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Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 30th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, current affairs, history, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.The picks of the week from around the web.
Li Se on the proposed South African media bill. As good a critical overview as any I’ve read on the ANC’s latest media clampdown in disguise.
Sam Lipsyte on Wilson. A fine review of Dan Clowes’ latest comic. One of the few I’ve read that seems […]
Nadia Raviscioni’s Vent frais, vent du matin at TCJ
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 29th, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning, hype & linkage Write the author.Over at The Comics Journal I now have a review of the book-of-the-year candidate by Nadia Raviscioni up. Go, read.
Thomas Thorhauge on the proposed Danish ban on drawn child porn
1 Comment Published by Matthias Wivel August 27th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, current affairs, culture Write the author.As explained here the other day, there’s currently a public debate raging in Denmark about drawn and animated child pornography, triggered in part by the opening of an exhibition on the topic in the city of Odense, in part by the conviction in Sweden of a manga translator alleged to have possessed drawn images of […]
On the Child Pornography Debate in Denmark
2 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 23rd, 2010 in journal, comics and cartooning, pictorial arts, film, tv, video, current affairs, culture Write the author.The highly publicized child pornography conviction last month of a Swedish translator, for possessing manga which allegedly depicted sexualised minors or minors engaging in sexual acts, is but the latest manifestation of a debate concerning what constitutes child pornography that has been going for a number of years. The chairman of the Swedish Comics Society, […]
Hype: Mutant Pop
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 23rd, 2010 in comics and cartooning, pictorial arts, hype & linkage Write the author.For those in the Copenhagen-Malmö region, I recommend checking out the exhibition Mutant Pop, now open at the Loyal Gallery in Saltimporten, Malmö. It is curated by Joe Grillo (it’s his work above) and Laura Grant of Dearraindrop and includes work by a host of talented artists, amongst them Mat Brinkman, Brian Chippendale, Ron Regé […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 23rd, 2010 in comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, letters, current affairs, hype & linkage Write the author.“Think, for example, of Northrop Frye. Frye’s is now a name that you never hear mentioned but which was then everywhere. CS Lewis, who is now famous for fairy stories, was then famous for being a scholar. Tolkien too was famous for being a scholar, not for elves and so on. There is no prestige […]
Overset: Anikonisme
5 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 18th, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning Write the author.Lige en kort notits: jeg har i længere tid gerne ville anbefale Anikonisme, en af de tegneserier Simon Petersen har lavet til det i øjeblikket tørlagte Serieland. Det er måske Petersens mest ambitiøse tegneserie til dato og en af de eneste danske tegneserier, der er gået ind i den sprængaktuelle billed- og integrationsdebat.
Petersen forsøger […]
DWYCK: Word Made Inky Flesh
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 15th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, pictorial arts, hype & linkage Write the author.Over at Hooded Utilitarian, my monthly column this time is an extended piece on the art historical antecedents of cartooning, with special focus on Robert Crumb’s adaptation of Genesis, and with reference to Bruegel and Rembrandt, plus a bonus discussion on the different meaning-making properties of text and image.
I hope you’ll check it out, […]
On the Ongoing Cartoon Shellshock
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 13th, 2010 in journal, comics and cartooning, current affairs Write the author.I was just reminded today of how depressingly treacherous it has become to navigate the Mohammed cartoon affair and its religious-cultural discontents. The day before yesterday it was reported worldwide that the upcoming memoirs of ‘Bomb in Turban’ cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, Manden bag stregen (’The Man Behind the Line’), would be published with the cartoon […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel August 1st, 2010 in comics and cartooning, current affairs, music, architecture, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.
The picks of the week from around the web.
RSA Animate: David Harvey breaks down in simple terms the financial crisis from his perspective, accompanied by some great instructional white-board cartooning (above).
Amoeblog: Billyjam interviews hip hop legend Krs-One in depth, on the occasion of the release of his new book The Gospel of Hip Hop. As […]
Mail from David Mazzucchelli
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel July 26th, 2010 in debate, comics and cartooning Write the author.I recently received the following correspondence from cartoonist David Mazzucchelli, re: my old article on his “Big Man” and its similarities with Bill DuBay and Alex Toth’s “Daddy and the Pie” (above):
“Dear Matthias,
I came across your essay, “The Child and the Giant,” several years ago, and would like to thank you for your flattering words […]
Judith Forest’s 1h25 at TCJ
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel July 25th, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning, hype & linkage Write the author.I now have a review of Judith Forest’s remarkable autobiographical comic 1h25 up over at TCJ.
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel July 18th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, current affairs, hype & linkage Write the author.The picks of the week from around the web.
The Guardian: “The Unwanted”. Joe Sacco on African refugees in Malta in the first installment of a 48-page reportage that originally ran in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Harvey Pekar. The death of the pioneering comics writer this week elicited some fine journalism around the web: Tom Spurgeon’s obituary, […]
Who Is Harvey Pekar?
2 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel July 13th, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning Write the author.The passing of pioneer comics writer Harvey Pekar yesterday made me go back and reread some of his earliest collaborations with R. Crumb, published in his self-published American Splendor #1-4 in 1976-79. The beginnings of a remarkable body of work, they are emblematic of Pekar’s originality and importance as a writer, and as good a […]
Rébétiko at TCJ
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel July 12th, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning, hype & linkage Write the author.Meanwhile over at TCJ main, I have a review up of David Prudhomme’s critically acclaimed musical romance Rébétiko.
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