The inimitable ‘Li Se’, in whose “extended network” I find myself, has finally opened the floodgates and is committing to writing the kind of intellectual effluvium that people in said network have come to appreciate in conversation over the years. Written on the principle, appropriated from Charles Bukowski, of ‘not trying’, it is blogging as…
The picks of the week from around the web. The Guardian: “The Unwanted”. Joe Sacco on African refugees in Malta in the first installment of a 48-page reportage that originally ran in the Virginia Quarterly Review. Harvey Pekar. The death of the pioneering comics writer this week elicited some fine journalism around the web: Tom…
Meanwhile over at TCJ main, I have a review up of David Prudhomme’s critically acclaimed musical romance Rébétiko.
For this month’s column over at the Hooded Utilitarian, I’ve dug into the Rackham archive to re-present in English a piece I wrote on Quino’s comic strip masterpiece Mafalda back in 2005.
The picks of the week from around the web. The New Yorker: “The Mark of a Masterpiece”. David Grann talks to and examines the colourful career of Peter Paul Biro, the art forensics man who has participated in the authentication of the pretty, so-called Leonardo drawing that surfaced out of nowhere last year. Pretty amazing…
Ovre på det nye danske tegneseriesite nummer9.dk har vi netop postet en rundbordsdiskussion om de tre første bind i tegneserien Valhalla, i anledning af den nye samleudgivelse fra Carlsen. Udover undertegnede deltager chefredaktør Erik Barkman og Aben Malers Steffen P. Maarup. Check hele herligheden her.
The picks of the week from around the web. Rolling Stone: “The Runaway General”. Without question this week’s most exposed piece of journalism, Michael Hasting’s article on the now deposed Gen. Stanley McCrystal, is well-worth spending time with if you only read the summaries. It does much more than convey the disparaging one-liners that lost…
My second DWYCK-column, on comics criticism and Hergé, is now up over on the Hooded Utilitarian. Check it out.
“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.…
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.
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…
“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…
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…
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: