Classic children’s comics on tonight’s Strip!

Alex Fitch updates us on what we will be hearing tonight on Resonance FM (as ever check Alex’s blog or the Panel Borders blog for more details and links to later podcast versions):

Strip! – Classic Childrens’ characters
Resonance 104.4FM, 20/11/07, 5pm

In the last Strip! of the year, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott are looking at the depiction of beloved children’s characters in comics. First we have our interview with Mark Buckingham about reinventing classic fairy tales in Fables and the challenge of bringing something new to the character in his two year run on Spider-man.

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Later in the show we have the first on air broadcast of Alex & Duncan’s conversation with Geoff Senior and Simon Furman on 25 years of Transformers, which was first podcast last summer. This is a change to the show advertised at the end of last week’s episode (which was to be about adaptations of classic literature in comics) mainly because I accidently left the CD at home this morning…

Reality Check – Disseminating cult movies on DVD
being podcast at Sci-Fi London shortly

In an attempt to provide some counter programming to Christmas, Alex Fitch talks to Noel Lawrence, founder of the “Other Cinema” DVD label about their range of esoteric / underground movies and collections of short films such as ” The Net – The Unabomber, LSD and the internet”, “Experiments in Terror”, “Decasia” and “Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y”…

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