“It’s pretty well understood amongst the crew who’s in charge,” …[Kuchta] said.
“How do they know that?” a Coast Guard investigator asked.
“I guess, I don’t know […] But it’s pretty well — everyone knows.”
— Captain Curt R. Kuchta of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig
The weekly linkage is back! Which I guess means the blog is finally back up and running.
Så er MC Cav Bøgelund på banen med det første indslag i en serie, der bliver åbningen af det spritnye danske tegneseriesite Nummer9.dks web-TV-kanal. Cav og Tue Søttrup trawlede festivalen på såvel åbningsaftenen som i løbet af lørdagen og fik en del interviews i kassen. Hold øje med Nummer9.dk de næste dage og uger, og bookmark endelig sitet, eller smid det i din feed — der kommer til at ske en masse. Vi er kun begyndt!
Ovenfor har vi første interview, med selveste Mads Bluhm, formand for Komiks.dk.
If you’re in Copenhagen and looking for a way to kick off the night, Gallery V1 opens no less than three exhibitions at once! Some fine artists in there, so do consider it More info here, and these are the invites:
Regular readers might be aware that I was recently involved in the planning of an academic conference on comics at the University of Copenhagen. It was called Contemporary Comics and took place on Friday May 21st. It featured 12 international speakers, as well as the Canadian scholar Jacques Samson, who delivered the keynote address, and cartoonist Chris Ware in conversation with British comics expert Paul Gravett.
The conference tied in with that weekend’s International comics festival, Komiks.dk, and was organized jointly by the Institute of Art and Cultural Studies, the Danish Comics Council and the festival. I very much enjoyed being part of the conference committee, which besides myself consisted of Rikke Platz Cortsen, Andreas Gregersen, Liva Skogeman, Christian Jess Rasmussen and Carsten Fogh Nielsen. Credit is especially due to Rikke, Ph.D-student at the Institute, who in addition to helming the conference taught a course on comics in the spring semester and saw her students through their exams at the festival itself, in front of a broad audience. Without her, none of this would have happened. Also, thanks to everyone else involved and everyone who turned up. It was nice meeting you all, and a great day!
We now have some pictures up over at the Danish Comics Council website — here are the photos taken on the day by Henrik Conradsen, from which the above image of Gravett and Ware is culled, and here are cartoonist Erik Petris live sketches.
I spent this past weekend in Oslo, at the fine comics festival OCX. Here’s my report for The Comics Journal and here’s the one for Nr9 (in Danish).
Photo of Jim Woodring and Bendik Kaltenborn at the festival. Check the Bunker’s photos here. Check also my report from OCX 2007.
My report from last weekend’s Komiks.dk festival in Copenhagen is now up at The Comics Journal. Also, check out Frederik Høyer-Christensen’s photos from the weekend here.
Dagens Weekendavis indeholder bl.a. min anmeldelse af to fine udstillinger af italienske renaissancetegninger i London — den store, man fristes til at sige episke, på British Museum og den lille, udsøgte men desværre nu lukkede Michelangelo-udstilling på Courtauld Gallery. Køb og læs og besøg!
UPDATE: Artiklen ligger nu på Bunkeren i engelsk oversættelse.
J.F. Willumsens Museum har netop udskrevet en stor og ambitiøs tegneseriekonkurrence, der søger en behandling af den danske kunstners liv og værk i tegneserieform.
UPDATE: Museet har netop udskudt deadline til 31. december.
Her er deres (let redigerede) pressemeddelelse:
J.F. WILLUMSEN I STRIBEVIS:
J. F. Willumsens Museum udskrev d. 22. maj 2010 på Komiks.dk en konkurrence for professionelle tegnere og illustratorer om en tegneserie om en af Danmarks mest originale billedkunstnere gennem tiderne – J.F. Willumsen (1863-1958). De tre bedste oplæg præmieres med hhv. 35.000, 10.000 og 5.000 kr., og det vindende forslag vil i samarbejde med J.F. Willumsens Museum og et tegneserieforlag blive videreudviklet og publiceret.
Men hvorfor en tegneseriekonkurrence på et kunstmuseum?
This year’s festival in Copenhagen promises to be the best yet. Friday night saw the launch party with the customary awards ceremony. As usual, most Danish comics people were there, providing the base of a fine crowd with many visitors from abroad: besides the two triumvirata — Burns, Clowes, Ware & Gibbons, O’Niell, Quitely — the festival’s international guests were out in force (sans Yslaire, who had to cancel at the last minute) and it was great to see most of the scholars who attended our conference at the University of Copenhagen earlier in the day (in itself a great pleasure — more on it soon) hanging around till late too.
I was part of the jury and am proud to convey the winners here. It was difficult, but this is what we came up with — the list contains theall the nominees, with the winner highlighted: