Radio Rackham: Dansk Tegneserieråds nye bestyrelse

Jeg er denne gang gæst i mit eget medie, Radio Rackham, nemlig i egenskab af ny formand i Dansk Tegneserieråd. Og jeg har tre andre bestyrelsesmedlemmer med: Marie Raasthøj Hansen, Anders Brønserud og Andreas Nordkild Poulsen. Thomas og Frederik udspørger os om vores planer og ambitioner, samt konkret om håbet om at etablere et tegneseriemuseum,…

Rackham 20 år efter

Radio Rackham er et nyt kritisk tegneseriepodcast, der tager såvel den hjemlige som den internationale tegneseriekultur under behandling og ligeligt sætter fokus på tegneserien som kunstform og kulturfænomen. Det er os, holdet bag tidskriftet, websitet og projektet Rackham, der står bag. Podcastet kobler sig således på en indsats, der også var afgørende i udstillingerne og…

Kirby at 100

Today, Jack Kirby, one of the great artists of the twentieth century and a visionary of the comics form, would have turned 100. For those unfamiliar with this extraordinary person and artist, or merely wanting to brush up, here’s a good primer and here is the touching and informative reminiscence by Kirby’s friend and erstwhile…

Tintin at Nummer9

On the Danish comics site Nummer9.dk I’ve written a bunch of notes on two of Hergé’s earliest Tintin stories, the notorious Tintin in the Congo and the criminally overlooked Tintin in America as they were originally published in the early thirties. I touch upon everything from racism to humanism, from gag construction to panel composition.…

Ping Resurrected!

In collaboration with the Danish Comics Council the festival Komiks.dk and the Storm P. Museum, the Danish comics site Nummer9 is now resurrecting the Danish comics award, The Ping, named after the great cartoonist Storm P.’s famous sidekick character. The Ping in its original iteration was awarded between 1986 and 1996 and was given to…