It may be a chilly New Year in Britain but the cold snap isn’t preventing Alex Fitch from performing his customary Strip! Here with details of the first batch of 2009 shows he’s involved with is Alex and, as ever, for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site:
Strip: The work of Raymond Briggs, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM
The UK’s only weekly radio show about comic books returns today after a three week break for Christmas and the theme of this month’s shows is four generations of British cartoonists. Later episodes this month will feature Alex Fitch’s interviews with Peter Doherty (not the Libertine!) who is an underated Judge Dredd artist from the early 1990s to the present day, an up and coming young artist called Marc Ellerby who is currently featured in a group show at Brent Museum and with Alan Moore and Pat Mills about their favorite cartoonist, the late Ken Reid who drew classic humour strips such as Roger the Dodger in the 1950s Beano and many other tales in the Dandy and elsewhere.
This week Alex is talking to the beloved British children’s illustrator Raymond Briggs who in the 1970s created some of the most treasured kids books of the late twentieth century such as The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman which were all turned into successful and memorable animated cartoons in the following decade. (you could say they were “talking on the air…” Sorry, dreadful pun… – Joe)
(Raymond Briggs with the Snowman enjoying a bit of park life, pic by Getty Images)
Lucky Cat: The films of Tetsuya Nakashima, Tuesday 13th of January on Resonance FM
In the second episode of the new series of Resonance FM’s weekly show about Asian Culture, alongside examples of the region’s music and food in the “dim-sum lunchbox”, presenter Zoe Baxter will be talking to Alex Fitch and Dan Lester from Electric Sheep Magazine about the films of Tetsuya Nakashima, including Kamikaze Girls (which is this season’s comic strip review in ESM by Dan) and Memories of Matsuko which showed at a recent Hectic Peelers screening. Regular listeners of Lucky Cat may have heard Alex cameo on the show before, tasting some of Zoe’s previous dim-sum lunchboxes live on air!
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