The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Thursday rolls around once more and that means it is time for Alex Fitch to update us with his comics, SF and movie-related shows coming up over the next week; as ever check the Panel Borders blog for more details and links to current and past shows:

“As Resonance is broadcasting repeats all week to celebrate its tenth anniversary, there’s no Strip! today, so it’s podcast only today:

Panel Borders: Underground heroes

Alex Fitch is talking to a quartet of underground writers and artists who have created comics books and strips that bring a new angle to British superhero comics. In the podcast we have Adam Hamdy and David Golding, creators of the horror/ superhero comic The Hunter which is influenced by the West’s so called ‘war on terror’, and Alex Morgan who writes and draws Captain Bristol, a strip in the local listings magazine ‘suityourself’. Alex also catches up with Oliver Lambden, creator of Tales from the flat, a superhero sitcom which casts himself and his friends as the characters in the story. Online now at Panel Borders.com – to be broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM at 5pm 19/06/08

Electric Sheep live: Zoo

Tonight at the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square in London, Alex Fitch is presenting a Q & A with Hannah Patterson (Sight and Sound, Vertigo magazine) about the new documentary ‘Zoo’ following a preview screening of the film. indiewire.com says “Watching ‘Zoo’ feels like spending a fall evening out amongst massive evergreens watching the light die from the sky: comfortingly beautiful, but somehow dangerous as well.” 8.45pm, 12/06/08, Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BY

Previous podcasts of interest online now -

Panel Borders: The art of Kate Brown and Paul Duffield

Continuing our series of reports from this year’s Bristol International comics Expo; in this week’s episode we’re looking at new European Manga creators. Alex Fitch is talking to two artists who have drawn Manga Shakespeare and are doing very well in serialised comics: Kate Brown (The DFC) and Paul Duffield (web comic Freak Angels).

Reality Check: Joe Lidster and the Whoniverse

Alex Fitch talks to Joe Lidster, writer of half a dozen Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays starring the cast of the classic TV series such as Sylvester McCoy and Geoffrey Beevers in Master / Paul McGann and Terry Molloy (Davros) in Terror Firma. Joe also wrote one of the best episodes of Torchwood on TV this year and an episode of the forthcoming series of The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures.

Coming soon:

Strip: New British Comics

Alex Fitch talks to Keiron Gillen and Jaimie McKelvie, creators of the music and magic comic book Phonogram (reviewed here by Richard) about working together and with other creators on seperate projects. Also, last week’s podcast interviews: Alex talks to Adam Hamdy and David Golding, creators of the horror/ superhero comic The Hunter, Alex Morgan who writes and draws Captain Bristol, a strip in the local listings magazine ‘suityourself’ and Oliver Lambden, creator of Tales from the flat, a superhero sitcom which casts Oliver and his friends as the characters in the story. This should air on the 19th at 5pm on Resonance FM.