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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re a #comics or #architecture researcher and might be interested in writing something about how the two fields combine, please have a look at the call for papers at www.graphicarchitecture.org (Deadline to pitch an idea: Oct 31st)

Graphic Architecture

A place to explore the depiction and exploration of Architecture in Comics

www.graphicarchitecture.org

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 5d

repeat broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to @karriefransman.bsky.social, @zaraslattery.bsky.social & Sabba Khan re: their comics based on Canterbury Cathedral, & to NormKonyu re: @comicstitan.bsky.social's graphic novel Downlands. 11am Sun 5th Oct, 104.4 Resonance FM panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/09/29

September 29, 2025 – Panel Borders and other podcasts

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 9d

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to @karriefransman.bsky.social, @zaraslattery.bsky.social & Sabba Khan about their comics based on Canterbury Cathedral, and to NormKonyu re: @comicstitan.bsky.social' graphic novel Downlands. 5pm Weds 1st Oct, 104.4 Resonance FM panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/t...

This week’s show: Atmospheric Locations

Starting a new series of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about stained glass inspired strips, and to an animator turned comic creator about his ghostly titles. Sabba …

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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 9d

Bloody brilliant breakdown of how generative Ai can’t do the jobs CEOs want it to at the start of this

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d

Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI.

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The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 09/30/2025 · 25m

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 9d

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to @karriefransman.bsky.social, @zaraslattery.bsky.social & Sabba Khan about their comics based on Canterbury Cathedral, and to NormKonyu re: @comicstitan.bsky.social' graphic novel Downlands. 5pm Weds 1st Oct, 104.4 Resonance FM panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/t...

This week’s show: Atmospheric Locations

Starting a new series of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about stained glass inspired strips, and to an animator turned comic creator about his ghostly titles. Sabba …

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re a #comics or #architecture researcher and might be interested in writing something about how the two fields combine, please have a look at the call for papers at www.graphicarchitecture.org (Deadline to pitch an idea: Oct 31st)

Graphic Architecture

A place to explore the depiction and exploration of Architecture in Comics

www.graphicarchitecture.org

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 19d

podcast: Alex Fitch talks to Juanjo Guarnido re: darkhorse.com 's Blacksad & to Clair Waller, Digital Archivist at kent.ac.uk 's British Cartoon Archive re: their exhibition Laughter in the Long 20th Century. panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/p...

Dark Horse Comics

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Geri E. Gallas | Open Book Chocolates Kickstarter @gegallas.bsky.social · 20d

Did you see us on Kickstarter's "What’s new, what’s now" newsletter today?

Please help us fund our two newest flavors — The Maltese Falcon & Doctor Watson — and reach our $20K stretch goal!

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Geri E. Gallas | Open Book Chocolates Kickstarter @gegallas.bsky.social · 20d

The Call of Cthulhu: Nori Seaweed, Ginger Spice, and Candied Ginger in Dark Chocolate.

All 17 of our current flavors are now available as Kickstarter rewards! Please help us fund our two newest flavors — The Maltese Falcon & Doctor Watson — and reach our $20K stretch goal!

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 23d

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to Juanjo Guarnido re: darkhorse.com 's Blacksad & to Clair Waller, Digital Archivist at kent.ac.uk 's British Cartoon Archive re: their exhibition Laughter in the Long 20th Century. 8pm, Weds 17th Sep, Resonance 104.4 FM (London). Info: www.panelborders.wordpress.com

Dark Horse Comics

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · 28d

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to Juanjo Guarnido about darkhorse.com 's Blacksad and to Clair Waller, Digitial Archivist at kent.ac.uk 's British Cartoon Archive about their exhibition Laughter in the Long Twentieth Century. 8pm, Weds 17th Sep, Resonance 104.4 FM (London). Info: www.panelborders.com

Dark Horse Comics

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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · Sep 7

September Cartoon County 1 week early
Mon 22
The Walrus Ship Street Brighton BN1 1AD
@panelborders.bsky.social talks to @lucysullivan.bsky.social and film director Dylan Southern about the new film
The Thing With Feathers
(Benedict Cumberbatch 'draws' Lucy's nightmarish crow who haunts his dreams)

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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · Aug 6

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@panelborders.bsky.social talking to Clair Waller
www.kent.ac.uk/library/temp... Digital Archivist about the British Cartoon Archive www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec...

Current exhibition www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec...

