Archive for June, 2009



Anders Nilsen - The Metabunker Interview

Anders Nilsen - The Metabunker Interview
nilsen_feature.gifAn in-depth interview with one of our premier young comics artists. In four parts: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Oh my God, he’ll probably kill me for this, but anyway: a week ago today, Metaboss Matthias and lovely Emma tied the knot at a beautiful ceremony held at Cape Cod.

Prototype or Parallel?

Prototype or Parallel?
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An examination of a chronic connoiseurial conundrum. The hunt for the prototype, and whether we should trust it. With the work of Titian as its focus. Read more.

Because YOU demanded it: Here are some more flix from last weekends MoCCA Art Festival and the simultaneous opening reception of the must see David Mazzucchelli retrospective exhibition. Immerse yourself in the festive moods! Savour the close-ups of great comic book art! Scroll past the pictures of people you don’t know! Here we go:

Saturday: David […]

Set in the huge Manhattan Armoury, this year’s MoCCA festival started off slightly delayed, apparently because a shipment of books arrived too late from the MoCCA building, but never mind: the lines of people waiting to get in continued far around the block for almost the entire day. With (almost!) all kinds of comics represented, […]

The picks of the week from around the web.
New York Times: Errol Morris — “Bamboozling Ourselves”. Famously, the picture above was sold to Göring as a Vermeer at an astronomical sum in 1943. Hard as it is to believe, it had prominent experts fooled. Read the story behind one of the most high-profile fine arts […]


The MoCCA Art Festival, this coming weekend, will see the debut of the English language anthology of Danish comics, From Wonderland with Love, published jointly by Fantagraphics and Danish small press publisher Aben Maler. This book contains some great work by the cream of Danish cartoonists working today, and a handful of them will even […]