pictures from Blæksprutten release party

The Minister of Economic and Business Affair, Lene Espersen, was names 'årets blæksputte 2009' last thuesday. The Minister has made several 'screw-ups' over the last year which make her qualify for this honorable award, a red squid puppet and and original Roald Als caricature drawing.
Jan Gintberg and Sebastian Dorset were the presenters at the release party for the annual satirical Blæksprutten-book.

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.

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".