This week on(line)...: Graham Rawle, Paul Magrs & Tim Pilcher on ephemera / Arthur Sleep & True Love / Jenny Linn-Cole & Jon Turner on indie comics

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here's info on my shows etc. this week:

on air

I'm ready for my close-up: the True Love of Arthur Sleep

Alex Fitch talks to graphic designer turned film-maker Sam Harris about his short silent film Arthur Sleep, a half hour Stygian odyssey that mixes elements of Caligari and Eraserhead, as a trip on the London Underground takes a traveller into more mysterious destinations than he envisioned. Also, in a Q and A recorded at last year's SCI-FI-LONDON, Alex talks to the writers and producer of True Love, an SF thriller that tests a couple's devotion to each other as a set of innocuous questions in a surrealist prison turn to torture.

Arthur Sleep is premiering at Deptford Old Town Hall, New Cross, London SE14 6AF on 28 April at 4pm with a live score performed by members of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and London art-rock bands - more info at
www.freefilmfestivals.org

True Love is released in Japanese cinemas on 27th April and this year's SCI-FI-LONDON festival takes place at various venues around London from 30th April - more info at www.sci-fi-london.com

5pm, Friday 26th April, repeated 8am Tuesday 30th April, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast at panelborders.wordpress.com/category/reality-check after broadcast


Panel Borders: Shallowater, your days are numbered

Concluding a month of shows looking at small press and independent comics, we have a pair of interviews recorded in venues where such titles are stocked. Alex Fitch talks to Jenny-Linn Cole (in the gallery of Orbital Comics), about her graphic novel Shallowater, an epic tale of music, masculinity, TV detectives and existentialism that is being serialised in a series of small press comics.
Also, in an interview recorded at the DIY Cultures festival, at Rich Mix cinema in East London, Dickon Harris talks to Jon Turner about the independent comics magazine Your days are numbered which mixes reviews and articles about sequential art with cutting edge graphic design.

8.30am, Monday 29th April, repeated 3pm, Thursday 2nd May, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast at panelborders.wordpress.com/category/panel-borders after broadcast


Clear Spot: Celebrating Ephemera

Alex Fitch talks to three authors whose work celebrates ephemera and pop culture detritus. 'Graphic Novelist' Graham Rawle discusses his latest novel The Card which follows the journey of a man who believes he is being employed by the secret service to protect Princess Diana, via playing cards, bubblegum cards and cigarette cards that are left in his path. *Rawle is an author who uses graphic design and typography in his work, including collage of text from magazines (Woman's World) and photographic montages (Lost Consonants et al.).

Tim Pilcher talks about his crowd-funded memoir Comic Book Babylon which documents his time working at DC Comics' London office in the 90s, meeting comic book celebrities such as Grant Morrison, Paul Gambaccini, Jonathan Ross, The Spice Girls and Adam Ant; while Paul Magrs chats about his novels and audio plays set around the fringes of Doctor Who, including his latest release Vince Cosmos, Glam Rock Detective where a Ziggy Stardust style pop star turns out to be engaged in an ongoing war with aliens on Earth, as well as his popular Brenda and Effie series of books about the Bride of Frankenstein and a white witch running a B & B in Whitby.

8pm, Wednesday 1st May 2013, repeated 9am, Thursday 2nd May, Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast at https://panelborders.wordpress.com/category/book-list


'on stage'

Cartoon County April 2013

At the montly meeting for Sussex based cartoonists, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Collicutt (Robot City Adventures) about his latest graphic novel, the critically acclaimed The Murder Mile - a historical murder mystery set against the backdrop of professional running in the 1950 and the imminent breaking of the 'four minute mile' by Roger Bannister et al.

Doors open 6pm, talk at 7pm, Monday 29th April, The Cricketers, Black Lion St  Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1ND

recent podcasts

Panel Borders: From indie to mainstream

In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London International festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, guest presenter Matt Badham talks to comic creators David Hine, Al Davison, Tom Humberstone and Tony Lee about starting their careers in independent comics and how that influenced their style and choices when breaking into the 'mainstream' industry. (Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch)

http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/panel-borders-from-small-press-to-mainstream/


The Pod Delusion episode 183: Ockham's...

In this week's episode: What could have caused the Waco explosion, how one man managed to hack and control a plane with his mobile phone, why the government’s austerity agenda may be based on a faulty Excel spreadsheet, and banging our heads against a brick wall over MMR. Also: Alex Fitch looks into media coverage of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, and Elizabeth Donnelly and Aysha Raza discuss the presence of women in science...

http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/2013/04/18/episode-183-19th-april-2013


online magazine:

ELECTRIC SHEEP issue 74: Bring out the Dead

Evil Dead, Spring Breakers, Army of Shadows

Evil Dead comes back twice in April: Fede Alvarez’s remake is out at the cinema and Evil Dead II is out on DVD. Ryan Gosling stars as a bank robber in The Place beyond the Pines and girls go wild in Harmony Korine’s controversial Spring Breakers. And there are more road trips in Chilean drama Thursday till Sunday and remastered 70s American classic Scarecrow.

Also out at the cinema we review Antonio Campos’s psychopath study Simon Killer, Matthieu Kassowitz’s intelligent political drama Rebellion, horror anthology The ABCs of Death and Pasolini’s Theorem.

In DVDs, we look at Jean-Pierre Melville’s morally murky portrait of the resistance Army of Shadows, 80s cult TV series Dead Head, comic satire of the Hong Kong film industry Vulgaria and George A. Romero’s Knightriders.

