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No, I am not writing blog posts about Alphaville and their giant hit from 1984.

No, Forever Young is the title of a play I saw in the theater yesterday.

The play was about what has happened to the youth in Denmark during the last 80 years. And also about what difference the youth made for Denmark during the same period of time. It was a very interesting play, and a total different way to look at Danish history.

I heard about how the youth was almost not excisting in the 1920s and 30s because they had to work from they were very young. How some tried to make a difference in the Resistance during WWII. How the 50s gave us rock'n'roll. How the 60s raised flower power and legalization of porn. How the 70s' youth grew up in shared houses where mom and dad ran around naked - if they were still married, that is. How the 80s gave us those youngsters we call autonomous, the ones that moved into abandoned houses and fought to be able to stay there. How the 90s gave us the European Championship in football, and what that meant to the Danes in general.

The show even gave me a small peek into the future, but I promised to keep it a secret, so you just gonna have to wait and see for yourself.

It was brilliant, I just loved it.

out of 6.

S U P E R S T A R



I went to the theatre yesterday to see a very old classic. This play was first set up in 1971, and was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The musical is about the last seven days of Jesus' life, and contains various kinds of rocksongs.


The first song was performed by Judas (that's his Danish name, he might have another name in your language...) and I didn't understand one word of what he sang. He yelled and screamed his words out so I was tempted to go up there and ask him to take it down a little. (That would have been something, huh? : "Excuse me? Yes, you up there! Yes, you! Can you please take it down a bit? You sing way too loud! So please?! Thank you so much!")

The next song was Jesus' answer, and that wasn't much better. I began to think that this was a waste of both time and money...


But then something happened. The disciples sang some real good rock songs, and I caught myself tapping my foot and smiling all over. I liked the songs and the performers, and I absolutely loved Maria Magdalena's stunning red boots!

But the best thing of the play was when King Herodes sang and tapdanced barefooted in his pink underwear.


I will give it out of 6.
I would have given it 6 stars, but two things pull it down to only 5: That Judas sang so his words were unintelligible and that Jesus spat out over the first 4 rows when he sang.

I have mentioned many cartoonists here on my blog. Skilfull creative persons, that can bring a smile on my face.

This is my first post about the Donald Duck universe. Donald was "born" in 1934, in the cartoon "The Wise Little Hen". According to "The Chronological Donald - Volume 1", Donald was created by Walt Disney when he heard Clarence Nash doing his "duck" voice while reciting "Mary had a little lamb". Donald is usually easygoing, but his most famous trait is his short and often explosive temper. He is also sometimes portrayed as more crafty and cynical than other characters in his universe. I like that. It brings another dimension into the duck'ish universe.

Well. This post shouldn't really be about Donald, but about one of his drawers, one of the most famous of them, namely Don Rosa. He was born in 1951 in Kentucky, and is actually mostly known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck.

Rosa joined the Danish publisher Egmont in 1990 and has been working there as a freelancer since then. In 1991 he started creating The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a twelve chapter story about his favorite character. The series was a huge success, and in 1995 he won an Eisner Award for best continuing series.

During early summer 2002, Don Rosa suddenly laid down work. As an artist he could not live under the conditions Egmont was offering him, but he did not want to give up making Scrooge McDuck comics either. So his only choice was to put down work for a while and try to come to an agreement with Egmont. His main issues were that he had no control over his works. Don had discovered far too often that his stories were printed with incorrect pages of art, improper colors, poor lettering, or pixelated computer conversions of the illustrations. Another matter was that his name was used in promotion of books and collections of stories without his agreement and without sending royalties to him.

He came to an agreement with Egmont in December of the same year, which gave him a bit more control over the stories and the manner in which they were publicized.

Don Rosa has a special way to draw the Disney caracters, but what I like most about his work is his sense of humour. It fits mine just perfectly!

I have been writing about my favourite cartoonists, and all those I have mentioned so far, have been foreigners. Now it's about time I introduce you to some Danish artists as well, bacause in my opinion we have a few worth mentioning.

The first one I will introduce you to is Peter Madsen. He was born in 1958. He started on drawing the Valhalla albums about the old Nordic Myths in 1977. There are now published 13 Valhalla albums, number 14 is on its way, and the last one will be number 15 and the title will be "The twilight of the Gods", a reasonable ending to a series of exellent stories.

Peter Madsen's artistic development can be seen in many other publications than Valhalla. Several of his drawings and comics from 1975-82 appear in the album Along the road (Hen ad vejen). In 1988 he produced two beautiful and poetic contributions to Bogfabrikken publisher's erotic comics anthology, Danish Delights (Danske fristelser).

In 1995 The Son of Man (Menneskesønnen) was published, the result of three years of intense work. In it, Peter Madsen gives his comics interpretation of the New Testament for the Danish Bible Society. He was given a free hand for his interpretation which, after a great deal of research, figure studies and sketches, resulted in a comic told in 136 pages of beautiful and atmospheric water colour paintings.

Peter Madsen is really a talented artist. Valhalla has been published in 10 different languages, so check him out in case you don't already know him.