Hype: Loka?World
Loka? the best kept secret of Danish graphics — and the designer of the Metabunker logo (above) — is still online and is now blogging. Go check out his work.
Dave Stevens RIP
Obituary by Mark Evanier. Also, check out this 2001 Comic Book Artist interview. Drawing of Wonder Woman by Stevens, culled from here.
Ceci n’est pas dansk tegneseriekultur
Metabunkerens Afdeling for Moderne Kunstâ„¢ er stolt af at være først med afsløringen af nedenstående kunstværk. Der er tale om et stykke konceptkunst – en let bearbejdet ready-made: citatet stammer fra en diskussion på Danmarks største tegneserierelaterede site, seriejournalen.dk. Værket – “Ceci n’est pas dansk tegneseriekultur” er en både kompleks, subtil og tankevækkende afsøgning af…
Picks of the Week
“The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle,…
Hype: Smittekilde 10 Years
I’m in Venice at the moment and have no steady internet connection, and am thus not able to do much here on the blog. But I’d like to take the time out to advertise this: the 10-year anniversary of Zven Balslev’s quality art zine/publication, and now art publisher and record label, Smittekilde! Congrats! If you…
One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest — Comics Between Old and New
This essay was originally published in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Comix — on the contemporary intersections between comics and the fine arts — at Brandts klædefabrik, Odense (Sep. 22 2007 — Jan 6 2008). Now that the exhibition is over, it is presented here in a slightly edited version. The catalogue is available in…
Here Are the So-Called “Hitler Cartoons”
Roald Bergman has dug up images of the Disney cartoons recently “found” in Norway, which the “discoverer” claims were drawn by Hitler. And if you believe that, I have this nice bridge to sell you.
Hype: Töpffer and the Word/Image Problem
More good stuff going down the weekend of the 8. This is in New York and looks like a must. Do go. Want to know more about Töpffer? Read the Bunker’s introduction here, and the review of David Kunzle’s recent monograph on the cartoonist here.
Picks of the Week
We MUST make this work. We MUST have a kind of integration where we can be both Christian and Muslim and live next door to each other. But we need unequivocal support for democracy. For our basic rights. For the equality of the sexes. And this applies to everyone in this country. — Villy Søvndal,…
The Twin-Faced Gatekeeper
Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure, out this week, reconstructs the last FF story by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, never published in its original form, but chopped up and combined with artwork by Johns Buscema and Romita in FF #108, which went on sale the same month as Jack Kirby debuted for his new publisher,…
Hype: BilBolBul
The great folks from Hamelin and Canicola are, once again, organising a quality comics festival in Bologna la grassa! It looks great; If my travel planner for Italy that weekend wasn’t already booked in another city, I’d be very tempted!
Denmark on Fire
[PICTURE REMOVED] As a person living in Nørrebro, the Copenhagen neighbourhood where Ungdomshuset used to be, I’ve witnessed quite a lot in recent years. During the battle over “Ungdomshuset”, when anarchists and other pale kids dressed in black defended their base against the radical Christian community, “Faderhuset” (“Father’s House”), by fighting the police, lots of…
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The danger arises not only when there is an assumption on the religious side that membership of the community (belonging to the umma or the Church or whatever) is the only significant category, so that participation in other kinds of socio-political arrangement is a kind of betrayal. It also occurs when secular government assumes a…
Cartoon Crisis: Murder Plot Against Danish Cartoonist
This morning, three people with Muslim background were arrested by Danish Police, suspected of conspiring to kill Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists that portrayed the prophet Mohammed in Danish paper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Among the suspects are both Danish as well as non-Danish citizens. The group has been under surveillance by…
Steve Gerber 1947-2008
Mainstream comics auteur Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck and Omega the Unknown, passed away Sunday night. Tom Spurgeon has as fine an obituary as you’re going to find up, providing an appreciation of key works and a career overview. Mark Evanier delivers the more personal perspective and friends and fans congregate at Gerber’s…