The picks of the week from around the web. A bunch of quick comics links this week. Tom Spurgeon on Chester Brown’s Paying for It. D&Q only brought 25 copies of Brown’s long-awaited new book to MoCCA, so it was sold out before I arrived, but I got a chance to leaf through. Looks amazing.…
Goodbye to a master craftsman with several discrete classics to his name. Also, while I’m at it, I missed marking the passing of Elizabeth Taylor here — she was great.
I’m sorry that it’s been a while since I’ve posted much of anything here. Emigrating to the States has taken some effort and time. I’m now living in New York, working an honest-to-God jacket-and-tie job for the first time since forever. It’s pretty great, actually. An opportunity to offset all those years spent in the…
I denne uges Weekendavis står min anmeldelse af den store udstilling af Jan Gossaerts værker på Londons National Gallery at læse. Check det ud, og se endelig udstillingen hvis I har muligheden. Jan Gossaert, Portræt af en handelsmand (Jan Jacobsz. Snoeck?). Olie på træ, 63,6 x 47,5 cm., Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art.
Last week the Hooded Utilitarian ran a roundtable discussion on Eddie Campbell’s Alec comics. Plenty of good stuff on there, though my favourite was definitely Caroline Small’s discussion of Campbell’s prose (go read it; as a critique it goes well beyond Campbell). Anyway, as part of the roundtable I conducted an in-depth interview with Cambell,…
The picks of the week from around the web. Better late than never: the new Comics Journal is off to a strong start, with plenty of interesting material posted in its first weeks. My favorites have been the first instalment of Ryan Holmberg’s history of alternative comics in Japan, Jeet Heer’s notes on racism in…
The melodic voice of the G-Funk era, Nate Dogg, alias Nathaniel D. Hale, died on Tuesday. He had been suffering from strokes, apparently, but I haven’t seen any report on the cause of death. Nate Dogg, best known for his classic duet with Warren G “Regulate” (1994), on which the two of them put words…
Den 21. marts udkommer Bamsernes Befrielsesfront – hele historien på Politisk Revy. Danmarks største nulevende bladtegner Peter Lautrops legendariske føljeton fra Information sidst i 70erne i samlet udgave! Mød op til receptionen mandag den 21. marts kl. 16-18 på Information (hvor præcis, ved jeg ikke, men det må være til at finde).
Throughout his life, Paul Cézanne nurtured an ambition to paint figure compositions in the renaissance tradition. At various points in his career he thus attempted to populate his otherwise open landscapes with anonymous, lumpy nudes, often bathing. There is something uncomfortable, something unresolved, about these paintings — they seem an intellectual aspiration toward a pastoral…
Kom hjem: Interview med Thomas Thorhauge Stort interview med Thomas Thorhauge, om hans graphic novel, Kom hjem
The picks of the week from around the web. Eagleton on Hobsbawn on Marxism. Three-in-one. What’s not to like? Kirb Your Enthusiasm. HiLowbrow is currently running a relay series on Jack Kirby, with 24 writers, artists and critics each writing about one panel of choice from The King. Good contributions from Gary Panter, Ann Nocenti,…
As you may have noticed, the Metabunker now looks slightly different from how it did until last week. The simple reason is that we’ve finally shed the coils of our 2007 WordPress installation (see image for a reminder) in favour of something a little more 2011. A huge thank you to Derik Badman for mastering…
The picks of the week from around the web. Trying to orient myself a little on the momentous events in North Africa and the Middle East, I’ve appreciated The Atlantic‘s horrifying reports from Libya, and the caution they’ve relayed from people in Yemen. This piece by Abdel Monem Said for Asharq Alawsat provides a lot…
Respect the Architect On David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp.