Tag Archive | "Wim"

Desert Island Comics Episode 30 – Wim Lockefeer

Saturday, October 13, 2012

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Saturday, and you know what that means…. waves, palm trees, sound of lone castaways screaming into the isolation they find themselves lost in…. except that’s not screaming in primal agony at the thought of never seeing civilisation once more, that’s a scream of sheer delight. Ah, I see now. It’s Desert Island Comics, and our [...]

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A Future For Books…?

Saturday, April 14, 2012

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Wim posted this a couple of weeks back – from the New York Times, Grant Snyder (Incidental Comics) proposes a back to the future solution that I can really get behind: Oh, I hope so, I really do. I’m getting better with reading online, and can cheerfully pick up a digital comic here and there to [...]

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Comics Journalism…. through Comics Journalism

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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Via Wim, here’s a fascinating look at Comics Journalism presented (of course) in comic form: “For the website of the Poynter Institute journalism school, comics journalist Dan Archer created a two-page primer on comics journalism, its origins, methods and best examples, and he obviously used the comics format to do so.  It’s truly the best introduction to the [...]

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New Yorker’s Halloween cover

Thursday, October 28, 2010

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Wim points us to another fab cover by the New Yorker, this time for their Halloween issue, a pop culture extravaganza of a cover by the brilliant Ivan Brunetti, complete with Elvis, Spidey, Groucho, Batman, Superman, Popeye, the Hulk, Edgar Allan Poe, Travis Bickle, and a very peculiar hotdog Snoopy among others:

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New Moomin Movie

Friday, August 20, 2010

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Moomins and the Comet Chase, an all-new 3D animation feature with Finnish novelist and comic strip author Tove Jansson’s adorable ghost-like creatures, debuted earlier this month in Finland, where Jansson lived as a member of the Swedish minority. It’s Finnish animation studio Filmkmompaniet’s second feature with the Moomins.  An earlier movie, Moomin and Midsummer Madness [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Art Trek 7

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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Mekanik Strip is not just the best (or at least the coolest) comics store in the fair city of Antwerp, it’s also a quite unique gallery which regularly showcases artwork by some of the world’s most famous cartoonists, as well as graphic art by up and comic artists, illustrators and designers. Every year Belgian artist [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Little people on a world’s stage

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Yes, this little post is once more about Pieter De Poortere and his anti-hero Boerke.  I know I tend to hammer on the same nail sometimes, but this time I have good reasons for it.  Not only is Pieter one of the best cartoonist in Europe today (and I’m choosing my words), and his Boerke [...]

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Pilote for the summer

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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Even though it’s no longer the indespensible comics mag it used to be in the 1960′s, and even though it doesn’t seem to appear on a regular schedule anymore, Pilote Magazine still lives on as a series of specials, or hors-séries as the French call it.  You could say that publisher Dargaud is still trying [...]

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From our continental correspondent – 14 BD for 14 Juillet ! (part 2)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Continuing a selection of 14 French comics for the 14th (the first half is here), here are seven more insanely great French comics, starting now ! Monsieur Feraille by Winschluss and Cizo – If you combine a vitriolic feeling for satire, a fanatical knowledge of pop culture and an amazingly versatile graphical style, you get [...]

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From our continental correspondent – 14 BD for 14 Juillet ! (part 1)

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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This week our French friends celebrate their Fète Nationale, traditionally remembering the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, which set in motion the French Revolution.  Since we at FPI are constantly trying to get good French (and Belgian and other European) comics in the spotlight (Richard when they’ve been translated, me predominantly while hoping [...]

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