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Thorhauge om selvcensurdebatten
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel February 7th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, current affairs, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.Dansk Tegneserieråds formand, Thomas Thorhauge, udtaler sig officielt i debatten om selvcensur ovre på Rådets hjemmeside.
Tegning af Claus Seidel, fra Caricature.dk.
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel January 25th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, current affairs, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.The picks of the week from around the web.
London Review of Books: “The Darwin Show” Steven Shapin examines the phenomenon that was the Darwin year, the multifarious contexts in which Darwin takes centre stage these years, as well as the man and his work in this bravura effort.
David Bordwell: “Kurosawa’s Early Spring”. A reluctant if […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel January 18th, 2010 in comics and cartooning, letters, current affairs, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.“one reason there are so many dead in Haiti is that agriculture in the countryside was no longer providing a livelihood for Haitian peasants; they moved in the thousands to the capital, they built shanties on the sides of canyons; all gone now. I won’t go over the arguments against globalization for countries like Haiti […]
Muhammed at the Met
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel January 13th, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning, current affairs Write the author.Just like Yale University Press’ disgraceful censorship of Jytte Klausen’s book on the Muhammed cartoons, it seems the august Metropolitan Museum in New York is set to muddy the waters of history by pulling from their display ancient images of the prophet, made by Muslims and considering not putting them back on display once the […]
The First Piece of Bad News
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel January 2nd, 2010 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning, current affairs Write the author.I didn’t take long for the New Year’s first piece of crap news to arrive here. Some idiot broke into the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard wielding an axe, evidently in “retaliation” for the latter’s cartoon of the prophet Muhammed. The cartoonist saved himself by fleeing to the house’s panic room. His grandchild was […]
Copenhagen Fail
1 Comment Published by Matthias Wivel December 19th, 2009 in journal, current affairs Write the author.As expected, the politicians have failed us.
Photo: Reuters.
Our World at COP15
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel December 13th, 2009 in journal, comics and cartooning, current affairs Write the author.Yes, the big event of the week for many is of course the Climate Conference in Copenhagen and the Bunker’s there in the form of Thomas Thorhauge, who is working with the grassroots visual communications group Biggerpicture to convey the aspirations of the World Wildlife Fund at the conference. He is part of a handful […]
On the Mickey Mouse Plot
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel October 28th, 2009 in commentary and criticism, comics and cartooning, current affairs Write the author.Today’s arrest of two men suspected of planning to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose, and to bomb the newspaper’s headquarters — apparently dubbed the ‘Mickey Mouse plot’ by their peers — all for the publication of those twelve dumb cartoons is a disquieting reminder that the madness continues.
It is also interesting […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel October 26th, 2009 in comics and cartooning, current affairs Write the author.“Another gunman in the passenger seat turned and stared at us as he gripped his Kalashnikov rifle. No one spoke. I glanced at the bleak landscape outside — reddish soil and black boulders as far as the eye could see — and feared we would be dead within minutes.”
– David Rohde
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Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel October 19th, 2009 in comics and cartooning, pictorial arts, film, tv, video, current affairs, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.Obama’s career up to now, lucky as it was, had been wanting in singular achievements for which he alone was responsible. His experience seems not to have taught him the law of natural selection in politics by which majorities are put together out of remainders. Any act that achieves something concrete will leave small multitudes […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel October 12th, 2009 in comics and cartooning, letters, current affairs, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.The picks of the week from around the web.
Commonweal: “Culture and Barbarism”. Terry Eagleton offers a compelling analysis of today’s fault lines between secularism and religion, which he analyses in terms of a dialectic of civilization and culture. A thoughtful corrective to the new atheists and an unsettling entreaty for us to confront the worst […]
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0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel September 27th, 2009 in comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, current affairs, hype & linkage Write the author.The picks of the week from around the web.
David Bordwell on Inglourious Basterds. A great piece on one of the year’s (surprisingly) great movies. Read it. Also, check out Jim Emerson’s somewhat rambling, but thoughtful comments and the interesting debate that follows them.
Michael Dooley on Harvey Kurtzman. Good essay introducing the master satirist/cartoonist, which makes […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel September 14th, 2009 in comics and cartooning, current affairs, hype & linkage, culture Write the author.
The picks of the week from around the web.
Comics criticism. This has been a pretty decent week for online comics criticism. Ng Suat Tong points out the dearth of good criticism, fowllowed by a fun debate, which he follows up by this analysis of the writing in contemporary mainstream comics at the Comics Reporter. Jog […]
Picks of the Week
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel September 7th, 2009 in comics and cartooning, film, tv, video, current affairs, history, hype & linkage Write the author.“the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth”
– Paul Krugman
The picks of the week from around the web.
Busy times, but this week I’ve had a little time to poke around the web. Here’s what rose to the top.
The New York Times: “How Did Economists Get […]
Help Anders Nilsen Help the Americans Help Themselves!
0 Comments Published by Matthias Wivel September 1st, 2009 in comics and cartooning, pictorial arts, current affairs, hype & linkage Write the author.One of the Bunker’s favorite young(ish) cartoonists, Anders Nilsen, has started an art auction to support the current efforts by the US Government to reform the country’s health care system in favor of the universal scheme the country should have had a long time ago. The prospect of these vitally important measures crashing a burning […]
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