“Paying fair market values for the assets will not work. Only by overpaying for the assets will the banks be adequately recapitalized. But overpaying for the assets simply shifts the losses to the government. In other words, the Geithner plan works only if and when the taxpayer loses big time.” — Joseph E. Stiglitz The…
These days, the most happening cartoonist’s studio in Copenhagen is Over Floden. It counts amongst its members Simon Bukhave, Cav Bøgelund, Johan F. Krarup, Miwer, Søren Mosdal, Mårdøn Smet & T. Thorhauge. All of them do fine comics (and most of them have contributed to the upcoming Aben Maler/Fantagraphics-published antho From Wonderland with Love), but…
Dave Arneson, creator of Blackmoor and co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, with Gary Gygax, just passed away. Although virtually unknown beyond old school gamer circles, the invention of the table top roleplaying game was a milestone in the development of interactive gaming, of the digital as well as the low tech kind. When Gygax died…
By Henry Sørensen, T. Thorhauge & Matthias Wivel Right, so here were are again with our selection of the best comics of last year. It’s taken a while but we hope you find it useful. Much of what we said about the year in comics 2007 when we did this last year applies equally to…
The Arbiters of Taste 2007 The best comics of 2007 according to the Metabunker.
At the end of next week, April 16-18, Växjö University in Sweden is hosting an academic conference on comics, the full title of which is the rather torturous “Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena.” Don’t let that dissuade you, though — it looks pretty great and features Thierry…
Hvad foregår der i Egoland? Skal vi, her i 25-året for stribens fødsel, til at vinke farvel til vores ærede repræsentanter i Guds Eget Land?
The Pendulum Swings An analysis of the art comics backlash and the current state of the comics medium.
The picks of the week from around the web. Big Numbers #3, by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz (assisted, infamously, by Al Colombia). (Everyone’s posted this, but what the heck). Bits and pieces of it have been flowing around for years, but finally Pádraig Ó Méalóid has assembled the whole story and put it online.…
Efter den stiftende generalforsamling i Dansk Tegneserieråd i torsdags var den nyvalgte formand, Bunkerens egen T. Thorhauge i Deadline på DR2. Her er hans samtale med Kurt Strand — en fin opsummering af rådets tanker og ambitioner. Deadlines introduktion til interviewet kan ses nedenfor. De originale links kan findes her og her. Læs i øvrigt…
Aftenens stiftende generalforsamling i Dansk Tegneserieråd var en stor succes. Med et fremmøde på ca. 70 mennesker og — forstår jeg, der desværre ikke var til stede — rigtig god stemning, kom Rådet godt fra start. Den valgte bestyrelse ser sådan ud: Formand: Thomas Thorhauge Bestyrelsesmedlemmer: Marianne Eskebæk Larsen, Allan Haverholm, Paw Mathiasen (kasserer), Steffen…
Så er det i aften, at den stiftende generalforsamling i Dansk Tegneserieråd finder sted. Der skal vælges en formand, en bestyrelse og en revisor og der skal diskuteres fremtidsplaner. Kom, meld dig ind og vær med fra starten! Dansk Tegneserieråds hjemmeside har en liste over kandidaterne til bestyrelsesposterne. Klik ind på ‘Arbejdsgruppen’ og kig efter…
Det er med stor sorg, at Metabunkerens redaktion erfarer, at den mangeårige tegneserie- og populærkulturformidler, samt tegneserieforfatter, Kristoffer Mogensen er død. Jeg selv mødte ham desværre kun en enkelt eller to gange, men husker ham som et ualmindeligt venligt og imødekommende menneske. Han var måske den første person jeg ikke kendte, som viste interesse for…
Kramers Ergot 7 is a product of colossal ambition, it is of colossal size and it was published to colossal expectations. Is it any surprise that the result is less than colossal? There is no doubt that this is a rare achievement in comics production, and it is certainly also a high-quality anthology containing some…
The picks of the week from around the web. Times Literary Supplement: Shakespeare (Unfound(ed)? Katherine Duncan Jones offers a strongly argued dismissal of the recently publicised alleged portrait of Shakespeare. London Review of Books: “Is it Art?” Great article on video games as art by John Lanchester. François Ayroles: Nouveaux moments clés de l’histoire de…