The Komiks.dk Awards 2008
The Komiks.dk awards were given out tonight at the official launch of Copenhagen’s international comics festival. They’re already up on the official site, with short motivations. Here’s the list:
The Metabunker Crew at Komiks.dk
I case you missed it, this weekend the international comics festival Komiks.dk will be held in Vanløse, Copenhagen. The Bunker gang will be there, involved in a number of activities, starting tonight with the Award Ceremony. Here are the events we’re involved in, as well as a number of other activities we recommend you take…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Danish TV2: Interview with Gregorius Nekschot (above). Check out this interview of February 28th with the cartoonist recently targeted by the Dutch police. It’s in Danish and Dutch, with subtitles, but no English, unfortunately. Still, worth a view. Information. For our Danish readers, here’s a good…
Hype: Blodets Konkubine & Sekvens
As mentioned before, this weekend sees the International Comics Festival in Copenhagen, Komiks.dk, going down. And of course there are auxillary events. On Saturday, the release party for Palle Schmidt’s new crime comic Blodets Konkubine and the opening of the exhibition Sekvens, which shows original works by the cartoonists mentioned on the flyer above, will…
Hype: 676 part II
Aben Malers nye kollektion af minitegneserier – de såkaldte 676’ere – er landet, og de er fyldt med overskud og virtuositet! For kun 35 kr. kan enten Mårdøn Smets Lazarus, Signe Parkins Bordskik, Peter Adolphsen/Zven Balslevs Duerne flyver højt over byen, Christopher Zielers Pigen og Katten samt Johan F. Krarups Pibemanden blive din. De er…
Cartoon Bombing
Following the arrest of Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot last week, it has become publicised that the Dutch Secret Service apparently has a division dedicated to checking all cartoons being published in the country for potentially offensive content. Whatever you may think of Nekschot’s racist junk, that should be cause for concern. And indeed, Dutch cartoonist…
Hype: Simon Bukhave
This Friday will see the opening of Boy Wonder Simon Bukhave’s first solo exhibition. If you’re in Copenhagen (perhaps attending the Grand comics festival, Komiks.dk), go check it out. Simon has produced a couple of new, gorgeous drawings (see above) : and everything is for sale! Go, watch! Go buy! (In fact, just send him…
Tegneseriemarkedet: Enter Cobolt!
Forleden blev sløret løftet for det nye forlag, der fremover skal varetage forlaget Carlsens tegneserietitler – som følge af den lange, indviklede og noget uforståelige juridiske proces, der fulgte i kølvandet på Egmonts opkøb af Bonniers forlagsdivision. Groft forenklet brød EUs konkurrencemyndigheder sig ikke om den nye mastodont, og betingede en godkendelse af overtagelsen med…
Sidney Pollack RIP
One of Hollywood’s elder statesmen, the director, actor and producer Sidney Pollack has died. He was one of Tinseltown’s consummate craftsmen, never flashy but always solid — a comfortable presence in American mainstream cinema that, much like his contemporary Sidney Lumet, never lost sight of quality and subtle auteurial voice. From the caustically satirical They…
Camu Tao RIP
Columbus, Ohio-based MC Tero Smith, alias Camu Tao, has passed away after a three-year battle with lung cancer, reports his long-time collaborator El-P of Definitive Jux Records. In his press release, he writes: “To those who knew Tero, he was an almost uncategorizable force of nature. Wild, hilarious, proud, loving, tough, outspoken, spontaneous and brilliant.…
Bringing It All Back Home
Public Enemy brought it all back home Friday night. Performing, for the first time ever, their classic album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) in its entirety, they returned to a defining moment in modern music history and consolidated their status as perhaps the greatest hip hop group ever. Though…
Picks of the Week
So why it is such an upsetting photograph is not just because we see someone smiling in the context of the horrible, but that when we look at her, we begin to have to resist smiling ourselves. So it’s a terrible, terrible picture for that reason alone. — Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at…
Shot in the Head II
OK, since yesterday I’ve been looking over some more of this Gregorius Nekschot’s work and let’s just say that I’m not interested in reproducing any of it here. I may be missing some kind of mitigating knowledge of context, but have a hard time seeing how his work is different from this, this, or this…
At Nightfall
There is a distinct sense of hesitation to the work of the Italian Renaissance painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547). In spite of a high level of craft and an acute visual sensibility, many of his pictures are characterised by a searching insecurity, which also seems reflected in his notoriously low rate of productivity. According to…
Shot in the Head
The arrest and 30-hour detainment of Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot and the seizure of his property by police at the end of last week is disturbing news. The arrest was part of an investigation into alleged spreading of hate-speech in his cartoons and political commentary, based on a complaint made by a Dutch imam in…