Concluding Sci-Fi comics month on the podcast Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to artist Kevin O’Neill about his work with writer Pat Mills, from his early days working on Nemesis the Warlock and A.B.C. Warriors for 2000AD to the hero… Read More ›
Digital Media
Tube Surfing: Comic Cutbacks, San Diego Schedules, Dinsoaurs and Weird Fishes…
• Filming has started on the new series of Doctor Who that will see Matt Smith will take on the eponymous role. Matt is seen here in costume, side by side with Scottish actress Karen Gillan who plays new companion… Read More ›
Moon Landing: T Minus 0 Days – The Eagle Has Landed
Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Lunar Module, Eagle, and undocked from the Command Service Module, Columbia
Panel Borders Goes SciFi Mad!
We don’t often cover every podcast or radio show Alex Fitch and his team are about to broadcast, but he’s got plenty lined up we think downthetubes fans will want to check out, so hold on to your hats… •… Read More ›
Geek Syndicate Launches first ever 2000AD podcast
Top Brit podcast site Geek Syndicate have launched a new podcast on under our banner dedicated to all things 2000AD – possibly the first of its kind devoted solely to Rebellion’s weekly scifi comic. Everything Comes Back To 2000AD is… Read More ›
Strip!: There’s no time like the present
Starting Sci-Fi comics month on the Strip! radio show for London-based arts channel Resonance FM, Alex Fitch talks to small press creator Paul Rainey about his serialised graphic novel There’s no time like the present, which he has been self… Read More ›
Tube Surfing, 30 June 2008: Baxendale, Bernice Summerfield and Graveyards!
• (via FPI): Leo Baxendale features in The Times today, recalling the early 1950s and his first approaches to DC Thomson, them taking on Little Plum, Minnie the Minx then the immortal Bash Street Kids. More details and links over… Read More ›
Manhwa Galleries, Mixed Media Graduates and Manga Girls…
Starting cross cultural comics month on Resonance FM’s Strip! comic show, Dickon Harris introduces the 100 years of Manhwa exhibition at the London Korean Cultural Centre (see our report, here) and talks to a couple of recent illustration graduates this… Read More ›
Fireball XL5 Special Edition DVD Announced
Fireball XL5 Special,Edition on its way!
Muppets, Giant Cuboid Chickens and Other Weird Creatures
Starting an “adaptation and inspiration” month on the Strip! radio show on ResonanceFM, Alex Fitch and Robin Warren talk to two humour cartoonists – Roger Langridge and Hugh Raine (a.k.a. Shug) – about their work. As we’ve previously reported, Roger… Read More ›
Strip!: Ed Pinsent and Fast Fiction
Continuing comic book publishing month on his Strip! radio show on London-based art radio station Resonance FM, Alex Fitch talks to comics creator Ed Pinsent, the second editor of the 1980s small press anthology Fast Fiction which was a ground… Read More ›
Comic Boom on Panel Borders
Continuing their month long look at comic book publishing Panel Borders Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to Mark Waid, the editor-in-chief of US publisher Boom! Studios for this week’s Strip! radio show on Resonance FM. A relatively new comic… Read More ›
Alex Maleev Strips
Classic heroes month continues on Alex Fitch’s radio show and podcast Strip!, which airs on London’d Resonance FM, with a look at the red-suited vigilante Daredevil – blind lawyer by day and superhero by night, soon to be written by… Read More ›
Simonson On Air and Other Podcasts…
Alex Fitch talks to artist and writer Walter Simonson on Resonance FM which week, the creator whose exceptional four-year run on the Marvel comic The Mighty Thor in the early 1980s remains the most appreciated version of the character since… Read More ›
Captain Britain Podcast News
It’s the start of ‘classic heroes’ month on Strip!, the fab radio show and podcast presented by Alex Fitch. This week, Alex is talking to two of the creators of stories featuring Britain’s very own superhero – Captain Britain. First… Read More ›
Star Trek Magazine Collected
Titan Magazines has digitized early issues of its first ongoing licensed title Star Trek Magazine, making them available for the first time on CD-ROM. The issues, all edited by John Freeman, contain the first 24 issues of Star Trek Monthly… Read More ›
Adrian Tomine on Strip!
Continuing Indie comics month on the radio show and podcast Strip!, Eagle Award winning writer and artist Tom Humberstone will be talking to American comic book creator Adrian Tomine who writes and draws the comic book Optic Nerve, originally self… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 5 February 2009
• Dickon Harris presents a trio of interviews recorded at last autumn’s Comica festival in London at the ICA on Resonance FM (London) today, talking to the winner – Julian Hanshaw – and runner-up – Isabel Greenberg – of 2008’s… Read More ›
Planetary Stories with a British flavour…
(via writer Erwin K. Roberts): The coming of the new year also brings new issues of the quarterly sister web magazines Planetary Stories and Pulp Spirit, described by their editor as an online homage to the S-F pulp magazines of… Read More ›
Panel Borders Podcast News
Alex Fitch of ResonanceFM and Panel Borders has been in touch with information on his new broadcasts / podcasts: On Air Now: Strip – The work of Raymond Briggs The UK’s only weekly radio show about comic books returns after… Read More ›