Daily Archives: 22 January 2010

Angoulême 2009: The Complete Metabunker Coverage

comics and cartooning, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel 22 January 2010

Since this year’s Angoulême festival is fast approaching and yours truly will be reporting from there at TCJ.com as well as here, where I’ll be joined by Thorhauge, I figured it was the time to collect last year’s coverage is one place, just to get everyone warmed up a little. So without further ado:

Jacques Martin RIP

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticismBy Matthias Wivel 22 January 2010

One of the grand old men of Franco-Belgian comics, Jacques Martin just died at age 88. One of Hergé’s most important assistants through the 1950s and 60s (notably on the South Sea Sharks and Tintin in Tibet) and one of the pillars of Tintin Magazine, he acrimoniously struck out on his own in 1972 to…