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).…
Stripdagen in Haarlem has long been known as one of the best small comics festivals in Europe, consistently offering quality programming and notable international guests. This year’s festival, which runs from June 6-8, looks to be no different, with a group exhibition of artists from the collectives FRMK, La Cinquiène couche and La Mycose being…
Between May 31st and June 1st, the third installment of the International Danish Comics Festival, Komiks.dk, will take place in Copenhagen. Its programme is broad and truly international in scope, with guests ranging from the French veterans Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières (Valerian) and a couple of the more interesting names in American mainstream comics,…
Henrik Rehr har sendt mig denne meddelelse om et af de nye, konstruktive tiltag på den kommende danske tegneseriefestival Komiks.dk, om hvilken der kommer mere senere: Få en professionel vurdering af dine evner som tegneserietegner! En lang række af Danmarks førende udgivere og udførende inden for tegneseriemediet, står parat til at give DIG et ord…
The picks of the week from around the web. Q & A with David Barstow. The journalist behind this week’s contender for the Pulitzer answers FAQs about his piece on the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign at the major American networks. Bart Beaty on David Hajdu on Frederic Wertham (parts one, two, three). The discussion of the…
Warren Craghead, one of the most interesting and innovative cartoonists working the boundaries of the medium today, has just released an “origami comic” to his website for free! Go, download the PDF, print it, and fold along the dotted lines. And while you’re at it, go check out these postcards by him. What, exactly, are…
“The strategic target remains our population… We can lose people day in and day out, but they’re never going to beat our military. What they can and will do if they can is strip away our support. And you guys can help us not let that happen.” — General Conway, Director of Operations for the…
The picks of the week from around the web. Winsor McCay’s 1911 Little Nemo cartoon (above). For no other reason that it’s bloody awesome. McCay’s all the rage again, here’s a good article by Jeet Heer. Great DJ Shadow breaks mix. Kinda the Cliff’s notes to a bunch of Shadow classics, but first and foremost…
Hermed videregives besked fra det danske konsulat i New York vedrørende årets MoCCA-festival. Sidste år var Danmark velrepræsenteret — er I på igen i år? Kære danske tegneseriefolk Tak for jeres deltagelse i Mocca 2007. Vi har fået mulighed for i alt 8 nordiske borde endnu et år og ved godt at det er en…
You in Washington DC? Have time this evening? Go to the opening of ZaMZaM Arts’ latest show, featuring work by Laura Falzon, Sangbin Im, Richard Jochum, Kevork Mourad, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, and Sarah Siddiqui, at the Touchstone Gallery. Prime mover of the project, Siddiqui, is a good friend and a firebrand organiser — her project…
The picks of the week from around the web. Been busy this week, so not much of a selection this time around. However check these out: Get your Rusty Brown on with the Legion of Lego Superheroes (above). How many of them do you recognize, without looking at the Cliff’s notes? The Comic Book scare…
The picks of the week from around the web. The clip above and this one are pretty neat examples of ingenuous street art, I must say. Delightful. (Thanks, Eddie Campbell). Otherwise: Lots of great comics links this week! CBR — Steve Grant on the Superman ruling. The best summary article and analysis so far on…
The picks of the week from around the web. Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers. Cool Swedish short. Tom Breihan: In Defense of Li’l Wayne’s “Lollypop.” This is a pretty impressive feat of criticism; writing substantially about a song that has nothing in it — no hook, trite sexual analogy, lots of synth/vocoder: unabashed…
The cartoonists working at the Copenhagen studio Over Floden (“Across the River,” but also “The Plenitude”) have finally gotten their act together and put up a website. Go check it out: the text is in Danish, but there are plenty of images from Simon Bukhave, Johan Krarup, Søren Mosdal, Miwer, Mårdøn Smet and T. Thorhauge.
The picks of the week from around the web. Barack Obama’s speech on race. You probably read about it or heard excerpts, but if you haven’t heard it in its entirety, go check it out. Not only is it a rather incredible exercise in damage control, it’s a risky and moving speech. That hilarious Peter…