The picks of the week from around the web. Been busy this week, so not much of a selection this time around. However check these out: Get your Rusty Brown on with the Legion of Lego Superheroes (above). How many of them do you recognize, without looking at the Cliff’s notes? The Comic Book scare…
Man må sige, at vores bette debatindlæg i seneste nummer af Strip! har været en succes, i hvert fald i forhold til Danmarks største (og eneste) tegneserieportal. Det har tydeligvis ført til både selvransagelse, nye initiativer og så selvfølgelig de sædvanlige automatreaktioner fra visses hold. Det er til sidstnævnte jeg her lige ville knytte en…
So Charlton Heston died yesterday. A major figure in the 50s and 60s Hollywood blockbuster tradition, serving up some of the most bombastic and histrionic moments in American film. He deserves some kind of respect for that, even if his role in the powerful and destructive American gun lobby will forever tarnish his reputation in…
The picks of the week from around the web. The clip above and this one are pretty neat examples of ingenuous street art, I must say. Delightful. (Thanks, Eddie Campbell). Otherwise: Lots of great comics links this week! CBR — Steve Grant on the Superman ruling. The best summary article and analysis so far on…
OK, so it’s been a couple of days since comicbook journeyman Jim Mooney passed away, but he still deserves his props from the Bunker. Incredibly prolific and surprisingly versatile, he gave a lot of mediocre books a touch of elegance, and contributed substantially to some quality ones, such as Omega the Unknown (pictured). Mark Evanier’s…
Play This Twice Remembering Anthony Minghella: An essay on his film adaptation of Beckett’s Play.
Vi har netop erfaret, at Dan Denholt — kendt i danske tegneseriekredse for sit store arbejde for tegneseriefestivalen Komiks.dk — er afgået ved døden efter længere tids sygdom. Han blev 31 år. Vi i Bunkeren sender hans familie og venner alle de bedste tanker.
Saw Geert Wilders’ piece of hate-filled garbage yesterday, just before it got pulled from Liveleak. Pretending to merely be a critique of the Koran, this is straight-up racist hate speech, equating as it does the worst excesses of Islamist extremism with the over one million muslims currently living in Holland. Seriously, the animation in the…
This is great news. The heirs of Jerome Siegel (1914-1996) — who in 1938 created Superman along with artist Joseph Shuster (1914-1992) — have been granted the rights to the material published that year in Action Comics #1, the first appearance of the character, ie. the material they created free of any contract, before they…
In my post this morning, I made a comparison between the colouring of the Danish 1954 edition of the Barks classic “Vacation Time” and that of Egmont’s recently released version. I unfortunately didn’t have the scans of the same panels from both editions. I do now, and here they are for your perusal: 1954 2008…
It’s finally happening, it seems. A solicitation via Amazon.com last week revealed that, beginning this fall, Gemstone will be collecting and releasing the Duck comics of Carl Barks in their entirety in the original language! On paper, this is great news for Barks fans and lovers of great comics everywhere. For my money, these are…
The picks of the week from around the web. Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers. Cool Swedish short. Tom Breihan: In Defense of Li’l Wayne’s “Lollypop.” This is a pretty impressive feat of criticism; writing substantially about a song that has nothing in it — no hook, trite sexual analogy, lots of synth/vocoder: unabashed…
Den fantastiske diskussion ovre på Seriejournalen har ikke blot affødt mangent et viist indlæg, men nu også nye danske tegneserier! Henrik Rehr gør os alle stolte. 😀
CelebriDays On the transformation of Beckett’s Happy Days into a kind of star vehicle (Deborah Warner/Fiona Shaw, National Theatre, Spring 2007).
Raymond Leblanc just died at the age of 92. Through a long life, he was Tintin creator Hergé’s prime enabler. The two co-founded the Tintin magazine in 1946. A war hero, Leblanc helped Hergé emerge from the blacklisting he was suffering under because of his collaboration during the German occupation of Belgium. He also provided…