Check in here, for the spectacle that is the Bunker’s photo reportage from the Angoulême festival.
Above: Chris Ware signing at the Angoulême booth.
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Cézanne’s Card Players
On Cézanne, time, figure drawing, still lives, and the classics
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Jimmy Corrigan’s Spectacular Reality
Article on Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan
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Bruegel, Rembrandt, Crumb and Cartooning
Extended Hooded Utilitarian piece on R. Crumb’s Genesis and the cartoon tradition.
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The Voice
Guru RIP
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Interview: El-P & Aesop Rock
Click here to read our 2003 in-depth interview with two of New York’s finest.
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One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest — Comics Between Old and New
A survey of comics and cartoon history in parallel and opposition to that of the fine arts.
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Ghosts of the Past
On Mizuki Shigeru’s NonNonBâ
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The Miracle in Milan
Review of the 2011-12 Leonardo show at the National Gallery in London
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On Comics History and the Canon
A selection of writings on comics for use by teachers, students, and people otherwise interested
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Worlds of Difference
Essay on role-playing games as a formative experience, in honour of passed D&D creators Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson
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New Yorker Cartoons: A Legacy of Mediocrity
A deadening force at the heart of the art form, smothering the field in bourgeois mediocrity
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A Certain Tendency in French Comics
Click here to read the extended Metabunker debate on the current (problematic?) state of nigh-mainstream French comics.
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Continuous Creation — Titian’s Nuova Natura
On Titian’s aesthetic of the unfinished and Renaissance notions of the subjective.
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Fabrice Neaud interviewed
An interview with cartoonist Fabrice Neaud on autobiography, reality and risk in making comics about life
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Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici
The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
Ah, en Hirata-udstilling. Sikkert den rigtige måde at opleve ham på. Jeg gik fuldstændig kold i Satsuma Gishiden – ja, jeg har vist endda ikke åbnet bind 2, som jeg ellers har liggende, endnu. Men flotte tegninger, det er det.
Ja, for fanden — de originaler var flotte. Han er stivere end baade Kojima og Shirato, og ikke saa stor en storyteller, men paa sin vis mere konkret, hvilket tjener ham som illustrator.