This is just to note that the Hooded Utilitarians’ enlightening roundtable on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (1989-1996) has now come full circle — hop over there to check the entries by Noah Berlatsky, Ng Suat Tong, Tom Crippen, Vom Marlowe and Kinukitty. There are lots of good thoughts there and the comments are also well worth…
1. oktober udgiver Aben Maler første bind af Bryan Lee O’Malleys vitale ungdomsserie Scott Pilgrim; første bind bærer titlen Kører stilen og vil i månedens løb blive publiceret på forlagets hjemmeside. Læs den!
Peter Madsen og — formoder jeg — Henning Kure, der netop har afsluttet deres store Valhalla-projekt, vil i morgen, fredag d. 18 mellem kl. 16.00-18.00, være at finde i Fantask, hvor de vil signere det nye album Vølvens syner og deres andre tegneserier. Hvis du gik glip af seancen i Faraos i sidste uge, er…
The picks of the week from around the web. Comics criticism. This has been a pretty decent week for online comics criticism. Ng Suat Tong points out the dearth of good criticism, fowllowed by a fun debate, which he follows up by this analysis of the writing in contemporary mainstream comics at the Comics Reporter.…
Mød Ivar Gjørup i Fantask i dag mlm. 16 og 18 til signering og afsked med tegneseriens Gud i anledning af udgivelsen af det sidste Egoland-opus Fabula Rasa. En lidt sen melding herfra; hvorfor bruger Fantask ikke sociale netværksservices som Twitter og Facebook, kom nu!
… Og det er lige her, denne gang med Tegneserierådsislæt, idet rådsmedlem og redaktør af Tegneseriesiden.dk, Ulf Reese Næsborg er ugens gæst. “Ondskabens flydende vatikan” er navnet, og føj hellere til foretrukne: har du en sød tand for munterjovial, velfunderet og velgørende respektløshed, så er det her det sker. Udsendelsens bedste replik faldt da en…
Sidste streg er, som nok bekendt, nu — efter 30 — år slået i Peter Madsens, Henning Kures, Per Vadmands og Hans Rancke Madsens storstilede genfortælling af de nordiske gudemyter, Valhalla, og det seneste udkomne album, nr. 15, omhandler naturligt nok gudernes endeligt, eller Ragnarok. Læs serien og mød op i Faraos Cigarer i morgen…
“the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth” — Paul Krugman The picks of the week from around the web. Busy times, but this week I’ve had a little time to poke around the web. Here’s what rose to the top. The New York Times:…
Yesterday saw the publication of the first four volume of a lavish, projected five-volume monographic work on the great Danish Renaissance printmaker and draughtsman Melchior Lorck (c. 1526/27-after 1583), published by the Royal Library and high end publisher Vandkunsten. Not only was Lorck a highly accomplished printmaker, he was also a wandering spirit and, crucially,…
One of the Bunker’s favorite young(ish) cartoonists, Anders Nilsen, has started an art auction to support the current efforts by the US Government to reform the country’s health care system in favor of the universal scheme the country should have had a long time ago. The prospect of these vitally important measures crashing a burning…
Jack Kirby would have been 92 today. Our Danish readers are encouraged to seek out the upcoming issue of comics magazine STRIP! (hitting the stands in a month or so) for a career-spanning, long overdue celebration of The King of Comics penned by yours truly.
Ã…rhus festuge startede i dag og fortsætter næste uge. Denne gang er der tegneserier på programmet v. Bunkerens egen Thomas Thorhauge, der på tirsdag kl. 16.00 taler om tegneserien lige nu, og i fremtiden. Mød op, tryk tølperen i hånden og åbn øresneglen. Det foregår som alle festivalens andre litteratur-arrangementer i Rådhusparken. Mere info, inkl.…
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…
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.