Fredag d. 27, i morgen, holder galleriet Rumkammerat reception på en udstilling af en af dansk tegneseries mere idiosynkratiske og originale kunstnere, Paul Arne Krings originaler fra den nys udsendte Weneethryl år 25.060 (Forlaget Forlæns). Uden tvivl årets mest uventede og skæve udgivelse — Kring har ikke lavet tegneserier i snart mange, mange år, men…
Here’s a tiny bulletin to those of our readers who are able to watch public Swedish television: consider watching Moebius Redux tonight on SV2. It’s a rather new documentary by Hasko Baumann, starring Stan Lee, Jodorowsky, Mike Mignola, H. R. Giger, Bilal, Jim Lee and others. It starts at 20.00. Art: Moebius, from Le Garage…
The Danish bluegrass band Big Hungry Joe — amongst whose members you find cartoonists Jesper Deleuran and Tobias Enevoldsen — have just dropped their first album: Hillbilly Hayride! Listen to some of the new tunes and order the record here. Also, check out their MySpace and their official webpage. Oh, they’re apparently on iTunes too……
The picks of the week from around the web. Uncut.com: Keith Shocklee. Following up from our recent write-up of Public Enemy’s 20th Anniversary performance of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back in London, here’s a fine, recent interview with Bomb Squad founding member and beatmaker extraordinaire Keith Shocklee: part one, part…
Check out this massive roots, ska, rocksteady, calypso, reggae and dub haven. It is a fantastic resource for anyone even remotely interested in these genres, and in good music in general. One Love spread through the internet. Biggup! This has been your pick of the week. Highest recommendation.
Being Frank is a new, English-produced documentary on the former Danish intelligence agent and whistle blower Frank Grevil, who in 2004 informed the press that there was no reliable intelligence to support the Danish government’s rationale — the presence of weapons of mass destruction — for joining the US and the UK in the invasion…
I case you missed it, this weekend the international comics festival Komiks.dk will be held in Vanløse, Copenhagen. The Bunker gang will be there, involved in a number of activities, starting tonight with the Award Ceremony. Here are the events we’re involved in, as well as a number of other activities we recommend you take…
The picks of the week from around the web. Danish TV2: Interview with Gregorius Nekschot (above). Check out this interview of February 28th with the cartoonist recently targeted by the Dutch police. It’s in Danish and Dutch, with subtitles, but no English, unfortunately. Still, worth a view. Information. For our Danish readers, here’s a good…
As mentioned before, this weekend sees the International Comics Festival in Copenhagen, Komiks.dk, going down. And of course there are auxillary events. On Saturday, the release party for Palle Schmidt’s new crime comic Blodets Konkubine and the opening of the exhibition Sekvens, which shows original works by the cartoonists mentioned on the flyer above, will…
Aben Malers nye kollektion af minitegneserier – de såkaldte 676’ere – er landet, og de er fyldt med overskud og virtuositet! For kun 35 kr. kan enten Mårdøn Smets Lazarus, Signe Parkins Bordskik, Peter Adolphsen/Zven Balslevs Duerne flyver højt over byen, Christopher Zielers Pigen og Katten samt Johan F. Krarups Pibemanden blive din. De er…
Following the arrest of Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot last week, it has become publicised that the Dutch Secret Service apparently has a division dedicated to checking all cartoons being published in the country for potentially offensive content. Whatever you may think of Nekschot’s racist junk, that should be cause for concern. And indeed, Dutch cartoonist…
This Friday will see the opening of Boy Wonder Simon Bukhave’s first solo exhibition. If you’re in Copenhagen (perhaps attending the Grand comics festival, Komiks.dk), go check it out. Simon has produced a couple of new, gorgeous drawings (see above) : and everything is for sale! Go, watch! Go buy! (In fact, just send him…
So why it is such an upsetting photograph is not just because we see someone smiling in the context of the horrible, but that when we look at her, we begin to have to resist smiling ourselves. So it’s a terrible, terrible picture for that reason alone. — Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at…
It has gotten to the point where we’re receiving so many press releases, announcements and other advertisements here at the Metabunker that we have decided to impose certain restrictions on what gets posted. A lot of what you, the readers, have been sending looks great and we certainly appreciate and pay attention to it, but…
The picks of the week from around the web. Douglas Feith on the Daily Show (above). Watch the former Under Secretary of Defence getting grilled on the selling of the Iraq War to the American People by John Stewart. Not to be missed! Tom Spurgeon, Dirk Deppey and a host of others on the future…