Panel Borders: Brockley (co)Max

By John Freeman on June 24, 2012

Above: Sarah Gordon, Howard Hardiman, Simone Lia, Gary Northfield, Julia Scheele, Kieron Gillen, Woodrow Phoenix and Alex Fitch at Brockley Max

In the last of Panel Borders series of shows about comic book communities around the UK, Alex Fitch talks to –

Kieron Gillen (Uncanny X-Men),
Sarah Gordon (The Peckham House for Invalids)
Howard Hardiman (The Lengths),
Simone Lia (Please God, find me a husband!)
Gary Northfield (Derek the Sheep)
Woodrow Phoenix (Nelson) and
Julia Scheele (69 love songs, illustrated)

about living and working in Brockley, South East London. Recorded live at the Brockley Max festival in June 2012.

Panel Borders: Brockley (co)Max airs on Sunday 24 June 2012 at 8pm on Resonance 104.4 FM – streamed at http://www.resonancefm.com/. Extended podcast after broadcast at http://panelborders.wordpress.com/

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.