Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Cartoons that didn't get into 'Blæksprutten'


Muscle dogs like Amstaff, Pittbull, American Bulldog and similar breeds that attacks humans and smaller dogs, have been a big issue for a long time. Instead of just putting and aggressive dog to rest, the dog is being evaluated.....and then perhaps..put to sleep. Dog owners with a muscle dog says that the problem is not the breed but (some of) the owners.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Le Mont St. Michel






Finally we stayed for two nights at the island of Mont St. Michel.
The place was very impressive like a mix between Minas Tikrit from Lord of the Rings and the Wizard city from Harry Potter.
It's difficult to get the complexity of the city down on paper, but I tried.

D-day beaches






We got a guided tour through the D-day beaches where American, English and Canadian soldiers landed at june the 6th. 1944, and we saw the american war cemetary...almost 10.000 headstones..it makes stop and think, so much death and destruction in order to free europe.
We had lunch in the city where the british had built an artificial harbor in order to land their vehicles etc.

The city of Bayeux


We stayed in Bayeux for two nights. Here we saw the Bayeux Tapestry ...... maybe the first european graphic novel!

sketches from paris


Visiting Charlie Hebdo, Paris - a weekly satirical newspaper





On my annual trip with the danish cartoonist association, I was fortunate to visit Charlie Hebdothe day they were finishing up that weeks newspaper. Charlie Hebdo employs 13 full time cartoonists, and is one out of three weekly political satire newspapers in France (the other two are: 'Siné Hebdo' and 'Le Canard Enchiné').
The cover features the Interior Minister that are expelling some Afghan refugees. The minister says "you wanna sit by the aisle or by the window".

Leave nothing behind


On November 4, Danish Cartoonists will launch a satiric homepage. Every day
up to and during the UN Climate Change Conference COP15 in Copenhagen,
various cartoonists will contribute with a satiric drawing related to
"climate and climate change conference". Straight out the cartoonists and
drawings will currently comment on the climate debate, and in this way try
to illustrate the outstanding part that cartoonists play in the media.