Listen to a pair of interviews recorded at OCCUPY MY TIME GALLERY, Deptford, where Alex Fitch talks to gallery owner / curator Sue Cohen, and artist Sarah Lightman, about the latter’s exhibition “The Book of Sarah”, which previews her forthcoming graphic novel from Myriad Editions.
Also, at Phoenix Brighton, fine art lecturer Sue Gollifer, curator Karin Mori, exhibition designer Ben Thomson, and artist Iain Paxon (Hamilton Yarns) talk about the gallery’s exhibition of artists’ books “Press and Release”. Originally broadcast Monday 20th May 2013, Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
(Recorded at Occupy my time Gallery and Phoenix Brighton and edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 41:07 / recorded 10/05/13 + 17/05/13

page from The Book of Sarah by Sarah Lightman / exhibition launch / Press and Release flyer / photo of gallery

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Occupy my Time Gallery website
Sarah Lightman’s website
Phoenix Brighton website
Hamilton Yarns website
2012 show on ‘Exhibiting Comics’ featuring Lord Baker of Dorking and John Huddy

Listen to an episode of the Laydeez do comics podcast, recorded at Comica Festival 2012 – graphic novelist Alison Bechdel reads from her new book Are you my mother? and answers questions from the audience about her debut Fun Home, and long running comic strip Dykes to watch out for.
(Recorded at Foyles Bookshop, introduced by Nicola Streeten and edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 40:23 / recorded 12/11/12

Extract from Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Review of Are you my mother? in New York times
Alison Bechdel’s website
Laydeez do comics website
Comica Festival 2012

Charlie Adlard signing and discussing his 100th issue of The Walking Dead

Charlie Adlard will be celebrating his 100th issue of The Walking Dead in January at Infintiy and Beyond. For those that haven’t seen details of events these as follows:

TUESDAY 8TH JANUARY 7PM-9PM*

An Audience With Charlie Adlard – £2.00 per person

This evening event will feature a Q and A with Charlie, conducted by Alex Fitch, where he will discuss his run on the Walking Dead. Drinks and nibbles provided. This event is only open to a maximum of 50 people, on a first come first served basis. Attendees will receive a signed print and will be the first to see the as yet unannounced Infinity and Beyond Walking Dead #106 exclusive variant cover. Charlie will only be signing copies of #106 on this date.

SATURDAY 12TH JANUARY 1PM-3PM*

An open signing for all that can make it!

Charlie will sign Walking Dead comics and books but attendees must purchase a copy of The Walking Dead #106 Infinity & Beyond exclusive cover.

*Events and times subject to change and variation without notice

More info on the Infinity and Beyond facebook page

Infinity and Beyond, 31 Castle Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 2XB

Laydeez do comics, London January 2013

NEXT MEETING…
Monday 21 Jan, 6-8.30pm
Foyles Gallery, third floor,
113-119 Charing Cross Road
London, WC2H 0EB
Nearest Tube: Tottenham Court Road
ENTRY: FREE but contributions welcome for drinks and cake!
RSVP: Although free, for health and safety reasons, please book for each event.

Guests:

Dr Muna Al-Jawad, Consultant in Elderly Medicine, BSUH, Comics artist
and co-organiser of the 4th International Comics and Medicine Conference, 2013
John Miers, Artist www.johnmiers.com
David Jesus Vignolli, Artist www.jesusvignolli.com/david

Listen to a presentation by Hannah Berry about her second graphic novel, Adamtime, which tells the tale of a group of people trapped on a mysterious, sedentary train in the middle of the night, the paths that lead them there and their attempts to escape, recorded at Laydeez do comics.
Also, in an interview recorded at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, Alex Fitch talks to Julian Hanshaw about his new collection of short stories, I’m Never Coming Back which includes his award winning entry to the Observer / Cape Graphic Short Story Prize, and his previous graphic novel The Art of Pho, which both depict magical-realist stories of travel around the globe.
(Recorded by Nicola Streeten / Alex Fitch, edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 29:37 / recorded 13/08/12 + 16/10/12

Excerpts from I’m never coming back by Julan Hanshaw and Adamtine by Hannah Berry

