On this week’s upcoming Panel Borders radio show, Alex Fitch talks to Kristina Stipetic about her sci-fi comics informed by fine art, which vary from short anthology titles to the long running graphic novel series, Alethia.
Also, Professor in Visual and Material Culture, School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton, Annebella Pollen, discusses her research into how comics help kids connect with photography.
Annebella’s research areas include mass photography and the popular image, and histories of art, craft, design and dress, especially marginal, vernacular, alternative, countercultural and non-canonical forms. She is part of the Photography Research Excellence Group and Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Groups.
Plus, graphic novelist, artist and educator Ottilie Hainsworth, author of the graphic novel, Talking to Gina, talks about combining drawings and writing in her teaching.
Panel Borders: Photography and Fine Art in Comics airs at 5.00pm, Wednesday 7th October, repeated 11am Sunday 11th October 2026 on Resonance 104.4 FM / DAB (London) / streamed at resonancefm.com / extended podcast after broadcast and more info at 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.
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