A short note on the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man. It seems to me that this incisive fable about one man’s search for answers is the equivalent of the filmmakers handing us the keys to their art. Only now, after 25 years of making movies, have they created an overtly Jewish film. Characters such as […]

Things remain busy here — still working on that diss. Have just finished the introduction, so I’m getting there. But now it’s Christmas, with all that entails, so the blogging here will remain rather perfunctory, but I wanted to at least get something up here and since I was just in Paris for a day […]

Ovre på Dansk Tegneserieråds hjemmeside ligger der nu en tekst forfattet af Thorhauge og jeg selv, hvor vi lægger nogle af tankerne bag rådets dannelse og ambitionerne med samme for dagen i letlæselig, agitatorisk form. Check det ud.

A couple of months ago I wrote here of the Women in Comics conference in Cambridge and mentioned that sound files of the papers would at some point be put online. Well, it has now happened, apparently with more to come. I recommend jumping straight to Dominique Goblet’s talk, which was both intense and compelling.

As expected, the politicians have failed us.
Photo: Reuters.

While I remember, there’s this little curiosity. At the Christie’s preview I went to the week before last, there was this astonishing intarsiaed Louis XIV tortoise shell/pietra dura cabinet, which went on to sell for a good £4.5 million.
Anyway, what leaped out at me immediately, being mired fatally in Titian’s prints at the moment, […]

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 […]

Jeez, that Raphael drawing I posted about a couple weeks ago sold for over £29 million! That’s a whopping £13 million above the highest official estimate! And the Rembrandt offered at the same sale went for £20.2 million. Paul Raison of Christie’s notes the obvious: the recession certainly hasn’t affected interest in, and the prices […]

Så er der udstilling! Det foregår i CMYKkælderen, Jægersborggade 51, kld., 2200 Kbh N, hvor der på torsdag d. 10 bliver blændet op for værker bedrevet af tegnestuen Over Flodens faste og løse medlemmer. Fernisering samme dag kl. 17.00 med live-musik - Thulebasen! - samt øl og vin. Alle, der har tid og […]

The new, web-based iteration of the best magazine of comics criticism has now been launched in a beta version and is already seeing steady updates from its cohort of bloggers and other writers. Please go look at what will surely become a staple of the comics internet.
I should add that I will be appearing there […]