Vi har netop erfaret, at Dan Denholt — kendt i danske tegneseriekredse for sit store arbejde for tegneseriefestivalen Komiks.dk — er afgået ved døden efter længere tids sygdom. Han blev 31 år. Vi i Bunkeren sender hans familie og venner alle de bedste tanker.
Saw Geert Wilders’ piece of hate-filled garbage yesterday, just before it got pulled from Liveleak. Pretending to merely be a critique of the Koran, this is straight-up racist hate speech, equating as it does the worst excesses of Islamist extremism with the over one million muslims currently living in Holland. Seriously, the animation in the…
This is great news. The heirs of Jerome Siegel (1914-1996) — who in 1938 created Superman along with artist Joseph Shuster (1914-1992) — have been granted the rights to the material published that year in Action Comics #1, the first appearance of the character, ie. the material they created free of any contract, before they…
In my post this morning, I made a comparison between the colouring of the Danish 1954 edition of the Barks classic “Vacation Time” and that of Egmont’s recently released version. I unfortunately didn’t have the scans of the same panels from both editions. I do now, and here they are for your perusal: 1954 2008…
It’s finally happening, it seems. A solicitation via Amazon.com last week revealed that, beginning this fall, Gemstone will be collecting and releasing the Duck comics of Carl Barks in their entirety in the original language! On paper, this is great news for Barks fans and lovers of great comics everywhere. For my money, these are…
The picks of the week from around the web. Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers. Cool Swedish short. Tom Breihan: In Defense of Li’l Wayne’s “Lollypop.” This is a pretty impressive feat of criticism; writing substantially about a song that has nothing in it — no hook, trite sexual analogy, lots of synth/vocoder: unabashed…
Den fantastiske diskussion ovre på Seriejournalen har ikke blot affødt mangent et viist indlæg, men nu også nye danske tegneserier! Henrik Rehr gør os alle stolte. 😀
Her på Metabunkeren er vi glade for al den debat, som vort ydmyge indlæg i Strip! har afstedkommet på tegneseriesitet Seriejournalen.dk, og godt nok er vi lykkeligt fri for at administrere et forum, men ikke desto mindre bringer vi kun gerne læsernes kommentarer. Og en sådan har vi modtaget fra Allan Haverholm, manden bag Sortmund…
CelebriDays On the transformation of Beckett’s Happy Days into a kind of star vehicle (Deborah Warner/Fiona Shaw, National Theatre, Spring 2007).
As a little gesture to honor the creative work and vision of Anthony Minghella, whose untimely death last week marks a real and serious loss to the British film industry, I wanted to refer you to my favourite piece in his director’s oeuvre: Play, his unforgettable film version of the stage play by Beckett. The…
Raymond Leblanc just died at the age of 92. Through a long life, he was Tintin creator Hergé’s prime enabler. The two co-founded the Tintin magazine in 1946. A war hero, Leblanc helped Hergé emerge from the blacklisting he was suffering under because of his collaboration during the German occupation of Belgium. He also provided…
Fra Fyns Stiftstidende i forgårs. (Tak til Chewie.)
Den seneste udveksling mellem undertegnede og forskellige brugere på Seriejournalen fik mig til at spekulere lidt over dette, “Danmarks største” (og på sin vis eneste) tegneseriesite. Med genuin interesse for hvad det er, han har mellem hænderne, skrev en bruger: “Det er et fantastisk sted at være. Her har jeg lært mange rigtigt gode mennesker…
Mit og T. Thorhauges (ja, drenge, det stod der sort på hvidt) indlæg om den danske tegneseriekultur fra det nye Strip! (ja, drenge, det er lavet til bladet, ikke til Bunkeren) har sat en debat igang på Seriejournalen, der nu er oppe på flere sider. Henrik Rehr gjorde mig opmærksom på dette, da han sendte…