Running slightly later than usual (apologies, but you know you can always catch up any shows you miss on the Panel Borders site), here is Alex Fitch with the latest shows he’s involved with:
Strip!: The work of Peter Doherty, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, repeated Sunday 25h at 11.30pm and also podcast on Panel Borders
In the third of this month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to an artist who started work in the early 90s on Judge Dredd megazine, illustrating the acclaimed serial Young Death – Boyhood of a superfiend, has worked on a variety of titles in America such as Batman / Superman, The Dreaming and Grendel Tales, before returning to the world of Dredd again more recently. Peter Doherty has worked as a penciller, a fully rendered artist and as a colourist on off beat titles such as Shaolin Cowboy and Grant Morrison’s absurdist Sea Guy.
Electric Sheep Magazine podcast (due online on Wednesday 28th): Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini – the Magic of Classics In an interview / Q & A recorded live at the Roxy Bar and Screen, Alex Fitch talks to magician Granville Markland about depictions of magic and magicians on the big screen, focussing on the work of Harry Houdini in such films as The Man from Beyond (1922) and the more recent blurring of fact and fiction in movies like The Prestige and The Illusionist. Also, Alex talks to musician and comedy writer Robin Warren from the band Liberation Jumpsuit about the recent BFI cinema rereleases of Hitchcock’s Notorious and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1932) which combine suspense and eroticism to beguiling effect.
Recent podcasts…:
Panel Borders: The work of Marc Ellerby In the second of this month’s shows about four generations of British cartoonists, Alex Fitch is talking to artist and writer Marc Ellerby, who has self-published a variety of small press autobiographical comics, drawn Love the way you love by Jamie S. Rich for Oni Press and the back-up strip for the latest issue of Image Comics’ critically acclaimed Phonogram. Marc is currently exhibiting original artwork in the Drawn! (see below) exhibition at Brent Museum and throughout last year ran a Manga Club at a bookshop in Lakeside in Essex…
Panel Borders: The work of Raymond Briggs In the first Panel Borders of 2009, Alex Fitch is talks 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.
Thu, Jan 22, 2009
Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio, Podcast