the metabunker – Page 138 – by matthias wivel & friends

Danish Bookbinders’ Awards to be handed out today

comics and cartooning, journal24 May 2007

Today, the Association of Danish Bookbinders will be presenting their selection of 2006 books at the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Kunstindustrimuseet) in Copenhagen. As mentioned earlier, Rackham’s big anthology of Danish comics and cartoon art BLÃ†K is part of the it. I won’t be there, but I think both T. Thorhauge (co-editor and contributor) and Frederik Storm (designer) will. Show up, take a look at the books and drink some wine, if you have time!

Re: Rall under observation

comics and cartooning, current affairs, journal24 May 2007

Just to follow up on my recent post on cartoonist Ted Rall, along with a plethora of other “activists”, including a number of hip hop MCs being put under surveillance by the NYPD in the months leading up to the 2003 Republican National Convention in New York, I wanted to link to this instalment of Rall’s syndicated column about the issue. He is convinced that he is under FBI observation and that his phone is being tapped.

Did Hergé die of AIDS?

comics and cartooning, journal23 May 2007

Strange news at this time of celebration: Philippe Goddin, the editor of the massive ouevre catalogue of Hergé’s that is being published these years and author of an upcoming biography, has just stated in an interview that he is convinced that Hergé died not of leukemia as has hitherto been the belief, but of AIDS. He would have been infected through one of the weekly blood transfusions he was taking for a rare hereditary disease he was suffering from (at the time, transfusions were carried out without checking for HIV infection). “He started being plagued by influenzas, pneumonia and repeated bronchitis, none of which seemed related to the disease he had been suffering from for years,” says Goddin.

Hergé 100 II

comics and cartooning, documentation23 May 2007

Continuing our celebration of Hergé’s centenary, today’s drawing is by Miwer, a stalwart of the infamous, now defunct Fort Kox studio.

Check yesterday’s illo by Mårdøn Smet and be sure to check our freewheeling discussion of Hergé’s work here.

Happy Centenary, Hergé!

comics and cartooning, documentation22 May 2007

Today it is the centenary of Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, the creator of Tintin!

To celebrate here at the Bunker, where we love his work, we have asked a number of Danish cartoonists to contribute drawings commemorating the anniversary. First up is Mårdøn Smet, the virtuoso veteran of Danish comics. Read more about him here, check out this small archive of his old work, and be aware that BLÃ†K contains some of his very best comics work (in pantomime, so there’s no language barrier!). Also, be sure to check our freewheeling discussion of Hergé’s work here.

Tintin/Appreciation-Conversation

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism22 May 2007

To mark the centenary of Georges Remi, alias Hergé, and to celebrate his life’s work, T. Thorhauge and I decided to represent one of the many spirited conversations we’ve had about it over the years in writing. The following is our informal back-and-forth appreciation of some of our favourite comics. I asked Thomas the opening question in an email, and away we went!

On Tintoretto IV

commentary and criticism, pictorial arts22 May 2007

This is the fourth and last part of my look at some of the Tintoretto works included in the Prado retrospective which just closed. Read part I, which includes an introduction and general remarks about the exhibition, here, part II here, and part III here.

On Tintoretto III

commentary and criticism, pictorial arts21 May 2007

This is the third part of my look at some of the Tintoretto works included in the Prado retrospective which just closed. Read part I, which includes an introduction and general remarks about the exhibition, here, and part II here.

On Tintoretto II

commentary and criticism, pictorial arts20 May 2007

This is the second part of my look at some of the Tintoretto works included in the Prado retrospective which closes today. Read part I, which includes an introduction and general remarks about the exhibition here.

On Tintoretto I

commentary and criticism, pictorial arts19 May 2007

All right, things have now gotten a little less crazy around here, and I finally see a window for getting some thoughts down on Tintoretto, inspired by the big retrospective in Madrid that I had the pleasure of seeing a few weeks back, and which closes on Sunday. So, over the next few days, I will be posting on Tintoretto here.