Podcast: The Art of Mark Buckingham

Panel Borders: The art of Mark Buckingham

Alex's and Duncan's half hour interview with Mark Buckingham about his comic book career so far drawing such titles as Spider-man, Fables, Death and Miracleman and collaborating with Chris Bachalo on Generation X and Ghost Rider 2099- originally broadcast as the first half of last week's Strip! on Resonance FM...

Happy Christmas!

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 30 mins, 27.1mb)

Today's show: Classic Childrens’ characters in Comics

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Classic Childrens’ characters in Comics

In the last Strip! of the year, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott are looking at the depiction of beloved children’s characters in comics. First we have our interview with Mark Buckingham about reinventing classic fairy tales in Fables and the challenge of bringing something new to the character in his two year run on Spider-man.

Later in the show we have the first on air broadcast of Alex & Duncan’s conversation with Geoff Senior and Simon Furman on 25 years of Transformers, which was first podcast last summer. This is a change to the show advertised at the end of last week’s episode (which was to be about adaptations of classic literature in comics and will be broadcast in a fortnight) mainly because I accidently left the CD at home this morning…

Links: Wikipedia pages on Mark Buckingham, Fables and the comic: Peter Parker, Spider-man
Download free Marvel Comics by Mark
Partial bibliography
Interview with Mark at Silver Bullet Comics

Panel Borders: The work of Simon Spurrier

Panel Borders: The work of Simon Spurrier

Alex's and Duncan's half hour interview with Simon Spurrier about his comic book career so far and writing his first novel Contract - originally broadcast as the second half of last week's Strip! on Resonance FM...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 30 mins, 28.7mb)

Podcast: The art of Charlie Adlard

Panel Borders: The art of Charlie Adlard

Alex's and Duncan's half hour interview with Charlie Adlard about his comic book career so far - originally broadcast as the second half of last week's Strip! on Resonance FM...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 32 mins, 29.4mb)

Today's show: Tamara Drewe and the Walking Dead!

Today at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM - Strip!: Tamara Drewe and the Walking Dead!


The first half of today's show is continuing Resonance FM's coverage of the London ComICA festival - the first half of a discussion held at the Comica festival in which Lisa Appignanesi talks to Guardian cartoonist in residence Posy Simmonds about the collection of her strips from the newspaper which has just been published as a harback graphic novel Tamara Drewe by Jonathan Cape. The talk was recorded live at the ICA last month. Please note: this discussion will not be podcast, so please tune in if you want to catch it.

In the second half of the show you'll hear an interview that Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch conducted at the Birmingham International Comics Show with another British comics artist - Charlie Adlard - about his work from acclaimed zombie comic The Walking Dead to Judge Dredd and the challenges of drawing Mulder and Scully in the comic book adaptation of the X-Files.

Links: More info about ComICA at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com
"Read yourself Raw" profile on Posy Simmonds
Reviews of Posy's Literary Life and Tamara Drewe
Wikipedia pages on Posy Simmonds and Charlie Adlard
Lambiek.net pages on Posy Simmonds and Charlie Adlard
Interviews with Charlie at 2000AD review and G Wie Gorilla!
Article on Charlie joining The Walking Dead at Silver Bullet Comics
Read Kim Newman's vampire story Mildrew Manor, illustrated by Charlie

Podcast: Comics gossip and Flying friars part 2

The second half of Alex and Duncan's hour long interview with Rich Johnston about Lying in the gutters and controversy in comics is available to download now...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 25th September as the second half of Strip!.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 29 mins, 28.3mb)

Links: Rich's column Lying in the gutters
Wikipedia entry on Rich Johnston
Buy The Flying Friar from FPI

Podcast: Comics gossip and Flying friars part 1

The first half of Alex and Duncan's hour long interview with Rich Johnston about The Flying Friar and Lying in the gutters is available to download now...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 25th September as the first half of Strip!.

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 26 mins, 25.6mb)

Links: Rich's column Lying in the gutters
Wikipedia entry on Rich Johnston
Buy The Flying Friar from FPI
More info on CSI: Dying in the Gutters

Today's show: Comics gossip and Flying Friars

Today on Resonance 104.4FM at 5pm - Strip!: Comics gossip and Flying Friars

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview infamous comics gossip columnist Rich Johnston about Lying in the Gutters for over a decade, being murdered in an (illustrated comic book) episode of CSI and writing a graphic novel about a 17th century monk whose life is strangely similar to a certain boy from Smallville's...

Links: Rich's column Lying in the gutters
Wikipedia entry on Rich Johnston
Buy The Flying Friar from FPI

In comics news:


ComICA at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London is on now and continues until November 6th and sees performances, screenings and live talks with the likes of Jamie Delano, Posy Simmonds and Kevin O'Neil.

