Panel Borders: Writing as the Other

The Clay Dreaming by Ed Hillyer
Continuing a month of shows about comics that are about or from Australasia on this week’s only over-air British comics radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist turned novelist Ed Hillyer about his debut novel, The Clay Dreaming, released in 2010 – his account of an Aborigine Cricket Team in 19th Century Britain, and how writing a book without pictures differs to his experience of writing comics.
Terra Austrails by LF Bollee and Philippe NiclouxAlex also talks to French journalist, motorsport commentator and bande dessinée creator,  L.F. Bollée about writing the graphic novel Terre Australis, which depicts the conquering of Australia, published in English as Terra Australis last year by SelfMadeHero. . The interview was recorded in front of a live audience at the Australia / New Zealand Literature Festival 2014.
Ed Hillyer

Ed Hillyer

Ed – also known as ILYA – is a British writer and artist whose books include the award-winning graphic novel series The End of the Century Club, an entry in noir anthology It’s Dark in London, a daring adaptation of King Lear (Manga Shakespeare series) and, most recently, the graphic novel Room, for SelfMade Hero. Illustration clients include the BBC, the Royal Academy of Arts, and The Times and Guardian newspapers.

Hillyer has edited three volumes of The Mammoth Book of BEST NEW MANGA, curating a host of international talent. He also designs and tutors workshops and courses on the art of comics and manga for colleges, galleries, libraries, schools and prisons, across the UK as well as abroad.

The Clay Dreaming, his debut prose novel, was selected as one of Waterstones’s New Voices for 2010 (see Hillyer’s interview in the Waterstones Books Quarterly). Ed has also visited Indonesia with the British Council and been a guest of the Sharjah International Book Fair.

• Panel Borders: Writing as the Other airs at 11.00am Thursday 9th July, repeated 7.00am Saturday 11th July 2015, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com  / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

• A (fumetti) comic strip Alex Fitch commissioned from Woodrow Phoenix has just gone up on Electric Sheep’s website: 


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