This week on(line)...: Brendan McCarthy, Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy on life before & after 2000AD / Bryan Coyle and Lee Robson's Babble

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Nov 25, 2013, 9:18:15 AM11/25/13
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on air:

Panel Borders: After 2000AD

Concluding a month of shows about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of 2000AD fanzine contributors and a quartet of acclaimed 1980s 2000AD alumni about their work. Dogbreath and Zarjaz contributors – Lee Robson and Bryan Coyle – discuss their first graphic novel, Babble, which tells the tale of how researchers into ancient languages accidentally release a virus that turns the human race into psychopaths.

Also, in a tag team discussion recorded after a signing in Gosh! Comics, Brendan McCarthy, Peter Milligan, Jim McCarthy and Brett Ewins talk about their work in “The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic”, the new Dark Horse collection The Best of Milligan and McCarthy, and the various ways they broke into comics.

4.30pm Monday 25th November, repeated 2am Thursday 28th November 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com


recent podcasts:

Panel Borders: Doctor Who and the graphic novels

Continuing a month about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch looks at Doctor Who comic strips in the 50th anniversary week of the TV show. In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, artists Adrian Salmon and Mark Buckingham plus writers Scott Gray and Andrew Cartmel (also the TV script editor from 1987-1989) discuss the various adventures of the Doctor in sequential art, including the 'wilderness years' when the show was off air in the 1990s when comics were the only continuing visual adventures of the Time Lord.



Electric Sheep Magazine podcast: Brian Yuzna and the horror of Society

Alex Fitch talks to film maker Brian Yuzna about his work, from his memorable debut as producer of Stuart Gordon’s Re-animator, to his underrated satire of 1980s American preppy culture Society, and his later career making sequels to such franchises as Return of the Living Dead and Silent Night, Deadly Night. Recorded at the University of Brighton in conjunction with Cine-Excess Festival.



online magazine:

Electric Sheep issue 75: 

DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS

Countess Bathory, Lucy, Irma and Christiane

To coincide with the BFI’s ‘Gothic’ season, our new theme is ‘Daughters of Darkness’, inspired by Harry Kümel’s steamy vampire tale, reviewed by Kim Newman. We also have pieces on Irma Vep, Spanish Gothic horror Julia’s Eyes, and some of the finest female-led dark classics, including Suspiria and Eyes without a Face, from our archive.

Cinema releases this month are dominated by male villains, from Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre, to gun-loving genius JohnMilius, and Franz Biberkopf in R.W. Fassbinder’s epic television seriesBerlin Alexanderplatz, back on screen in its original 35mm beauty. Also out in November are Alfonso Cuarón’s mesmerising Gravity, Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor, Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear and mumblecore director Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess, plus we have a comic strip review of this year's Cannes winner Blue Is the Warmest Colour.

New DVD/Blu-rays include BBC’s 1972 paranormal TV anthology Dead of Night, Flipside’s latest release, Schalcken the Painter, plus Fritz Lang’sDr. Mabuse the Gambler and Brian De Palma’s The Fury.

In features, Jane Giles revisits London after Midnight, while authorPaula Brackston chooses Alien’s Ripley as her alter ego. We have an exclusive two-part interview with 'the king of the B-movie', Roger Corman, and in Reel Sounds, we talk to legendary Italian composer Fabio Frizzi. Festival reports include Sitges, more from Toronto, and our final LFF round-up, plus we have a new Cine Lit column.■

www.electricsheepmagazine.com



recommended events:

Gosh! Comics signings and events

Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá Signing

For our second event in conjunction with November’s Leeds Thought Bubble Festival, we bring you the remarkably talented Brazilian comic-creator-twin-duo, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá! You’ll know them from their lovely artwork on The Umbrella Academy (written by Gerard Way) and the Casanova series (written by Matt Fraction), and most importantly from their collaborative effort, Daytripper, a beautiful book about death and family which is a consistent bestseller.

Wednesday November 27th, from 5pm to 7pm

Jeffrey Brown in conversation with Marc Ellerby

A legend of autobiographical comics, Jeffrey started out by self-publishing his first book, Clumsy (James Kochalka’s favourite graphic novel), which grabbed an enormous amount of attention from both cartoonists and comics fans, not to mention the attention of future publisher Chris Staros at Top Shelf. After Clumsy, he produced a whole series of heartfelt chronicles about his life and relationships, with the occasional absurdist superhero parody thrown in…
Here to talk to the man himself is Marc Ellerby, one of the most well-known names on the UK indie comics scene.

November 28th from 7.30pm until 9.00pm

Windowpane 2 and Breakdown Press Launch Party

Breakdown Press is a new London-based comics publisher dedicated to printing the work of original and exciting contemporary cartoonists. Having released Windowpane by Joe Kessler at last year’s Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival to great critical acclaim, Breakdown will be returning to the newly reinstated Comic Arts Brooklyn as well as Thought Bubble festival with Windowpane 2 and a raft of other exciting new releases.

Friday, 29 November 2013 from 7pm to 9pm

Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London, W1F 0DR


2014 First Fictions competitions

Award-winning novelist Meg Rosoff, critic and blogger Andy Oliver, and cartoonists Woodrow Phoenix and Nicola Streeten are among the judges of the 2014 First Fictions First Graphic Novel Competition, launched at Thought Bubble today by Brighton based
independent publisher Myriad Editions in its mission to provide opportunities for cartoonists, writers and artists who have not previously published a full-length graphic work.

The biennial competition, founded in 2012, offers the winner the chance to develop their work with Myriad’s creative and editorial team, with a view to contract and publication. The winner of the inaugural competition was the much-acclaimed The Black Project by Gareth Brookes, whose work was created entirely by embroidery and lino-cuts.

The winner(s) of the 2014 competition will be offered an additional prize of a week-long author’s retreat in a studio near Angouleme, France, home of the international comics festival for 40 years.

Myriad Creative Director, Corinne Pearlman says:
‘The prize is an amazing opportunity for would-be graphic novelists at any stage in their career. We’re looking to encourage emerging talent as well as older artists keen to benefit from today’s increasingly comics-friendly environment. We had such a strong shortlist in 2012 that, as well as Brookes, we have already published one of the shortlisted authors, Hannah Eaton, and will publish two more in 2014/15.’

HOW TO ENTER
The competition is open to all cartoonists, writers and artists who have not previously published a full-length graphic work. Entrants are asked for 15-30 pages of a graphic work-in-progress, which can be fiction or non-fiction, with or without words. The closing date is Monday 3 March 2014. Shortlisted entrants will be notified in April 2014 and the winner announced in May 2014.

For conditions of entry, please visit: www.myriadeditions.com/FGNC


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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