Another Thursday arrives and that means its time for Alex Fitch to update us on the latest shows he is involved with; as ever check his Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows:
Strip!: Eddie Campbell – the life and many deaths of the artist, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM
In the fourth of four episodes of Strip! looking at the work of artist Eddie Campbell, Alex Fitch talks to Eddie about his books The Fate of the Artist, The Black Diamond Detective Agency and The Amazing, Remarkable Monsieur Leotard. Alex and Eddie also touch on film to comic adaptations and vice versa and the lack of heroes at the beginning on the twenty first century via consideration of his comics From Hell, Bacchus and Alec…
Clear Spot: Silent Horror and murder mysteries in paint, tonight at 8pm on Resonance FM
In a devil’s night special, Alex Fitch talks to Robert Rider, head of cinema programming at the Barbican about their current season of silent horror movies which continues tonight with The Man who laughs (about Victor Hugo’s mutilated wanderer who inspired Batman’s nemesis The Joker) and next week’s Der Golem and also about their forthcoming season of cinema presentations of New York Met. operas such as Doctor Atomic and La Damnation de Faust. Alex also talks to the acclaimed British director Peter Greenaway about his new film Nightwatching which postulates that Rembrandt hid clues to an unsolved murder in one of his most famous paintings. Alex and Peter also talk about the cross-over between art and cinema and how one can help the other to encourage visits to the world’s most famous museums… Finally, Alex talks to Wajid Yaseen from Ear Cinema about his spooky theatre experience Late Noon Sun at the ICA which combines cinema projection and performance to unsettling effect. (With thanks to the Raindance film festival for organising the interview with Peter Greenaway.)
To help promote tonight’s screening of The Man who laughs, an extended version of Alex’s interview with Robert Rider is available to download now as a podcast at the Panel Borders site. (The interviews with Peter Greenaway and Wajid Yaseen will be podcast in next month and the following month’s episodes of the Electric Sheep Magazine podcast)
Coming soon:
Strip!: Incredibly Strange Comics, due on Resonance FM on Thursday 6th November
In the first of two belated Halloween specials, Alex Fitch talks to sequential art expert Paul Gravett about his new book “The Leather Nun And Other Incredibly Strange Comics” which looks at the weirder and more lurid examples of the genre and to Australian artist Ben Templesmith about his career so far, drawing comics such as the neo-noir title “Fell”, the Matrix inspired “Singularity 7″ and the popular vampire serial “30 days of night” which was adapted as a movie last year.
Recent podcasts…:
Panel Borders: ‘From Hell’ and Psycho Geography
Continuing Eddie Campbell month on Resonance FM… Alex Fitch talks to writer and magician Alan Moore about collaborating with Eddie Campbell on his masterpiece From Hell and the two comic book adaptations of his performances Snakes and Ladders and The Birth Caul. Alex and Alan talk about the experience of documenting Whitechapel in the past and present and Alan’s growing interest in psychogeography in London and beyond.
Panel Borders: Eddie Campbell and the art of the raconteur
In the second of four shows about comic book artist Eddie Campbell, Alex Fitch introduces a monologue by the artist in which Eddie tells the tale of his long suffering typesetter Mick Evans who has cameoed in a variety of his comics. Later in the show, Alex talks to Eddie about the nature of the artist’s role as a raconteur in titles such as Alec and Bacchus. Please note, we apologise if it is difficult to hear this recording – there is a lot of very loud background chatter, so it may be occasionally difficult to hear the interview. There will be a transcript forthcoming to help listeners follow the conversation.
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