While I remember, there’s this little curiosity. At the Christie’s preview I went to the week before last, there was this astonishing intarsiaed Louis XIV tortoise shell/pietra dura cabinet, which went on to sell for a good £4.5 million. Anyway, what leaped out at me immediately, being mired fatally in Titian’s prints at the moment,…
Yes, the big event of the week for many is of course the Climate Conference in Copenhagen and the Bunker’s there in the form of Thomas Thorhauge, who is working with the grassroots visual communications group Biggerpicture to convey the aspirations of the World Wildlife Fund at the conference. He is part of a handful…
Jeez, that Raphael drawing I posted about a couple weeks ago sold for over £29 million! That’s a whopping £13 million above the highest official estimate! And the Rembrandt offered at the same sale went for £20.2 million. Paul Raison of Christie’s notes the obvious: the recession certainly hasn’t affected interest in, and the prices…
The new, web-based iteration of the best magazine of comics criticism has now been launched in a beta version and is already seeing steady updates from its cohort of bloggers and other writers. Please go look at what will surely become a staple of the comics internet. I should add that I will be appearing…
Almost Colossus — Kramers Ergot 7 Read our review of one of the most remarkable, if also disappointing, comics projects in recent memory.
Regulars here at the Bunker, and most people in Danish comics, may be aware of the establishment earlier this year of the Danish Comics Council — an organisation working to increase the knowledge and appreciation of the comics medium in Denmark. Since I’m a member of the board, I figured I would provide a little…
Swedish cartoonist and Donaldist Joakim Gunnarson has acquired what he claims to be a incomplete script by Carl Barks for an Uncle Scrooge story. This should be pretty interesting news to anyone into in the Good Duck Artist, and I for one would love to take a closer look at this document. Gunnarson describes it…
After 33 years of publication, the best magazine about comics, The Comics Journal, now celebrates its 300th issue. Which is also going to be the last in the current format, before the recently announced migration to the web sometime later this month. In short, the printed Journal will be semiannual in the future, with a…
Den danske tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk, der finder sted i Øksnehallen, København, 21-23 maj, 2010, annoncerer nu endnu en håndfuld udelandske gæster, deriblandt to af Tysklands mest interessante yngre tegnere, Line Hoven og Arne Bellstorf. Førstnævnte er nok bedst kendt for graphic novel-debuten Liebe schacht weg, et subtilt og rørende erindringsbillede af hendes familie fra krigen og…
Danmarks internationale tegneseriebiennale, Komiks.dk, der for fjerde gang løber af stablen i Øksnehallen, København, 21-23 maj, 2010, melder nu endnu en gæst, tegneren Frank Quitely — klart den mest originale tegner i amerikansk mainstream i dag. Han er særligt kendt for sit arbejde med den mest originale forfatter i branchen, Grant Morrison (lad os håbe…
Berlingske viser lidt fremsyn — tillykke Ib! Mere Mongo her.
As part of its series of open lectures, the Danish Design School is offering a talk by internationally famed artists Paul Davis and David Shrigley on Wednesday, November 11th, 9-12 AM.