As you may have read, an anonymous donor recently gifted a complete set of the original art to Amazing Fantasy #15, in which the first Spider-Man story, by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, appeared, to the Library of Congress. This is the story Morten Søndergård in an article published on this site, suggested was based…
Looks like I may have spoken too soon when I wrote that Marvel could not be counted on to support ailing artist Gene Colan in his hour of need. Apparently, they have agreed to contribute towards paying for his treatment, though the exact amount will remain confidential. Great, but it’s still a disgrace that there…
It has gotten to the point where we’re receiving so many press releases, announcements and other advertisements here at the Metabunker that we have decided to impose certain restrictions on what gets posted. A lot of what you, the readers, have been sending looks great and we certainly appreciate and pay attention to it, but…
The picks of the week from around the web. Douglas Feith on the Daily Show (above). Watch the former Under Secretary of Defence getting grilled on the selling of the Iraq War to the American People by John Stewart. Not to be missed! Tom Spurgeon, Dirk Deppey and a host of others on the future…
One of comics’ greatest humorists, the inimitable Will Elder — of Mad, Trump!, Humbug and Help! fame — has passed away: Heaven is now surely becoming a much more chaotically fun place by the minute… UPDATE: Tom Spurgeon’s obituary.
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On Monday, one of the greatest artists of the latter half of the 20th Century, the uncontainable creativo Robert Rauschenberg, died. He was 82 and active to the end, leaving us a massive and singular body of work. Art as beauty, keenly reminding us that it is no different from Our World as such. One…
Gene “The Dean” Colan, the master of painterly penciling whose art graced many a classic Silver Age story in such titles as Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Daredevil and Tomb of Dracula, is ailing. And his family is having a hard time paying his medical bills. They are therefore asking Colan’s fans for contributions, so if…
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Sidste år kritiserede jeg Ivar Gjørups Egoland for at have gennemgået en kreativ afmatning de senere år. Den opfattelse har jeg fortsat, men striben er jo ikke Danmarks bedste tegneserie uden grund, og ind i mellem brænder Gjørups vid og satiriske talent stadig klart igennem.
Mark Evanier long-time friend and collaborator of the late Jack Kirby, and the world’s foremost authority of the man and his work, has been working on a comprehensive biography for years. Recognising that this book will be huge, as well as expensive and perhaps hard to market to a broader audience, he has put out…
This is great. These mixes go year by year, covering the history of hip hop music from 1979 to 1999, incorporating incontrovertible classics with forgotten gems in smooth, eminently listenable and ear-opening mixes. This is your pick of the week, if you have even the slightest interest in hip hop. Photo of the Crash Crew,…
Today, one of the greatest living cartoonists celebrates seven decades in live print. And as the above photo, from Angoulême 2006, shows, he’s still young at heart! Congrats, Møbbefar!
Charles de Lauzirika, the filmmaker and producer who worked with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner: The Final Cut, has responded to my criticisms and talks about some of the choices behind the restoration in the BladeZone forum. Here’s a slightly condensed version of our exchange:
Majors is a new Danish supergroup delivering traditional, well-crafted boom-bap hip hop in spades. In consists of former DMC Champion DJ Noize, DJ and producer extraordinaire Static, as well as the MCs NatILL, J-Spliff and the hottest new talent on the block, Negash Ali. Their album is out, you can check out their first video…