Tag: Cartoons
The Comic Festival Munich – Munich
Are comics literature? Well, thanks to experts like Will Eisner or Scott McCloud, we know: They are a distinct, sequential, pictorial art form. Nevertheless: the proximity, it is there. This…
Comic publisher Edition Modernity in crisis – culture
After the Berlin Reprodukt Verlag asked fans and readers for financial help last year, the Swiss Edition Moderne, another important publisher in the German-speaking comics scene, is now starting one…
Maia Kobabe’s controversial graphic novel Gender Queer – Kultur
The book is pornographic, completely inappropriate for children and young people, almost a danger, say many concerned parents in the USA and call for Maia Kobabe’s comic “Gender Queer” to…
Heating prohibited! Recommendations from the SZ editorial team – culture
Cartoon art: Gerhard Seyfried in the Valentin Museum The same Kreuzberger Straße can be seen in the two pictures, with the old building and elevated railway, in the background the…
Igort: Comic about the Ukraine war – culture
The “Reports from Ukraine – Diary of an Invasion” begins with a gesture of Soviet ecstasy. On one of the first pages, Vera Mukhina’s sculpture “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman”, drawn…
Leipzig Book Fair: Indestructibly warm
Impressions of the Leipzig Book Fair, where after a three-year break everything seems to be remarkably friendly. Or was everything taken for granted in the past? source site
The best comics for spring: staying alive – culture
Marcello Quintanilha: Just listen, beautiful Márcia A world with a bluish cast, in faded, pale colors, even the faces never have anything of a healthy pinkness. The women are mountains…
A special edition of the Comic Café in the Gasteig HP8. – Munich
What’s currently going on in the comic scene? What are the most exciting new releases at the moment? Questions like these have been answered for years in the Comic Café…
Cartoons by Tom Gauld : The pain of being a writer
Tom Gauld’s brilliantly funny comic strips about the world of literature. source site
Was the artist Roy Lichtenstein a thief and plagiarist? – Culture
From Catherine Lorch Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist? Or a thief? A film documentary “Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation” poses this – not exactly new…