This week on(line): Ligaya Salazar & Robert Hunter on the V&A's Memory Palace / Max Brooks, Ken MacLeod & Charles Stross on Alternative Histories
Alex Fitch
Clear Spot: Alternate histories
Alex Fitch looks at the science-fiction sub genre of Alternate History, talking to three novelists about their works that imagines the past and near future if historical events had taken a different
path. Charles Stross discusses his parallel worlds series "Merchant Princes" which depicts travel between various 21st Centuries where Europe is still feudal or has only just seen the industrial revolution plus his collaboration with Cory Doctorow "Rapture of the nerds"; Max Brooks talks about "World War Z" which depicts the present day Earth after twenty years of a war with zombies; and Ken MacLeod discusses his novella "The Human Front" and novel "Intrusion" which look at the kinds of police states that might exist in this county if various political movements had access to more advanced technology.
8pm, Tuesday 3rd September 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Quick Strips at Brighton Digital Festival
Twelve cartoonists reveal all in under six minutes each
Quick Strips, part of Brighton Digital Festival,
is a speedy showcase for 12 cartoonists and graphic novelists to reveal
all in public by presenting their work or giving away their trade
secrets in under 6 minutes each.
Alex Fitch of Resonance FM is compere for the night, and the stellar cast features First Graphic Novel Competition winner Gareth Brookes, author of The Black Project, to be published on 12 September, and fellow Myriad graphics authors Nye Wright (Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park), Hannah Eaton (Naming Monsters), and, down from Leeds to investigate the Balcombe fracking protests, Darryl Cunningham, author of Science Tales. Other guests are graphic novelists and cartoonists Hannah Berry, Joe Decie, Chie Kutsuwada, Ottilie Hainsworth, Julia Homersham, Jaime Huxtable and Ben Naylor. Held in association with Cartoon County.
Location: The Latest Bar, Manchester Street, Brighton BN2 1TF
Thursday 5th September, 2013
Doors open 18.30; show starts 19.00; ends 21.00 FREE
More info at: http://www.myriadeditions.com/events?item=368
How to Write a Graphic Novel: A Guardian Masterclass
Andrzej Klimowski, Professor of Illustration at the Royal College of Art, London. His acclaimed career has seen him designing film and theatre posters, as well as directing short, animated films in Warsaw plus designing covers for Penguin, Faber & Faber, Everyman Library and Oberon Books. His graphic novels include The Depository The Secret and Horace Dorlan. He has adapted The Master and Margarita and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for SelfMadeHero.
Paul Gravett, Britain's best-known comic book critic and historian and author of many books, including 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die and Great British Comics.
Audrey Niffenegger, creative writer and visual artist who has achieved enormous success in both worlds. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, has sold more than seven million copies worldwide and has been translated into forty languages. Niffenegger is also the author of two 'novels-in-pictures', The Three Incestuous Sisters (2005) and The Adventuress (2006), and a graphic novel, The Night Bookmobile. Her latest book is the illustrated fairytale, Raven Girl, published by Jonathan Cape.
Pat Mills, a British comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd. He has been called "the godfather of British comics".
Karrie Fransman, creator of comics for The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, Time Out and Psychologies Magazine. Her acclaimed graphic novel, The House That Groaned, is published by Random House's Square Peg imprint. She led the London Print Studio's excellent graphic novel course in 2011 and 2012.
The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU
recent podcasts:
Reality Check: Robbie Morrison - Taking Dante DrownTown
Alex
Fitch talks to Robbie Morrison about his career in comics so far, from
his fifteen year tenure as the writer of Nikolai Dante in 2000AD, working with artists such as Simon Fraser and John Burns, to his new graphic novel DrownTown, published by Jonathan Cape.
http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/reality-check-robbie-morrison-taking-dante-drowntown/
The Pod Delusion episode 201: Friendship is Magic!
This week Alex J Brown looks into what really happened with ask.fm, Richy Thompson gives Section 28 a hostile welcome back, Glen Travis measures the effectiveness of charitable giving and Alex Fitch talks to Graham Lord, one of the organisers of BUCK, the Manchester My Little Pony convention...
http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/2013/08/22/episode-201-23rd-august-2013/
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
Gosh! signings and launch parties
The Day the Crayons Quit, debut author Drew Daywalt and Jeffers is team up to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis:
Poor Duncan just wants to colour in. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!
The battle lines have been drawn. What is Duncan to do?
Oliver Jeffers will be at Gosh! to sign for one hour on...
Saturday, September 14 from 3pm - 4pm
City lit: John Miers - the first Fast Forward talk at the famous Gosh Comic Book store in the heart of London. John Miers, an award winning contemporary comic book artist will be giving a talk on Visual Storytelling techniques, addressing the question: Are comics art or literature- or are they both, neither, and something else entirely all at once? This is your chance to find out how image, text, abstract symbols and composition combine in the most innovative medium around.
Tuesday, September 17, 7 - 8.30pm
The Best of Milligan and McCarthy: on Wednesday the 18th of September Gosh! have not one but TWO classic British comics guys in the house talking comics. Peter Milligan (Hellblazer) and Brendan McCarthy (Zaucer of Zilk) will be here doing a talk and Q&A about their new book from Dark Horse that collects the very best of their hard-to-find collaborative work from years ago: Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin and Rogan Gosh and more. That’s 20 years worth of their finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD and Vertigo!
Wednesday, September 18, 7.30 - 9pm
Gosh!, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
Sophie's World - unseen photographs by Steven Cook
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Orbital Comics is proud to present this special exhibition featuring rare and unseen of photographs of Sylvester McCoy’s companion Sophie Aldred (Ace). Originally taken by photographer Steve Cook in the late 1980s, a lot of the negatives were just recently recovered (not unlike the rumours of lost episodes being found).
The photos show Sophie’s versatility in a number of scenarios and
guises, including that of The Doctor’s beloved companion Ace. The
exhibition starts with a private viewing on September 5 and will run
through until the end of the month. Sophie and Steve will be in-store
signing prints of the photographs on Saturday, September 7 between 12
and 3pm.
September 5th - 30th
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JA
More info: http://www.orbitalcomics.com/sophies-world-the-unseen-photographs-by-steve-cook/
Thanks for listening,
Alex
Programme maker, Resonance 104.4 FM (Arts Council) - www.resonancefm.com
Assistant editor, Electric Sheep Magazine - www.electricsheepmagazine.com