Concluding his month long look at Masculinity in American Comics, AlexFitch has interviewed So Super Duper’s Brian Andersen on U.K.’s radio/podcast "PanelBoarders". You can stream the interview here. They discuss Andersen’s comics including So Super Duper, Sex and the Superhero, and Unabashedly Billie, plus representations of gay characters in superhero comics,...
Panel Borders: Transmission X Originally broadcast 04/02/10 as an episode of Strip! Resonance 104.4 FM Starting web comics month on the show, AlexFitch talks to three members of the Canadian webcomics collective ‘Transmission X’ in an interview recorded during last year’s Comica festival after their signing at Orbital Comics. Cameron Stewart is best known for his [...]...
Panel Borders: Gay Super (Duper) Heroes Concluding our month long look at ‘Masculinity in American comics’, AlexFitch talks to Brian Andersen about his self published indie comics So Super Duper, Sex and the Superhero and Unabashedly Billie… Alex and Brian chat about representations of gay characters in superhero comics, making the transition between web and...
Reality Check: Fall Out – The Prisoner in other media Celebrating 42 years of the cult TV show The Prisoner – AlexFitch talks to a couple of writers who have continued the adventures of Patrick McGoohan’s iconic character No.6 in other media. 1980s Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel has written a new Prisoner novel [...]
Panel Borders: Ian Rakoff and comics at the Victoria and Albert Museum Continuing our month long look at ‘Masculinity in American comics’, AlexFitch talks to Ian Rakoff, a volunteer lecturer in sequential art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who is primarily responsible for the museum’s acquisition of nearly 20,000 comics in their library. In [...]
Electric Sheep Magazine – Winter 09 Edited by Virginie Sélavy with assistance by AlexFitch, Sarah Cronin and Toby Weidmann. The latest print edition of Electric Sheep magazine was released in December 2009. But it’s not just the latest , it’s also the last. Financial realities have forced Electric Sheep out of the print game. It’s continuing online, but...
Electric Sheep podcast: Susannah York and War on screen AlexFitch interviews Oscar nominated actress Susannah York about her career, focusing on her performances in war related productions and her interest in peace activism. Alex and Susannah talk about the latter’s narration for the 1987 Channel Four TV series The Struggles for Poland, writing the war [...]
Panel Borders: The art of Howard Chaykin Originally broadcast 14/01/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing our month looking at depictions of masculinity in American comics, AlexFitch talks to veteran artist Howard Chaykin about his career from collaborating with masters of Science Fiction literature in the 1970s – such as Michael Moorcock [...]
Panel Borders: Philosophers, Gods and Monsters In the first of this month’s shows about the portrayal of masculinity in American comics, AlexFitch talks to writer Fred Van Lente about penning the adventures of undead superheroes in Marvel Zombies, bringing to light the exciting adventures of Action Philosophers from Aristotle to Derrida and co-writing tales of [...]
In the first of this month’s shows from the Strip! podcast team on ResonanceFM and online about the portrayal of masculinity in American comic books, AlexFitch talks to writer Fred Van Lente about penning the adventures of undead superheroes in Marvel Zombies , bringing to light the exciting adventures of Action Philosophers from Aristotle to Derrida and co-writing Tales of the...
Electric Sheep podcast: Living in Harmony with Ian Rakoff To coincide with the 42nd anniversary of the broadcast of the episode he wrote the original script for, AlexFitch talks to writer, editor and raconteur Ian Rakoff about his experiences working on The Prisoner and being an observer of British Film culture in the 1970s and [...]
