This week on(line)...: David Hine, Al Davison, Tom Humberstone & Tony Lee on indie comics / Comica Comiket / Pod Delusion 183
Alex Fitch
1pm, Friday 19th April, repeated 7am, Tuesday 23rd April, Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast online now at http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/2013/04/18/episode-183-19th-april-2013
8.30am, Monday 22nd April, repeated 3pm, Thursday 25th April, Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast after first broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
12-12.30 Stephen Collins and S.J. Harris discuss their first graphic novels from Jonathan Cape.
12.30-1.30 Animators Jonathan Hodgson and Osbert Parker with Matt Abbiss, CSM teacher, followed by screening of their animated films and signings of Animation Sketchbooks from Thames & Hudson.
1.30-2pm Viviane Schwarz and Gary Northfield discuss the latest developments in children's comics and gepahic novels in the UK
2-2.30pm Animation Screenings: Matt Abiss and CSM Students
2.30-3pm Julie Tait from the new Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal talks with Alex Fitch in his capacity as one of the main organisers of Caption Small Press Comics convention in Oxford.
3-3.30pm Oliver East and Dan Berry discuss the use of landscape and location in their comics.
3.30-4pm Animation Screenings: Matt Abiss and CSM Students
4-4.30pm Frazer Irving and Terry Wiley talk about the use of new technologies in making and distributing their comics and graphic novels.
4.30-5pm Richard Reynolds: Comics and Art Illustrated Lecture
5-5.30pm Rian Hughes: Image Duplicator: Illustrated Lecture
Platform Theatre - Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design University of the Arts London, Handyside Street London N1C 4AA
Continuing a month of shows looking at small press and independent publishers, Panel Borders looks at two titles that rework familiar pop-culture tropes in new comics by young creators. In an interview recorded at Comica Comiket, Alex Fitch talks to Louis Roskosch about his video game inspired graphic novel The Adventures of Leeroy and Popo, published by Nobrow. Also, Dickon Harris speaks to Matt Fitch and Mark Lewis of ‘Dead Canary Comics’, about their collaborations in the worlds of advertising agencies and comic book creation as they discuss the production of their first superhero title, the Spider-Man spoof Frogman.
Nobrow and Dead Canary Comics will be among dozens of exhibitors at this year’s Comica Comiket, taking place at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, Handyside Street, King’s Cross, London N1C 4AA on Saturday April 20th, 2013 – more info at www.comicafestival.com (Originally broadcast 15/04/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
https://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/panel-borders-young-graphic-novelists-spring-2013
The Pod Delusion Episode 181: Use with Joystick Controllers
This
week we explore the phenomenon of land grabbing, investigate a fascist
footballer, and discover an intriguing piece of technology that will
enable the blind to see using a clever phone app.
Alex Fitch wonders it’s game over for Atari, Liz Lutgendorff asks ‘Are
Secularists Successful?’ and much more! (Originally broadcast 5th April
2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
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.■
Exhibtions 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
COMICA FESTIVAL COMES TO CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS APRIL 19th & 20th!
In an exciting new co-operation, Comica is working with Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (or CSM) to stage two days of talks, events, exhibitions, a fair day, live drawing and an exclusive painting and music performance, all in the adjoining spaces of The Platform Theatre, Foyer & Bar, Studio and White Lab at CSM’s spectacular London headquarters, mere minutes away from King’s Cross rail, tube and Eurostar stations.
On Friday April 19th, from 2.30-6.30pm, Comica is working with CSM to programme a practical, informative afternoon of professional development talks and panels designed to help students, graduates and aspiring writers and artists to break into the comics and graphic novel world. Among those taking part will be CSM alumni Brian Bolland, famed for his iconic renditions of Judge Dredd and Batman, Nobrow co-publisher Alex Spiro, and acclaimed manga creators Chie Kutsuwada and Inko. Also participating will be graphic novel commissioners from Knockabout, Myriad and other publishers, Julie Tait, director of the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival, and 2000AD, Marvel and DC superstar illustrator Frazer Irving.
