This week on(line): Kevin Howarth on The Seasoning House & The Last Horror Movie / David Small on Stitches / Religious themes in Man of Steel / SelfMadeHero at London events
Alex Fitch
This week we talk DNA patents, apps that claim to cure homosexuality, and whether Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has a valid opinion about atheism. Plus we speak to Girl With A One Track Mind Zoe Margolis, singer / songwriter Shelley Segal, and Alex Fitch looks at religious themes in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and other recent Superman comic books.
Ahead of the release of his new film The Seasoning House, Alex Fitch talks to actor Kevin Howarth about his career so far, from his memorable lead role in The Last Horror Movie (2003) to his forthcoming zombie action movie GallowWalkers with Wesley Snipes. Kevin talks about resisting his typecasting as a horror film actor, working as a voice artist on video games and the experiences of working with make-up Paul Hyett on various projects before the latter turned director on The Seasoning House.
The Seasoning House is released 21st June 2013 in UK cities by Kaleidoscope Entertainment, more info: http://www.theseasoninghouse.com
5pm, Friday 21st June, repeated 8am Tuesday 25th June 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com /
podcast after broadcast at www.electricsheepmagazine.com/events
Panel Borders: Drawing Stitches
Concluding a month of shows about depictions of illness and medicine in comics, Panel Borders is proud to present an interview with David Small, discussing his memoir Stitches, a graphic novel which depicts his battle with throat cancer as an adolescent. David discusses the creation of the book, the difficulties of presenting memoir as a comic and his previous experiences as a political cartoonist.
8.30am, Monday 24th June, repeated 3pm Thursday 27th June on Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
4pm, The Cervantes Institute, 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN (Nearest tube / train station: Victoria)
Panel Borders: Anorexia and Geriatrics in comics
Continuing a month of shows about the depiction of medicine and illness in comics, Alex Fitch talks to two female cartoonists whose work movingly covers this subject. Artist Katie Green discusses her forthcoming graphic novel Lighter than my shadow, which chronicles her adolescent struggle with anorexia, and her 'zine The Green Bean which currently depicts the creation of the book. Alex also talks to Doctor Muna Al-Jawad about her cartoon strips of experiences on geriatric wards, how she has been able to illustrate her ethnographic research with these and the forthcoming Graphic Medicine conference at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Originally broadcast Monday 17th June, 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/panel-borders-anorexia-and-geriatrics
Panel Borders: Parasites, stem cells and microbes!
Continuing our series of shows looking at depictions of illness and medicine in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Edward Ross and Sci-Fi novelist Ken MacLeod about their comic Hope Beyond Hype, an educational title about “stem cell therapies from lab bench to hospital bedside”, funded by the European Community Research and Development Information Service. Edward also discusses his other medical comics Parasites! and Malaria: The battle against a microscopic killer, while Ken talks about the similarities between comics and science-fiction novels as a way of presenting science fact to the general public. Originally broadcast Monday 10th June, 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/panel-borders-parasites-stem-cells-and-microbes
online magazine:
Electric Sheep Magazine issue 73: Running from the Past - Byzantium, Baron Blood, Mud
From the search for El Dorado in Werner Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God, to a cut-throat Mexico in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Thomas Arslan's Canadian-set Gold, we explore the failed adventures of some of cinema's cursed protagonists in our latest theme.
Out in cinemas this month, there is some dazzling horror on offer in Neil Jordan's Byzantium and Ryuhei Kitamura's No One Lives. In Pedro Almodóvar's latest comedy, I'm So Excited, a plane is doomed to fly in circles above Spain, while a Danish cargo ship is overrun by pirates in Tobias Lindholm's tense thriller A Hijacking. We follow Matthew McConaughey running from the past in Jeff Nichols's Mud, and we also have a review of classic 1970s drama The King of Marvin Gardens.
Out on DVD/Blu-ray, dreams are dashed in Billy Liar, while Carlos Saura's Cría Cuervos offers a haunting reflection on memory, loss and history. We trace the sinister characters in Mario Bava's Baron Blood and Black Sabbath, and take a look back at the Polish cinema classic Illumination and Henri-George Clouzot's The Murderer Lives at 21.
In features, we have a special interview with John Hawkes. In Reel Sounds, Robert Barry explores the music-less soundtrack of Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan, while in our Comic Strip Review we revisit the wildly weird Marebito. We report from Sci-Fi-London and the Istanbul Film Festival, and in Alter Ego author Kate Worsley's filmic alter ego is Commander Ericson in The Cruel Seawww.electricsheepmagazine.com
recommended events:
David Shenton Exhibition
These Foolish Things: Shenton’s cartoons are often camp but they’re not just camp, and they’re not that awful apolitical offensive camp, but a light, knowing, meaningful camp; their first task is to entertain and to make the audience laugh – and often they do much more because the liberation politics that informs his work means that with the laugh there is an acerbic point – a wry observation on how we live or a satirical comment about society and a wider political context, contained in the lives and musings of plausible and likeable characters. Or sometimes it’s just a silly joke.
