Thursday, December 4, 2014

Doing a political cartoon live on TV


The last issue of the annual political satire magazine "Blæksprutten" (The Squid) was published last month. Since 1888 has this annual publication been part of Christmas in Denmark. Families would gathered around the magazine to see how the political cartoonists and writers depicted the year in words and images. The publishing house Gyldendal who published The Squid (Blæksprutten) from 1907 till now, has decided to close it down for good 'cause it doesn't seel as much as it used to. Its a pity 'cause all the political satire on TV or the internet is forgotten so soon after, where a printed publicated has a lasting value to it, and looking back through 125 years of history filtered by satirical ink lines ... it gives you a pretty good picture of the topics that very important to people at a certain time over the last 125 years.




Me and Stand-Up comedian and writer Mette Frobenius were interviewed at TV2 News Kulturen the 19. of November (the day before the book came out). Mette did most og the talking and I speed-drew a cartoon about a right wing politician who wants to interfere with the national tv stations right to shut down one of their ochestras and move the money somewhere else in their organisation = spend it on web content etc.
I did the drawing in less than 4 min.  






For the final version of The Squid (Blæksprutten) I did four small line drawings about the topics: Russian submarine spotted close to Sweden ... again + The leader of the opposition, that can't be held down ... he always gets up when ever he falls + extreme flooding in the northern part of the country + Kids playing in Ebola-proof suits = we are overreacting

All ideas were done in collaboration with Mette Frobenius ... who also wrote the text

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Drawings from a lecture about WW1 and Tardi's comicbooks

Film and Comicbook critic Søren Vinterberg is turning 70 years tomorrow. I did these sketchbook drawings when he anf a historian gave a talk about comics and WW1 at Copenhagen Central Library.

Happy birthday Søren

Monday, November 10, 2014

Panzer-Croquiz ... drawing tanks at Deutches Panzermuseum Munster





Thanks to Stine Spedsbjerg who took the photos.

Designing new Antboy villians with the audience at the annual book fair


Together with Antboy author Kenneth Bøgh Andersen I was able to draw four new villians that could appear in future Antboy books.




We ended up with: "Tarantellus, Frog-boy, Ant-buster and Wasp-Queen