Panel Borders: Music, Comics, and Performance

By John Freeman on March 2, 2022

Alex Fitch talks to musicians Will Potter (Cud) and Danny Nobel (The Meow Meows) on today’s Panel Borders on ResonanceFM, about how being in bands has an influence on their writing and drawing comics.

Plus, David Bramwell discusses how music is an important part of his performance piece The Cult of Water, which examines the work of Alan Moore in the context of landscape inspired art. The project was also adapted into a book, with Pete Fowler, published by Rough Trade, in 2020.

• Panel Borders: Music, Comics, and Performance airs at 5.30pm, Wednesday 2nd March 2022, repeat broadcast 11.00am, Sunday 6th March 2022, Resonance 104.4 FM + DAB (London) / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

• Danny Nobel’s website
• Information about Black Crown Quarterly on Cud’s website
• David Bramwell’s website

• Find out more and buy The Cult of Water by David Bramwell & Pete Fowler here on the Rough Trade web site

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John Freeman

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.