Panel Borders – Panel Borders and other podcasts

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: In this month’s Panel Borders, Alex Fitch looks into and around the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. Interviewees include Lindsey Glen, Director, Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, MURUGIAH discussing his solo show in the Centre, and Paul Gravett chatting about curating the opening sequential art exhibition Queer as Comics. […]

Fantastical Worlds: In this month’s Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a quartet of creators who make comics about Fantastical Worlds. In a panel discussion recorded at Thought Bubble Festival 2025, Donya Todd (The Witch’s Egg), Linnea Sterte (World Heist), Dave Cook (Killtopia), and B. Mure (Ismyre) discuss creating strange new worlds to tell stories […]

  Fighting for Independence: To celebrate Women’s History Month, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of female creators whose recent work depicts characters struggling for independence. The Rickard Sisters chat about their latest graphic novel This Slavery, which adapts a Romance novel by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth featuring a fiery Marxist-feminist polemic. Also, animator turned cartoonist […]

Creepy Adaptations: In a belated Halloween episode of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of creators about their work on creepy adaptations. Graphic novelist, Lucy Sullivan, and film director, Dylan Southern, have worked together on The Thing With Feathers, an adaptation to screen of Max Porter’s award-winning 2015 novella. Lucy has created new […]

Inspired by the Twentieth Century: Alex Fitch looks at the work of cartoonists influenced by the culture of the Twentieth Century. In a Q and A recorded at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, artist Juanjo Guarnido discusses his much loved anthropormophic graphic novel series Blacksad, and in a conversation recorded at Cartoon County, Digital […]

Comic Book Team-Ups: Alex Fitch talks to a trio of creators about their collaborative work. Matt Wakeham discusses writing and compiling the new coffee table book of Phoo Action, a cult comic by Jamie Hewlett that Wakeham wrote the second series of and adapted for television, which was originally serialised in The Face magazine. And […]

Innovative Trans Cartoonists: In the second of two Pride themed episodes of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of innovative trans cartoonists about their magical realist books inspired by autobiography. Artist and musician The Mollusc Dimension discusses his short story collection The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse which sees the creator […]

Veteran Gay Cartoonists: In the first of two Pride themed episodes of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of veteran gay cartoonists about their auto/biographical books on LGBTQIA+ history. Kate Charlesworth discusses Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide published by Myriad Editions, which tells her history as a lesbian cartoonist, interwined with the history […]

Fantastical Kickstarters: In this feature length episode, Alex Fitch chats to a trio of comic creators who are launching new titles on Kickstarter. Renowned comics creator Ilya discusses his new Graphic Novel Romo the Wolfboy, a beguiling tale of outsiders and intrigue in a Victorian Circus, Science Communicator Sara Kenney chats about her time travel […]

First Graphic Novel Award 2025: In this month’s show, Alex Fitch hosts the launch event for the 2025 First Graphic Award. Available to any unpublished comics creator, the competition looks to providing the winner with a publishing contract for their first graphic novel. 2023 long listed and short listed artists Kelly Vassie and Myfanwy Tristram, […]