Ovre hos Information har de nu publiceret min efterhånden mange måneder gamle anmeldelse af bind seks i Cobolt opsamlingsserie af Jean Giraud og Jean-Michel Charliers Blueberry. Det markerer for mange læsere seriens højdepunkt, der hvor Blueberry er på flugt som lovløs, beskylders for mordforsøg på Præsident Grant, kæmper med den iskolde snigmorder Angel Face og…
Denne gang nærlæser vi i selvskab med selveste Christoffer Zieler fra Weekendavisen Moebius’ og Dan O’Bannons legendarisk stilskabende SF-novelle “The Long Tomorrow” fra 1976. Det var fanme sjovt at gå den både fjollede og geniale tegneserie efter i sømmene. Lyt, lyt lyt! Og læs mere på Nummer9.
The following essay was originally written for, and published in, The Comics Journal #300 in 2009, as a special instalment of my Euro-Comics column “Continental Drift”; it was subsequently published on TCJ.com, but on a particular iteration of that website which is no longer online. I therefore now reprint it here in minimally edited form,…
Den her har vi længe taget tilløb til, for det er virkelig en af de store: Moebius Major Fatal, eller Jerry Cornelius’ Hermetiske Garagge, eller slet og ret ‘Garagen’. Vi fik endelig indspillet på et tidspunkt hvor vi kort var i samme tid og på samme sted og her er vores tanker i al deres…
I fredagens bogtillæg til Information, og på nettet, kan man læse min anmeldelse af Cobolts to nys udgivne samlebind af de tidlige album i Jean-Michel Charlier og Jean “Moebius” Girauds westernklassiker Blueberry. Hermed et uddrag: Hjertet er på rette sted, men helt fri af stereotypen går Charlier og Giraud ikke : indianerne omtaler sig selv…
For the past three weeks, the Danish comics site has been remembering comics legend Jean Giraud/Moebius’ passing with articles, essays, reminiscences from a number of Danish creators, and — most interesting to a non-Danish reading audience: drawn homages. Go here for a panoply of drawings on “The Theme” by Denmark’s finest. Above is Jan Solheim,…
The week in review The passing of Jean Giraud is the passing of one of the great cartoonists and visual artists of his generation. It had become easy to take the enormously productive artist for granted, even to bore of him, what with him performing well below his own best a lot of the time…
Earlier today I posted an appreciation of the late Moebius’ last great work, Le Chasseur déprime, over at Hooded Utilitarian. Reading that book in the light of his illness and death suddenly seemed to make a lot of sense. It is among his most profound, questioning works — a fitting artistic testament from somebody who…
As usual Saturday brought the crowds to Angoulême. It is difficult to get around, but it brings to the festival a heady atmosphere of art and commerce. Even the Association staff decided today partly to suspend their ongoing strike in order to support their artists who had turned up to sign their books. Killoffer, Gerner,…