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Originally broadcast 21/10/12 on Resonance FM)

Links: Random House pages on Hannah Berry and Julian Hanshaw
Julian’s website
Fobidden Planet International’s “director’s commentary” pages on I’m Never Coming Back and Adamtine
Laydeez do comics website
2009 Panel Borders interviews with Hannah Berry and Julian Hanshaw

Recommended events:

Who is Ana Mendieta? exhibition

Art from the graphic novel Who is Ana Mendieta? by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron is on display at Space Station Sixty Five gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS

Exhibition runs until November 4th, more info at http://spacestationsixtyfive.com

Laydeez do comics, October 2012

Monday 22 October, 6.30 – 9.30pm
The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ

Guests:
Simon Grennan, artist http://kartoonkings.com
Lucy Lyons, artist http://www.lucylyons.org/
Fay Trier, writer http://www.facebook.com/fayt35

Listen to a Q and A recorded at Whitechapel Gallery, in which Laydeez do comics curators Sarah Lightman and Nicola Streeten discuss their work with Christine Redfern, writer of the graphic novel ‘Who is Ana Medieta?’, currently the subject of an exhibition at Space Station Sixty Five, Kennington. Introduced by Space Station Sixty Five directors Jo David and Rachael House.
(Recorded by Whitechapel Gallery, edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 56:19 / recorded 22/09/12

Photos: Jo David and Rachael House + Nicola Streeten, Shelby Sampson, Trina Robbins and Sarah Lightman / interior art and cover of Who is Ana Mendieta?

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Info about Who is Ana Medieta?
Christine Redfern’s website
Space Station Sixty Five gallery

Recommended events:

Who is Ana Mendieta? exhibition

Art from the graphic novel Who is Ana Mendieta? by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron is on display at Space Station Sixty Five gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS

Exhibition runs until November 4th, more info at http://spacestationsixtyfive.com

Laydeez do comics, October 2012

Monday 22 October, 6.30 – 9.30pm
The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ

Guests:
Simon Grennan, artist http://kartoonkings.com
Lucy Lyons, artist  http://www.lucylyons.org/
Fay Trier, writer http://www.facebook.com/fayt35

Listen to two talks recorded at Laydeez do comics, the first in a new season of Laydeez do podcasts, Charles Hatfield talks about comics academia and Jay Eales and Selina Lock discuss publishing The Girly Comic. Hatfield is the author of ‘Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature’ and ‘Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby’ and discusses introducing comics to English literature students. Jay and Selina also talk about helming the Caption small press festival in Oxford for a number of years and producing their own small press comics.
(Recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 01:02:00 / recorded 20/06/11 + 13/08/12

Charles Hatfield, photo by Reanna Delgadillo, Jay Eales and Selina Lock, photo by Andy Luke

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Profile of Charles Hatfield at California State University
Interview with Charles Hatfield at Daily Sundial
Info about Jay and Selina’s work at Factor Fiction Press
Info about Jay and Selina’s workshops at Writing School Leicester from 20 September 2012

Recommended events:

Laydeez do comics, September 2012

Monday 10 September, 6.30 – 9.30pm
The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ

Guests:
Richy K. Chandler, Illustrator, designer and comics artist www.tempolush.com
Louise Crosby, artist www.facebook.com/SeeingPoetry
Louisa Parker, artist www.louisaparker.com

Listen to a recording of November 2011’s Laydeez do comics meeting, in which M.K. Czerwiec and Sarah Leavitt talk about their work, mixing autobiography and medical comics. M.K. discusses the strips produced by her alter-ego, Comic Nurse and Sarah talks about documenting her mother’s alzheimers disease in Tangles.
(Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch, Q and A session moderated by Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman)
Running time: 56:16 / Recorded: 21/11/11

Panels from a Comic Nurse strip by M.K. Czerwiec and Tangles by Sarah Leavitt

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: M.K. Czerwiec’s website – comicnurse.com and archive of her online comics
Sarah Leavitt’s website and info on Tangles

Recommended events:

Jeffrey Lewis at Gosh!

New York based self-published cartoonist, musician and auteur Jeffrey Lewis is doing a rare London signing and presentation of his work at Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London on June 2nd from 7pm.
Come along to get issues of Fluff! signed by the author and see projections from his sketchbook art.

