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…
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…
The week before last, I posted a link to Morten Søndergård’s article on the first Spider-Man stories and Jack Kirby’s possible involvement in them on the Comics Journal messageboard. This sparked an interesting debate about the validity of Morten’s hypothesis, involving some of the foremost specialists on Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and early Marvel. I…
Pepo has responded to my comments on his description of the visual qualities of Christophe Blain’s comics a couple of days ago. He emphasizes that, in comparing Blain with McCay and Herriman, he is not making a straight comparison of quality, but one of kinship. I got that the first time. He goes on to…
All right, so I’m in Italy and haven’t posted anything for a while. Lots of stuff coming up. In the meantime, Pepo Mhas posted a link to an interview with Christophe Blain over on his excellent blog Con C de Arte (bookmark now!), where he takes the opportunity to comment again on my stated opinion…
Noah Berlatsky has ignited an interesting discussion on the state of contemporary ‘alternative’ American comics with a typically harsh blanket assessment of the state of the art form in America. Tim Hodler responds, Berlatsky answers and clarifies, while Eric Reynolds and others make interesting points in his comments section. Oh, and Hodler re-responds. I don’t…
Danish journalist Thomas Berger was in Venice for the screening of Blade Runner – The Final Cut. In response to my speculation on the film (here, and here), he writes: I was there and saw the film… The changes aren’t major… Yes, a few spinners have been added and the lighting has been adjusted in…
Tom Spurgeon has responded to my rodomontade on the Yellow Kid from yesterday. He writes: “I’m not all that convinced by Wivel’s restatement, and I find a lot of his rhetoric slippery. For one, I very obviously didn’t show in my original argument that Gary Groth is ignorant of 19th Century comics-making in favor of…
Yesterday, Tom Spurgeon commented briefly on the statement in the opening paragraph of my review of David Kunzle’s Töpffer monograph that the latter “deserves a large part of the credit for debunking the myth of the Yellow Kid as the point of origin, and bringing the history of modern comics before Hogan’s Alley to light…
Ovre på Seriejournalen kommenterer Hans Müller, tegneren bag en af de vindende striber i Berlingskes tegneseriekonkurrence, Bladtegner.dk, min kritik: “Wivel, hvad mener du med “det meget begrænsede eksempelmateriale der er tilgængeligt”…? Du henviser til de 4 eksempler der i sin tid blev lagt på Berlingske.dk, antager jeg. Har du overhovedet ulejliget dig med at læse…
Oven på mit seneste indlæg om dansk fankultur, har det rumsteret lidt ovre i kaffeklubben. Jeg har nogle korte kommentarer: 1. Selvom diskussionen derovre har involveret folk, der er professionelle serietegnere, gør det dem ikke mindre fan-agtige når de diskuterer tegneseriedefinitioner, eller så meget andet. Hvilket er fint nok; det var ikke det min kritik…
Ahem, I was a little fast in my last post about the local Spider-Man 3 poster and didn’t think to actually doublecheck whether any spiders are capable of leaping great distances. Immediately caught in the act of being generally sloppy, I received this email from fellow Danish comics, and Spider-Man enthusiast, Thomas Stærmose: “There are…
Oh, yeah, it ain’t over muthafuckas! Pepo and the Con C de Arte crew are back with more commentary on the state of French nigh-mainstream comics.
No, I’m not continuing my diatribe against all those talented, boring French cartoonists here. Just wanted to note that the inimitable Bart Beaty touches upon the issue in his review of Christophe Blain’s Gus over at Comics Reporter. Go, read. Tangentially related: the press kit strip by Joann Sfar Thomas mentions in his Persepolis-at-Cannes post…
The discussion on French nigh-mainstream comics continues! (scroll to the bottom for full linkage). Alex Holden, who chimed in earlier, returns with more comments: Hi Again Matthias- I have still been thinking about this discussion a bit. I can’t agree with your statements that Blutch (in particular) is not interested in exploration, since he has…