Classic British animation and comic art exhibition on Resonance

Thu, Nov 22, 2007

Art and animation, Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio

Alex Fitch rounds up more interesting subjects for his splendid shows on Resonance FM, including a chat with Jim Mahfood and Bill Shag at their London art show at the Dreamspace Gallery and animator Grant Rogers. The shows go out this evening (full details from Alex below) and as ever you can tune into Resonance FM, stream from their website or if you can’t manage that then check Alex’s blog later on where he normally posts up podcasts of the shows. And I should mention on Alex’s blog he has also just posted a video podcast of his talk with celebrated actor Malcolm McDowell and Mike Kaplan which you can stream or download and watch in a variety of formats

5pm, Strip! – Comics in galleries

Alex Fitch talks to two ‘indie’ comics artists who have had work exhibited in galleries this year. A couple of days before Jim Mahfood and Bill Shag have their fine art collaborations displayed in Dreamspace Gallery in London, Alex talks to Jim about his comic book career so far, the cross-over between fine art and comics and his own artistic influences.

In the second half of the show it’s the first broadcast of an interview previously podcast as an episode of “I’m ready for my close-up”, Alex talks to Jacob Ciocci from the art collective ‘Paper Rad’ about the exhibition of their video art displayed at Sketch gallery in August which combined sampled images, video games and comic book iconography.

The show you may have expected this week – Comics for girls and (Hell) boys part 2, featuring the second half of ComICA’s panel on Girls comics plus Alex’s interview with Duncan Fegredo and Sean Phillips – will be broadcast next week.

10.30pm, I’m ready for my close-up – Great British cartoons

Alex Fitch interviews former animator Grant Rogers about his work on classic childrens’ cartoons such as Father Christmas, Grandpa and Tales of Beatrix Potter – made by legendary production company TVC – as well as his work on international shows such as DuckTales and Dogtanian and the three Muskehounds.