Broadcast: Tuesday 12th May 2009.
The guests were Vasileios Sakkos, Barry Curtis and Ian Hague.
Talking about comic books: how counterculture and America’s underground comic book tradition create certain kinds of stories, certain ways of telling them, also looking to as-yet unfulfilled potentials of the medium.
The show was hosted by Seph Rodney.
Guest biographies:
Vasilis Sakkos is writing a PhD in the London Consortium. His work is concerned with the metaphorical possibilities of ’skin’ as a way of comprehending the medium as a cultural form. He has taken an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Athens university, where he is from. He also has an MA degree from the University of Essex.
Barry Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University. He has an interest in post-war British culture and has recently written essays for two Tate catalogues on aspects of the 1960s. An essay on ‘Dinosaur Design’ was published in 2006 and he is writing a book on The Haunted House. He edits the Location series for Reaktion Books and is involved in a number of projects on ‘Suburbia’. Recent work includes an essay on ‘Negotiated Modernity’ in the proceedings of the ‘Making a New World Conference’ [Louvain ‘06, published 2007].