Thursday rolls around once more, so it time to hand the microphone over to Alex Fitch for his weekly update of show’s he’s involved with; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows:
Strip: The work of Art Spiegelman, tonight on Resonance FM at 5pm
Guest presenter Grant Rogers talks to Pulitzer Prize winning author Art Speigelman about his classic graphic novel “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” and about the 30th anniversary edition of his first collection of strips “Breakdowns”, which combines the original book with a new autobiographical comic “Portrait of the artist as a young %@&*!“… Interview recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.
(With thanks to Penguin and Paul Gravett for arranging this interview)
Reality Check: Life during Wartime (due online on the 3rd of December)
Alex Fitch introduces a pair of interviews about modern Science-Fiction takes on warfare which have a classical, yet prescient feel to them: Duncan Nott talks to Garth Ennis about working on the new Virgin Comics version of the classic British sci-fi comic strip Dan Dare which sees Dare called out of retirement as Britain and Earth enter new hostilities with the Mekon due to a corrupt Prime Minister running the country. Also, Tripwire Magazine editor Joel Meadows presents and takes part in a brief press conference with actor Michael Hogan about playing the long suffering character Colonel Tigh in the 21st century reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, which is about to return to our screens shortly for the second half of its final season.
Recent podcasts...:
Panel Borders: Handmade and bound
Dickon Harris presents a special report about the affordable ‘zine and comics book fair – Handmade and Bound – and talks to a quintet of small press comics creators: Gareth Brookes, Gavin Burrows, Sean Duffield, Richard Cowdry and Peter Lally. Dickon also talks to one of the founders of Handmade and Bound – Simon Last – about the success of the fair and the small press scene in general…
Thu, Nov 27, 2008
Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio, Interviews