Signals from the Hill #43 – George Wylesol on ‘2120’

In this episode we talk to George Wylesol, whose book ‘2120’ has just come out. We discuss how George arrived at his unique, dark and compelling style of storytelling, and his journey through the various books he’s published with Avery Hill. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53da3bdbe4b0e4d718260225/t/62a1e40da1964a75bd66a769/1654776924110/Signals+from+the+Hill+Wylesol.mp3

Signals From The Hill #42 – Karen Shangguan on Quiet Thoughts

In this episode we talk to Karen Shangguan, the creator of Quiet Thoughts, which came out in autumn 2021. We talk about how Karen makes her poetic, contemplative comics.

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Signals From The Hill #41 – Lord Hurk on Jinx Freeze

In this episode we talk to Lord Hurk, the creator of Jinx Freeze, which came out in October 2021. We discuss tying lots of ideas together into one big story, the London small press scene, dreams… and lovingly-rendered biscuits.https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53da3bdbe4b0e4d718260225/t/61fa8a079e733d7445e9e68c/1643809390072/SFTH+Hurk+audio.mp3

Signals From The Hill #40 – Clio Isadora on Sour Pickles

In this episode we talk to Clio Isadora, the creator of Sour Pickles, which came out in October 2021.We talk about how Clio approaches making comics, the economic inequalities that affect people hoping to make a living in the arts, and how the pandemic has affected people in the industry.

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Signals From The Hill #39 – Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart on Lights, Planets, People!

This month we talk to Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart, the creators of Lights, Planets, People! about their new book. We talk about how they adapted the graphic novel from an original play by Molly, their experience of collaborating, and what it’s like to work across a variety of different mediums and art-forms.https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53da3bdbe4b0e4d718260225/t/6193b4ba16ab671c62c70bd1/1637070107917/SFTH+podcast+audio.mp3

Signals From The Hill #38 – Steve Walsh

This month is a tough episode in that it marks the last episode of Signals From The Hill that will be hosted by this podcast’s founder and our Head Of Sales, Steve Walsh. The whole team chat with Steve about his time in comics, from childhood reads, to building the graphic novel section in Waterstones’ flagship store, his time running the small press section at Gosh! Comics and then coming to work for Avery Hill.

Content Warning for friends of Steve. It contains some bad news about his health that, if you don’t already know the extent of, you might not want to find out in this way. So maybe don’t listen to this until you’ve had a chance to speak to Steve or someone close to him.

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Signals From The Hill #37 – Warren Bernard on A City Inside

This month we talk to Warren Bernard, the Executive Director of SPX, all about the importance of that show and it’s related activities such as the Ignatz Awards, the Graphic Novel Gift Program and building the SPX Collection in the Library of Congress in Washington. We also talk about Warren’s appreciation of Tillie’s work and his role in the production of Alone In Space.

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Signals From The Hill #36 – Gina Gagliano On I Love This Part

This month we’re joined by Gina Gagliano, the Publishing Director of Random House Graphic and someone who worked in the Marketing department at First Second as Tillie Walden released books like Spinning and Are You Listening? with them. We talk to Gina about her discovering the work of Tillie Walden and Tillie’s development in her early books as well as Gina’s wider life and work in comics.

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Signals From The Hill #35 – Ricky Miller on The End of Summer

This month we talk to Ricky Miller all about how Tillie Walden came to work with Avery Hill Publishing and the impact of her debut book, The End of Summer, on the wider comics industry and the direction of Avery Hill as an ongoing concern.

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