Sakina Karimjee and Nic Watts chat to Alex Fitch on next week’s Panel Borders radio show about adapting C.L.R. James’ Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History into sequential art in a Q and A recorded at Cartoon County
Plus, in a presentation at the Cartoon Museum, graphic novel writer Colleen Douglas talks with cultural researcher Michelle Yaa Asantewa about reinventing Caribbean folklore in her brilliant graphic novel, Silk Cotton.
• Panel Borders 5.30pm, Wednesday 2nd October 2024, repeat broadcast 11.00am, Sun 6th October, Resonance 104.4 FM + DAB (London) / broadcast streamed at www.resonancefm.com / more info & podcast after broadcast 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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