The Walrus, Ship St, Brighton BN1 1AD
Meet: 6.30
Q&A: 7.30pm

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jul 10

podcast: In the second of two #LGBTQIA #Pride themed shows Alex Fitch talks to Steven Appleby & The Mollusc Dimension about their #superhero / #anthropomorphic / magical realist #comics based on #trans experience www.panelborders.wordpress.com

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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · Jul 10

July 28 @panelborders.bsky.social will be talking to Sharon Browne-Peter of coagcomics.co.uk about using comics to spread awareness of Sickle Cell Disease and life in Nigeria
Sci-fi and superhero tropes make blood donation less intimidating
The Walrus
Ship St Brighton BN1 1AD
Doors 6.30 Q&A 7.30pm

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · Jul 2

While it's a problem that you can't get this track digitally, I don't think anyone in the world is going to object to having to watch Sammy Davis do this song with Bob Fosse choreography. Saw this on the big screen in 70mm at Widescreen Weekend a couple of years back. Spellbinding stuff.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · Jul 2

#All50RTS

2. 1969 - Sammy Davis Jr - Rhythm of Life (11)

From Sweet Charity Motion Picture Soundtrack

Here's a track that's hard to get digitally sans video. My copy is on an LP release at the time and that was a difficulty to source

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The Rhythm of Life (Sammy Davis Jr.) | Sweet Charity (1969) | TUNE

YouTube video by TUNE - Musical Moments

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jul 2

‪broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to #StevenAppleby & molluscdimension.bsky.social about their magical realist #comics based on #trans experience, as the second of two #Pride themed episodes. 5pm, 104.4 Resonance FM / DAB ... more info: panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/06/27

The Mollusc Dimension (he/him) (@molluscdimension.bsky.social)

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Queer trans ESEA multidisciplinary artist with ADHD. Aka Squid Horse Comics. My ACE-funded comic memoir “The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse” is out now! 🔗 https://linktr.ee/th...

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jun 27

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to #StevenAppleby & molluscdimension.bsky.social about their magical realist #comics based on #trans experience 5pm, Weds 2nd July 104.4 Resonance FM / DAB ... more info: panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/n...

The Mollusc Dimension (he/him) (@molluscdimension.bsky.social)

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Queer trans ESEA multidisciplinary artist with ADHD. Aka Squid Horse Comics. My ACE-funded comic memoir “The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse” is out now! 🔗 https://linktr.ee/th...

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jun 27

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to #StevenAppleby & molluscdimension.bsky.social about their magical realist #comics based on #trans experience 5pm, Weds 2nd July 104.4 Resonance FM / DAB ... more info: panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/n...

The Mollusc Dimension (he/him) (@molluscdimension.bsky.social)

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Queer trans ESEA multidisciplinary artist with ADHD. Aka Squid Horse Comics. My ACE-funded comic memoir “The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse” is out now! 🔗 https://linktr.ee/th...

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jun 18

Looking forward to running Q&As with filmmakers on Sat & Sun eve at @scifilondon.bsky.social in Finsbury Park Picture House - always intriguing and beguiling premiers of great new SF films. Book tickets at sci-fi-london.com

2025-MAIN - SCI-FI-LONDON 2025

The 2025 science fiction film festival in London, 19-22 June at Finsbury Park Picturehouse. Come for some amazing cinema!

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Jun 18

News! Thought Bubble @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social and Travelling Man @travellingmanuk.bsky.social Team Up to Provide Another Round of Micro-Bursaries in 2025 for Early Career, Marginalised Creators. www.brokenfrontier.com/thought-bubb... Great stuff!

Thought Bubble and Travelling Man Team Up to Provide Another Round of Micro-Bursaries in 2025 for Early Career, Marginalised Creators – Broken Frontier

Thought Bubble's micro-bursaries return with opportunities for disabled. trans/non-binary and creators of colour.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jun 18

It’s the last day you can back Ilya’s ROMO the WolfBoy Kickstarter. This is a terrific YA graphic novel and ideal for any fans of Victoriana, circuses and wolf child daring do! Highly recommend you don’t miss out on this brilliant first volume of (hopefully) an ongoing franchise… t.co/S4QloLT6c3

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ilyagraphic/romo-the-wolfboy-by-writer-artist-ilya

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Jun 11

Facebook banned @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this essay, "Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence."

So, make sure to read it and share it!

"The Trump Administration is a huge surge of almost every kind of violence."

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Alex Fitch @panelborders.bsky.social · Jun 14

Really glad you enjoyed it! :)

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