the completion of Titan Books’ reprints of his classic strip Charley’s War, his adaptation of Isaac Rosenberg’s “Dead man’s Dump” in the war poetry and comics collection Above the Dreamless Dead published by First Second Books, and his introduction to the anthology To End all Wars from Soaring Penguin Press.
11am Thursday 16th October, repeated 7am Saturday 18th October 2014, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com (more…)
Panel Borders: Commitment to International Aces
October 15, 2014
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Interior art and cover of International Aces / Limited edition cover and interior art of Commitment by Chris Geary
Commitment to International Aces: Continuing a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Chris Geary about his series of four comic book short story collections International Aces, which tell the tales of various fighter pilots across the globe from Von Richthofen to Rickenbacker. Fitch and Geary also discuss the latter’s interest in classic war strips, the packaging of the Aces books and his educational graphic novel Commitment, which uses a narrative about a stressed female executive to explain the concept of ‘real options’ analysis. Recorded in front of an audience at ‘Nine Worlds GeekFest‘, Heathrow 2013. (Originally broadcast 9th October 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM) (more…)
Tomorrow’s show: Commitment to International Aces
October 8, 2014
Tomorrow at 11am on Resonance 104.4 FM, Panel Borders: Commitment to International Aces
Interior art and cover of International Aces / Limited edition cover and interior art of Commitment by Chris Geary
Continuing a month of shows about war comics, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Chris Geary about his series of four comic book short story collections International Aces, which tell the tales of various fighter pilots across the globe from Von Richthofen to Rickenbacker. Fitch and Geary also discuss the latter’s interest in classic war strips, the packaging of the Aces books and his educational graphic novel Commitment, which uses a narrative about a stressed female executive to explain the concept of ‘real options’ analysis. (Recorded in front of an audience at ‘Nine Worlds GeekFest‘, Heathrow 2013)
11am Thursday 9th October, repeated 7am Saturday 11th October 2014, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
More info: Chris’ website and publishing imprint
Review of International Aces at the Charley’s War website
Panel Borders: Women at the Front
October 8, 2014
Cover of To Arms and interior art by Francesca Dare, Jessica Martin, Clare Wood, Anna Dowsland / art from Never Again by Heath Robinson, Bruce Barnsfather / art from 1914 by Kate Charlesworth and Posy Simmonds
Women at the Front: Starting a month of shows about the portrayal of war in comics, Alex Fitch talks to Jessica Martin, Anna Dowsland, Clare Wood, Lauren Murphy and Francesca Dare, five contributors to the new war comics anthology To Arms!, published by Limehouse Comics. Alex also discusses the exhibitions ‘Never Again! World War I in cartoon and comic art’ and ‘1914: Day by day’ with curator Anita O’Brien; the two shows contain a variety of responses to the Great War from the work of Bruce Bairnsfather and W. Heath Robinson to modern day cartoonists Zoom Rockman and Kate Charlesworth, on display until 19th October at The Cartoon Museum, London (Originally broadcast 2nd October 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM) (more…)
Comics and conflicts: Pat Mills on Charleys War
February 8, 2012
Charleys War by Joe Colquhoun and Pat Mills
Pat Mills on Charleys War: Imperial War Museum educator Grant Rogers talks to Pat Mills about his seminal wartime strip Charley’s War, serialised in Battle Action comic in the 1970s and 80s. Grant and Pat Mills discuss the history of the strip, working with Joe Colquhoun and the real life events that influenced the comic. (Recorded in front of an audience at the 2011 Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London.)
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Panel Borders: David B’s Black Paths
September 29, 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Panel Borders: Children of the Atom
September 15, 2011
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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
Panel Borders: Exploring War in popular comics
September 8, 2011
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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 Barker 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
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