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…
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 —…
For better or worse. I’m not sure what, at the end of the day, this will do for the cause of reason and compassion in this matter, but a situation where drawing certain things will net you death threats and attempts on your life is simply unacceptable. Whatever the history of systemic injustices or problems…
If you’re looking for something do on Friday night to warm you up for the weekend’s Komiks.dk festival, you could do worse than dropping by Butik CMYK in Nørrebro for the opening of the exhibition Blæk og Blyant (‘ink and pencil’), featuring three illustrators: Nygårds Maria Bengtson, Majbrit Linnebjerg and Toril Bækmark (more here). Peter…
Sweden’s finest step up for a tribute to Guru (RIP), and what a terrific tune it is! Promoe over “Full Clip”, Supreme over “Above the Clouds” “Royalty” & “Who’s Gonna Take the Weight”, which Timbuktu then takes over with much enthusiasm. It ends with a bang. Nice one, guys!
I dag blændes der op for et nyt dansk webmagasin om tegneserier, nummer9 — et bud på en bred men også kritisk dansk kilde til nyheder, kritik og journalistik fra tegneseriens verden. Initiativtagere en en bred vifte af folk fra det danske tegneseriemiljø, inklusive undertegnede. Chefredaktør er Erik Barkman. Han skriver følgende i sin velkomst:…
This wicked little film by Andreas Wykade sums up my state of mind this cartoon-crazed week pretty accurately. Sleep well…
Friday this week finally sees the kickoff of what promises to be the best comics festival ever in Denmark. For the fourth time round, the Copenhagen comics biennial, Komiks.dk, offers a programme that seeks to span the breadth of the comics medium and features a fantastic lineup of international guests. In step with their mounting…
For those of you who read Danish, my piece on Guru is now up in translated form over at Rapspot. Also, I wanted to plug my man Frederik Høyer-Christenen’s photos — we both attended some of Gang Starr’s great shows in Copenhagen in the early 90s. Unfortunately, Frederik didn’t bring his camera to their first…
The great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) died yesterday at the age of 82. Surely the most influential artists within his genre and a significant comics illustrator and cartoonist too, his legacy is apparent everywhere. Basically, fantasy illustration as we know it would be much different if it weren’t for him. His pen and ink…
Today I’ve posted my inaugural column–dubbed DWYCK in memory of Guru–over at Hooded Utilitarian, one of the liveliest and highest-falutin’ spots in the comics blogosphere. I’m honoured to be part of the team there, and excited about now being able to express my disagreements with everyone there from the inside, instead of just their bustling…
“It’s mostly the voice, that gets you up/ And mostly the voice, that makes you buck/ Some got flavor, and some got skills/ But if your voice ain’t dope, then you gots to CHILL” —“Mostly tha Voice” (1994) The recent passing of Keith Elam, a.k.a. The Guru (1961-2010 RIP), reminds us of an era in…
So, I spent the weekend at the Fumetto festival in Switzerland. Check out my report over at The Comics Journal.
Check out Frederik Høyer-Christensen’s great photos from the recent comics and beats event in Copenhagen, which featured Ron Regé, Jr., Rasmus Bregnhøi and Christian Skovgaard, with DJ M. Dejean on the 1’s and 2’s and Thomas Thorhauge on the mic. There was even a guest appearance by Thomas Christoffersen, as seen in the set above.…
The notable comics writer and editor Bill Dubay passed away a few days ago, and I just wanted to note it. I’ve enjoyed a good number of his stories for the Warren magazines and even wrote at length about one of them when I was older and more sentimental. It can be found here. Tom…