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Alex’s audio round up

13. January 2012

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As we stride into 2012 resplendent in the new winter jumpers our aunties bought us for Christmas here’s Alex Fitch with news of his upcoming comic and film related shows; as ever check the newly revamped Panel Borders site for more info and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Collier’s War, Resonance FM [...]

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Alex’s Audio Round Up

6. January 2012

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Windsurfing in on the recent gales comes Alex Fitch with news of the comics, film and sci-fi aural goodness with this new shows for the New Year; as ever check the (newly redesigned) Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Clear Spot: Cult animation, Tuesday 10th at 8pm on [...]

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The Boss Interview…..

29. December 2011

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After Daniel, Ailie, and Emily reviewed (and thoroughly enjoyed – see their review) The Boss, we arranged for some of Year 6 to send John and Patrice Aggs some email questions, just as we did with James Turner and The Etherington Brothers. Thanks very much to Daniel, Ailie, Emily, Joel, and Rosie for the questions, [...]

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Kate Beaton interviewed

20. December 2011

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One of our firm favourites, the wonderful Kate Beaton, is interviewed by Studio Q who have posted up a video (thanks to Tom at Comics Reporter for the link):

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The Etherington Brothers interviewed by Mia & Owen (Year 6)

18. December 2011

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A few weeks ago, one of the pupils at the school in which I work reviewed The Etherington Brothers Baggage graphic novel (Mia’s Baggage review), and it was a great review, just her latest, and with a lot of thought and a lot of work put into it. The Etheringtons were impressed as well, and gladly [...]

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Super Animals… James Turner Interviewed.

16. December 2011

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A few weeks ago, Ryan in Year 6 read and reviewed James Turner’s Graphic Novel Super Animal Adventure Squad. Ryan’s part of a growing team of graphic novel and comic readers and reviewers at the school I work at. And it was a great review, showing just how much Ryan had enjoyed the book, and [...]

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Trip City Round Table, part one

16. December 2011

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The website Trip City describes itself as a ‘Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Salon’, an intriguing and heady mixture of prose, comics, photography and more. Intrigued by just what this meant, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent ace reporter Stilts McGoon, equipped with battered Fedora, old Mac coat and enquiring attitude, to the city that never sleeps to [...]

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Sendak

8. December 2011

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Okay, this isn’t comics per se but as it involves the great Maurice Sendak as he talks to Expanded Books about his new illustrated work – his first pop-up book, as it happens – I figured a lot of us would enjoy it!

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Mignola and Golden talk Baltimore

7. December 2011

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Mike Mignola (one of my very favourite creators, I am addicted to Hellboy) and Christopher Golden are the subjects of this short video by Expanded Books, discussing their collaboration on the Baltimore comics series:

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Jeff Smith talks Bone

22. November 2011

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Expanded Books has a short video up with the most excellent Jeff Smith discussing Bone:

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Voices from the past – A Few Words With Grant Morrison About We3

21. November 2011

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This short interview with Grant Morrison took place when his collaboration with Frank Quitely for DC Comics, We3, had just been published, around 2005, and first saw light of day on a fondly remembered science fiction review site, The Alien Online, which some of you may recall reading. TAO grew out of the staff recommendations [...]

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Charlie Adlard speaks

16. November 2011

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Fantastic Forums’ Billie Rae Bates talks to the excellent comics artist Charlie Adlard (without whom the Walking Dead comic just wouldn’t be the same), recorded at the Baltimore Comic Con:

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Alex’s audio roundup

11. November 2011

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As the dark winter nights roll in here’s Alex Fitch with a little audio candle to chase the gloom away. As ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and for links to podcasts of previous shows. Panel Borders: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes, Sunday 13th November at 8pm on Resonance FM, [...]

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Lunar man – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore

11. November 2011

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Recently we mentioned on the blog that Steve Moore, scribe of many an essay, book and comic, friend and mentor to Alan Moore, had a fascinating new novel, Somnium, coming out, and as it is a book that carries an endorsement not only by Alan but also from Michael Moorcock it is quite obviously a [...]

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FJB Comics

11. November 2011

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Joe Galbo posts a short video talk with FJB Comics, apparently the last comics store in Jersey City and, as Joe notes, perhaps one of the last bookstores in the downtown area of the city:

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