7pm, 2nd June 2012, Gosh! Comics, London W1F 0DR
More info at www.goshlondon.com/events

UNSTABLE ART AT MAGGS BROS

Strange Attractor and Maggs Bros are proud to present ‘Unstable’, an exhibition of new and old work from Battle Of The Eyes (Savage Pencil and Eyeball), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward. All artwork will be for sale, as will new books and other materials from Strange Attractor Press.

Unstable: 8 May – 8 June 2012 (Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 5pm)
Maggs Counterculture and Gallery,
50 Hays Muse, W1J 5QJ, London, UK

Laydeez do comics, June 2012

Oxford based cartoonist Kate Brown (The DFC, The Phoenix, Fish + Chocolate) will be talking about her work at this month’s LDC before the monthly meeting for female comic creators and their fans breaks for the summer holidays, alongside SelfMadeHero directors Doug Wallace and Emma Hayley who will be talking about their independent UK graphic novel publishing company.

6.30 – 9.30pm, Monday 18 June 2012
The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ
More info at www.laydeezdocomics.com

Comics at Brockley Max

As part of the Brockley Max Festival (1st to 9th June), there will be a special comics themed slot during all the events, Brockley Comix. Ali Kati Projects and Panel Borders will be presenting a live panel discussion on June 7th in the Talbot pub at 7pm, with a number of writers and artists from South-East London discussing their work with Alex Fitch (Resonance 104.4 FM), including Kieron Gillen, Sarah McIntyre, Sarah Gordon, Howard Hardiman, Simone Lia, Gary Northfield, Woodrow Phoenix and Julia Scheele, with opportunities for a Q and A and signings as well.

And in Badger related news makers of the new Badger animated film and documentary are taking Howard Hardiman back to the Broca cafe where he first started sketching Badger; he will be there from 10am to 1pm on June 3rd to sign comics and the film crew will be there and happy to answer any questions about the documentary too. (See below)

More info on Sarah McIntyre’s blog

Badger at The Broca – 10am, The Broca, 4 Coulgate Street, London SE4 2RW
Nearest station: Brockley (train from London Bridge / Overground from Highbury and Islington)
Brockley Comix – 7pm, The Talbot, 7 Tyrwitt Road (off Lewisham Way), London SE4 1QG
Nearest station: St Johns (train from London Bridge / Charing Cross – or change at New Cross Overground or Lewisham DLR)

Support Badger the movie

A London based documentary and animation team is bringing Howard Hardiman’s beloved comic Badger to life in a new animated film that will also contain footage of the process of making Howard’s comic and its relevance to mental health issues.
You can support fundraising for this project at http://www.indiegogo.com/Badgershortfilm with various incentives depending on the level of contribution.

Listen to a pair of interviews about artists who examine their personal life and feelings as a subject for their art. Cartoonist Richy K. Chandler talks to Simone Lia about her new graphic novel, Please God, find me a husband!, which explores Simone’s faith and search for a partner. Critic and writer Columba Quigley talks to fine artist Josephine King about her paintings which combine self portrait with text and references to Renaissance narrative art. Originally broadcast 15/04/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM
(Recorded, introduced and edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 36:03 / Recorded: 12/04/12 + 04/04/12

Paintings by Josephine King on display in Riflemaker Gallery / panel from Please God, find me a husband! by Simone Lia

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Simone Lia / Cabanon Press publishing websites
Interview with Josephine King in The Independent
Riflemaker Gallery website with info on her previous exhibition and paintings for sale

April Laydeez do comics

Guests: Rachael Ball, comics artist
Tom Gauld, cartoonist and illustrator and author of Goliath
Simone Lia, illustrator and author of Please God, Find Me A Husband
Ian Williams AKA Thom Ferrier, artist and founder of Graphic Medicine

Recommended Read: Please God, Find Me A Husband, published by Jonathan Cape

Monday 23 April 2012, 6.30–9.30pm
The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ
www.laydeezdocomics.com

Gosh! Comics events

Darryl Cunningham book launch, signing and in conversation with Robin Ince, re: Science Tales

