DWYCK: Hergé and the Order of Things
My second DWYCK-column, on comics criticism and Hergé, is now up over on the Hooded Utilitarian. Check it out.
Picks of the Week
“Like the attacks by Al Qaeda, the disaster in the Gulf was preceded by ample warnings : yet the administration had ignored them. Instead of cracking down on MMS, as he had vowed to do even before taking office, Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency’s culture of corruption.…
Images from Comics and Beats 3
The third Comics and Beats event in Copenhagen, hosted by the Danish Comics Council and the venue Vega took place last night. Cartoonists Ib Kjeldsmark, Cav Bøgelund and Mikkel Sommer improvised live with markers to the tunes of DJ TribleMe, while Bunker denizen and council chairman Thomas Thorhauge kept them on their toes as the…
Bunkeren repræsenterer i Nummer9s web-tv
Undertegnede og Thorhaugen optræder nu på Nummer9s web-TV-kanal med et par interviews udført af Cav Bøgelund og Tue Søttrup under tegneseriefestivalen Komiks.dk, til festen fredag aften. Bogmærk kanalen — der kommer meget mere, fra en masse forskellige danske tegneseriefolk.
Al Williamson RIP
Just paying respects to one of the great illustrators of comics, one of the masters of texture. The above story, “Food for Thought”, drawn in collaboration with Roy Krenkel for EC’s Incredible Science Fiction (full story available here) is a case in point: though never a great naturalist, Williamson brings the alien world to teeming…
Androids Can Dream — Robert Venditti interviewed
By Andrew Firestone A great man once said, “It is no small thing to make a new world.” And he’s only really half-right. It is a rather small thing to make a new world in one’s head. It is an entirely larger accomplishment if one delivers on the artistic and philosophical promise of this new…
Asterios Polyp: Beyond the Binary
The past week-and-a-half or so has seen David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp debated and dissected over at the Hooded Utilitarian, with discussions shooting off in a multitude of directions, amongst them the words-image binary in comics and the potential of comics as literature and the development of comics through modernism to the present day. Today I’ve…
Picks of the Week
“It’s pretty well understood amongst the crew who’s in charge,” …[Kuchta] said. “How do they know that?” a Coast Guard investigator asked. “I guess, I don’t know […] But it’s pretty well — everyone knows.” — Captain Curt R. Kuchta of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig The weekly linkage is back! Which I guess means…
Nummer9: Web-TV fra Komiks.dk
Så er MC Cav Bøgelund på banen med det første indslag i en serie, der bliver åbningen af det spritnye danske tegneseriesite Nummer9.dks web-TV-kanal. Cav og Tue Søttrup trawlede festivalen på såvel åbningsaftenen som i løbet af lørdagen og fik en del interviews i kassen. Hold øje med Nummer9.dk de næste dage og uger, og…
Hype: V1 x 3 Tonight!
If you’re in Copenhagen and looking for a way to kick off the night, Gallery V1 opens no less than three exhibitions at once! Some fine artists in there, so do consider it More info here, and these are the invites:
Images from ‘Contemporary Comics’ at the University of Copenhagen
Regular readers might be aware that I was recently involved in the planning of an academic conference on comics at the University of Copenhagen. It was called Contemporary Comics and took place on Friday May 21st. It featured 12 international speakers, as well as the Canadian scholar Jacques Samson, who delivered the keynote address, and…
On OCX 2010
I spent this past weekend in Oslo, at the fine comics festival OCX. Here’s my report for The Comics Journal and here’s the one for Nr9 (in Danish). Photo of Jim Woodring and Bendik Kaltenborn at the festival. Check the Bunker’s photos here. Check also my report from OCX 2007.
Komiks.dk at The Comics Journal
My report from last weekend’s Komiks.dk festival in Copenhagen is now up at The Comics Journal. Also, check out Frederik Høyer-Christensen’s photos from the weekend here.
J. F. Willumsen-tegneseriekonkurrence OBS! Ny Deadline
J.F. Willumsens Museum har netop udskrevet en stor og ambitiøs tegneseriekonkurrence, der søger en behandling af den danske kunstners liv og værk i tegneserieform. UPDATE: Museet har netop udskudt deadline til 31. december. Her er deres (let redigerede) pressemeddelelse: J.F. WILLUMSEN I STRIBEVIS: J. F. Willumsens Museum udskrev d. 22. maj 2010 på Komiks.dk en…