Welcome to the Metabunker!

This is my personal weblog to which I regularly post all sorts of content - from informal journal entries to different kinds of criticism and journalism. Both text and image, often in synthesis. It also incorporates the work of friends and colleagues on an irregular basis. My primary fields of expertise are the history of art, especially the Italian Renaissance, hip hop music, film, and all things comics. But my interests, and those of my co-inhabitants here at the Bunker, are much broader, so expect writing about anything and everything!

The lingua franca of the Metabunker is English, and most of the content you find here will be in that language. However, I am Danish and a lot of what I and several other contributors to the Bunker have to say is either specifically meant for a Danish readership, written expressly in Danish, or just plain uinteresting or irrelevant to the rest of the world - or all of the above - and therefore in Danish, so expect to find some Danish text here and accept our apologies in advance if you cannot read it.

I am currently a Ph. D.-student at the University of Cambridge and I completed my Master’s degree in the history of art at Columbia University, New York, in 2004. I am specifically working on Titian’s interrelated practices of drawing, printmaking and painting. As an art historian, I have published a few articles in Danish journals and exhibition catalogues.

Since 2000, I have worked as a comics journalist, critic, and publisher, primarily for my own critical journal on comics Rackham published in Denmark between 2000-2005, and online between 2002-2006, but now placed in hibernation. I have co-edited and co-written a couple of Danish comics anthologies - both called BLÆK, in order to cause as much confusion as possible - and a book on the new wave of auteur comics, Forandringstegn. I have also contributed articles and interviews to a number of magazines and journals on the subject, amongst them The Comics Journal. In addition, I intermittently work as a music journalist for the Danish hip hop site, RapSpot.

For more details on my work, and that of the other inhabitants of the Metabunker, visit the ‘works’ section. And please send us an email and let us know what you think!

pax.

Matthias Wivel