Dagens Helt i Skysovs!
Check the hype her og drop endelig forbi Mono Bar, hvor festen allerede er i gang. Party Like a Rock!
Matthias Wivel is the administrator of the Metabunker. He is Head of Research at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and a co-founder and the current chairman of the Danish Comics Council.
While we wait, let’s look at these Tintin pages
OK, so there isn’t much happening here, I know. I have a couple things brewing, but have simply been too busy on dissertation work to do much in here. Hopefully I’ll be able to post a few juicy things over the next weeks though. In the meantime, here’s an awesome set of preparatory Tintin pages…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Frank Rich: “The American Press on Suicide Watch”. Rich cuts to the chase in this piece on what seems increasingly to be imminent demise of print journalism. Donald Richie on Japanese cinema. Great on-stage interview with the gaijin dean of Japanese cultural studies, with special focus…
Hype: Willumsens Kongesønnens Bryllup — Et værk uden grænser
Det er på J. F. Willumsens Museum. Se udstillingen! Læs lidt mere om billedet her.
The Arbiters of Taste 2008
The Arbiters of Taste 2008 The best comics of 2008 according to the Metabunker.
Kom hjem — First look
Yeah, it’s him again. Thomas Thorhauge has been working on this thing for almost as long as we can remember, so we’re cutting him some slack here. It’s fresh off the press and it looks spectacular. Thorhauge himself evidently also thinks so, because he’s done this Flickr-stream showcasing his baby. Enjoy, and let’s hope for…
Do you see a prototype? Addendum
A few days ago, I posted an image of a painting by the Danish artist J. F. Willumsen, hoping you might be able to help trace any source of inspiration he might have drawn upon while painting it, and especially while revising the central figures in 1948 when he painted out the originals from 1888…
The Danish Comics Council
Our international readers may remember a lot of activity, all conducted in the gibberish tongue that is Danish, about a month ago here at the Bunker. The reason was that a new Danish comics organisation, the Danish Comics Council, was founded. On the board serves yours truly serves, along with the Bunker’s own Thomas Thorhauge,…
Going Home Again
Just watched the three-parter that marked the return of British SF-comedy sitcom Red Dwarf after ten years in the movie development wilderness, which ran on the digital network Dave TV over Easter. I had absolutely no expectations for this — the last two seasons of the show, VII (1997) and VIII (1999), had been rather…
Do you see a prototype? Updated!
We’ve been asked whether we recognise any comics/cartooning prototypes, or sources of inspiration, for the above-posted picture. We are somewhat at a loss. Can you help us? Please let us know what you think might have inspired the painter, or merely what the image makes you think of. (I shall refrain from giving more information…
Sacrebleu! Thorhauge Live on the Web!
The Bunker’s own Thomas Thorhauge has finally — after all these years — gotten his act together and created a web page for himself. He has decided upon the old school Web 2.0 format of a blog, which he — inexplicably — calls Sacre Bleu! Unfortunately, it’s all in Danish, but go there and check…
Picks of the Week
“The White House knew he’d been tortured. I didn’t, though I was supposed to be evaluating that intelligence… It seems to me they were using torture to achieve a political objective. I cannot believe that the president and vice president did not know who was being waterboarded, and what was being given up.” — Former…
Thomas Thorhauge’s Batman
I’ve already linked to Copenhagen cartoonists’ studio Over Floden’s current Batman tribute, but since I’ve been on the road lately and have nothing else to show for it yet, I’d like to call special attention to Bunker contributor Thomas Thorhauge’s contribution, which references John Wayne at the end of John Ford’s masterpiece The Searchers to…
Hype: Emmanuel Guibert in the Comics Journal
Emmanuel Guibert, whose comic Alan’s War we just selected as our comic of the year here at the Bunker, is featured in the new issue of the Comics Journal (#297), both with a preview of his book The Photographer, which is about to come out in English, and an interview conducted by yours truly. There’s…