1 June to 27 July 2013
Space Station 65 Gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS
More info: www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
Gosh! Comics Launch Parties and Signings
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2000AD alumni Robbie Morrison (Nikolai Dante) and Jim Murray (Batman / Judge Dredd) have embarked on a fully-painted epic set in a flooded futuristic London and are launching the first volume at Gosh with a party and art exhibition!
It’s all happening on Friday the 21st of June, from 7pm until 9pm at which point everything will probably move on to the pub down the road. There’s no need to RSVP but if you’d like to reserve a book feel free to ask. Published by Jonathan Cape, the book is a £12.99 hardcover and if you can’t make it on the night but would like a signed/dedicated copy anyway, send us an email to in...@goshlondon.com
7-9pm, Friday 21st June
Infinite Vacation
Here's a little something
we've got going on to coincide with the publication of the long-awaited
Infinite Vacation hardcover: a signing with writer Nick Spencer and
artist Christian Ward!
From the Image website: "WELCOME TO THE INFINITE VACATION, WHERE CHANGING YOUR LIFE IS ALWAYS
JUST A CLICK AWAY! Mark lives in a world where alternate realities are
up for sale, and buying and trading your way through unlimited
variations of yourself is as commonplace as checking your email or
updating your status."
Despite the book release being put back to July 10th we will be having advance copies at the signing. So this will be your only place to get the book almost 2 weeks ahead of its release!
2-4pm, Saturday 29th June
Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London, W10DR
More info: www.goshlondon.com
Jason Atomic‘s Satanic Mojo Comix takes its inspiration from the underground comix, counterculture & occult revival of the late 1960s. The comic and exhibition include original art by Jason Atomic, Shaky Kane, Garry Leach and more. The show also includes hand printed t-shirts, black light art, posters, badges, patches and hand finished ceramics.
June 13th - July 11th 2013
Cats and comics
Some at Orbital claim this forthcoming exhibition is a combination of two of the best things ever (cats and comics!). The exhibition features some of the top names in alternative comics with a whole lot of kitties too.
The show includes work by: Jeffrey Brown, Lucy Knisley, James Kochalka, Liz Prince, Sara McHenry, Gemma Correll, John Porcellino, Lizz Lunney, Dan Berry, Rus Hudda, Sara Lindo, Yasmine Surovec, Seo Kim, and Martin Tomsky.
July 13th - August 12th 2013
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
More info: www.orbitalcomics.com
Steadman @77 exhibition
The Cartoon Museum is proud to present a selection of Ralp Steadman's iconic cartoons to celebrate his 77th birthday. To accompany the exhibition there is a programme of events and talks, these include:
Brian Sibley talks about steadman's adaptations of classic texts such as Alice in Wonderland - 27th June, 6.30pm
Anita O'Brien discusses the use of the weird in Steadman's work - 4th July / 3rd September, 6.30pm
Exhibition continues until Autumn 2013, more info at http://cartoonmuseum.org
The Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH
Tripwire 21 now available to order
TRIPWIRE 21 is a must-buy for all fans and aficionados of comics and genre. Clocking in at 180 pages and oversized trade paperback format, the book includes classic TRIPWIRE interviews with creators like Mike (Hellboy) Mignola, Alan (Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Moore, Frank Quitely (All-Star Superman, Batman & Robin), Grant Morrison (Batman Inc., Joe The Barbarian), Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, Justice League Dark), James (Starman, The Shade) Robinson and more. It also includes an introduction from renowned writer Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Galactica, Falling Skies). It also includes a gallery of images, a selection of rarely seen and new for the book, from a stellar line-up of the best comic artists and illustrators in the business including: Tim Bradstreet, Howard Chaykin, Dave Dorman, Garen Ewing, Duncan Fegredo, Henry Flint, Phil Hale, Michael Kaluta, Joe Kubert, Roger Langridge, Mike (Hellboy) Mignola, Mike Perkins, Sean Phillips, Frank Quitely, Walter Simonson, Drew Struzan (Indiana Jones, Shawshank Redemption posters), Ben Templesmith and Chris Weston
TRIPWIRE 21 is available to order through the direct market to comic shops through Previews June 2013 on page 378 in the book section, item number JUN131448.
More info at https://www.facebook.com/TripwireMag
thanks for listening,
Alex
Programme maker, Resonance 104.4 FM (Arts Council) - www.resonancefm.com
Assistant editor, Electric Sheep Magazine - www.electricsheepmagazine.com