On 11 February the striking employees of seminal French comics publisher l’Association announced that they were lifting the strike that they had been conducting since 10 January. They are satisfied that efforts at mediation between them and directorial have led to the decision to hold a general assembly on 5 March where the problems plaguing…
Big changes coming at The Comics Journal — if the rumors are true, we’re going to see an amalgamation of that fine group blog ComicsComics and the venerable but these days somewhat faltering beast. The site has long needed an overhaul, both in terms of design and editorial direction, so I’m looking forward to what’s…
The week before last, I went to the grand Moebius retrospective at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. I’ve written a review of the exhibition for The Comics Journal. Check it out.
“We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we’ve treated the Arab world as just an oil field.” — Nicholas Kristof The picks of the week from around the web. Good commentary on Egypt…
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.
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. It has now been over a decade since Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Kid on Earth was published…
Once again, international gentleman Paul Gravett has asked a bunch of international critics and writers about comics to talk a little about the comics of the year from their respective countries. I participated along with representatives from Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and Sweden, offering a selection of what I think are the best Danish…
While my attempts to reach the involved parties hasn’t met with much success, a little more information on the Association strike has trickled onto the web, including a press release by the staff, stating in a little more detail their motivations and grievances. It was sent out on 14 January week ago and runs like…
“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…
It seems there’s an employee strike at the seminal French comics publisher l’Association. Emails sent to them are met with an auto-response with the following wording: “Nous, salariés de L’Association, décidons de nous mettre en grève et d’occuper les locaux à partir de ce lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 13h00, et ce pour une durée…
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. By Andreas Gregersen Daniel Clowes hardly needs introduction. Best known for the comic and film Ghost World (1997 and 2000)…
“…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…
Since I’ve been fairly engaged in the sad fortune of the Disney comics of Carl Barks (1901-2000) in reprint, I figured I would comment briefly on the recent announcement by Fantagraphics that they will be helming a complete edition, starting this fall. Already publishing the reprint editions of The Complete Peanuts, Krazy & Ignatz, Popeye,…