Its Thursday and while I go searching autumnal trees for conkers here’s Alex Fitch to update us to the latest shows he’s involved with; as usual check the Panel Borders site for more information and links to podcasts of previous shows:
Strip!: The art of Karen Rubins, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards on Panel Borders
Continuing ‘Women in comics’ month, Alex Fitch talks to artist Karen Rubins about being the Comic Book Artist in Residence at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, being visited by members of the public and their collaborating on a strip displayed in her studio. Alex and Karen also discuss the latter’s career so far from drawing goth-styled comics for the small press to creating short manga pieces in “The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 2″ and “Manga Jiman 150″.
Reality Check: Predicting the present with Cory Doctorow, online at Sci-Fi London on 16th September
Alex Fitch talks to writer Cory Doctorow about his work, focusing on his novel Little Brother and short story collection Overclocked. Alex and Cory also talk about the latter’s interest in technology and disseminating information and the kinds of science fiction that interested him as a developing writer from George Orwell to William Gibson. The podcast also includes a reading of his short story Printcrime.
Coming soon:
Strip!: The art of Pia Guerra, due on Resonance FM on the 17th
Continuing ‘women in comics’ month, guest interviewer Tom Humberstone talks to artist Pia Guerra about her acclaimed 60 issue run on the post apocalyptic comic Y – the Last Man, her recent work on the mini series Doctor Who: The Forgotten and working her way into the medium via the small press and illustrations in comics as varied as Spider-man and Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror.
(panels from Y the Last Man, art by Pia Guerra, published DC)
Recent podcasts:
Panel Borders: Fab Toons and Splendid Zines
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.
Panel Borders: The Atom Style part 1 – Woodrow Phoenix and Garen Ewing
The first of two episodes of Panel Borders looking at the history and practice of ‘The Atom Style’, which is currently the focus of an exhibition at The Atomium in Brussels. Alex Fitch talks to artists Woodrow Phoenix and Garen Ewing about their work, exemplified in their recent graphic novels Rumble Strip and The Rainbow Orchid volume one, respectively. (Originally broadcast 06/08/09 on Resonance FM)
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