By Matthias Wivel, Henry Sørensen & T. Thorhauge As per our Modus Operandi, we hereby bring you the Bunker’s selections of the best comics of 2007, more than four months into the new year, after everyone else has moved on. But we wouldn’t bother if we didn’t think our recommendations might be useful to comics…
The long-awaited Blade Runner — The Final Cut, which was released last autumn in a new transfer in digital format, is in many ways a model example of how to restore and update a classic film. It contains none of the ill-advised anachronisms seen in such projects as the remastered Star Wars movies, and neither…
“The strategic target remains our population… We can lose people day in and day out, but they’re never going to beat our military. What they can and will do if they can is strip away our support. And you guys can help us not let that happen.” — General Conway, Director of Operations for the…
One of the fifty vignettes in Roy Andersson’s new film, Du Levande — or You, the Living in English — takes place in a basement-level office of what looks like a small-time service-provider, run in the old school fashion, on coffee and danish with dirty shirtsleeves, junk in the corners. A portly man sits at…
So Charlton Heston died yesterday. A major figure in the 50s and 60s Hollywood blockbuster tradition, serving up some of the most bombastic and histrionic moments in American film. He deserves some kind of respect for that, even if his role in the powerful and destructive American gun lobby will forever tarnish his reputation in…
Saw Geert Wilders’ piece of hate-filled garbage yesterday, just before it got pulled from Liveleak. Pretending to merely be a critique of the Koran, this is straight-up racist hate speech, equating as it does the worst excesses of Islamist extremism with the over one million muslims currently living in Holland. Seriously, the animation in the…
This is great news. The heirs of Jerome Siegel (1914-1996) — who in 1938 created Superman along with artist Joseph Shuster (1914-1992) — have been granted the rights to the material published that year in Action Comics #1, the first appearance of the character, ie. the material they created free of any contract, before they…
In my post this morning, I made a comparison between the colouring of the Danish 1954 edition of the Barks classic “Vacation Time” and that of Egmont’s recently released version. I unfortunately didn’t have the scans of the same panels from both editions. I do now, and here they are for your perusal: 1954 2008…
It’s finally happening, it seems. A solicitation via Amazon.com last week revealed that, beginning this fall, Gemstone will be collecting and releasing the Duck comics of Carl Barks in their entirety in the original language! On paper, this is great news for Barks fans and lovers of great comics everywhere. For my money, these are…
As a little gesture to honor the creative work and vision of Anthony Minghella, whose untimely death last week marks a real and serious loss to the British film industry, I wanted to refer you to my favourite piece in his director’s oeuvre: Play, his unforgettable film version of the stage play by Beckett. The…
Den seneste udveksling mellem undertegnede og forskellige brugere på Seriejournalen fik mig til at spekulere lidt over dette, “Danmarks største” (og på sin vis eneste) tegneseriesite. Med genuin interesse for hvad det er, han har mellem hænderne, skrev en bruger: “Det er et fantastisk sted at være. Her har jeg lært mange rigtigt gode mennesker…
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…
Selvom man godt kunne være i tvivl, når man ser bladets business as usual-forside, markerer tegneserietidsskriftet Strip! med sit seneste nummer sit tiårsjubilæum. Det helt igennem uinspirerede layout, forside-interviewet med Joann Sfar, som sagtens kunne have ventet en postgang, og andet fyld bidrager desværre til at tilmudre en udgave af Strip! der på ganske sjælden…
The great exhibition of Titian’s late work shown this past autumn in Vienna has now moved to the Accademia in Venice in a rather amputated, but still beautiful incarnation. Worth seeing alone for the rare chance to see the KromerÃz Flaying of Marsyas and the Accademia’s own Pietà , which did not travel to Vienna, hung…
During Albrecht Dürer’s second stay in Venice, in 1506, he wrote back to his friend Willibald Pirckheimer in Nüremberg about his experiences in the Serenissima, amongst other things describing the artists at work there. Of the elderly but still very much active Giovanni Bellini, he wrote that he was still “der pest im Gemoll” —…