The picks of the week from around the web. Danish TV2: Interview with Gregorius Nekschot (above). Check out this interview of February 28th with the cartoonist recently targeted by the Dutch police. It’s in Danish and Dutch, with subtitles, but no English, unfortunately. Still, worth a view. Information. For our Danish readers, here’s a good…
As mentioned before, this weekend sees the International Comics Festival in Copenhagen, Komiks.dk, going down. And of course there are auxillary events. On Saturday, the release party for Palle Schmidt’s new crime comic Blodets Konkubine and the opening of the exhibition Sekvens, which shows original works by the cartoonists mentioned on the flyer above, will…
Aben Malers nye kollektion af minitegneserier – de såkaldte 676’ere – er landet, og de er fyldt med overskud og virtuositet! For kun 35 kr. kan enten Mårdøn Smets Lazarus, Signe Parkins Bordskik, Peter Adolphsen/Zven Balslevs Duerne flyver højt over byen, Christopher Zielers Pigen og Katten samt Johan F. Krarups Pibemanden blive din. De er…
Following the arrest of Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot last week, it has become publicised that the Dutch Secret Service apparently has a division dedicated to checking all cartoons being published in the country for potentially offensive content. Whatever you may think of Nekschot’s racist junk, that should be cause for concern. And indeed, Dutch cartoonist…
This Friday will see the opening of Boy Wonder Simon Bukhave’s first solo exhibition. If you’re in Copenhagen (perhaps attending the Grand comics festival, Komiks.dk), go check it out. Simon has produced a couple of new, gorgeous drawings (see above) : and everything is for sale! Go, watch! Go buy! (In fact, just send him…
So why it is such an upsetting photograph is not just because we see someone smiling in the context of the horrible, but that when we look at her, we begin to have to resist smiling ourselves. So it’s a terrible, terrible picture for that reason alone. — Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at…
It has gotten to the point where we’re receiving so many press releases, announcements and other advertisements here at the Metabunker that we have decided to impose certain restrictions on what gets posted. A lot of what you, the readers, have been sending looks great and we certainly appreciate and pay attention to it, but…
The picks of the week from around the web. Douglas Feith on the Daily Show (above). Watch the former Under Secretary of Defence getting grilled on the selling of the Iraq War to the American People by John Stewart. Not to be missed! Tom Spurgeon, Dirk Deppey and a host of others on the future…
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This is great. These mixes go year by year, covering the history of hip hop music from 1979 to 1999, incorporating incontrovertible classics with forgotten gems in smooth, eminently listenable and ear-opening mixes. This is your pick of the week, if you have even the slightest interest in hip hop. Photo of the Crash Crew,…
Majors is a new Danish supergroup delivering traditional, well-crafted boom-bap hip hop in spades. In consists of former DMC Champion DJ Noize, DJ and producer extraordinaire Static, as well as the MCs NatILL, J-Spliff and the hottest new talent on the block, Negash Ali. Their album is out, you can check out their first video…
The picks of the week from around the web. The New York Times: Frank Rich turns in a brilliant column on the perceived constituency and chances of election of John McCain in this autumn’s presidential election. As usual, a thought-provoking corrective to the steady media drone about the Democratic primaries. More on the 50’s comics…
Lest you’d missed it, it is festival season. So here’s another round of hype. This time for the newly initiated Oslo Comix Expo, which was held for the first time last year. It was a considerable success — a really pleasant and unpretentious, but still ambitious and well-organised little festival (read more here and here).…