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…
Fra Fyns Stiftstidende i forgårs. (Tak til Chewie.)
Den seneste udveksling mellem undertegnede og forskellige brugere på Seriejournalen fik mig til at spekulere lidt over dette, “Danmarks største” (og på sin vis eneste) tegneseriesite. Med genuin interesse for hvad det er, han har mellem hænderne, skrev en bruger: “Det er et fantastisk sted at være. Her har jeg lært mange rigtigt gode mennesker…
Mit og T. Thorhauges (ja, drenge, det stod der sort på hvidt) indlæg om den danske tegneseriekultur fra det nye Strip! (ja, drenge, det er lavet til bladet, ikke til Bunkeren) har sat en debat igang på Seriejournalen, der nu er oppe på flere sider. Henrik Rehr gjorde mig opmærksom på dette, da han sendte…
Selvom man godt kunne være i tvivl, når man ser bladets business as usual-forside, markerer tegneserietidsskriftet Strip! med sit seneste nummer sit tiårsjubilæum. Det helt igennem uinspirerede layout, forside-interviewet med Joann Sfar, som sagtens kunne have ventet en postgang, og andet fyld bidrager desværre til at tilmudre en udgave af Strip! der på ganske sjælden…
The cartoonists working at the Copenhagen studio Over Floden (“Across the River,” but also “The Plenitude”) have finally gotten their act together and put up a website. Go check it out: the text is in Danish, but there are plenty of images from Simon Bukhave, Johan Krarup, Søren Mosdal, Miwer, Mårdøn Smet and T. Thorhauge.
The picks of the week from around the web. Barack Obama’s speech on race. You probably read about it or heard excerpts, but if you haven’t heard it in its entirety, go check it out. Not only is it a rather incredible exercise in damage control, it’s a risky and moving speech. That hilarious Peter…
The great exhibition of Titian’s late work shown this past autumn in Vienna has now moved to the Accademia in Venice in a rather amputated, but still beautiful incarnation. Worth seeing alone for the rare chance to see the KromerÃz Flaying of Marsyas and the Accademia’s own Pietà , which did not travel to Vienna, hung…
Loka? the best kept secret of Danish graphics — and the designer of the Metabunker logo (above) — is still online and is now blogging. Go check out his work.
Obituary by Mark Evanier. Also, check out this 2001 Comic Book Artist interview. Drawing of Wonder Woman by Stevens, culled from here.
During Albrecht Dürer’s second stay in Venice, in 1506, he wrote back to his friend Willibald Pirckheimer in Nüremberg about his experiences in the Serenissima, amongst other things describing the artists at work there. Of the elderly but still very much active Giovanni Bellini, he wrote that he was still “der pest im Gemoll” —…
2007 — The Best Hip Hop Albums According to the Bunker, these are the ones. Peep them.
Gary Gygax, who just passed away, changed my life. Indirectly but still. He was one of the great imaginary enablers of our time. His creation, along with several others, not so much of Dungeons & Dragons itself, but of the role-playing game as an immersive storytelling form, has been central to the development of my…
“The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle,…