Peter Snejbjerg – the metabunker

DEN i Informeren

Matthias Wivel — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:04:48 +0000

Så har Informations pæne bogtillæg offentliggjort en artikel om Corbens puerilt-sublime DEN, der som bekendt lige nu er under fornem restauering af José Villarubia og af hvilken de første to — og væsentligste — bind er ude på dansk fra e-voke. Hermed et lille uddrag fra anmeldelsen:

Hans positurer er ofte anspændte, endda akavede, på en måde, der antyder neurotisk anstrengelse og indestængt energi. Dette understøttes yderligere af hans ofte skarpe billedbeskæringer og stumpt dynamiske billede til billede-koreografi. Sidst, men ikke mindst, havde han en plakatmesters sans for syrepumpet, til tider decideret psykedelisk, farvelægning og var samtidig en troldmand med den traditionelle firfarves trykproces. Han arbejdede for eksempel med kamerafiltre, der kunne overføre airbrushens og gouachens sammenflydende nuancer til rasterarkenes stringente separation af cyan, magenta, gul og sort. Samlet set ligner det intet andet – et fuldt realiseret, ultraspektakulært personligt univers.

Læs hele herligheden her!

…og lyt i øvrigt til de hele to episoder, vi på Radio Rackham har lavet om Corben, begge med Mårdøn Smet, de første også med Peter Snejbjerg:

Radio Rackham: Sommerlæsning

Matthias Wivel — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:25:23 +0000

Ja, det er blevet den tid på året! Thomas, Frede og jeg har sat en lang række danske serieskabere i stævne for at anbefale tegneserier til sommerens læsning og diskutere dem!

Lyt her og læs mere på Nummer9.

Radio Rackham · Anbefalinger: Sommerlæsning 2024

Radio Rackham: Richard Corben

Matthias Wivel — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:18:26 +0000

Den seneste episode af Radio Rackham er en hyldest til den store tegner og fortæller Richard Corben, der døde i begyndelsen af december sidste år. Thomas Thorhauge og Frederik Storm har de to eminente tegnere Mårdøn Smet og Peter Snejbjerg — begge Corben-afficionados om en hals — i studiet til en diskussion om, hvad det præcis er, der gør Corben til en ener og til en stor kunstner. Det er der kommet en spændende og oplysende samtale ud af — lyt her og læs mere på Nummer9:

Radio Rackham Â· Nekrolog: Richard Corben

Danish Comics of the Year 2011

Matthias Wivel — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:11:04 +0000

This year, Danish comics culture is seeing the revival of the Ping Awards, an industry award last given back in the Nineties. Once a hall of fame prize, it is now awards cartoonists in five categories in the manner of the Angoulême Fauves. This year focuses on comics published in 2011, and five Danish comics have been selected in their particular category. Although I didn’t participate in the nomination process, I was involved in organizing the event, and was part of the jury that selected Rikke Bakman’s Glimt as Danish Comic of the Year. So I’m biased, but I can say immediately that it was very hard indeed to select a winner. Here are the five nominees — for my money not just the five best Danish comics of last year, but the strongest showing in Danish comics for a long time.

Almægtig
[A God Somewhere]
by John Arcudi and Peter Snejbjerg
G Floy Studio

Technically a Danish edition of the American edition by DC/Wildstorm, Almægtig is drawn by Denmark’s hardest-working man in mainstream comics showbiz, so let’s call it Danish too. Snejbjerg finds in Arcudi’s smart script about an ordinary man who gains godlike power a perfect match for his sparse chiaroscuro style. Arcudi’s elegant mix of human incident and big ideas challenges Snejbjerg most of the time to work with nuance and precision in place of the pyrotechnics that are otherwise the stock in trade of American genre comics. An intelligent and unpretentious take on that most hackneyed of genre exercises, the “realistic” superhero story, congenially visualized.

Glimt
[Glimpses]
by Rikke Bakman
Aben Maler

A beautifully realized suite of childhood recollections woven into the narrative framework of a single summer’s day spent at the Danish west coast when the author was six. Evocatively drawn in colored pencil, Glimt conveys a gripping sense of being there, as a child, with the glimpses of the adult world beyond the curve of age.

Here’s a preview:

Open publication

“Nostalgia” in Kolor Klimax
by Johan F. Krarup
Fantagraphics

Full disclosure: this short comic appears in an anthology edited by yours truly, but that is not Krarup’s fault! “Nostalgia” documents Krarup’s visit with a well-known Danish collector of comics and Disneyana at a time when his life is coming apart after a divorce. A keen observer and deft writer, Krarup here presents his most affecting human portrait yet, framing the protagonist’s personal crisis in terms of his collector’s yen for order.

Ind fra havet
[Back from the Sea]
by Rikke Villadsen
Aben Maler

This surreal seafarer’s yarn does not conceal its epic ambition to fathom the mysteries of parenthood and mortality, but couches it in humor alternately delirious and down-to-earth. Villadsen mixes overwrought Freudian symbolism with situational comedy and flashes of occluded, yet felt, autobiography to fashion personal mythology on the page that transcends its obvious inspiration in Anke Feuchtenberger’s uncannily smudged pencil-and-charcoal rendering to become a compelling statement on life in its own right.

Here’s a preview:

Open publication

Homo Metropolis
by Nikoline Werdelin
Politiken

One of Denmark’s greatest cartoonists of the last twenty-five years, Werdelin still retains her sharpness. A couple of years ago, when she returned to her long-running daily strip after a hiatus, she adopted a looser, sketchier approach that alleviates certain of her weaknesses as a draftswoman and gives the strip a liberated feel unseen in its earlier iterations. It still delivers the same scabrous social satire though — wickedly funny because it’s true.

This piece is a slightly edited version of my contribution to Paul Gravett’s International Best of 2011 LIst. Here are my Danish Comics of the Year for 2010 and 2009.