April 24, time TBC

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

Listen to two talks recorded at Laydeez do comics, Dr. Ann Miller, lecturer and joint editor of European Comic Art journal talks about stereotypical representations of women in bandes dessinées, particularly by Pénélope Bagieu, creator of ‘chic-lit’ comic Joséphine; and Karrie Fransman talks about her new comic The House that groaned, an incisive graphic novel about body dysmorphia and desire in a Victorian tenement house.
(Recorded, introduced and edited by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 1: 28: 09 / Recorded 20/02/12

Joséphine by Pénélope Bagieu and The House that Groaned by Karrie Fransman

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Pénélope Bagieu’s website
The House that groaned website

Recommended events:

Laydeez do comics

NEXT MEETING…

Monday 19 March 2012
Day: Monday
Time: 6.30 – 9.30pm
Venue: The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ

Guests:
London Print Studio Comics Collective

Lily-Rose Beardshaw
Abraham Christie
Shamisa Debroey
Merlin Evans
Jade Sarson
Susan Yan Mach

Recommended Read:
Parallel Lives: London Print Studio Comic Collective Anthology, Published by Knockabout

www.laydeezdocomics.com

Orbital comics events

John Miers and Yoav Segal exhibition

Starting on February 25th, the Orbital West Wing will host an exhibition celebrating the publication of Regeneration by Lawrence and Wishart books with artwork by John Miers and Yoav Segal.

The second in an ongoing series of volumes on inter-generational politics, Regeneration focuses on the question of intergenerational justice. Defining the world’s young people as those born after 1979 – a hugely symbolic moment in the history of globalisation – it reflects on the massive growth in generational protest across the globe thirty years later. At its heart is an analysis of politics through the prism of generation in which the first glimmer of a post-neoliberal consensus can be discerned.

8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA

http://www.orbitalcomics.co.uk

Supergods at the Petrie Museum

COMIC BOOK SLAM

Date: 31 March | Time: 2-4pm | Price: Free | Age group: Teen / Family

Create your own comic panel and characters in 2 hours in this comic book slam at the Petrie Museum. explore comics using Egypt as inspiration and objects from the museum for your own ideas. With Kel Winser. All ages. Just pop in!

SUPERGODS COMIC BOOK WORKSHOP

Date: 2-3 April | Time: 11am – 3.30pm | Price: Free. Preferably book in advance. | Age group: Young people age 12 up.

Create your own superheroes based on the Ancient Egyptian gods. Get advice from a comics writer on how tell your story. Take inspiration from the museum and other comics about Egypt to put your own comic strip together. Suitable for 12 years upwards. With Kel Winser.

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

http://petriemuseum.com

Listen to a panel discussion recorded at the First Fiction festival, Sussex University, January 2012. Author Sue Eckstein discusses the problems inherent in creating autobiographies with graphic novelists Nicola Streeten and Anuerin Wright and how creators can subvert and overcome these. Nicola’s book Billy, me and you and Aneurin’s Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park couldn’t be more different in their approaches, with the former combining cartoons, diary drawings and scrapbook montage and the latter depicting the author’s friends and family as anthropomorphic creatures in domestic settings. (Recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited and introduced by Alex Fitch)
Running time: 59: 15 / Recorded 22/01/12

Covers of Interpreters and The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein, Billy, me and you by Nicola Streeten and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park by Aneurin Wright

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other formats you can download / stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Info about Interpreters, Billy, me and you and Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park
More info about the First Fiction festival (Sussex University, January 2012)

If you enjoyed this show, why not try Judith Vanistendael talking about her autobiographical comic Dance by the light of the moon

Recommended events:

Gosh! Comics…

Gosh!’re properly chuffed to be hosting the launch of Tom Gauld’s new graphic novel Goliath, a stripped-down, reworking of the David and Goliath myth, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

On Friday the 9th of March, Gauld will be here to sign copies of the book from 6:30pm, then at 7pm we’ll get down to the important business of wetting the baby’s head. Come along and shake his hand! Not only is he one of the finest cartoonists in Britain, he’s a thoroughly lovely chap too. We’ll even have an exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition available on the night which we’ll reveal very, very soon.

