This Friday, the 28th, one of Copenhagen’s finest small book/art stores CMYKkld hosts a reception for the release of the artist’s anthology Short Stories from Hurricane Publishing, one of Copenhagen’s finest small art publishers. Also, the store has now expanded its selection of original artist’s prints to include poster-sized formats. There’ll be live music and…
Encapsulates what’s cool about Stan Lee, on several levels. Taken at this year’s San Diego Con by Henrik Andreasen. I filched it from his convention report. For another telling photo of a great comics personality, and one time collaborator of Lee’s, check this one.
Yale University Press’ decision to publish Jytte Klausen’s upcoming book on the Danish Cartoon Crisis, The Cartoons that Shook the World, without reproductions of the cartoons themselves is distressing news. In its press release, the Press expresses concern that including them would risk triggering new episodes of violence and they cite consultation with a number…
(OBS! Thorhauge her!) På websitet serieland.dk har Kristian Bang Larsen skrevet en kronik om vigtigheden af gode forfattere i tegneserieproduktion. KBL angriber ikke mindst den danske tegneseriebranche, som i hans optik i særdeleshed lider under manglen på gode forfattere. KBLs kronik er et velkomment indlæg i debatten, og har nogle gode pointer : ikke desto…
Just a quick note of hype. The latest issue of The Comics Journal, #299, includes my report from January’s festival in Angoulême. For various reasons, it took till now for it to see print, but since it isn’t particularly topical, I don’t think it’s a problem for its readability. Get the new Journal for my…
Johan Krarup har interviewet Free Comics-redaktør og Forlæns/Brun Blomst-forlægger Torben Hansen i anledning af lukningen af førnævnte. Læs det, læs det! Husk også at læse Rackhams interview med Hansen fra 2006.
Det er netop kommet Bunkeren for øre, at Torben Hansen har besluttet sig for at indstille produktionen af gratistegneseriebladet Free Comics. Sidste nummer bliver således det netop udkomne sommernummer, nummer 53. Torben skriver: Hej Alle! Jeg har besluttet at stoppe Free Comics. Det er blevet for meget bøvl for mig at lave; det er ikke…
I’ve talked about the new Danish comics anthology From Wonderland with Love before, and I’ve even interviewed editor/publisher Steffen P. Maarup about it, but at the risk of it all becoming rather trite, I’d like to call attention to it here once again, because it is now out and should be available at your bookstore…
The picks of the week from around the web. The New York Times: “Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure” by Jack Hitt. This must-be-read-to-be-believed article describes the former Bosnian Serb leader and war criminal’s life in hiding from Interpol as a new age-healer — complete with sperm-revivifying hands — in Belgrade. A must. (Thanks, Mi!) The TLS:…
I’ve been reading that Showcase collection of 1950s Challengers of the Unknown comics by Jack Kirby intermittently over the past months. The stories are pretty dreary — although large parts of them can probably be ascribed to him, Kirby was still working with a pretty pedestrian writer in Dave Wood — but the art is…
Jeg har haft den her til at ligge et stykke tid og skriver som Bunkerens læsere måske vil have noteret kun sjældent anmeldelser, men den fortjener alligvel et par ord. Jacob Rask Nielsen er manden bag den noget ujævne, men grafisk stærke “Klovn!” i Free Comics og var vinderen — med striben Carlo & Co.…
The picks of the week from around the web. London Review of Books: “The Rome-Tehran Axis”. In his typical perambulatory fashion — segueing from Iran to Berlusconi to Kung Fu Panda — celebrity philosopher Slavoj Žižek makes a somewhat off-the-cuff, but nevertheless compelling and disturbing argument about the current evolution of Western democracy. Comics Comics:…
The English illustrator, painter and comics artist Martin Vaughn-James passed away last week (obits here and here). Perhaps this will be an occasion for comics world to take greater note of this significant artist and innovator in the medium. Owing to his influences and probably especially the fact that he lived in Brussels for the…
“Among critics of American-style capitalism in the Third World, the way that America has responded to the current economic crisis has been the last straw. During the East Asia crisis, just a decade ago, America and the I.M.F. demanded that the affected countries cut their deficits by cutting back expenditures—even if, as in Thailand, this…
It’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you. Things kind of went out the window as Emma and I went off to get married (a big thanks to Henry for throwing in his update here!). After the wedding itself we went on the road through California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. It was a…