Having forgotten to ask Brad Neely for permission to use his work as illustration, we must make do with a sketch of the man himself. Brad Neely’s drawings work, because you read them in an instant. The images tend to move, but Neely isn’t really an animator. His drawings are all single instances, flashing by,…
Den danske tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk blev som bekendt afholdt for tredje gang i sommers. Arrangementet var en succes på snart sagt alle planer og det virkede derfor på mange som om festivalen var kommet for at blive. Det håber vi alle fortsat, men arrangørerne har meddelt, at de har behov for flere hænder hvis det skal…
I dag udkommer en af årets sjoveste danske tegneserier, Mixed Double af Johan F. Krarup. Krarup har i løbet af 2008 markeret sig som den suværent mest produktive danske tegneseriefortæller, i januar med humor-samlingen Brunt (Brun Blomst), i juni den selvbiografiske Pibemanden (Aben Maler) og ‘No Title’ i antologien Son of a Horse vol. 2…
At the recent Roskilde Festival I had the opportunity to interview MC and producer Jneiro Jarel for Rapspot. Jarel has been in the game for well over a decade, but took his act to the next level last year with the so-called Shape of Broad Minds project and the album Craft of the Lost Art.
Forrige weekend afholdtes den internationale tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk i København for tredje gang. Festivalen, der igen var vokset i bredde og ambition i forhold til sidste omgang, har med denne væsentligt mere professionelt afviklede tredje udgave for alvor konsolideret sig som en central institution i det danske tegneserielandskab. Publikum mødte talstærkt op og der er i…
Efter der nu er kommet afklaring om Carlsens frasalg af forlagets tegneserielinje (i kølvandet på Egmonts overtagelse af Bonnier-forlagene) er forlaget Carlsen i tegneseriesammenhæng sat tilbage til Ã…r 0. Bortset fra Valhalla og mangalinjen, tilhører alle forlagets titler nu Kurt Dahlgaards forlag Cobolt. Carsten Søndergaard, der i en årrække har sat sit tydelige fingeraftryk på…
Forleden blev sløret løftet for det nye forlag, der fremover skal varetage forlaget Carlsens tegneserietitler – som følge af den lange, indviklede og noget uforståelige juridiske proces, der fulgte i kølvandet på Egmonts opkøb af Bonniers forlagsdivision. Groft forenklet brød EUs konkurrencemyndigheder sig ikke om den nye mastodont, og betingede en godkendelse af overtagelsen med…
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…
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…
This is the last installment of our interview with cartoonist Anders Nilsen; 1, 2, 3. Moving on to the much more traditionally narrative Big Questions. It’s evident that you had been leading up to Algernon’s descent into Hades for a while before it became obvious that that’s what you were doing. What made you decide…
Continuing our interview with cartoonist Anders Nilsen; 1, 2, 4. CAMBRIDGE-CHICAGO 2007 A lot has happened since we last spoke : back in the Fall of 2004, I believe it was : but I think I would like to pick up more or less where we left off, which will also maintain the chronology somewhat.…
Continuing our interview with cartoonist Anders Nilsen; 1, 3, 4. Another reason I asked is that I just read your new book [Dogs and Water], which seemed a little bit more constructed than your previous work. I mean, it doesn’t come off as tightly constructed or anything, but there seems to have been some guiding…
Anders Nilsen (b. 1973) is coming into his own as one of his generation’s simultaneously most intellectually inquisitive and intuitively astute comics artists. Since the debut of his ongoing, “core” series Big Questions (9 issues published so far, 1999-2007), he has been unswerving in his exploration of, well, some of the big questions of life,…
When Rackham’s Danish comics anthology from last year, BLÆK, was recently selected amongst the books of the year by the Association of Danish Bookbinders, it turned out to be in the ‘cover’ category. Besides acknowledging the fine work done by our designer, Frederik Storm, this is, of course, first and foremost a recognition of cover…
This concludes my 2003 interview with El-P and Aesop Rock. Here’s part I and here’s part II.