Author Archives
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A Radio Milestone! Alex Fitch has Made 500 Panel Borders radio shows… Roll on 500 more…
Panel Borders, Britain’s only regular radio show about comics, hits its 500th episode tonight! Producer and presenter Alex Fitch reveals the show’s origins, and some favourite interviews…
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Graphic Brighton returns in May, Drawing in the Margins
This year’s Graphic Brighton weekend at the University of Brighton City Campus takes place on 1st – 2nd May, presented by the University of Brighton and fine publishers Myriad Editions, and includes panels, discussions and workshops. Following last year’s event which… Read More ›
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Electric Sheep Magazine’s comic Jubilee
Previously a print periodical from Wallflower Press (Summer 2008 – Winter 2009), Electric Sheep is a cult and world cinema review magazine that has existed before and since as a website, carrying on many of the features of the print… Read More ›
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Radio show about Nelson creators: Dan Berry, Rob Davis, Sarah McIntyre and more…
Panel Borders: Nelson Continuing our month of shows looking at depictions of lives on the page, Dan Berry talks to four of his fellow creators who worked on the award winning anthology graphic novel Nelson, published by Blank Slate Books, including… Read More ›
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Radio interview with Aline and Robert Crumb
Panel Borders: Drawn Together – 40 years of Aline and Robert Crumb Starting a month of shows about ‘lives on the page’, Panel Borders looks at graphic novels which depict the travails of human existence with books that straddle the… Read More ›
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Panel Borders radio show on The Phoenix / new British Horror Films
Panel Borders: The Phoenix In the first of a new series of Panel Borders, we start a month of shows looking at comic book anthologies with a recording of a panel discussion of the children’s comic The Phoenix. Creators Daniel… Read More ›
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Panel Borders continues its look at Elephantmen + The Pod Delusion examines The Dandy cancellation
In a companion podcast to last week’s episode, Alex Fitch continues his conversation with writer Richard Starkings and artist Ian Churchill about Elephantmen
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Panel Borders: Depicting the personal
Continuing Panel Borders month of radio shows looking at British comics, they have a pair of interviews about artists who examine their personal life and feelings as a subject for their art. Cartoonist Richy K. Chandler talks to Simone Lia… Read More ›
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Panel Borders: Comic stamps
Starting a month of shows all about British Comics, radio show Panel Borders’ Alex Fitch interviews Richard Scholey, from design company The Chase, and Philip Parker, Head of Stamps strategy, Royal Mail, about the new range of comic book stamps… Read More ›
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Panel Borders: Searching comics with DJ Food
Starting a month of Panel Borders radio shows about non practitioners’ love for comics, guest presenter Robin Warren talks to musician and 2000AD fan Strictly Kev about collaborating with Henry Flint on the artwork for his new LP The Search… Read More ›
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Panel Borders: Children of the Atom
For this week’s Panel Borders show, in a panel discussion recorded at last month’s Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London, Paul Gravett talks to Mikkel Sommer about his graphic novella Obsolete, to publisher Adrian Searle and… Read More ›
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Panel Borders: Comic Therapy
In a panel discussion recorded at the 2010 Comics and Medicine conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Paul Gravett talks to Brian Fies, Phillipa Perry and Darryl Cunningham about their work in portraying aspects of medical care and… Read More ›