Its a rather damp, dull, grey Thursday in the UK, but here’s Alex Fitch with news of some aural delights to tantalise our ears as we hide under our umbrellas; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows:
Strip!: Fab Toons and Splendid Zines, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast after transmission on Panel Borders
Starting ‘women in comics’ month on the show, we have a couple of interviews with small press creators who are selling their self published periodicals at festivals and competitions around the country. Dickon Harris talks to Bea, a.k.a. Beatrice Lane, in an interview recorded at the Bristol Small Press expo and Alex Fitch talks to Francesca Cassavetti in an interview recorded at “Schmurgen con” in Mile End. Bea publishes “Bear Cave” ‘zines on a variety of subjects from short fiction to music reviews, with her latest issue ‘The most splendid bands I know’ due out shortly, while Francesca’s “Fab Toons” comics tell a variety of autobiographical stories from her life, in strip format, from her days at art school to dating a former punk star and the birth of her first child. (N.B. No Sunday repeat this week as Resonance is broadcasting live from ‘Pestival’ at The South Bank Centre from Friday evening to Midnight on Sunday)
(drunk parents by and (c) Francesca Cassavetti)
Recent podcasts:
Panel Borders: The art of Jill Thompson
Concluding children’s comics month on Panel Borders, the belated podcast of Alex Fitch’s interview with Jill Thompson sees Alex and Jill talk about her career so far from drawing popular DC comics such as Wonder Woman and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman to creating her own children’s books Scary Godmother and Magic Trixie. Jill also talks about her influences, her early work on Mike Baron’s Badger and her latest project Beasts of Burden. (With thanks to Gosh! Comics for arranging this interview – originally broadcast 13/11/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Panel Borders: Octopi, dogs and bears, oh my!
Continuing children’s comics month on Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to artists Henri Goldsmann and Richy K. Chandler about their work. Henri is the author of a new picture book – Harold (a dog’s best friend) – and has a successful career as a caricaturist, having dabbled in graphic novels such as Secret Agent Spanky Sheep on the side. Richy has produced ten terrific mini comics such as Lucy the Octopus and Govinda the Meditating Rabbit over the last couple of years which are now available in a cute bear shaped box set… (Originally broadcast 13/08/09 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Electric Sheep podcast: Dario Argento special
Alex Fitch talks to director Dario Argento about his career from writing Once upon a time in the West to directing his new film Giallo, in an interview recorded at this year’s Cine-Excess festival. Also, in a Q & A recorded live on stage at the Supersonic music festival in Birmingham, Alex talks to the Italian prog rock band Goblin about scoring Argento’s films from Profondo Rosso / Deep Red to Non ho sonno / Sleepless…
Reality Check: Supermarionation special, online at Sci-Fi London
In a special episode looking at two of the people most closely associated with classic Supermarionation TV shows, Alex Fitch and Robin Warren are talking to Francis Matthews about providing the voice of Captain Scarlet and playing cult detective Paul Temple on TV. Alex is also talking to Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson about some of his more obscure titles from Fireball XL5 to Lavender Castle… (Originally broadcast 16/07/09 & 13/08/09 on Resonance FM)
In print:
Ther’s tha devil movin’ in my blood’. The autumn 09 print issue of Electric Sheep looks at religious extremes on film from Christic masochism to satanic cruelty. The extraordinary White Lightnin’ explores the Old Testament world of demented mountain dancer Jesco White while Klaus Kinski disastrously reinterprets the New Testament in Jesus Christ Saviour – and subversives Alejandro Jodorowsky and Kenneth Anger dynamite divine myths. Plus: Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Raindance 09, political animation, louche mariachi rockabilly Dan Sartain picks his top films and Alex Fitch looks at the history of Rasputin on Film. New illustrations by Julia Scheele and James Stringer plus a comic strip review of the films of Coffin Joe by Daniel Locke.
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