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Continuous Creation — Titian’s Nuova Natura

On Titian’s aesthetic of the unfinished and Renaissance notions of the subjective.
Fabrice Neaud interviewed

An interview with cartoonist Fabrice Neaud on autobiography, reality and risk in making comics about life
Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici

The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
On Italian Renaissance Drawing

15th-century Italian drawings at the British Museum, Michelangelo at the Courtauld
A Rubadub Sunday in Copenhagen

Vi fejrer ti års københavnsk klubhistorie med dette essay fra 2008
Titian in Belluno, Vienna and Venice

The Bunker reviews the exhibitions of late Titian in Belluno, Vienna and Venice
The Triumvirate in Boston

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese at the MFA in Boston, 2009. Need we say more?
The Constant Garage

On Moebius’ comics masterpiece, the Hermetic Garage, at TCJ.com. Addition here
Hogarth’s Chicken Fat
An analysis of Hogarth’s rich imagery as both support and counterpoint to his storytelling
(0)Hergé and the Order of Things

Hooded Utilitarian column on Hergé’s vision and the necessity of comics criticism that engages deep form






Danish Comics of the Year 2011
This year, Danish comics culture is seeing the revival of the Ping Awards, an industry award last given back in the Nineties. Once a hall of fame prize, it is now awards cartoonists in five categories in the manner of the Angoulême Fauves. This year focuses on comics published in 2011, and five Danish comics have been selected in their particular category. Although I didn’t participate in the nomination process, I was involved in organizing the event, and was part of the jury that selected Rikke Bakman’s Glimt as Danish Comic of the Year. So I’m biased, but I can say immediately that it was very hard indeed to select a winner. Here are the five nominees — for my money not just the five best Danish comics of last year, but the strongest showing in Danish comics for a long time. Continue reading ‘Danish Comics of the Year 2011′