Marvel Comics – the metabunker

Daredevil i Informeren

Matthias Wivel — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:16:22 +0000

I dagens bogtillæg til Information kan man læse min anmeldelse af Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli og Christie Scheeles klassiker Daredevil: Born Again, der for nylig blev udgivet samlet på dansk for første gang. Hermed et uddrag:

Skildringen af heltens sammenbrud er kropsnært men også metaforisk visualiseret. Kapitelåbningerne følger ham uroligt sovende, set oppefra, først i sin seng, så i et luset hotelværelse og til sidst på et leje af skraldeposer i en gyde i tiltagende fosterstilling. Man lugter sveden under hans lurvede, blå dynejakke. Da han ender i en smadret taxa på bunden af East River, suggereres vandets dunkle grums af fintmaskede rasterark under Christie Scheeles besk tonede fladefarvelægning.

Læs det hele her, hvis du har betalt penge til avisen.

Eternals i Supersnak!

Matthias Wivel — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:54:32 +0000

Så deltager jeg i Supersnak igen, hvor vi — igen — snakker Jack Kirby! Det drejer sig om Jack Kirbys tegneserie The Eternals (1976-77) sker i forbindelse med premieren på Marvels Eternals-film. Jeg fik snakket mig ud i noget rod, som Kim heldigvis hjalp mig med, da jeg ad to omgange spurgte om ikke han kunne klippe nogle nye optagelser ind. Det er der blevet et… noget forvirret, men forhåbentlig også interessant podcast ud af. Morten og Kim pakker det heldigvis ind i en bredere introduktion til tegneserien, de senere apokryfe opfølgere, konceptet og filmen.

Lyt her og læs mere på Nummer9.

Supersnak! Â· 184: Jack Kirbys Eternals – tegneserien og filmen

Kirby versus Lee

Matthias Wivel — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:47:12 +0000

Kasseret side af Kirby fra Thor 169, med hans noter i margin, skåret fra af Lee

Jeg er beæret, i dag, over at deltage i Morten Søndergård og Kim Schous fornemme podcast Supersnak i en samtale om Marvel-universets oprindelse i de tidlige tressere og særligt spørgsmålet om hvem, der skabte hvad — Jack Kirby eller Stan Lee… eller Jack Kirby og Stan Lee. Det evige, umulige spørgsmål. Vi kradser i overfladen og det er en anelse rodet, men jeg var enormt glad for at deltage og få snakket om nogle af de mest vidunderlige tegneserier jeg kender. Hent der, hvor du lytter til podcasts eller hop ind og lyt via Nummer9, Supersnaks hjemmeside eller podcastets Facebook. Tak til Morten og Kim for invitationen, og god jul!!

Calling Marvel Out

Matthias Wivel — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:52:19 +0000

Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, and Stan Lee, from Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1963)

Since the ruling in the Kirby vs. Marvel case last week, there’s been a fair amount of discussion in the comics blogosphere as to whether we, the readers, can take positive action to help get Marvel finally to start addressing its shameful history of exploitation, of Kirby, Ditko and the other founding fathers, but also of all the other artists whose underpaid work built the brand and has generated billions of dollars in revenue for their shareholders, especially those published before 1976 when the law and Marvel contracts were made clearer.

Steve Bissette has mounted a passionate call for a general boycott of any Marvel or Marvel-related product as one small thing each of us can contribute, and suggests further that fans get together to name and shame Marvel into action, on the internet and at public events such as Comicon.

It may seem utopian to get Marvel to change its ways, but its nearest competitor has made some progress on the issue, paying royalties to creators from films in which their characters or concepts appear. Their track record is far from perfect, but they’re doing a hell of a lot better than Marvel and its corporate overlords at Disney, who are raking in that box office moolah over assorted Kirby-derived superhero movies as we speak. And, as Tom Spurgeon has pointed out, Kirby’s collaborator at the inception of the Marvel Age in the early 60s, Stan Lee, won himself a lucrative deal with the publisher with just as little legal claim to his work for Marvel. Why can’t Marvel do something similar for Kirby’s family?

I think Bissette’s suggestion is worth taking seriously and have decided to join his boycott. I’ve been enjoying superhero comics from both Marvel, DC, and elsewhere for a number of years now and think there are a lot of talent in the business right now, and I shall be sorry to give up on some of my favorite creators, but thinking things through I just cannot bring myself further to support a company with policies as rotten as Marvel right now.

I went to my local comics store today, passed over the superhero comics I would usually consider and picked up the latest issue of The Jack Kirby Collector. It felt good. You should consider it.