That’s Association co-founder Mattt Konture giving me the finger at the Mercure Bar in Angoulême, sometime rather early sunday morning. For that and many more flix from the festival, check out the gallery here. Check my full coverage of the festival over at The Comics Journal, and if you read Danish be sure to stop…
The first half interview I conducted in front of a live audience with master cartoonist Chris Ware at Komiks.dk last May is now up in transcribed form on The Comics Journal; Part 1, part 2. I’m grateful to Henry Sørensen for transcribing the interview.
Just like last year, I’ve been covering this years international comics festival in Angoulême for The Comics Journal, explaining the lull in posts in this space. Check out my reports here, and stay tuned for more in the coming week.
“The tragedy of the Euromess is that the creation of the euro was supposed to be the finest moment in a grand and noble undertaking: the generations-long effort to bring peace, democracy and shared prosperity to a once and frequently war-torn continent. But the architects of the euro, caught up in their project’s sweep and…
“…no artist likes to be exploited, precisely because our work is precious to us in ways more important than money, and we want that relationship we have with our work to be respected. Unfortunately, we live in an economy where money is the most obvious measure of value, and so it’s easy to end up…
Today sees the release of a major new Danish graphic novel — Rikke Bakman’s autobiographical Glimt (“Shimmer” or ‘”Flashes”), an account of a childhood summer at the Danish west coast. Both funny, touching and slightly disturbing, it evokes childhood experience better than just about anything I’ve read in recent memory, and it’s beautifully rendered in…
The picks of the week from around the web. It’s been a busy few weeks here, plus we’ve been on a short holiday, so I ain’t got much, except for this clip above, of Danish Minister for Health, Bertel Haarder, losing it Thick of It-style on a journalist Friday night (full interview here). It’s a…
“In fact, we believe it is the most closed societies that have the most reform potential. The Chinese case is quite interesting. Aspects of the Chinese government, Chinese Public Security Service, appear to be terrified of free speech, and while one might say that means something awful is happening in the country, I actually think…
Til denne uges Weekendavis har jeg bidraget med en artikel om Cézanne i anledning af den udsøgte lille udstilling, der pt. er at se på The Courtauld Gallery i London. Giv begge dele et kig, om muligt! Paul Cézanne, Kortspillere, c. 1890-92, olie på lærred, 65.4 x 81.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
“You’ve heard of Too Big to Fail — the foreclosure crisis is Too Big for Fraud. Think of the Bernie Madoff scam, only replicated tens of thousands of times over, infecting every corner of the financial universe. The underlying crime is so pervasive, we simply can’t admit to it — and so we are working…
Over at The Comics Journal, I now have a report from last weekend’s Helsinki Book Fair online, in which I do some half-baked theorising about the artistic successes of Finland’s comics scene. Hop to it! More photos from the fair and around Helsinki, including the show of contemporary Sotuh African art (featuring Bitterkomix) currently running…
The picks of the week from around the web. Transatlantica on comics. The latest issue of this online academic journal features a selection of articles on comics, many of them of high quality. Fabrice Neaud at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon, 2009. Great video in which the emperor of autobiographical cartooning talks about his work. Fine…
This week and next, we have a roundtable discussion on Charles Hatfield’s 2005 book Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature going over at Hooded Utilitarian. My post just went up and is the fifth in the series, following Noah Berlatsky, Robert Stanley Martin, Caroline Small, and Derik Badman (plus an interlude by Ng Suat Tong). Charles…
Så er det i aften at den store paneldebat om grænseoverskridende tegninger, arrangeret af Dansk Tegneserieråd, finder sted på Københavns Universitet. Tag derud eller følg det pr. livestream her. Det starter kl. 19.00. Derudover snakker Dansk Tegneserieråds formand, og ordstyrer ved debatten, Thomas Thorhauge, om emnet på P1 her til morgen kl. 6.40. Tegning af…
Primært til vore norske læsere: i denne uges udgave af Morgenbladet kan man finde min anmeldelse af den store Bronzino-udstilling i Firenze, som jeg besøgte for et par uger siden. Artiklen er endnu ikke tilgængelig online, men bliver det vanen tro på et tidspunkt. Køb og læs i mellemtiden avisen! Detalje fra Bronzinos Portræt af…