Goliath signing and Launch Party, Friday 9th March, 6.30pm

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

http://www.goshlondon.com

Orbital comics events

John Miers and Yoav Segal exhibition

Starting on February 25th, the Orbital West Wing will host an exhibition celebrating the publication of Regeneration by Lawrence and Wishart books with artwork by John Miers & Yoav Segal.

The second in an ongoing series of volumes on inter-generational politics, Regeneration focuses on the question of intergenerational justice. Defining the world’s young people as those born after 1979 – a hugely symbolic moment in the history of globalisation – it reflects on the massive growth in generational protest across the globe thirty years later. At its heart is an analysis of politics through the prism of generation in which the first glimmer of a post-neoliberal consensus can be discerned.

David Hine signing

As part of their line-wide ‘rebirth’, Top Cow Productions are teaming up with Orbital Comics to create a special signing event celebrating the release of The Darkness #101. Oncoming writer David Hine (of Bulletproof Coffin fame) will be in store to sign your comics and chat about his plans for the book, plus there will be giveaways and demos from the good folks at 2K Games who are behind The Darkness II video game.

The signing starts at 5pm on Wednesday March 21st (new comics day), so you can be among the first in the world to have a copy of The Darkness #101 and get it signed by the author.

8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA

http://www.orbitalcomics.co.uk

Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen X-Men signing

Forbidden Planet are delighted to bring you a fantastic double X-Men signing! Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen will be at the London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JR, on Thursday 15th March 2012.

Artist Jamie welcomes you to the X-Men’s first year! Professor Xavier has recruited five of the most powerful mutants he’s ever seen to save a world that hates them. But there’s only one problem: they’re teenagers who have to survive hormones and super-powers, all while fighting for their lives.

Written by Kieron, Uncanny X-Men starts over in the wake of Schism. What is to become of Cyclops and the mutants who side with him after the big split? And what does it have to do with the resurrected Mr. Sinister? The hottest new writer in the business, Kieron Gillen (Thor), and superstar artist Carlos Pacheco (Ultimate Avengers) bring you the biggest and baddest X-Men you’ve ever seen.

Thursday 15 March 2012 18:00 – 19:00

Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR

http://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2012

Supergods at the Petrie Museum

COMIC BOOK SLAM

Date: 31 March | Time: 2-4pm | Price: Free | Age group: Teen / Family

Create your own comic panel and characters in 2 hours in this comic book slam at the Petrie Museum. explore comics using Egypt as inspiration and objects from the museum for your own ideas. With Kel Winser. All ages. Just pop in!

SUPERGODS COMIC BOOK WORKSHOP

Date: 2-3 April | Time: 11am – 3.30pm | Price: Free. Preferably book in advance. | Age group: Young people age 12 up.

Create your own superheroes based on the Ancient Egyptian gods. Get advice from a comics writer on how tell your story. Take inspiration from the museum and other comics about Egypt to put your own comic strip together. Suitable for 12 years upwards. With Kel Winser.

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

http://petriemuseum.com

Listen to a recording of Nicola Streeten interviewing Bryan and Mary Talbot about their forthcoming graphic novel, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which contrasts two coming of age narratives: Lucia, daughter of James Joyce, and author Mary Talbot, daughter of the Joycean scholar James S Atherton. (Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch, recorded live in front of an audience at the University of Sussex as part of the First Fictions Festival).
Running time: 58:35 / Recorded 21/01/12

Image from Dotter of her fathers eyes by Bryan and Mary M Talbot

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Broadcast 22/01/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Links: Info about First Fictions Festival
Mary Talbot’s website
Official Dotter page at www.randomhouse.co.uk
Previous interviews with Bryan Talbot

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

To celebrate the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery will be hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from February 2 to March 2.

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at Gosh! Comics, 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

An introduction to creating your graphic memoir

FREE WORKSHOP
Saturday 28 January 2012
2-4pm
Ages 18+
Presentation and practical workshop with Nicola Streeten, illustrator and author of the highly praised graphic memoir ‘Billy, Me and You’.
No experience necessary, materials will be provided

Idea Store Chrisp Street, 1 Vesey Path, East India Dock Road, London E14 6BT
Tel 020 7364 4332

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk