Tag Archive for 'Mikkel Sommer'

Shingal og Zerocalcare i Information

Published on 02. 04. 2020 in comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, current affairs and hype & linkage. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .


I fredagens bogtillæg til Information kan man læse min anmeldelse af Tore Rørbæk og Mikkel Sommers Shingal og italienske Zerocalcares Kobane Calling — begge baseret på øjenvidneberetninger fra krigen i Syrien, Irak og Kurdistan. Det er gode om end ikke perfekte tegneserier, der rejser spørgsmål om tegneserien som journalistisk og dokumentarisk medie. Hermed indledningen:

Journalistik og dokumentarisme er i vækst inden for tegneserien. Formen er velegnet til at visualisere tid, sted og problematik på klar og samtidig nærværende vis. Der er mindre visuel ’støj’ i et tegneseriebillede end i fotografi, og billeder og tekst i forening kan ofte anskueliggøre komplekse forhold på mere økonomisk vis end tekst.

Det er imidlertid også meget arbejdskrævende, hvilket gør såvel nyhedsreportage som graverjournalistik eller detaljeret dokumentation i tegneserieform til sjældenheder – til det første skal man kunne tegne vanvittigt hurtigt, mens de to sidstnævnte kræver en tålmodighed, der sjældent står mål med den endelige læserskare. Derfor vælger mange noget midt imellem, eksempelvis rejseskildringen, personportrættet eller den dramatiserede øjenvidneberetning.

Læs den her, hvis du kan betale.

Strannik i Information

Published on 12. 04. 2019 in comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism and hype & linkage. Closed Tags: , .


I dagens bogtillæg til Information kan man læse min anmeldelse af Anna Rakhmanko og Mikkel Sommers dokumentariske Strannik, om en hjemløs mand der ernærer sig som MMA-kæmper i Moskva. Det er besk, indigneret dokumentarisme, dygtigt disponeret af den tegneseriedebuterende Rakhmanko og leveret med mere selvsikkerhed og mindre lir end vi er vant til fra Sommer. Bag den tredje dør her.

The Week

Published on 05. 07. 2015 in comics and cartooning, journal, music and pictorial arts. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .


It’s been forever since I did one of these. Such is the half dormant life of this blog. But anyway, the itch is still occasionally there so here we go.

The above video was made a few months ago to coincide with the opening of the Sansovino Frames exhibition at the National Gallery. We had just successfully acquired the beautiful Venetian (non-Sansovino) frame which now adorns Titian’s Allegory of Prudence, partly through crowdfunding, and which features in the clip. I think it encapsulates well some of the very real pleasures of working with great artworks: the fact that details count; the kind of holistic thinking the works demand of you when you plan their display; and not least the passion and expertise that they demand. I appear for a brief moment and contribute nothing, but do watch the video for the insight it gives into our framing department and the great work Peter Schade and his staff do there.

OK, here are some links:

  • London Art Week. I haven’t yet really done the rounds, but I did have a chance to look at this drawing attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo. I’m unsure about the attribution, but it doesn’t make it any less beautiful. And while we’re talking Sebastiano, there’s what I do believe is bona fide painting by him in Christie’s day sale.
  • Mikkel Sommer. A rising star on the Danish comics scene. He hasn’t yet delivered a work really delivering on his great talent, but if he keeps dropping gems like this brilliant GIF he’ll keep at least this reader watching him.
  • Roskilde 2015. No, I’m not there this year, sadly, but if you read Danish, you can follow the coverage of the hip hop at the festival by my homies at Rapspot here. Prominent in the line-up was El-P and Killer Mike’s by now ubiquitous-in-hipsterdom-but-no-less-awesome-for-that project Run the Jewels. They surely killed it, if their performance last weekend at Glastonbury is anything to go by.