It’s been a busy year for Nick Bertozzi. 2007 saw two new graphic novels out from the New York-based cartoonist, both followed by extensive promotional touring including reading sessions, book signings and panel discussions at various conventions and book stores. Endeavours such as these of course reflect the growing interest in the graphic novel, and…
Brooklyn-based cartoonist Alex Holden has just launched his brand new website, full of art! Go there, and check it out, and keep an eye out for his comic series Magic Hour — it comes Bunker recommended! Oh, and check out Holden’s blog while you’re at it.
Danish Comics collector and power-enthusiast Henrik Andreasen has just posted a short interview with one of the premier American mainstream artists of his generation, John Romita Jr., over at Sequential Tart. This interview originally ran in Danish in Rackham #5, and was the result of a collaboration between Andreasen and myself, with yours truly providing…
Sadly, there are way too few female artists on the Danish comics scene, which makes it even more awesome to discover up-and-coming Maria Skov’s work. This girl is going places! A relative newcomer to the medium, she delves into it with a joy and ease that promises great things to come! This is her new…
Jacques Tardi & Pierre Siniac: Le Secret de l’étrangleur (Casterman) Danish Edition: Kvælerens Hemmelighed (Carlsen Comics) Get your copy now! It’s pulp! It’s fun!
While we’re at the depressing news, I just wanted to note that the writer-cartoonist team of Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontdevila, who wrote and drew this cartoon of the Spanish Crown Prince and his wife a few months ago, have now been found guilty of “vilifying the Crown” — basically by depicting them in a…
Over on Blog@newsarama, Chris Mautner has gathered one of his roundtables, inviting critics to talk about the terminology and general language we use when writing about comics. Yours truly participates for the first time, and I therefore thought I’d hype it here. Go, read — and by all means chime in! Image by Kevin Huizenga,…
With that great quote from a starry-eyed Neil Gaiman in Jonathan Ross’ recent documentary on the great artist behind Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, The Question and Mr. A, the Metabunker wishes Steve Ditko a fine 80th birthday. It is great to see how much serious attention the artist is getting these days — the latest announcement,…
Today, the exhibition I seriernas värld (‘In the World of Comics’), on the exchange between Western and East Asian comics, opens in Malmö. It goes down between 16.30-18.00 at Stadsbiblioteket, the city library. The exhibition runs till 25 November.
Following upon Danish far-right Danish People’s Party’s campaign poster of a few days ago, evoking the cartoon crisis, left-wing party Enhedslisten (“The Unity List”) and their candidate for parliament Asmaa Abdol-Hamid (pictured, right) have created their own poster in response, showing a hand drawing the face of Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjærsgaard under text…
Following yesterday’s post upon Danish People’s Party‘s election campaign, left wing party Enhedslisten has produced this ad (left) as a counter-comment to the former’s Mohammed poster. The face on the ‘drawing’ belongs to Danish People’s Party‘s leader Pia Kjærsgaard, and the text states: “Freedom of speech is Danish, stupidity is not“. …
Yesterday, Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called early election for Nov. 13. Most major parties expected this move, and have been preparing their campaigns since the beginning of summer. Even though Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti) and its leader Pia Kjærsgaard (above) belong on the far right wing, it’s a bit of a surprise…
I morgen, onsdag 24 oktober kl. 12.15, holder Ph. D.-stipendiat på Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus universitet, Carsten Fogh Nielsen, forelæsningen “The Dark Knight Reflects – om Batman, filosofi og populærkultur” på Aarhus Universitet, Nobelparken, bygning 1461, lokale 226. Manchet følger:
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.
The week before last, I posted a link to Morten Søndergård’s article on the first Spider-Man stories and Jack Kirby’s possible involvement in them on the Comics Journal messageboard. This sparked an interesting debate about the validity of Morten’s hypothesis, involving some of the foremost specialists on Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and early Marvel. I…