We have an interview with Peter Kubelka, who presents Monument Film at BFI Southbank. Reel Sounds is on Nicola Piovani’s soundtrack to Footsteps on the Moon while in Alter Ego Beatrice Hitchman is Irma Vep in Les vampires. In the Film Jukebox electronic pop artist Alexander's Festival Hall picks his favourite films. And we report back on the Rotterdam and Flatpack festivals.

www.electricsheepmagazine.com


recommended events / fundraisers

Help fund COMIC BOOK BABYLON: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics on Kickstarter

Tim (Erotic Comics) Pilcher’s memoir about the years I spent working at DC Comics’ Vertigo office in the mid-Ninties. The book has reached its target of raising £3,850, but the printer has increased costs since the kickster campaign began – the new “Stretch Target” is now £5,500.

“…For a few glorious years only, before cost-cutting set in, there was Vertigo’s ‘British Office’ – the comics equivalent of the Loaded HQ in the ‘90s. Vodka, mushrooms, Es, sex, money, travel and the pure unleashed creativity of young people having a good time together.”—Grant Morrison, author of Supergods, All Star Superman, Batman Inc. and The Invisibles.

There are three versions of Comic Book Babylon available: eBook (with additional images), paperback, and 200 limited edition hardbacks, with covers created by design genius and comic book artist Rian Hughes. “Rian’s out done himself,” said an impressed Pilcher, “The punky/acid house colours perfectly reflect the rave mood of the times in the book.” Hughes has also designed a limited edition print and three “Sex, Drugs and Comic Books” badges as incentives.

Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics ENDS on Kickstarter on Thursday 3 May, 2013. See it here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2016810024/comic-book-babylon-a-cautionary-tale-of-sex-drugs


Gosh Comics Signing

April 27th:

Ian Gibson signing copies of the new edition of HALO JONES.
http://www.goshlondon.com/2013/03/ian-gibson-signing-halo-jones

All of these are listed on the events page.
http://www.goshlondon.com/events

Gosh! comics, 1 Berwick Street, London


50 years of Doctor Who spin-offs, at SCI-FI-LONDON

As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, SCI-FI-LONDON is proud to host an event looking at some of the under appreciated aspects of the franchise.

12.30pm: Novelists Paul Cornell (Scream of the Shalka), J.T. Colgan (Dark Horizons), Terrance Dicks (Players, Doctor Who and the Giant Robot) and Tommy Donbavand (Shroud of Sorrow) talk about continuing the Doctor’s trips in prose fiction and why they wanted to tell tales of the thousand-year-old time traveller…

1.15pm: Comic book writers Andrew Cartmel and Scott Gray, and artists Mark Buckingham and Adrian Salmon, discuss their serialised strip adventures of the TARDIS, printed in Doctor Who Magazine, the American Doctor Who comic and fanzines.

The need for Doctor Who spin-offs became increasingly important since the end of the original series in 1989, with both novels and comics filling the gap when the show was off air, with many writers of the modern TV show being strip and book alumni. Print stories have also been used as the inspiration for TV episodes in the 21st century, such as the memorable David Tennant dramatisations of Cornell’s novel Human Nature and Doctor Who Magazine comic, The Lodger.

2pm: Followed by a screening of the 1965 film DR WHO AND THE DALEKS, starring Peter Cushing in the lead role.


12.30pm, Sunday 5th May, Stratford Picturehouse, Theatre Square, Salway Rd, Stratford,  London E15 1BX

More info / book tickets at: http://www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/2013


Exhibitions at Orbital Comics

Andrew Hickinbottom

is a digital 3D illustrator who specialises in stylised pinups. His work has been showcased on the internet over 60 times, and has been featured in many international books and magazines, appearing on 4 covers. Some of his clients include EA, Tassimo, Seat, Intel and The international Olympic Committee.

This exhibition of his personal works features a wide range of his appealing female character illustrations, with signed prints, an artbook and even a VERY limited edition figurine for sale.

17th April – 10th May


Reappropriating Lichtenstein

Artists Jason Atomic and Rian Hughes are curating an exhibtion at Orbital Comics, on the subject of Reappropriating Lichtenstein to coincide with the final weeks of the exhibtion at Tate Modern in May. Any practising comic book artists who would like to trace back one of Lichtenstein’s images to its original source, crediting the original artist in the process, and produce a new version themselves are invited to submit proposal for exhibition by April 6th.


More info here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/19/a-call-for-comic-artists-to-respond-to-roy-lichtenstein

Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA


Help launch The Black Cloud

Support Charles Cutting’s new graphic short story compilation… If you think it’s the kind of thing you would be cool with posting about, liking and sharing on Facespace and Twitter, Charlie would be most grateful…

Over the last year and a half Charles has produced three short stories in graphic form for three different authors.

‘After The End’ is penned by Tauriq Moosa and deals with a secret scientific experiment.

‘Two Little Boys’ concerns an intriguing coincidence linking the lives of Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein and is written by Christian David. It first appeared in Issue 29 of The Illustrated Ape.

The final story ‘The Bleeding Horse’ is an adaptation of a macabre story by Brian J Showers about a haunted Irish pub.

Charlie needs $2000 to cover the printing and shipping costs. By pre-ordering a copy of Black Cloud via Indiegogo you will be entitled to various perks depending on how much you wish to chip in to the campaign. These cost between $15 and $200 and include sketches, advertising space and original artwork.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-cloud


thanks for listening,

Alex


iTunes "New and noteworthy" podcaster, November 2011 -  http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/id390974029 
Programme maker, Resonance 104.4 FM (Arts Council) - www.resonancefm.com
Assistant editor, Electric Sheep Magazine - www.electricsheepmagazine.com
Events / Podcasts, SCI-FI-LONDON - www.sci-fi-london.com
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