Having forgotten to ask Brad Neely for permission to use his work as illustration, we must make do with a sketch of the man himself. Brad Neely’s drawings work, because you read them in an instant. The images tend to move, but Neely isn’t really an animator. His drawings are all single instances, flashing by,…
The picks of the week from around the web. The New York Times: Bill Ayers responds. Op-ed piece from the recently much-maligned former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Succint and to the point, with plenty of things to disagree with. The comments section by the way contains some excellent discussion. A couple of great comics links. “The…
If you’re in LA you should really, really consider going to Anders Nilsen’s first solo show, which opens at LitteBird Gallery this Saturday. Nilsen himself says that it’s “a bunch of big drawings, a few gouache paintings and a few covers from Big Questions. Included are Batman, Captain America, The Archangel Gabriel, Adam and Eve…
Danish cartoonist Ib Kjeldsmark is currently doing a strip called Mongo Business for the bi-weekly branch mag Markedsføring. It’s worth a look — Ib is a great visual stylist the hollowed-out bullshit Buddishm metaphor he makes use of works well for his irreverent anti-authoritarian satire. It’s in Danish, unfortunately, but check it out anyway, for…
Our man Frederik Høyer-Chr. was in the place to be at the reception held at historic Copenhagen comics/SF/games store Fantask on the occasion of co-founder Søren Pedersen’s retirement, this past friday. Check out his photos if you weren’t there — or if you were — and especially if you’ve never been. It’s a pretty unique…
Ups, jeg så ikke det her i tide: den ene af dansk tegneseries førstedamer, Sussi Bech, fyldte 50 i går! Der skal hermed lyde et hjerteligt tillykke her fra Bunkeren til skaberen af Nofret og Aida Nur.
Søren Pedersen, den ene stifter af tegneserie-, SF- og spilbutikken Fantask gennem noget nær en halv menneskealder, siger nu farvel og tak og trækker sig tilbage. Det er med en blanding af vemod og varme, at undertegnede således må tage afsked med den animerende kraft i butikken, Søren altid har været. Det bliver ikke det…
“Obama’s victory is a sign of history in the triple Kantian sense of signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognosticum. A sign in which the memory of the long past of slavery and the struggle for its abolition reverberates; an event which now demonstrates a change; a hope for future achievements. The scepticism displayed behind closed doors even…
Just thought I’d hype this — the latest issue of The Comics Journal (#294) contains a career-spanning interview with Norwegian star cartoonist Jason, conducted by yours truly. An excerpt is available at the TCJ site, with the entirety of the magazine available to subscribers, and hardcopies will be available in stores in a fortnight’s time.…
Den danske tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk blev som bekendt afholdt for tredje gang i sommers. Arrangementet var en succes på snart sagt alle planer og det virkede derfor på mange som om festivalen var kommet for at blive. Det håber vi alle fortsat, men arrangørerne har meddelt, at de har behov for flere hænder hvis det skal…
The latest ACME Novelty Library (#19), which is the latest instalment in the greater story of Rusty Brown, is a somewhat frustrating experience. It combines two stories that reflect on one another. An science fiction piece detailing the colonisation of Mars by four people and two dogs, and a flashback to the youth of what…
“Chocolate City is no dream, it’s my part of the rock, and I dig ya CC.” — George Clinton, “Chocolate City” The picks of the week from around the web. Parliament: “Chocolate City”. Emphatically the track of the week. Listen to it here, and go here for the classic album. Gore Vidal on BBC’s election…
“The ‘Oratorio’ is nothing less than the Shazam!, the Kimota! for Western Culture and we would do well to remember it in our currently trying times.” — Grant Morrison, on Pico della Mirandola’s Oratory on the Dignity of Man In the marathon Newsarama interview with Grant Morrison on his and Frank Quitely’s newly-finished All-Star Superman…
Michael Chabon frustrates me. He’s obviously talented, smart and knows how to tell a good story in the old school way. Even if he suffers from the classic problem of providing his stories with endings as memorable as what went before. (I remember a lot of cool things about Kavalier and Clay, but how did…