Panel Borders: Tim Sale – painting Batman and other Heroes, Resonance FM at 8pm Sunday 18th March, podcast on Panel Borders afterwards

In a Q and A recorded at last year’s Thought Bubble festival, Alex Fitch interviews artist Tim Sale about his career from early work like Thieves’ World and Billi 99 to his award winning collaborations with Jeph Loeb on Batman and the Marvel ‘colours’ tetralogy featuring Spider-Man, Daredevil and The Hulk. Alex and Tim also talk about the latter’s work on the TV series Heroes and the continuation of his most recent mini-seires, Captain America: White.

Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Exploring The Lair of the White Worm, online Wednesday 20th March

In a panel discussion recorded at The Horse Hospital arts club after a screening of Ken Russell’s lurid Bram Stoker adaptation, The Lair of the White Worm, Mark Pilkington discusses the film with BFI Flipside programmers Vic Pratt and Will Fowler, touching on issues of English legend, titillation and the consequences of Russell’s three picture deal with Vestron Pictures in the 1980s.

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Panel Borders: Klaus Janson – Superhero Noir

Continuing our month of shows about iconoclastic American comic book artists, Alex Fitch talks to German-American artist Klaus Janson about his work from inking and eventually providing most of the art for Frank Miller’s run on Daredevil and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in the early 80s to his recent acclaimed tenures on Wolverine and World War Hulk. Klaus also talks about his love of teaching new artists and his experiences at comic book conventions over the years. (Recorded at Comics Launchpad, Birmingham 2011)

Laydeez do podcasts: The female form in comics

In two talks recorded at Laydeez do comics, Dr. Ann Miller, lecturer and joint editor of European Comic Art journal talks about stereotypical representations of women in bandes dessinées, particularly Penelope Bagieu, creator of ‘chic-lit’ comic Joséphine; and Karrie Fransman talks about her new comic The House that groaned, an incisive graphic novel about body dysmorphia and desire in a Victorian tenement house.

(Detail from a Frank Miller CBLDF T-shirt)

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has been tirelessly fighting censorship and defending the first amendment rights of comic book professionals in the United States for the last 23 years. And the latest CBLDF benefit book is really shaping up to be something of a special event.

(Liberty Comics # 2 – covers by John Romita Jr, Tim Sale and Jim Lee.)

Liberty Comics #2 features a lead-off strip by Neil Gaiman & Jim Lee and other contributors include: Painkiller Jane by Jimmy Palmiotti and Jim Rugg; a new Mr. Gum adventure from Mike Allred and Jamie S. Rich; The Apocalipstix by Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart; a return to Channel Zero by Brian Wood; a preview of Choker by Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith;  a special Martha Washington piece by Dave Gibbons and all new and exclusive works from Paul Pope, Gail Simone and Joelle Jones; Kathryn and Stuart Immonen; Chynna Clugston; and Jason Aaron & Moritat.

All proceeds from Liberty Comics will benefit the First Amendment legal work of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Heidi at The Beat has some exclusive Liberty Comics pages from Paul Pope and China Clugston-Flores. Comic Book Resources have some of the Jim Lee pages.

Liberty Comics #2 is available from October 15th.