The picks of the week from around the web. The New York Times: Frank Rich turns in a brilliant column on the perceived constituency and chances of election of John McCain in this autumn’s presidential election. As usual, a thought-provoking corrective to the steady media drone about the Democratic primaries. More on the 50’s comics…
Lest you’d missed it, it is festival season. So here’s another round of hype. This time for the newly initiated Oslo Comix Expo, which was held for the first time last year. It was a considerable success — a really pleasant and unpretentious, but still ambitious and well-organised little festival (read more here and here).…
Stripdagen in Haarlem has long been known as one of the best small comics festivals in Europe, consistently offering quality programming and notable international guests. This year’s festival, which runs from June 6-8, looks to be no different, with a group exhibition of artists from the collectives FRMK, La Cinquiène couche and La Mycose being…
Matthias Wivels og overtegnedes indlæg i Strip!, Danmark hægtet af, har afstedkommet endnu en reaktion (som efterfølgende besvares behørigt af yours truly) – denne gang fra Komiks.dk’s formand Mads Bluhm, der skriver: Vi har fra Komiks.dks side fulgt den omfattende debat, som er opblomstret på henholdsvis metabunker.dk og Seriejournalen.dk som følge af en række artikler…
Between May 31st and June 1st, the third installment of the International Danish Comics Festival, Komiks.dk, will take place in Copenhagen. Its programme is broad and truly international in scope, with guests ranging from the French veterans Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières (Valerian) and a couple of the more interesting names in American mainstream comics,…
Henrik Rehr har sendt mig denne meddelelse om et af de nye, konstruktive tiltag på den kommende danske tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk, om hvilken der kommer mere senere: Få en professionel vurdering af dine evner som tegneserietegner! En lang række af Danmarks førende udgivere og udførende inden for tegneseriemediet, står parat til at give DIG et ord…
The picks of the week from around the web. Q & A with David Barstow. The journalist behind this week’s contender for the Pulitzer answers FAQs about his piece on the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign at the major American networks. Bart Beaty on David Hajdu on Frederic Wertham (parts one, two, three). The discussion of the…
Warren Craghead, one of the most interesting and innovative cartoonists working the boundaries of the medium today, has just released an “origami comic” to his website for free! Go, download the PDF, print it, and fold along the dotted lines. And while you’re at it, go check out these postcards by him. What, exactly, are…
Finally, the stupid-ass lawsuit against comics retailer Gordon Lee, for having available a free comic in which Picasso’s limp dong is shown for two and a half panels in a completely non-sexual situation where a kid could pick it up (oh, the horror!), has been finally and conclusively dismissed. Shame on whichever idiot “concerned parent”…
The picks of the week from around the web. Winsor McCay’s 1911 Little Nemo cartoon (above). For no other reason that it’s bloody awesome. McCay’s all the rage again, here’s a good article by Jeet Heer. Great DJ Shadow breaks mix. Kinda the Cliff’s notes to a bunch of Shadow classics, but first and foremost…
Hermed videregives besked fra det danske konsulat i New York vedrørende årets MoCCA-festival. Sidste år var Danmark velrepræsenteret — er I på igen i år? Kære danske tegneseriefolk Tak for jeres deltagelse i Mocca 2007. Vi har fået mulighed for i alt 8 nordiske borde endnu et år og ved godt at det er en…
The picks of the week from around the web. Been busy this week, so not much of a selection this time around. However check these out: Get your Rusty Brown on with the Legion of Lego Superheroes (above). How many of them do you recognize, without looking at the Cliff’s notes? The Comic Book scare…
Man må sige, at vores bette debatindlæg i seneste nummer af Strip! har været en succes, i hvert fald i forhold til Danmarks største (og eneste) tegneserieportal. Det har tydeligvis ført til både selvransagelse, nye initiativer og så selvfølgelig de sædvanlige automatreaktioner fra visses hold. Det er til sidstnævnte jeg her lige ville knytte en…
The picks of the week from around the web. The clip above and this one are pretty neat examples of ingenuous street art, I must say. Delightful. (Thanks, Eddie Campbell). Otherwise: Lots of great comics links this week! CBR — Steve Grant on the Superman ruling. The best summary article and analysis so far on…
OK, so it’s been a couple of days since comicbook journeyman Jim Mooney passed away, but he still deserves his props from the Bunker. Incredibly prolific and surprisingly versatile, he gave a lot of mediocre books a touch of elegance, and contributed substantially to some quality ones, such as Omega the Unknown (pictured). Mark Evanier’s…