By Andrew Firestone A great man once said, “It is no small thing to make a new world.” And he’s only really half-right. It is a rather small thing to make a new world in one’s head. It is an entirely larger accomplishment if one delivers on the artistic and philosophical promise of this new…
The past week-and-a-half or so has seen David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp debated and dissected over at the Hooded Utilitarian, with discussions shooting off in a multitude of directions, amongst them the words-image binary in comics and the potential of comics as literature and the development of comics through modernism to the present day. Today I’ve…
“It’s pretty well understood amongst the crew who’s in charge,” …[Kuchta] said. “How do they know that?” a Coast Guard investigator asked. “I guess, I don’t know […] But it’s pretty well — everyone knows.” — Captain Curt R. Kuchta of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig The weekly linkage is back! Which I guess means…
Så er MC Cav Bøgelund på banen med det første indslag i en serie, der bliver åbningen af det spritnye danske tegneseriesite Nummer9.dks web-TV-kanal. Cav og Tue Søttrup trawlede festivalen på såvel åbningsaftenen som i løbet af lørdagen og fik en del interviews i kassen. Hold øje med Nummer9.dk de næste dage og uger, og…
If you’re in Copenhagen and looking for a way to kick off the night, Gallery V1 opens no less than three exhibitions at once! Some fine artists in there, so do consider it More info here, and these are the invites:
Regular readers might be aware that I was recently involved in the planning of an academic conference on comics at the University of Copenhagen. It was called Contemporary Comics and took place on Friday May 21st. It featured 12 international speakers, as well as the Canadian scholar Jacques Samson, who delivered the keynote address, and…
I spent this past weekend in Oslo, at the fine comics festival OCX. Here’s my report for The Comics Journal and here’s the one for Nr9 (in Danish). Photo of Jim Woodring and Bendik Kaltenborn at the festival. Check the Bunker’s photos here. Check also my report from OCX 2007.
My report from last weekend’s Komiks.dk festival in Copenhagen is now up at The Comics Journal. Also, check out Frederik Høyer-Christensen’s photos from the weekend here.
J.F. Willumsens Museum har netop udskrevet en stor og ambitiøs tegneseriekonkurrence, der søger en behandling af den danske kunstners liv og værk i tegneserieform. UPDATE: Museet har netop udskudt deadline til 31. december. Her er deres (let redigerede) pressemeddelelse: J.F. WILLUMSEN I STRIBEVIS: J. F. Willumsens Museum udskrev d. 22. maj 2010 på Komiks.dk en…
This year’s festival in Copenhagen promises to be the best yet. Friday night saw the launch party with the customary awards ceremony. As usual, most Danish comics people were there, providing the base of a fine crowd with many visitors from abroad: besides the two triumvirata — Burns, Clowes, Ware & Gibbons, O’Niell, Quitely —…
For better or worse. I’m not sure what, at the end of the day, this will do for the cause of reason and compassion in this matter, but a situation where drawing certain things will net you death threats and attempts on your life is simply unacceptable. Whatever the history of systemic injustices or problems…
If you’re looking for something do on Friday night to warm you up for the weekend’s Komiks.dk festival, you could do worse than dropping by Butik CMYK in Nørrebro for the opening of the exhibition Blæk og Blyant (‘ink and pencil’), featuring three illustrators: Nygårds Maria Bengtson, Majbrit Linnebjerg and Toril Bækmark (more here). Peter…
I dag blændes der op for et nyt dansk webmagasin om tegneserier, nummer9 — et bud på en bred men også kritisk dansk kilde til nyheder, kritik og journalistik fra tegneseriens verden. Initiativtagere en en bred vifte af folk fra det danske tegneseriemiljø, inklusive undertegnede. Chefredaktør er Erik Barkman. Han skriver følgende i sin velkomst:…
This wicked little film by Andreas Wykade sums up my state of mind this cartoon-crazed week pretty accurately. Sleep well…