This week on(line):... Al Davison and Will Morgan talk about selling comics / Matt Badham interviews 2000AD artist P.J. Holden
Alex Fitch
here's info about this week's radio show, podcast and events:
On air:
Panel Borders: Comic Book Caption(s)
Starting a month of shows about comic book shops, we have three interviews recorded at Oxford’s small press comics convention ‘Caption’. Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who comic illustrator Al Davison, who runs a graphic novels and art supply shop in Coventry and to former Gay Comics writer Will Morgan, one of the proprietors of a comic book shop in Putney which specialises in classic British titles. Also, 2000AD artist P.J. Holden is interviewed by comics journalist Matt Badham, about the shops he frequented while growing up in Belfast.
5pm, Thursday 04/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Online:
Panel Borders: The art of P.J. Holden
An extra online exclusive episode of Panel Borders, to compliment this week's broadcast show – in an interview recorded at Oxford’s Caption comic book festival in 2010, comics journalist Matt Badham talks to 2000AD artist P.J. Holden about his work, from his formative years combining art and computers to getting his first Judge Dredd assignment and his most recent projects.
http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/panel-borders-the-art-of-p-j-holden/
Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Stanisław Lem and Russian Science-Fiction
Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Sélavy talks to Russian scholar Sergei Kapterev (Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow) about Soviet science fiction and the connection between SF cinema and politics, the impact of the space race and the Cold War period, and Roger Corman’s re-edits of popular Soviet SF films. (Originally broadcast 15/07/11 on Resonance FM)
Plus, in a Q & A recorded at Sci-Fi London, April, 2010, Alex Fitch talks to Polish poster designer Andrzej Klimowski and SF writer / journalist Wojciech Orliński about cinematic adaptations of the work of Stanisław Lem from Steven Soderbergh and Andrei Tarkovsky's adaptations of Solaris to more offbeat films such as Edward Zebrowski's The Hospital of Transfiguration.
Panel Borders: Kieron Gillen – Gameplay and fantasy comics
Concluding our month of shows looking at the crossover between comics and games, Alex Fitch talks to writer Kieron Gillen about how his history as a video and computer game journalist has influenced his comic writing career. Alex and Kieron talk about the latter’s experience writing for Warhammer Monthly, developing an online game The Curfew for Channel Four and how game playing has only had a small impact on his writing Thor and Uncanny X-Men.
http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/panel-borders-kieron-gillen-gameplay-and-fantasy-comics/
Electric Sheep Online: The Art Theatre Guild
The creative explosion of Japanese independent cinema in the 1960s
Issue fifty-four: The Art Theatre Guild of Japan (ATG) in Tokyo became the centre of a vibrant independent filmmaking scene in the late 60s, encouraging bold experiments and innovative collaborations with other artists. In conjunction with the BFI and Close-Up seasons, we have a general article on the summer's programme of experimental Japanese cinema as well as articles on Teshigahara’s ghostly coal mining drama Pitfall, Masao Adachi’s surreal dreamscape Galaxy, Funeral Parade of Roses, a stunning gay take on Oedipus, Buddhist incest tale This Transient Life, Lost Lovers, a portrait of post-war youth, Kôji Wakamatsu’s incendiary Ecstasy of the Angels and cine-poem Silence Has No Wings. Our Reel Sounds column focuses on Fluxus associate Yasunao Tone’s soundtracks.In new cinema releases we review The Taqwacores, the story of an American Muslim punk band, acclaimed Japanese drama Villain, Lee Tamahori’s dramatisation of the life of Uday Hussein The Devil’s Double and James Marsh’s documentary on the attempt to teach language to a chimpanzee Project Nim.
New DVDs include Bill Morrison and Jóhann Jóhannsson's The Miners' Hymns, Chris Marker’s La jetée + Sans soleil and Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates, and we have Andrew Cheverton's Comic Strip Review of Uruguayan horror film The Silent House. In Alter Ego, Nick Lake is blind swordsman Zatoichi while our Dominion of Canada column returns with a look at male layabouts in Fellini's I vitelloni and Barry Levinson's Diner. ■
Recommended events:
Caption Comics festival 2011
Oxford’s small press comics festival is taking place this weekend,
the 6th and 7th of August at the East Oxford Community centre, 44 Princes Street, OX4 1DD.
Guests include Al Davison, Ian Culbard, Kate Brown, Paul Rainey, David
O’Connell and Paul Duffield and tickets are a very reasonable five
pounds per day, plus workshops on comic book creating, the annual
Caption auction featuring original art pages and new pieces by attending
creators and much, much more…
Find more info at www.caption.org
New Comic Internship at londonprintstudio for 21-25 Year Olds
Do you enjoy telling tall tales or scribbling stories? Do you love reading graphic novels, comics or picture books? Then look no further!
londonprintstudio is offering five carefully chosen 21-25 year olds the chance to…
-Run comic workshops for 16-20 year olds.
