Hype: Ingen Frygt & Butik CMYK
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Heavy Rotation: Rub Radio’s History of Hip Hop
This is great. These mixes go year by year, covering the history of hip hop music from 1979 to 1999, incorporating incontrovertible classics with forgotten gems in smooth, eminently listenable and ear-opening mixes. This is your pick of the week, if you have even the slightest interest in hip hop. Photo of the Crash Crew,…
Hype: Majors
Majors is a new Danish supergroup delivering traditional, well-crafted boom-bap hip hop in spades. In consists of former DMC Champion DJ Noize, DJ and producer extraordinaire Static, as well as the MCs NatILL, J-Spliff and the hottest new talent on the block, Negash Ali. Their album is out, you can check out their first video…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. The New York Times: Frank Rich turns in a brilliant column on the perceived constituency and chances of election of John McCain in this autumn’s presidential election. As usual, a thought-provoking corrective to the steady media drone about the Democratic primaries. More on the 50’s comics…
Hype: OCX 08 & Tegneseriens Dramaturgi
Lest you’d missed it, it is festival season. So here’s another round of hype. This time for the newly initiated Oslo Comix Expo, which was held for the first time last year. It was a considerable success — a really pleasant and unpretentious, but still ambitious and well-organised little festival (read more here and here).…
Hype: Stripdagen Haarlem
Stripdagen in Haarlem has long been known as one of the best small comics festivals in Europe, consistently offering quality programming and notable international guests. This year’s festival, which runs from June 6-8, looks to be no different, with a group exhibition of artists from the collectives FRMK, La Cinquiène couche and La Mycose being…
Hype: Komiks.dk
Between May 31st and June 1st, the third installment of the International Danish Comics Festival, Komiks.dk, will take place in Copenhagen. Its programme is broad and truly international in scope, with guests ranging from the French veterans Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières (Valerian) and a couple of the more interesting names in American mainstream comics,…
Hype: Portfolio Review på Komiks.dk
Henrik Rehr har sendt mig denne meddelelse om et af de nye, konstruktive tiltag på den kommende danske tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk, om hvilken der kommer mere senere: Få en professionel vurdering af dine evner som tegneserietegner! En lang række af Danmarks førende udgivere og udførende inden for tegneseriemediet, står parat til at give DIG et ord…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Q & A with David Barstow. The journalist behind this week’s contender for the Pulitzer answers FAQs about his piece on the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign at the major American networks. Bart Beaty on David Hajdu on Frederic Wertham (parts one, two, three). The discussion of the…
Hype: Warren Craghead — “Petals, a Spell”
Warren Craghead, one of the most interesting and innovative cartoonists working the boundaries of the medium today, has just released an “origami comic” to his website for free! Go, download the PDF, print it, and fold along the dotted lines. And while you’re at it, go check out these postcards by him. What, exactly, are…
The First Victim of War
“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…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Winsor McCay’s 1911 Little Nemo cartoon (above). For no other reason that it’s bloody awesome. McCay’s all the rage again, here’s a good article by Jeet Heer. Great DJ Shadow breaks mix. Kinda the Cliff’s notes to a bunch of Shadow classics, but first and foremost…
Vil I til MoCCA?
Hermed videregives besked fra det danske konsulat i New York vedrørende årets MoCCA-festival. Sidste år var Danmark velrepræsenteret — er I på igen i år? Kære danske tegneseriefolk Tak for jeres deltagelse i Mocca 2007. Vi har fået mulighed for i alt 8 nordiske borde endnu et år og ved godt at det er en…