As we all wince at delicate sunburn brought on by the sudden rush out into the recent sunshine, Alex Fitch offers us up some of the aural delights he’s involved with to listen to as we apply the apres-sun; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows:
Strip!: Manhwa Galleries, Mixed media Graduates and Manga Girls…, tonight on Resonance FM, extended podcast on Panel Borders after transmission
Starting cross cultural comics month on the show: Dickon Harris introduces the 100 years of Manhwa exhibition at the London Korean Cultural Centre and talks to a couple of recent illustration graduates. Alex Fitch interviews a couple of female indie manga creators – Sally Jane Thompson and Kate Holden – at the Docklands Manga Expo and discusses the brutality of nature with Melody Lee, whose comics depict woodland animals in the style of Beatrix Potter but who also shoot, shag and swear like troopers!
(The Life of Little Bear by Melody Lee)
Coming soon:
Strip!: The Art of Shaun Tan, due on Resonance FM on the 11th of June
Continuing cross cultural comics month on the show: Alex Fitch will be talking to Australian artist Shaun Tan about his work including his award winning graphic novel The Arrival which tells tales of immigrants arriving in fantastical worlds and was loosely based on his Malaysian family’s history and his new book Tales from Outer Suburbia, which superbly mixes a whole variety of story telling techniques from comic strips, to poetry and collage.
Previous podcasts:
Panel Borders: Adapting prose for manga, games and genre comics
Concluding adaptation and inspiration month on the show, Alex Fitch talks to writer and graphic designer Antony Johnston about combining text and image in comics and other media from his illustrated novella Frightening Curves to enriching the computer game he scripted – Dead Space – with a comic book prequel and interactive websites. Alex and Antony also talk about the latter’s influences, writing the new Wolverine Manga and adapting the prose work of Alan Moore and Anthony Horowitz into comic book format.
Reality Check: Genre (crossing) directors – Charlie Kaufman and Nacho Vigalondo, online at SciFi London
Continuing our series of twice annual looks at pairs of directors who combine genres on screen to beguiling effect, Alex Fitch talks to Academy Award winning screenwriter turned director Charlie Kaufman about his new film Synecdoche, New York and the processes of getting his previous scripts Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich to the screen. Alex also talks to Nacho Vigalondo, the director of the new Spanish film TimeCrimes / Los cronocrimenes which mixes the style of a 1970s psycho thriller with the tropes of a modern, cerebral time travel film.
In print:
The all new Summer 2009 print edition of Electric Sheep Magazine
The latest edition of Electric Sheep magazine has just been released and is available from various stockists… Electric Sheep is edited by Virginie Sélavy with assistance by Alex Fitch and includes reviews by Virginie, Mark Stafford, Joel Karamath and others of recent releases: Just another love story (2007), Takeshis (2005) and Mesrine (2008) and well as classic films: Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), Suture (1993) and Black Lizard / Kurotokage (1968). The magazine also includes articles on the work of ‘Beat’ Takeshi, Joseph Losely and Patricia Highsmith’s (talented) Mr. Ripley plus Alex Fitch’s interviews with Marc Caro and Helen McCarthy… This month’s illustrators include: Sean Azzopardi – Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978) / The Invasion (2007), Douglas Noble – Hardware (1990), comic strip review – and Daniel Locke – Westworld (1973) / I, Robot (2004).
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