“The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle,…
I’m in Venice at the moment and have no steady internet connection, and am thus not able to do much here on the blog. But I’d like to take the time out to advertise this: the 10-year anniversary of Zven Balslev’s quality art zine/publication, and now art publisher and record label, Smittekilde! Congrats! If you…
More good stuff going down the weekend of the 8. This is in New York and looks like a must. Do go. Want to know more about Töpffer? Read the Bunker’s introduction here, and the review of David Kunzle’s recent monograph on the cartoonist here.
We MUST make this work. We MUST have a kind of integration where we can be both Christian and Muslim and live next door to each other. But we need unequivocal support for democracy. For our basic rights. For the equality of the sexes. And this applies to everyone in this country. — Villy Søvndal,…
The great folks from Hamelin and Canicola are, once again, organising a quality comics festival in Bologna la grassa! It looks great; If my travel planner for Italy that weekend wasn’t already booked in another city, I’d be very tempted!
The danger arises not only when there is an assumption on the religious side that membership of the community (belonging to the umma or the Church or whatever) is the only significant category, so that participation in other kinds of socio-political arrangement is a kind of betrayal. It also occurs when secular government assumes a…
The picks of the week from around the web. The Crumbling paper index. This site is a treasure trove of old comics. Go there and loose yourself. Rap explained. Dropping science, hilariously. HuckChuckFacts. Just in case you haven’t seen this. You must, to believe.
Awesome art trio Ingen Frygt are exhibiting at Field’s, Copenhagen. The opening is this Friday. Go.
An interesting comics festival coming up this weekend in Gothenburg, Sweden. Peep their site here.
The picks of the week from around the web. Frank Rich: “The Billary Road to Republican Victory”. The New York Times‘ great op-ed columnist looks ahead at what a Hillary Clinton ticket for the presidency might mean for the presidential elections. An interesting corrective to the otherwise commonplace view that Hillary is the stronger candidate…
Comics writer and historian Alfredo Castelli has a late Christmas present for us all — the entirety (704 pages!) of his annotated bibliography on the early American newspaper strip, Eccoci ancora qui (“Here We Are Again”) is now available online in PDF format! Meticulously researched and chock-full of rarely-seen images, this is a must for…
Warren Craghead is one of the most interesting and innovative younger cartoonists working the margins of the comics medium these days. He has just posted his latest book, Lisboa, Lisbon on his new site, where it is available for reading and free downloading in PDF. What are you waiting for?
Frem til starten af februar vil man kunne se sort/hvide sider fra Blodbryllup og et kort bidrag til Johan Krarups Son Of A Horse-antologi på kunstcaféen “DIN NYE VEN”, lige en spytklat oppe af gaden fra Fantask, i Sct. Peders Stræde 34. Hvis ikke man er i nærheden af København, men alligevel gerne vil se…
For our readers in Paris, or those traveling to Angoulême at the end of the month, I just want to call attention to an exhibition of unpublished drawings by the great David B., La Guerre sainte, at the Galerie Anne Barrault, 22 rue Saint-Claude, 75003. The opening’s Saturday January 12 from 16.00-21.00, and the show’s…
Til vore norske læsere vil jeg lige gøre reklame for seneste udgave af Morgenbladet, der er i dobbeltstørrelse i anledning af julen. I kultursektionen står en anmeldelse af Tizian-udstillingerne i Belluno og Wien, begået af undertegnede, at læse. Den er en art kondensat af mine tekster her på sitet, men rummer alligevel andre betragtninger. Avisen…