You in Washington DC? Have time this evening? Go to the opening of ZaMZaM Arts’ latest show, featuring work by Laura Falzon, Sangbin Im, Richard Jochum, Kevork Mourad, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, and Sarah Siddiqui, at the Touchstone Gallery. Prime mover of the project, Siddiqui, is a good friend and a firebrand organiser — her project…
The picks of the week from around the web. Been busy this week, so not much of a selection this time around. However check these out: Get your Rusty Brown on with the Legion of Lego Superheroes (above). How many of them do you recognize, without looking at the Cliff’s notes? The Comic Book scare…
The picks of the week from around the web. The clip above and this one are pretty neat examples of ingenuous street art, I must say. Delightful. (Thanks, Eddie Campbell). Otherwise: Lots of great comics links this week! CBR — Steve Grant on the Superman ruling. The best summary article and analysis so far on…
The picks of the week from around the web. Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers. Cool Swedish short. Tom Breihan: In Defense of Li’l Wayne’s “Lollypop.” This is a pretty impressive feat of criticism; writing substantially about a song that has nothing in it — no hook, trite sexual analogy, lots of synth/vocoder: unabashed…
The cartoonists working at the Copenhagen studio Over Floden (“Across the River,” but also “The Plenitude”) have finally gotten their act together and put up a website. Go check it out: the text is in Danish, but there are plenty of images from Simon Bukhave, Johan Krarup, Søren Mosdal, Miwer, Mårdøn Smet and T. Thorhauge.
The picks of the week from around the web. Barack Obama’s speech on race. You probably read about it or heard excerpts, but if you haven’t heard it in its entirety, go check it out. Not only is it a rather incredible exercise in damage control, it’s a risky and moving speech. That hilarious Peter…
Loka? the best kept secret of Danish graphics — and the designer of the Metabunker logo (above) — is still online and is now blogging. Go check out his work.
“The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle,…
I’m in Venice at the moment and have no steady internet connection, and am thus not able to do much here on the blog. But I’d like to take the time out to advertise this: the 10-year anniversary of Zven Balslev’s quality art zine/publication, and now art publisher and record label, Smittekilde! Congrats! If you…
More good stuff going down the weekend of the 8. This is in New York and looks like a must. Do go. Want to know more about Töpffer? Read the Bunker’s introduction here, and the review of David Kunzle’s recent monograph on the cartoonist here.
We MUST make this work. We MUST have a kind of integration where we can be both Christian and Muslim and live next door to each other. But we need unequivocal support for democracy. For our basic rights. For the equality of the sexes. And this applies to everyone in this country. — Villy Søvndal,…
The great folks from Hamelin and Canicola are, once again, organising a quality comics festival in Bologna la grassa! It looks great; If my travel planner for Italy that weekend wasn’t already booked in another city, I’d be very tempted!
The danger arises not only when there is an assumption on the religious side that membership of the community (belonging to the umma or the Church or whatever) is the only significant category, so that participation in other kinds of socio-political arrangement is a kind of betrayal. It also occurs when secular government assumes a…
The picks of the week from around the web. The Crumbling paper index. This site is a treasure trove of old comics. Go there and loose yourself. Rap explained. Dropping science, hilariously. HuckChuckFacts. Just in case you haven’t seen this. You must, to believe.
Awesome art trio Ingen Frygt are exhibiting at Field’s, Copenhagen. The opening is this Friday. Go.