Friday this week finally sees the kickoff of what promises to be the best comics festival ever in Denmark. For the fourth time round, the Copenhagen comics biennial, Komiks.dk, offers a programme that seeks to span the breadth of the comics medium and features a fantastic lineup of international guests. In step with their mounting…
THORHAUGE HER: ENDELIG! Chris Wares hovedværk, Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth, er nu udkommet på dansk, i en toptilrettelagt udgave på Aben maler. Det er selveste signaturværket i bølgen af nye tegneserier fra de sidste 15 år, et fuldblods mesterværk i alle henseender. Jeg har skrevet og talt om den bog en million…
The great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) died yesterday at the age of 82. Surely the most influential artists within his genre and a significant comics illustrator and cartoonist too, his legacy is apparent everywhere. Basically, fantasy illustration as we know it would be much different if it weren’t for him. His pen and ink…
Today I’ve posted my inaugural column–dubbed DWYCK in memory of Guru–over at Hooded Utilitarian, one of the liveliest and highest-falutin’ spots in the comics blogosphere. I’m honoured to be part of the team there, and excited about now being able to express my disagreements with everyone there from the inside, instead of just their bustling…
“It’s mostly the voice, that gets you up/ And mostly the voice, that makes you buck/ Some got flavor, and some got skills/ But if your voice ain’t dope, then you gots to CHILL” —“Mostly tha Voice” (1994) The recent passing of Keith Elam, a.k.a. The Guru (1961-2010 RIP), reminds us of an era in…
So, I spent the weekend at the Fumetto festival in Switzerland. Check out my report over at The Comics Journal.
Check out Frederik Høyer-Christensen’s great photos from the recent comics and beats event in Copenhagen, which featured Ron Regé, Jr., Rasmus Bregnhøi and Christian Skovgaard, with DJ M. Dejean on the 1’s and 2’s and Thomas Thorhauge on the mic. There was even a guest appearance by Thomas Christoffersen, as seen in the set above.…
The notable comics writer and editor Bill Dubay passed away a few days ago, and I just wanted to note it. I’ve enjoyed a good number of his stories for the Warren magazines and even wrote at length about one of them when I was older and more sentimental. It can be found here. Tom…
As announced on the Comics Council webpage, the great American cartoonist Ron Regé, Jr. will visit Copenhagen this week, and participate in no less than two Council-organised events. On Tuesday 27 he will give a presentation of his work and talk to Christoffer Zieler in the bar of the Department of Art and Cultural Studies…
The programme for the international comics symposium that I’m co-organising at the University of Copenhagen in connection with the comics festival Komiks.dk, is now ready. The symposium presents papers from 12 international comics scholars on a diverse range of subjects in contemporary comics, features a keynote from Canadian scholar Jacques Samson, and a special appearance…
As you might be aware, legendary impresario and cultural activist Malcolm Mclaren passed away about a week and a half ago. It’s a little late, but I wanted to add my own little tribute here, because besides his cred as the Man at the Crossroads of punk, he had a brief but fruitful involvement with…
As mentioned earlier in this space, it is really sad that Fabrice Neaud’s comics have failed to generate translations. Now, however, publisher Ego comme X and Travis Leland-Maplesden present an online translation into English of the short story “Émile”, which was first published in the anthology Ego comme X #7 (2000) and is also available…
With combined holidays and work backlog, blogging is still on partial hold here, but normal service will return soon enough. In the meantime, I’d like to take a moment to plug another event in which I’m participating later this month, the conference Laughing at Art: The Study of Humour in the Visual Arts at Pembroke…
Last night saw the first iteration of Comics and Beats in Copenhagen. Presented by the Danish Comics Council in collaboration with the venue, Vega, it united cartoonists Rikke Villadsen, Philip Ytournel and Christoffer Zieler in front of a live audience, drawing to the tunes selected by DJ M. Dejean. The event was very well attended…
Danish quality comics publisher Steffen P. Maarup has ripped off borrowed the inspired concept of pitting cartoonists against each other on paper from French cartooning duo Ruppert/Mulot, and the results promise to be pretty hilarious. Check in here — a new battle will be posted every Friday until we have a Danish champion! First up…