Daily Archives: 9 May 2011

Comics of the Decade: Dominique Goblet’s Faire semblant c’est mentir

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticismBy Matthias Wivel 9 May 2011

This is part of a Metabunker series celebrating a great decade in comics with Rackham by reprinting select reviews of the decades’ best comics from the Rackham archive, along with a number of new pieces. Dominique Goblet depicts her father as a late medieval Madonna, nurturing his child, right hand in blessing. Drawn on disparate,…

Picks of the Week

commentary and criticism, current affairs, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel 9 May 2011

What a strange week. Osama bin Laden’s assassination provoked a surprising range of reactions, not the least in thus country. Understandably cathartic for many, it raised the question of how one expresses such feelings. No matter how well I understood the widespread triumphant reactions and the connotations of righteous revenge expressed in many places, for…