resonance fm interview with adrian tomine
Alex Fitch, presenter of the Resonance FM comic conversation show Panel Borders, recently asked me if I’d like to take the opportunity to interview Adrain Tomine for the show. Naturally I jumped at the chance. Tomine’s work was a huge inspiration to me when I first discovered him back in my early teens and his work continues to be some of the most subtle, well observed and intimate storytelling in comics. If anyone could be blamed for me wanting to draw comics in the first place, Tomine would be your most likely suspect.
Of course, come the day of the interview, I was a nervous wreck and I’m afraid it shows (audibly speaking) in the interview. It was the first interview I’d ever conducted and I think it’s fair to say I don’t have a great voice for radio.
Nonetheless, Tomine was charming and very patient with my amateur interviewing techniques. We discussed his fascination with comics, the possibility of a movie adaptation of his work, flirting, his plans for forthcoming issues of Optic Nerve, and the future of comics in the age of this sort of thing.
It’s broadcast today at 5pm, Resonance 104.4FM (London) – which is streamed at www.resonancefm.com if you’re not based in London. It will be repeated at 11.30pm on Sunday night.
A longer version of our conversation will be made available as a podcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com and http://podcasts.resonancefm.com.
…maybe we should get you some dutch courage next time! Personally, I thought your questions were better thought out and delivered than a lot of my flying by the seat of my pants technique!
Hey, Tom, good work on the Tomine interview – forwarded a link of it to Chris at Drawn & Quarterly, sure they will love it too.
i listened to it in the bath while waiting for ink to dry. s’good.
i liked your quiet voice, preferable to interviewers wanting a piece of the light.
Alex Fitch sent me a link to this. Just had a listen. Enjoyed it a lot (particularly the bit at the end where you start talking about pencils and pens and light boxes and inking and such). Cheers.
thanks everyone. really pleased people found it interesting and my nervousness didn’t spoil it.
ink never dries in bathwater oliver… schoolboy error!
Very nice interview, I really love it when the interviewer is actually a fan! And I think you’re wrong, you have the perfect voice for radio, quiet and soothing, perfect for a Sunday night…
that’s where i’m going wrong. thought this book was taking ages.