Continuing Panel Borders month-long look at unusual takes on superheroes, Alex Fitch talks to artist Becky Cloonan about her work, focusing on the series Demo, written by Brian Wood which is a more down to earth look at the problems… Read More ›
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Panel Borders: On Air, at ComICA…
Wonder Woman drawn by Nicola Scott Starting a month of radio shows looking at unique renderings of superheroes, Panel Border latest episode – Panel Borders: Team Batman, Robin and Catman – is about depictions of masculinity in superhero comics via… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Books of Magic and Spirits of the Earth
Continuing radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at horror and dark fantasy comics, in a pair of interviews recorded at this year’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to artists Charles Vess and Peter Gross… Read More ›
Panel Borders chats with Dickon Harris in an Anarchist Restaurant
Comic creator Paul O’Connell drops us a line to say an interview he did with ‘zine creator and regular Panel Borders interviewer Dickon Harris will feature on London’s Resonance FM tomorrow night. “The interview took place at the end of… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Making Marvels in the UK (Part 2)
Continuing radio show and podcast Panel Borders month long look at British creators who have written and drawn superhero comics, (in a panel recorded in front of a live audience at the London Science-Fiction Film Festival) Alex Fitch concludes his… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Making Marvels in the UK
Continuing podcast and radio show Panel Borders month-long look at British creators who have written and drawn superhero comics for both the American and domestic markets, in a panel recorded in front of a live audience at the London Science-Fiction… Read More ›
Panel Borders Live: Gleaming the Silver Surfer
As part of a fund raising night to support London radio station Resonance FM, themed around the subject of silver, Alex Fitch will be talking to comic book writer and novelist Simon Spurrier about the Marvel comics character the Silver… Read More ›
Panel Borders Pins down Chris Claremont on creating Captain Britain
Comic book creator Chris Claremont at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. Photo: Luigi Novi Starting a new series of the UK’s only weekly radio show about comics, now under a new (old) name, Panel Borders has a… Read More ›
Reality Check: Comics versus Film
Cartoonist Woodrow Phoenix This year’s cinematic interest in comic book adaptations shows no sign of slowing down with adaptations of Scott Pilgrim vs. the world and Tamara Drewe hitting screens over the next few weeks. To coincide with this, the… Read More ›
Frank Quitely Interview Podcast
As part of the West Port Book Festival on Friday 25th June 2010, David Bishop interviewed artist Frank Quitely at Edinburgh Books second hand bookshop in Edinburgh’s West Port. Since the event was always going to have a small audience… Read More ›
Strip! Goes Manga, Mills talks French (comics, that is)
Continuing ‘cross cultural comics month’ on the show, the Strip! radio show this week is looking at the winners of last year’s Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competiton run by the Japanese Embassy in London to find the best new… Read More ›
Big Finish Baker!!
It looks as though Tom Baker, the 4th and arguably most popular Doctor Who, may soon be working for Big Finish, the company who have produced audio adventures based on Doctor Who for the past decade. According to the Big… Read More ›
Strip! – Cartoons in Classrooms
In the last of this month’s shows looking at the use of comics in education, the Strip! radio show, broadcast on Resonance FM and now available as a podcast, have interviews with a variety of practitioners and tutors with an… Read More ›
British Comic Creator Interviews on SciFiPulse
Longtime downthetubes readers know this site trades news items with the superb science fiction TV, film and genre site SciFiPulse, but what with recent holidays here in the tubes, we’ve missed some of their coverage of British comics. So here’s… Read More ›
Strip! for Savage Messiahs, Doctor Who and Al Davison…
Here’s some info about the shows ace podcaster Alex Fitch is involved with that will be broadcast over the next 7 days: On air: Strip! – Ctrl Alt Shift: Lightspeed Champion and Savage Messiah Continuing ‘British Mavericks’ month on the… Read More ›