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.
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.
Hergé and the Order of Things
Hooded Utilitarian column on Hergé’s vision and the necessity of comics criticism that engages deep form
Bruegel, Rembrandt, Crumb and Cartooning
Extended Hooded Utilitarian piece on R. Crumb’s Genesis and the cartoon tradition.
New Yorker Cartoons: A Legacy of Mediocrity
A deadening force at the heart of the art form, smothering the field in bourgeois mediocrity
Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici
The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
Hogarth’s Chicken Fat
An analysis of Hogarth’s rich imagery as both support and counterpoint to his storytelling
Interview: Muñoz & Sampayo
Read our 2001 conversation with the Argentine comics grand masters and Angoulême Grand prix winner(s) here.
The Constant Garage
On Moebius’ comics masterpiece, the Hermetic Garage, at TCJ.com. Addition here
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.
Interview: El-P & Aesop Rock
Click here to read our 2003 in-depth interview with two of New York’s finest.
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.