What is this?
Directorama is a weekly webcomic by Peet Gelderblom that chronicles the afterlife of a pantheon of legendary directors duking it out for artistic supremacy. Their heavenly mission: To inspire filmmakers carrying the torch back on Earth. The strip was inspired by the near simultaneous deaths of cinematic masters Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni in the Summer of 2007. New episodes are published every Monday at www.directorama.net and The House Next Door. The series can also be followed at the Brazilian website Cinema em Cena (in Portuguese) and in Smallformat magazine (on paper).
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule has described Directorama as “a new brand of film criticism in a Sunday-funnies format that suggests an ongoing conversation with styles and stylists as far-ranging as Doonesbury, Sergio Aragones, Bill Watterson, Fractured Fairy Tales, Neil Gaiman and, of course, Cahiers du Cinema.”
What’s more: it’s the first comic with added film grain!
If you’re new to Directorama, you ought to start here at the beginning, or even better: buy the book!