Then from 6.30 to 7.30pm, also in The Platform Theatre, Comica welcomes principal sponsor Sequential, the deluxe digital graphic novel storefront app for the iPad, bringing together literary graphic novels from the world’s leading publishers and creators. Sequential’s Tokyo-based pioneer, Russell Willis, will be joined by Brian Bolland, Hunt Emerson, Terry Wiley and others on the roster to launch the deluxe digital versions of Bolland Strips!, The Essential Hunt Emerson, VerityFair and more. Followed by signings and a launch party in the Foyer. Tickets will be on sale soon, details to follow. There will also be exhibitions including brand new work by CSM students, such as a multi-path hypercomic, Black Hats in Hell, masterminded by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.
Saturday April 20th brings our second Spring Comica Comiket, bigger and better than ever. Come to our Independent Comics Fair where publishers like Jonathan Cape, Knockabout, SelfMadeHero and Walker Books will be joining indie presses and self-publishers, and it is still admission free to the public. Fraser Irving, Viviane Schwarz, Gary Northfield, Stephen Collins, Warren Pleece and Oliver East are among the Drawing Paraders on board promoting their brand new books, and we’ll be announcing the full line-up in our next Newsletter. We’ll also have details of the thrilling Sequential comics competition which will see one lucky winner on the day walks away with a highly covetable and nifty iPad.
And for our grand finale in The Platform Theatre on the Saturday night, Comica presents Battle Of The Eyes in The Noise Of Our Art, the first amazing collaboration between live performance painters Chris Long and Edwin Pouncey and leading musician and DJ Trevor Jackson. The evening ends with our Comiket after-party in the Foyer till 10pm.
When: Friday April 19th, 2.30 to 10pm, and April 20th, 11am to 10pm.
Where: The Platform Theatre, Foyer, Studio & White Lab, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, Handyside Street, London N1C 4AA
More info: www.comicafestival.com
Tripwire 21st anniversary Kickstarter campaign
In
2013, Britain's favourite comics and genre magazine celebrates its 21st
birthday. To commemorate, we are doing a must-buy book.
TRIPWIRE has been Britain's only features-driven comics and genre
magazine which has published since 1992 and with 2013 being the
magazine's 21st anniversary, its coming of age if you like, we thought
it would be remiss if we didn't do something to commemorate this.
The book will come in regular paperback and in a limited hardcover
edition. Between its covers will be a selection of new material,
including art either never seen before or rarely seen from the likes of
Drew Struzan (poster artist for Indiana Jones, The Shawshank Redemption,
Star Wars), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Phil Hale (award-winning portrait
painter), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg, The Shadow, Blackhawk),Frank
Quitely (Batman & Robin, All-Star Superman), Walter Simonson (Elric,
Thor), Dave Taylor (Batman, Tongue Lash) and many more. Additionally,
it will include features looking at the trends and issues that have
played a major part in comics and genre over the past 21 years,
including the best and worst comic and genre movies 1992-2013, the 21
most important creators to come to the fore in the last twenty-one
years, the 21 best graphic novels (mainstream and independent) and much
more. It will also include the best content from twenty-one years of
TRIPWIRE, a magazine which covered the cream of comics and genre and
will include the likes of Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Guillermo Del Toro,
Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, Joe Kubert, Will Eisner to name but a few. It
will also include a selection of photos pulled from the magazine of
genre movers and shakers. It will be a must-buy for fans and aficionados
of comics and genre, approached with the same level of professionalism
and quality that people have come to expect from the magazine.
"TRIPWIRE really is a breath of fresh air. Its layouts are superb,
with great well-written features perfectly set off by the pictures,
adding clarity and intelligence to every page. And it keeps on doing it. Amazing, Gratifying. A pleasure to look at, a pleasure to read..." MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Incentives run at prices between £1 and £500 including signed copies, PDFs, prints T-Shirts and more...
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
Programme maker, Resonance 104.4 FM (Arts Council) - www.resonancefm.com
Assistant editor, Electric Sheep Magazine - www.electricsheepmagazine.com