Hype: Willumsens Kongesønnens Bryllup — Et værk uden grænser
Det er på J. F. Willumsens Museum. Se udstillingen! Læs lidt mere om billedet her.
Kom hjem — First look
Yeah, it’s him again. Thomas Thorhauge has been working on this thing for almost as long as we can remember, so we’re cutting him some slack here. It’s fresh off the press and it looks spectacular. Thorhauge himself evidently also thinks so, because he’s done this Flickr-stream showcasing his baby. Enjoy, and let’s hope for…
The Danish Comics Council
Our international readers may remember a lot of activity, all conducted in the gibberish tongue that is Danish, about a month ago here at the Bunker. The reason was that a new Danish comics organisation, the Danish Comics Council, was founded. On the board serves yours truly serves, along with the Bunker’s own Thomas Thorhauge,…
Sacrebleu! Thorhauge Live on the Web!
The Bunker’s own Thomas Thorhauge has finally — after all these years — gotten his act together and created a web page for himself. He has decided upon the old school Web 2.0 format of a blog, which he — inexplicably — calls Sacre Bleu! Unfortunately, it’s all in Danish, but go there and check…
Picks of the Week
“The White House knew he’d been tortured. I didn’t, though I was supposed to be evaluating that intelligence… It seems to me they were using torture to achieve a political objective. I cannot believe that the president and vice president did not know who was being waterboarded, and what was being given up.” — Former…
Thomas Thorhauge’s Batman
I’ve already linked to Copenhagen cartoonists’ studio Over Floden’s current Batman tribute, but since I’ve been on the road lately and have nothing else to show for it yet, I’d like to call special attention to Bunker contributor Thomas Thorhauge’s contribution, which references John Wayne at the end of John Ford’s masterpiece The Searchers to…
Hype: Emmanuel Guibert in the Comics Journal
Emmanuel Guibert, whose comic Alan’s War we just selected as our comic of the year here at the Bunker, is featured in the new issue of the Comics Journal (#297), both with a preview of his book The Photographer, which is about to come out in English, and an interview conducted by yours truly. There’s…
Picks of the Week
“Paying fair market values for the assets will not work. Only by overpaying for the assets will the banks be adequately recapitalized. But overpaying for the assets simply shifts the losses to the government. In other words, the Geithner plan works only if and when the taxpayer loses big time.” — Joseph E. Stiglitz The…
Over Floden: Batman at 70!
These days, the most happening cartoonist’s studio in Copenhagen is Over Floden. It counts amongst its members Simon Bukhave, Cav Bøgelund, Johan F. Krarup, Miwer, Søren Mosdal, Mårdøn Smet & T. Thorhauge. All of them do fine comics (and most of them have contributed to the upcoming Aben Maler/Fantagraphics-published antho From Wonderland with Love), but…
Hype: Academic Perspectives on Comics, Växjö
At the end of next week, April 16-18, Växjö University in Sweden is hosting an academic conference on comics, the full title of which is the rather torturous “Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena.” Don’t let that dissuade you, though — it looks pretty great and features Thierry…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Big Numbers #3, by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz (assisted, infamously, by Al Colombia). (Everyone’s posted this, but what the heck). Bits and pieces of it have been flowing around for years, but finally Pádraig Ó Méalóid has assembled the whole story and put it online.…
Dansk Tegneserieråd stiftes i dag!
Så er det i aften, at den stiftende generalforsamling i Dansk Tegneserieråd finder sted. Der skal vælges en formand, en bestyrelse og en revisor og der skal diskuteres fremtidsplaner. Kom, meld dig ind og vær med fra starten! Dansk Tegneserieråds hjemmeside har en liste over kandidaterne til bestyrelsesposterne. Klik ind på ‘Arbejdsgruppen’ og kig efter…
Picks of the Week
The picks of the week from around the web. Times Literary Supplement: Shakespeare (Unfound(ed)? Katherine Duncan Jones offers a strongly argued dismissal of the recently publicised alleged portrait of Shakespeare. London Review of Books: “Is it Art?” Great article on video games as art by John Lanchester. François Ayroles: Nouveaux moments clés de l’histoire de…
Pre-Hype: From Wonderland with Love
This August, Danish art comics publisher Steffen P. Maarup will be publishing an anthology featuring the cream of Danish comics in a collaboration between his publishing house Aben Maler and leading American art comics publisher Fantagraphics! The anthology, From Wonderland with Love — Danish Comics in the Third Millenium, will feature short works of 19…
Tegneserien får officielt råd
Det er med glæde, at undertegnede nu kan bringe følgende pressemeddelelse: Aldrig tidligere har der på verdensplan været skabt og udgivet så mange spændende, vidtfavnende, vitale og iøjnefaldende tegneserier som nu. Tegneserien oplever en veritabel guldalder. Alligevel står tegneserien svagt i Danmark blandt kritikere, boghandlere, tegneserieskabere, forlag, læsere og myndigheder, og hvad der engang var…