-Receive mentoring from top professional comic artists, anthology
makers, screenwriters, print makers, comic publishers and art educators.
-Develop your own artistic comic projects with supervision from mentors and feedback from your fellow interns..
-Be introduced to the London comic scene, attend events, give
presentations, network and meet publishers, editors and creators in the
comic industry.
-Take part in editing, planning and creating work for a comic anthology publication and a comic exhibition at londonprintstudio.
The course is run by professional comic creator Karrie Fransman whose comics have appeared in The Times, The Guardian and who is currently working on her first graphic novel due to be published by Random House.
2 days (14 hours) per week for a six-months. Interns will receive a travel and food expenses budget for two days per week. All londonprintstudio staff and volunteers are required to have a Criminal Records Bureau Check.
Deadline for return of application form: Monday 5th September 2011
Interviews: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Start date: Tuesday 20th September 2011
For job description and application click here: http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/F13-intern.html
For more information on the project click here: http://www.londonprintstudiocomics.blogspot.com/
Gosh! comics events
Gosh! Comics have outgrown their happy home of 25 years and are moving to new, bigger premises in Soho!
To celebrate the opening of Gosh! Comics’ new store on Berwick Street and the opening of their new gallery space, the first event in the new premises is a signing and exhibition by celebrated comic book artist Dave McKean of his new graphic novel Celluloid.
Dave McKean will be signing at Gosh! from 2pm ‘til 4pm on Saturday the 6th of August. The exhibition runs until the 6th of September.
Then on the following week, acclaimed indie comics creator Luke Pearson will be launching his new title Everything We Miss, a book about the breakdown of a relationship and the infinitesimal events we would notice if our attention wasn’t directed elsewhere.
6pm – 8pm, Saturday 13th August, 2011
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
More info: www.goshlondon.com
Comics and Conflicts at the IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum London, a conference and series of events aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti (Fabtoons).
Here’s a run down of the two days of events:
Friday 19th August:
9.00am – War Comics Conference opens; coffee and registration
10.00am – introductory talk by MARTIN BAKER and ROGER SABIN about the depiction of war in the Guardian’s comic strip Doonesbury
11.00am – choice of parallel sessions: REPRESENTING TRAUMA (Chair, Ariel Kahn) / ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM AND REPRESENTATION
(Chair, Paul Gravett)
12.20pm – Lunch
1.20pm – Panel on THE IMAGE AND REALITY OF WAR: (Chair, Garth Ennis) featuring Tim Pilcher, Darin Jensen, Isabelle Delorme
2.40pm – choice of parallel sessions: FORM AND CONTENT: (Chair, Roger Sabin) / CONFLICT AND IDEOLOGY: (Chair, Alex Fitch)
4.00pm – Coffee break
4.20pm – In conversation with PAT MILLS, from Charley’s War to Ayatollah’s Son followed by signing
6.00pm – Close
Please note: ticket cost for the entire day is £30.00 / Students £15.00 including Pat Mills talk or £6 for Mills talk only.
Saturday 20th August
10.30am – Artist DAVID COLLIER talks about his work from American Splendor to Chimo, followed by comic making master class at noon (separate ticket)
11.30am Artists and publishers discuss Trauma and Conflict (Chair, Paul Gravett) with Danish artist MIKKEL SOMMER, writer and illustrator of Obsolete, and ADRIAN SEARLE, the publisher of Dougie’s War, plus artist DAVE TURBITT.
2.00pm Artists and publishers discuss The Personal and the Political (Chair, Alex Fitch) with FRANCESCA CASSAVETTI and her mother, EILEEEN CASSAVETTI talking about the latter’s wartime diary which Francesca has published as a comic; joined by SEAN DUFFIELD, publisher of War – the Human Cost plus contributing artists DANIEL LOCKE and BEN NAYLOR.
3.00pm In Conversation with GARTH ENNIS – from Troubled Souls to Battlefields; a rare UK appearance by the writer, followed by signing
4.30pm Film Screening: COMICS GO TO WAR, directed by Mark Daniels, which looks at the work of Joe Sacco, Keiji Nakazawa (Barefoot Gen) and Marjane Satrapi among others, featuring new interviews with the creators.
All Saturday events are £6 / the film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts Conference is organised by Alex Fitch (presenter of Panel Borders, the UK’s only weekly broadcast radio show about comics), Ariel Kahn (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Roehampton University) and Paul Gravett (Comica Director).
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children’s literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Thanks for listening,
Alex