More info at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com

Podcast: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 3

The final part of Alex & Duncan's interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing Witchblade: Shades of Grey, Leah's Christmas Stamps story and the kind of comics they'd like to do in the future. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 27th September as part of Strip!. Panel Borders is Alex and Duncan's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 16.3mb)

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
Interview with John & Leah about their recent work at Forbidden Planet International's blog
Interview with Leah at dragonskeep.com

In comics news:


ComICA at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London starts tomorrow and continues until November 6th and sees performances, screenings and live talks with the likes of Jamie Delano, Posy Simmonds and Kevin O'Neil.

More info at www.ica.org and www.paulgravett.com

Podcast: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 2

The second part of Alex & Duncan's interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing Wildgirl, moving to Dynamite Entertainment and John Reppion's Zombie Army. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 27th September as part of Strip!. Panel Borders is Alex and Duncan's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 14.4mb)

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
Buy a John Reppion's Zombie Army T-shirt
Interview with Leah about Wildgirl at www.thecomicfanatic.com
Dynamite Entertainment press release about John & Leah moving to their company

Podcast: Uncut interview - David Hine and Frazer Irving

Continuing our occasional series of hour long uncut versions of the interviews that were recorded for I'm ready for my close-up and Panel Borders, we have Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott's complete interview with Frazer Irving & David Hine about their comics work such as Gutsville, Shaun of the dead, X-Men: The 198 and Spawn

This interview has been previous partially podcast in two halves and was broadcast in almost its entirety on 4th October

(mp3 format, 34.0mb / 37 mins)

Podcast: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 1

The first part of Alex & Duncan's interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing variously for the Fortean Times and Albion and the thorny issue of obtaining back issues of their work. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones...

Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 27th September as part of Strip!. Panel Borders is Alex and Duncan's contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour...

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com (mp3 format, 15.4mb)

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
Publishers Weekly article on Albion
John's article on The Childe of Hale

Today's show: The art of Andrzej Klimowski and the work of Hine and Irving

Tonight's Strip! at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM is comprised of two interviews previously partially podcast...
First we have the complete interview Alex Fitch conducted with Andrzej Klimowski about his half dozen Graphic Novels which range from silent movie surrealist Traumnovelles to "Beginner's guides to..." art and philosphy. Later we have Duncan Nott & Alex's interview with comics creators David Hine & Frazer Irving who have made super heroes comics with a twist, horror stories and graphic fantasies.

There are podcasts already available of the first half of the interview with Andrzej and a shorter version of the interview with David and Frazer...

Incidently, if you're waiting for a podcast of the interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion, I'm cleaning up the sound before it gets archived for posterity and cutting it into podcast sized pieces!

Today's show: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion

From this evening, Panel Borders moves to thursdays as part of an hour long magazine show about comics called "Strip!" at 5pm and to kick off, the whole of tonight's show is an interview conducted by Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion.
Leah & John talk about writing comics such as Wild Girl, Albion, Raise the dead and Savage Tales for Wildstorm and Dynamite Entertainment... Leah also talks about her dad introducing her to the wonders of comics and writing last year's Christmas Stamps short story, while John talks about writing for The Fortean Times and gathering his zombie army!

Links: Leah and John's website and blog
comicon.con interview with Leah & John about Raise the dead
Publishers Weekly article on Albion

Podcast: Hine and Irving's Silent War(s) part 2

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine, looking at politics in comics, artistic influences on pencillers and inkers, plus their recent collaboration on Marvel's Silent War.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 13.7mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on David Hine and Frazer Irving
Frazer's website
More info on Spawn
Interview with Frazer about Silent War
Interview with David about X-Men: the 198 & Son of M

Podcast: Hine and Irving's Silent War(s) part 1

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine about their work in comics from early strips in 2000AD to their recent collaboration on Marvel's Silent War.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 14.2mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on David Hine and Frazer Irving
Frazer's website
Articles by David on the 2006 Bristol Expo, continuity and adverts in comics
A vampire story and a Sherlock Holmes story illustrated by Frazer

Podcast: The art of Steve Yeowell

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Steve Yeowell, a 2000AD veteran who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Yeowell achieved early fame collaborating with Grant Morrison on the superhero epic Zenith and the first storyline in The Invisibles plus more esoteric titles such as The new adventures of Hitler, Sebastian O & Skrull Kill Krew. More recently Yeowell has returned to 2000AD working with Ian Edgington on such scripts as Detonator X and The Red Seas...

In comics news: This weekend it's Caption Fest 2007 in Oxford where small press artists and writers present their work and there're workshops presented by awawrd winning graphic novelist Al Davidson (The Spiral Cage).

Also: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House's Graphic Novels website for more details.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 12.3mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia entry on Steve Yeowell
Interview with Steve at 2000adreview.co.uk
Excerpts from The new adventures of Hitler at Scans Daily
Tashkeel Comics' website