The Matti Hagelberg interview: 'The secret to my humor is that I don’t have a sense of humor' - The Comics Journal Robert Aman talks to the Finnish cartoonist about his career, work process and why you can't get any decent scratchboard anymore.

Matti Hagelberg interviewed bt Robert Aman: ‘The secret to my humor is that I don’t have a sense of humor' www.tcj.com/the-matti-ha...

I maj släpps min nya bok, Kamrat Bamse, som behandlar innehållet i 70-talets svenska serietidningar, en tid då rutorna var fyllda av klasskamp, befrielserörelser och onda direktörer. Kan förbeställas på Verbals hemsida: verbalforlag.se/bocker/kamra...

The Matti Hagelberg interview: 'The secret to my humor is that I don’t have a sense of humor' - The Comics Journal Finnish cartoonist Matti Hagelberg was born in 1964 in Kirkkonummi, a small town located a 30 minute car drive west of Helsinki. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, he has, since 1...

Matti Hagelberg interviewed by Robert Aman : ‘The secret to my humor is that I don’t have a sense of humor’ www.tcj.com/the-matti-ha...

Another book I could buy in person, "NÄR FANTOMEN BLEV SVENSK" is a unique work of scholarship regarding the process of turning the originally American Phantom into the Swedish ideal hero that he is today. @robertaman.bsky.social is a very good comics scholar with several amazing works published.

I maj släpps min nya bok, Kamrat Bamse, som behandlar innehållet i 70-talets svenska serietidningar, en tid då rutorna var fyllda av klasskamp, befrielserörelser och onda direktörer. Kan förbeställas på Verbals hemsida: verbalforlag.se/bocker/kamra...

New book out: New Left Comics examines the leftist radicalisation in Sweden during the 70s through the lens of comic books. It uncovers the ways in which writers and artists used mainstream comics as a medium to teach and inform readers about various forms of injustices and inequality.

www.routledge.com/New-Left-Com...

New book out: New Left Comics examines the leftist radicalisation in Sweden during the 70s through the lens of comic books. It uncovers the ways in which writers and artists used mainstream comics as a medium to teach and inform readers about various forms of injustices and inequality.

Intervjuas i dagens DN om hur Fantomen blev en svensk hjälte: www.dn.se/kultur/fran-...

Finally a new issue of klub zin! Support them here and get a copy of this excellent comic anthology! www.kickstarter.com/projects/klu...

Le grand mangaka Yoshiharu Tsuge est mort Précurseur de l’autofiction en BD, maître absolu du récit intime et du carnet de voyage, l’octogénaire Yoshiharu Tsuge demeurait une référence pour de nombreux auteurs de mangas.

"A la fin des années 1960, Tsuge est le premier à avoir fait de l'autofiction un genre à part entière, à s’être mis en scène et à nu avec un minimum d’artifices. Il a aussi inventé un procédé jusqu’alors inconnu dans le manga : la fin ouverte."

Yesterday was a good mail day: Huizenga and the new Joe Kessler.

My friend Lars Wallner and I have edited a collection of great essays that combines comics with a norm critical perspective.

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

Publications Books Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017). Kid Comic Strips: A Genre Across Four Countries (New York: Palgrave, 2016). Comic Strips and Con…

PDF copies of most of my publications can be found from this link:

ilgordon.wordpress.com/publications/

French comics history in A3: Jean-Christophe Menu and the return of the 30/40-collection - The Comics Journal Jean-Christophe Menu interviewed by Robert Aman about the guys n' gags in the cult-to-classic 30/40 collection.

THE COMICS JOURNAL: French comics history in A3: Jean-Christophe Menu and the return of the 30/40-collection

a page from action comics 1, as clark Kent, superman overhears politician and lobbyist talking, later he eavesdrops on their secret meeting

Comics page - kent learns of wife beating going on, arrives at scene as Superman and stops the man

single panel of superman in dynamic pose from his origin page, with text that reads SUPERMAN! CHAMPION OF THE OPPRESSED. THE PHYSICAL MARVEL WHO HAD SWORN TO DEVOTE INS EXISTENCE TO HELPING THOSE IN NEED!

Deep dive into Siegel/Shuster/Superman's origins in class today & wonderful discussion around Action 1. Ss were all new to it & quite taken by how political the comic is & refreshed by Superman as social justice/champion of the oppressed. Class is such a blast! spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-cl...

Wrote a few words about the return of an important part of French comics history.

Wrote a few words about the return of an important part of French comics history.

Blurpar! Är det inte hög tid att gå med i seriefrämjandet?

serieframjandet.se/valberedning...

Sounds great! Fréon stuff are quite hard to come by, in my experience. I owned only a issue or two, but Van Hasselt was kind enough to send me a bunch as I was preparing to interview him.

Please do!

Visited the drawing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. A few cartoonists are represented, including Robert Crumb and Joakim Pirinen.

Visited the drawing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. A few cartoonists are represented, including Robert Crumb and Joakim Pirinen.

I våras gav Annika Elmqvist ut samlingsverket "Säg det med bilder" fyllt med teckningar och serier från hennes liv som konstnär. Jag besökte hennes ateljé för att prata om boken vilket man kan läsa om i dagens Corren.

www.corren.se/.../annika-e...

I våras gav Annika Elmqvist ut samlingsverket "Säg det med bilder" fyllt med teckningar och serier från hennes liv som konstnär. Jag besökte hennes ateljé för att prata om boken vilket man kan läsa om i dagens Corren.

www.corren.se/.../annika-e...

Mycket trevlig release på Rönnells av Det Grymma Svärdet 44 och Tjärornas krig av Ilan Manouach. Författarintervju och diverse uppträdanden på scen. Manouach, som också är serieakademiker, gör mest meta-serier där han omvandlar existerande verk till något nytt.

Skriver i dagens Expressen Kultur om Bamses politiska inramning.

www.expressen.se/kultur/ungku...

Mario De Micheli, 1976

I år fyller Bamse 60. Kulturnyheterna bad mig säga några ord om ett antal uppmärksammade nummer genom åren (de flesta kom dock inte med).