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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.
Pre-Hype: From Wonderland with Love
This August, Danish art comics publisher Steffen P. Maarup will be publishing an anthology featuring the cream of Danish comics in a collaboration between his publishing house Aben Maler and leading American art comics publisher Fantagraphics! The anthology, From Wonderland with Love — Danish Comics in the Third Millenium, will feature short works of 19…
What’s Wrong with this Picture?
It seems to be the season for the discovery of sensational portraits. A few days ago The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust announced having found an authentic, contemporary portrait of none less than Shakespeare himself. Its persuasive provenance and resemblance to a number of portraits, most presumably copied from lost pictures, that carry traditional identifications to Shakespeare,…
Tegneserien får officielt råd
Det er med glæde, at undertegnede nu kan bringe følgende pressemeddelelse: Aldrig tidligere har der på verdensplan været skabt og udgivet så mange spændende, vidtfavnende, vitale og iøjnefaldende tegneserier som nu. Tegneserien oplever en veritabel guldalder. Alligevel står tegneserien svagt i Danmark blandt kritikere, boghandlere, tegneserieskabere, forlag, læsere og myndigheder, og hvad der engang var…
Funking Up Watchmen
The first thing I remember hearing director Zack Snyder say about his film version of Watchmen — at that time still in the works — was that that they were going to change the Nite Owl character’s costume to make it ‘cooler.’ That seemed to me pretty much to say all about his take on…
Watchmen Resources — Updated!
Your picks of the week this week will be all Watchmen. Just in case you’re not already fed up. (Sorry!) Reviews of the film. I basically read two stand-out reviews: A. O. Scott’s for the New York Times and Tom Spurgeon’s at the Comics Reporter. For a really asinine and ill-informed one, check out Anthony…
Hype: Future Shorts at Gloria
For our Danish readers. This coming Tuesday and Wednesday will see a number of shortfilm screenings under the Future Shorts umbrella at Gloria, City Hall Square, Copenhagen. The programme includes works by such greats as Kaige Chen and Abbas Kiarostami, acting as locomotives for a bunch of films by emerging directors, one of which is…
Likeness of Leonardo?
Last weekend, the discovery of what is claimed to be a new Leonardo drawing was announced on Italian TV. With the help of digital imaging, it has emerged from behind the text of the “Codex on the Flight of Birds”, held at Turin. The proud discoverers suggest that it is actually a partial self-portrait, citing…
Hype: Impera et Divide
Once again, it’s time to hype Charlottesville here at the Bunker. Wish I could be there for this one — Impera et Divide at the Second Street Gallery, featuring Frédéric Coché, Ae-Rim Lee, André Lemos, Ilan Manouach, Andrei Molotiu and Fabio Zimbres. Opening reception of Friday at 6 and it runs till April 25.
Hype: Continental Drift
Allow me briefly to toot my own horn: This month’s issue of The Comics Journal (#296) sees the debut of my regular column on European comics, “Continental Drift.” (More importantly, it also has interviews with Lynda Barry, Dash Shaw, Frank Quitely, Mike Luckovich and David Hajdu!). I guess it’s inevitably my attempt at filling the…
Danske Tegneserieskaberes fonds første uddeling
Foreningen Danske Tegneserieskabere har netop for første gang uddelt af de midler, foreningen gennem årene har modtaget i form af CopyDan-penge fra danske tegneserieudgivelser efter fondsmodel i stedet for den tidligere benyttede “beløbet-divideret-med-antallet-af-medlemmer-og-uddelt-til-selv-samme.” Tremandsudvalget, der bestod af Peter Kielland, Lars Horneman og Jan Kjær uddelte i alt kr. 345.000 i denne omgang — efter sigende…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Bloomberg: “In Geithner We Trust Eludes Treasury as Market Fails to Recover.” Interesting critical portrait of Timothy Geithner, the US Secretary of the Treasury, by Yalman Onaran and Michael McKee. Cold Heat. Ben Jones and Frank Santoro have put the first four issues of their currently-paused…
Scans Daily No More?
The fabulous online comics community Scans Daily has been shut down, one assumes by its host LiveJournal. The reason, apparently, was copyright infringement — ie. posting scans whole issues or close to whole issues of new comics on the site. Seeing some of his work there got comics writer Peter David riled, and he informed…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Long time since last picks. Haven’t had as much time to surf as normally. This week, however, I have a bunch of comics stuff on my mind. Du9: “Sibylline retrouvée” & “Le Grand recit fantastique.” Fine two-part article by David Turgeon on the never collected, late…
Reads: Christopher Hittinger
I really should start paying more attention to online comics. Last fall I picked up the 2007 French book edition of Christopher Hittinger’s Jamestown because I found the drawings thrilling at first leaf-through. I’ve only now managed to read it, and I enjoyed it immensely. Turns out, of course, that it’s been available online since…