Its Thursday and modelling his new autumn season collection on the audio catwalk comes Alex Fitch; as ever you can find more details and links to podcasts of previous shows on the Panel Borders website:
Strip!: London / Quebec / Cape Town, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards on Panel Borders
Starting ‘anthologies and collectives’ month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to three comic book creators who produce anthologies of their wares in a trilogy of interviews recorded at last weekend’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham.
Giovanni Spinella, secretary of the ‘Comic Creators Guild’ discusses their work in helping new creators find their feet in the industry while Christian Quesnel talks about publishing sequential art with ‘Le Studio coopératif Premières Lignes’ and representing Québécoise comics in London. Alex also talks to Tom McNally about his anthology Semiotic Cohesion which publishes strips by the finest comic book creators from Cape Town.
(cover to Manche de Pelle written by Danièle Vallée, artwork by Christian Quesnel, published Premières Lignes)
Electric Sheep Subterranea: The Third Man and The Phantom Empire: The Singing Cowboy, Sunday 11th,
Starting in October, Electric Sheep presents subterranean screenings of minor masterpieces, oddball B-movies and genre classics in the convivial surroundings of Cinéphilia West. Join us every second Sunday of the month for a feature film and a chat, preceded by an episode from a serial or series, which will be shown over a season of screenings.
On Sunday 11 October we will be launching a season of underground-related films in honour of our venue’s location with a screening of Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) – watch Orson Welles’s Harry Lime skulk around post-war Vienna’s sewers in the ultimate British film noir!
This will be preceded by the first episode from the sci-fi Western musical The Phantom Empire (1935), in which a cowboy, who is also a radio show host, stumbles upon an ancient but highly advanced civilisation living under his ranch… Has to be seen to be believed! Full details on the Cinephilia website.
(early science fiction serial meets singing cowboy in The Phantom Empire)
Recent podcasts:
Panel Borders: Talking Teabags and Wishing Wells
Concluding ‘women in comics month’ on the show, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of illustrators about their genre bending work. Hannah Berry’s debut graphic novel Britten and Brülightly tells the tale of a harried private detective with the nickname of ‘The Heartbreaker’ whose final case sees his career catch up with him, in a terrific comic book that combines the tenets of noir with gentle surrealism – his confidant is his pet teabag, Stewart – and assured cinematic visuals. Sally-Anne Hickman is a self-published comic book artist and writer whose work ranges from affectionate parodies of pop culture icons such as Spider-man and the Powerpuff Girls to intricate diary comics that give an intimate portrayal of the self-publishing world, packaged as collectible items with textured covers that incorporate fur, metallic sparkle and googly puppet eyes.
Thu, Oct 8, 2009
Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio, Podcast