Archive for November 14th, 2007

How to solve our constitutional crisis ?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Nero decorated

As we speak, Belgium has been without a government for more than 150 days. The fact that most of my countrymen don’t really seem to care (except for the fact that prices are starting to rise noticeably) is probably the most pathetic aspect of this drama.

Anyway, let’s not forget that we have been longer without Nero in our newspapers, and that self-same Nero celebrated his 60the anniversary last month (Nero, by the way, who is probably the only newspaper strip character actually having a plaque next to his door saying “newspaper strip character”).

Which prompted our King to ask him for help. And so it happened, as presented by cartoonist chameleon Dirk Stallaert in a special issue of De Standaard

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The Book Of Other People

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Charlie Gower pointed me towards this book. It’s a collection of short stories which not only boasts a cover by Charles Burns, but also contains stories by Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes ! How cool is that ?

Anti-marketing marketing

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Coolz0r features this anti-campaign for (or should that be “against” Hummer). It’s pretty uninspired, but I still had to laugh.

Oucopo - new constraints

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Oucopo: Comic Jams For The Growing Cartoonist is a new outfit about comics challenges featuring certain thematic or formal constraints. As Derek Badman says in his recent, and quite good, overview of constraint comics :

Started by Jon Morris, it’s basically a site to set out monthly constraints and publish the results as submitted by whoever wants to participate. This month’s theme is Tom Waits.

It seems to be the logical sequel to some very good thematic challenges, like Boo 06 or Calamity, which were also brainchildren of that wonderful mind that is John Morris (whom I seem to remember of a web comic called Jeremy)