I have a perfect memory of sitting in my tiny New York room in the winter of 2003 overlooking a snow-covered Sakura Park, reading Krazy Kat, a cup of steaming coffee at my side. This memory now prompts a quiet, heartfelt “Thank you, Bill.” For those of you who read Danish, here’s my obituary at…
So, still reeling a bit from the move and all the new stuff that’s happening elsewhere, but I did get the time to drop in for the MoCCA Arts Festival at the Armory last Saturday. I particularly enjoyed it as an opportunity immediately to get acquainted with the New York comics scene and meet in…
I conducted an interview with the great Fabrice Neaud back in 2009, on the occasion of the publication of his ‘augmented’ version of his masterpiece Journal III. A candid conversation on art, life and the risks incurred in their intersection. It’s now up over at The Comics Journal.
The picks of the week from around the web. A bunch of quick comics links this week. Tom Spurgeon on Chester Brown’s Paying for It. D&Q only brought 25 copies of Brown’s long-awaited new book to MoCCA, so it was sold out before I arrived, but I got a chance to leaf through. Looks amazing.…
Goodbye to a master craftsman with several discrete classics to his name. Also, while I’m at it, I missed marking the passing of Elizabeth Taylor here — she was great.
I’m sorry that it’s been a while since I’ve posted much of anything here. Emigrating to the States has taken some effort and time. I’m now living in New York, working an honest-to-God jacket-and-tie job for the first time since forever. It’s pretty great, actually. An opportunity to offset all those years spent in the…