Cartoonist and storyteller Ben Katchor partners with composer and singer Mark Mulcahy  to create two, one-act operas: Memorial City, in which an East coast urban center is overwhelmed by a mania for memorial commemoration; and The Imaginary War Crimes Tribunal (world premiere), which tells the story of a compulsive video game player and the thrill […]

Oksana Bulgakowa ist Professorin für Filmgeschichte und Filmanalyse an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Sie ist spezialisiert auf russisch-sowjetischen Filmgeschichte, insbesonderes auf das Werk Sergej Eisensteins. Neben ihrer umfangreichen editorischen Arbeit hat sie auch einige Ausstellungen kuratiert, darunter „Moskau – Berlin, Berlin – Moskau, 1990 – 1950“ (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1995) und „Sergei Eisenstein: The Mexican Drawings“ […]

Erstaunlicherweise ganz ohne jeden jubiläumstechnischen Zwang, also quasi aus heiterem Himmel feiern das Westfriesmuseum in Hoorn und die Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München zeitgleich die bahnbrechende Illustrationskunst des Leonaert Bramer. Leonaerd Bramer, Mors Triumphans, Öl auf Schieferplatte Der 1596 in Delft geborene Künstler zählt neben dem nur wenige Jahre älteren Jacques Callot und dem wenig jüngeren […]

The Royal Academy has in its Print Room a very poorly announced but nonetheless important exhibition of Arthur Boyd Houghton´s “Graphic America”. For many reasons this illustrated travelogue full of biting social criticism and intense observations can be regarded as one of the most brilliant achivements in the history of graphic journalism. Vincent Van Gogh […]

The website of Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking operation founded by business magnate George Soros, provides a collection of 14 comic-reports depicting the real life experiences of Somalis in seven cities in Europe.  The stories allow readers a unique insight into what everyday life is like as a Somali in Europe. Meet the Somalis is […]

Two recent issues of comics magazines deal with the  dynamic social situation and the changing role of work & labour: The Workburger International Comics Anthology is a special edition  of the Slovenian Comic Zine Stripburger, that was curated by comic artist Igor Hofbauer. The list of contributing artists is long, among them Max Andersson from […]

The Mother: “Of course, I don´t understand them, Dear; but they give me a dreadful feeling. I can´t bear to look at them. Is it really like that at the front?” The Warrior ( who has seen terrible things in battle): “Thank heaven, no, Mother.” ( Punch, or the London Charivari, July 31, 1918 )

Beginning with elections to the Russian State Duma, in December 2011, and ending with the third so-called March of the Millions, in September 2012, Victoria Lomasko sketched all the major opposition rallies and protest events in Moscow. “I was interested not only in sketching the protests but also in analyzing the work of other artists […]

Drawing is an artistic medium that has gained new importance in the wake of the global protest movements in recent years. One particularly exciting new development is artistic reportage using drawings executed directly on location, which capture a wide variety of opinions and concerns and are subsequently published in printed and online media. There are […]

Lewis Miller was a Pennsylvania German carpenter who witnessed the era of the early American republic, through the civil war, to the Centennial. He traveled through America and Europe, chiefly afoot and mainly en route he created a huge body of textual and graphic work. Almost two thousand of Miller’s commented drawings are kept in […]