Since this year’s Angoulême festival is fast approaching and yours truly will be reporting from there at TCJ.com as well as here, where I’ll be joined by Thorhauge, I figured it was the time to collect last year’s coverage is one place, just to get everyone warmed up a little. So without further ado:
One of the grand old men of Franco-Belgian comics, Jacques Martin just died at age 88. One of Hergé’s most important assistants through the 1950s and 60s (notably on the South Sea Sharks and Tintin in Tibet) and one of the pillars of Tintin Magazine, he acrimoniously struck out on his own in 1972 to…
“one reason there are so many dead in Haiti is that agriculture in the countryside was no longer providing a livelihood for Haitian peasants; they moved in the thousands to the capital, they built shanties on the sides of canyons; all gone now. I won’t go over the arguments against globalization for countries like Haiti…
As the more assiduous comics internauts will already have noticed, I took part in the recent selection of the year’s best comics criticism hosted at The Hooded Utilitarian. Run by Ng Suat Tong, it was put together by a panel that also included head utilitarian Noah Berlatsky, cartoonist and commentator Frank Santoro, and the critic…
Just like Yale University Press’ disgraceful censorship of Jytte Klausen’s book on the Muhammed cartoons, it seems the august Metropolitan Museum in New York is set to muddy the waters of history by pulling from their display ancient images of the prophet, made by Muslims and considering not putting them back on display once the…
Forlaget Fahrenheit udgiver i morgen den første manga for voksne på dansk, Jiro Taniguchis Min fjerne barndomsby. Det fejres med en reception i Thimers Magasin, Tullinsgade 24, København, kl. 16.30-18.00. Oversætter Mette Holm vil sige et par ord om arbejdet med oversættelsen og forlægger Paw Mathiasen om selve udgivelsen af en japansk tegneserie. Mød op…
For this year’s wrap-up season, Paul Gravett repeats last year’s great idea of asking comics connoisseurs and professionals all over the world to write a few words on the year’s most notable comics from their respective country. He graciously asked me to talk about the best in Danish comics, so my selections appear in part…
All right, now my Continental Drift column on Moebius’ Hermetic Garage is back up over at the new TCJ.com. Above is an image which I talk about in the essay, but which for some reason did not make it into the printed version in The Comics Journal #300. I’ll do my best to actually post…
I just briefly wanted to pay homage to the recently passed master cartoonist. Possibly the most recognisable caricaturist of the past 40 years, Levine has come almost to incarnate the discipline, especially with his withering cartoons of the main players in the Nixon administration and of other unsavoury world leaders of that era. Contrary to…
I didn’t take long for the New Year’s first piece of crap news to arrive here. Some idiot broke into the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard wielding an axe, evidently in “retaliation” for the latter’s cartoon of the prophet Muhammed. The cartoonist saved himself by fleeing to the house’s panic room. His grandchild was…
Ovre på Dansk Tegneserieråds hjemmeside ligger der nu en tekst forfattet af Thorhauge og jeg selv, hvor vi lægger nogle af tankerne bag rådets dannelse og ambitionerne med samme for dagen i letlæselig, agitatorisk form. Check det ud.
A couple of months ago I wrote here of the Women in Comics conference in Cambridge and mentioned that sound files of the papers would at some point be put online. Well, it has now happened, apparently with more to come. I recommend jumping straight to Dominique Goblet’s talk, which was both intense and compelling.
Yes, the big event of the week for many is of course the Climate Conference in Copenhagen and the Bunker’s there in the form of Thomas Thorhauge, who is working with the grassroots visual communications group Biggerpicture to convey the aspirations of the World Wildlife Fund at the conference. He is part of a handful…
Så er der udstilling! Det foregår i CMYKkælderen, Jægersborggade 51, kld., 2200 Kbh N, hvor der på torsdag d. 10 bliver blændet op for værker bedrevet af tegnestuen Over Flodens faste og løse medlemmer. Fernisering samme dag kl. 17.00 med live-musik – Thulebasen! – samt øl og vin. Alle, der har tid og lyst er…