Hype: Johan Krarup
Dansk tegneseries tænksomme original, Johan Krarup, har for nyligt renoveret sin hjemmeside — www.jfkra.dk. Hop derover og check den ud! Og husk at følge med i serien “Mixed Double”, der kører på Fahrenheits hjemmeside.
Patologier II
Efter længere tids hi, er Seriejournalens efterhånden eneste læseværdige skribent, Berti Stravonsky, tilbage med en ny udgave af sin Blog for supersamlere! Det er nærmest som at læse en ornitologs logbog. En ornitolog med speciale i andefugle. Check det ud!
Hype: Stejl fart
Christoffer Zieler, der i en årrække har tegnet Maltes spalte bag på Universitetsavisen, har en blog, Stejl fart, hvor han (og makker ‘The Bizzle’) løbende lægger sine tegninger – satiriske enkeltbilledgags, striber, animation – op. Check det ud – registret er bredt og humoren nifty.
Hype: Tove Jansson/Moomin Exhibition in Copenhagen
On Friday night, at the so-called ‘Kulturnat,’ the exhibition space Frederiks Bastion, on Christianhavns vold, will open the exhibition “What’s This?”, showing original sketches and drawings for one of Tove Jansson’s classic Moomin stories in strip form The Moomin Trolls and the End of the World (1946/47). If I were in Copenhagen, this would be…
Hype: Cool-Looking Exhibitions in Århus and Malmö
An interesting-looking exhibition with several young great artists – wish I could go, but I probably won’t be around those parts for quite a while. Also, check out Artboks’ website and MySpace). And, in Malmö, the C’est Bon Kultur crew, will be opening a show of the great Martin tom Dieck’s work on Saturday. Same…
Pre-Hype: Comix at Brandts
Coming up at Brandts Klædefabrik in Odense, Denmark, is ‘Comix,’ an exhibition dealing with the intersection of comics and fine arts that is increasingly rewriting the rules for the former and stimulating the latter these years. The exhibition incorporates works by fine artists working with comics and cartoon vocabularies or deriving inspiration from the ethos…
Hype: Norske serier i Morgenbladet
Endnu et public service announcement til særligt vore norske læsere. I denne uges udgave af Morgenbladet, har undertegnede anmeldt en håndfuld norske serier fra det forgangne år. Det drejer sig som Jasons Jeg drepte Hitler, Lene Asks Hitler, Jesus og Farfar, Bendik von Kaltenborns Seks sultne menn, Manuele Fiors Ikaros (hvorfra billedet til venstre er…
‘Go, read’: Spurge interviews Dr. Beaty
Today, there’s a great and lenghty interview with leading Euro-comics critic Bart Beaty, conducted by Comics Reporter’s awesome OMAC Tom Spurgeon. The interview deals with Bart the Man (there’s even a photo showing parts of Bart’s huge library of comics) but also with topics from his recent book Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book…
Hype: De Freston & Foulds
Just wanted to plug the blog of one of last year’s students here at Cambridge, Tom de Freston and his friend Andrew Foulds. They are both painters and have now started a blog showcasing their work all the while providing a forum for their thoughts on art and such. There’s some good work there –…
Hype: Simon interviewer Kim Fupz!
I seneste udgave af sin klumme på Seriejournalen har Simon Petersen scoret sig lidt af et scoop – eller måske rettere: han har tænkt i baner de fleste andre danske tegneseriejournalister har forsømt – og taget kontakt til den frafaldne blad- og serietegner og nuværende filmmanuskriptmaskine Kim Fupz Aakeson. Man kunne godt ønske sig, at…
Hype: Denmark Represents at MoCCA
This coming weekend, June 23-24, will once again see the MoCCA ArtFest in the Puck Building in SoHo, New York. Always an event well worth attending, there will be extra reason to do so this year for people interested in Scandinavian comics. The Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish consulates have collaborated on a joint manifestation…
Hype: Undertegnede i norske Morgenbladet
Til særlig vore norske læsere, vil jeg anbefale at checke denne uges udgave af Morgenbladet, hvori undertegnede har en anmeldelse af David Bs Epileptisk. Men først og fremmest vil jeg anbefale jer at læse Epileptisk – et af den moderne tegneseries mesterværker. Udgiveren, No Comprendo Press, har i øvrigt også udsendt David Bs lille mesterlige…
Hype: [insert generic contemp. art show title here] & Parfyme Deluxe
If you’re in Copenhagen, there are two exhibitions of interest opening today: one is Gaze.Space.Desire (yes, the title is as stereotypical as it gets, but indulge us…) at Den Frie udstillingsbygning, the other is Parfyme Deluxe: The Tent Show at Nikolaj. There’s even a special Rackham/BLÆK-connection, since the terrible trio Ingen Frygt is participating in…
Hype: Kosmorama #239: Animationsfilm
Danmarks ældste og bedste filmtidsskrift Kosmorama er ude NU, med et stort temanummer om animationsfilm. Bladet – eller retteligt: bogen – er spækket med spændende og indsigtsfulde artikler om det gamle og det nye, om det kendte og det obskøne, det fede og det, der bare er forgæves. Sidstnævnte tager denne skribent sig bramfrit af…
Hype: the Journal Lewis Trondheim Interview
Commercial break: The latest issue of The Comics Journal, issue #283, contains my in-depth, career-spanning interview with master cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It’s probably going to hit stores within the next few weeks, depending on where you are, so be sure to check it out! In the meantime, there’s an excerpt up on the Journal website.…