Linkage: Kirby in Tehran, Colletta’s Exit from Marvel
Just wanted to share a couple of immensely readable comics-related pieces I’ve stumbled upon yesterday and today, both through Dirk over at ¡Journalista!
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.
Re: A Certain Tendency in French Comics VI
Oh, yeah, it ain’t over muthafuckas! Pepo and the Con C de Arte crew are back with more commentary on the state of French nigh-mainstream comics.
Enter: Cav Bøgelund
So, some of you will probably have noticed that a new head has entered the Bunker, dropping us at a very special Copenhagen crossing, and for the non-Danes out there I want to take the opportunity to present him. Cav is one of the new voices in Danish comics and animation; after several years in…
Back in this Green and Pleasant Land
After a rather washed-out trip to Spain, where Emma got her bag stolen to boot (ahem, we’re trying not to think too much about that now), we’re back in sunny England! Somehow, it seems to me that there’s something wrong with that picture. But there it is. Anyway, it was a great trip, all things…
The Rain in Spain
Sorry about the string of no updates lately. We’re in Madrid where it’s raining cats and dogs. Doesn’t matter too much though – the city’s always great, and at this time we’re treated to a big Tintoretto show at the Prado – the first retrospective since 1937. It’s unfortunately slightly underwhelming, especially since in the…
Re: A Certain Tendency in French Comics V
No, I’m not continuing my diatribe against all those talented, boring French cartoonists here. Just wanted to note that the inimitable Bart Beaty touches upon the issue in his review of Christophe Blain’s Gus over at Comics Reporter. Go, read. Tangentially related: the press kit strip by Joann Sfar Thomas mentions in his Persepolis-at-Cannes post…
Hogarth’s Chicken Fat
Last week, I finally got the time to check the Hogarth show at the Tate. A very egalitarian and attractive retrospective of his career and oeuvre with equal attention paid to the bourgeois and the burlesque, the benevolent and the biting. Almost all of his most important work is assembled there, and it is a…
Re: Memento Mori
Lest we forget, tragedy is nigh universal, and today a bomb exploded in Sadriya, Baghdad, killing at least 140 people, while other bombs around the city brought the day’s total up to over 170. A nasty reminder that our thoughts tend to stray from there.
Hype: OCX 07
The weekend of May 4-5 will see inaugural edition of Oslo Comics Expo in, well, Oslo. In contrast to its older, distinguished cousin, the Raptus festival, which has been held yearly in Bergen for a good number of years now and this year unfortunately presents what may be its most anachronistic programme, OCX will focus…
Memento Mori
Shock, outrage, sympathy and sorrow. Those are the feelings of the moment. Our thoughts are in Virginia. Picture by David Mazzucchelli.
Open Season?
As you may be aware, French cartoonist Placid was fined €500 on January 18 for having insulted the French police with his cover (pictured) to a self-help book, Vos Papiers! Que faire face à la police? – on the, in France, ubiquitous control of identity carried out by the police – published back in 2001.…
Hype: Rytz & Ehlers
If you’re in Copenhagen on Monday, stop by the opening of the latest gallery show by Rytz & Ehlers, or, as they call their individual projects, Inkforest and Duudle. The opening is, at the same time, the grand opening of Gallery Doodletown. Rytz was, by the way, featured in our grand anthology BLÆK last year…
Logo!
The Metabunker now has a logo! It’s taken a while, but there it is. Hope you like it. It was designed by Loka?, the best kept secret of Danish design, and it was conjured unto the page by our long-suffering techhead, Tue (good lookin’ out pal!).
Re: A Certain Tendency in French Comics IV
The discussion on French nigh-mainstream comics continues! (scroll to the bottom for full linkage). Alex Holden, who chimed in earlier, returns with more comments: Hi Again Matthias- I have still been thinking about this discussion a bit. I can’t agree with your statements that Blutch (in particular) is not interested in exploration, since he has…
Fucking the Ground
Just read Joe Sacco’s “Down! Up!” from the latest Harper’s. A new strip from Sacco is a relatively rare thing, and 16 new pages is certainly a welcome event, especially when they’re this good. Reporting from Iraq, Sacco has sat in on a couple of American officers training a group of Iraqis to be soldiers…