Panel Borders: Home and Away Starting a month of shows about the depiction of travel in comic books and representations of far flung lands, Alex Fitch talks to creators from Brighton and Delhi about their graphic novels which mix autobiography… Read More ›
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Panel Borders on Aces Weekly and 2000AD
Panel Borders: Aces Weekly Continuing our month of shows about anthologies, Alex Fitch talks to the creator and co-editor – David Lloyd – of a new weekly digital comics anthology, Aces Weekly. Alex also talks to three of the other… Read More ›
Panel Borders radio show on The Phoenix / new British Horror Films
Panel Borders: The Phoenix In the first of a new series of Panel Borders, we start a month of shows looking at comic book anthologies with a recording of a panel discussion of the children’s comic The Phoenix. Creators Daniel… Read More ›
Doctor Who / The Dandy / Elephantmen in discussion on the radio
Squeezing in a trio of radio appearances on 104.4 FM and elsewhere before Resonance FM runs a three week repeat schedule while the studio is refurbished, Alex Fitch is covering a variety of subjects over the weekend… Clear Spot: Out… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Resident Aliens / Caption podcast with Brown and Duffield
Panel Borders: Resident Aliens In this week’s episode of Panel Borders on Resonance 104.4 FM (London), the last of our series of shows about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch talks to Steve Parkhouse and Peter Hogan about… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Multimedia comics by Edgar Wright and others
Tommy Lee Edwards + Edgar Wright Panel Borders: Multimedia Comics In the third of our series on comic book collaborators, Alex Fitch talks to two pairs of creators who have created cross platform comics that exist as both as sequential… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Tom Gauld and Simone Lia discuss Cabanon Press
Panel Borders: Cabanon Press In the second of a series of shows about comic book creators who have collaborated together, Alex Fitch talks to celebrated British cartoonists Tom Gauld and Simone Lia in a conversation recorded at this year’s Spring… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Trina Robbins’ Underground Comix
Starting a month of shows about female comic book creators, the Panel Borders radio show and podcast will present a talk recorded at ‘Laydeez do Comics’ in September 2010 this week. Edited and introduced by Alex Fitch, veteran ‘Underground Comix’… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Mature animal comics
Panel Borders radio show’s series of shows about anthropomorphic or ‘funny animal’ comics continues tonight, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of writer/artists whose latest projects deal with animal human hybrids in adult situations. First up is Howard Hardiman, creator… Read More ›
Radio Show spotlights Rude Britannia exhibition
Opening today at Tate Britain in London is the new exhibition ‘Rude Britannia’, which traces the history of British comic art from Hogarth to the present day. In an hour-long Clear Spot radio show from the Strip! radio show team,… Read More ›
Prove You’re the Greatest Hitchhiker Fan Ever – in 42 Seconds…
And Another Thing by bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer, is the sixth novel in the ever-more increasingly inaccurately named ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy. To celebrate the launch, publishers Penguin are searching for the biggest… Read More ›
Strip!: Fab Toons and Splendid Zines
London’s Resonance FM continues its ongoing coverage of comics with several shows from the Panel Borders team. Strip! Fab Toons and Splendid Zines: Starting ‘women in comics’ month on the show, Panel Borders have a couple of interviews with small press… 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 ›
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 ›
downthetubes On The Air!
downthetubes editor John Freeman was interviewed on Lancaster’s Diversity FM this morning, the show repeated at 6.00pm tonight (Wednesday 11 February). The interview was the latest by local writer Jomar de Vrind as part of his “Imaginary Friends” series for… Read More ›
Mine’s A Paul Temple!
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938 and went on to appear in novels, film, television and a daily newspaper strip. Now, there’s even a cocktail named after him – and an… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 13 October 2008
COMICS AND ‘ZINES • Radio 4 will be airing four 15-minute programmes on comics and cartoonists with Phill Jupitus, broadcasting on the back of a favourable response to his previous comics programme. The first one with Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau… Read More ›
Resonance FM Stands Up for Comics
(via Bugpowder): On Thursday 14th August at 5.00pm, Resonance FM will broadcast “Stand Up Comics: Music and Performance by Small Press Artists and Writers” as part of the weekly comics programme, ‘Strip’. Tune in for poetry, stories, music and dialogue,… Read More ›
Beano Mischief on Radio 4!
Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park and Beano editor Alan Digby were interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, part of the ongoing celebrations for the weekly comic as it fast approaches its 70th birthday. Park, who is… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 23 June 2008
• Comics writer Jason Cobley is a guest on the BBC Radio 4 show The Learning Curve at 8.30pm tonight, Monday 23rd June, discussing using Classical Comics’ Shakespeare books in the classroom with the legendary Libby Purves. “I’m not sure… Read More ›