BBC: "A Controversial New Comic"

We were profiled on BBC World Service's The Strand yesterday.  The Strand is a daily arts and culture radio show that goes out worldwide with a HUGE listenership (is that a word?...).  It was a fun interview (conducted at the CBC studios back in December) that discusses the creation of the project, our interpretation of the characters, the response from academics and scholars, and some fun things about the project.You can listen to the interview by clicking on The Strand logo (it's the fourth chapter of the show).The BBC website has also posted a number of photos from the comic book. You can check out their slide show (with interesting captions) by clicking on the BBC World Service logo below.  I'm not really sure where they got the Ryan Gosling bit from, though - perhaps they saw the Stephen Holt interview earlier this month?

Kill Shakespeare on CBC Radio's Q

Yesterday, Conor and I sat down for an interview on CBC Radio's "Q", an arts, entertainment and culture show on Canada's public broadcaster.  The show is always informative and it was great to chat about the series and get people excited about it.The regular host, Jion Ghomeshi, was on vacation so filling in for him was Zaib Shaikh, best known in Canada for his role on the popular Little Mosque on the Prairie.  This was actually a welcome change as Zaib is himself an actor and a huge fan of Shakespeare who also directed a television production of Othello a few years ago, and it also spared the world Conor's Billy Bob Thornton impersonation...To listen to the interview, you can click on the link and go the January 4th episode.  Our interview starts at the 53 minute mark of the episode.

One thing that I'd like to mention is that the interview focused mainly on Shakespeare and the Kill Shakespeare story and thus we weren't able to have a discussion on the artwork and our excellent artist team (of Andy, Ian and Kagan), which we always like to do.

Kill Shakespeare on NPR...

Conor and I are doing a live interview with NPR's Talk of the Nation show this afternoon.  We're on from 2:40pm - 3:00 EST and will be chatting about Kill Shakespeare, comics and everything else with host Neal Conan.  We understand that he's a huge comic fan so we're looking forward to the discussion.  I believe that we may also be fielding phone calls while on the air so feel free to call in as well!You can listen to the program live by going to the NPR website (click on the photo).

Anthony on The Stuph File

Earlier this week I recorded a segment for The Stuph File, run by Peter Anthony Holder, based in Montreal.  It's a program that features discussions on pop culture, books, television, and anything else that interests Peter.  A fun interview that is available on iTunes as a free download and will also appear Monday on CyberStationUSA.com...

You can listen to the segment by checking out the website (click on the logo above), or by going directly to it here.