Only after the thoughts are simplified, can the capacity and power of emotions be strengthened. — Zhang Yimou
Praise for Directorama
"Doonesbury for cineastes... Witty and even political... Film lovers no longer have to die before going to movie heaven; Peet Gelderblom brings it to us, with Directorama." — Don Mancini (Child’s Play, Seed of Chucky)
"Hilarious... If you're a movie fan--particularly a fan of great film directors--you're gonna eat this up page after page. It's a gem." — Jamey Duvall & Jerry Dennis (Movie Geeks United!)
"We all know that deceased auteurs have achieved immortality in their movies, but now they have an off-screen place to hang out as well. It’s called Directorama and only somebody as talented, knowledgeable and infatuated with movies as
Peet Gelderblom (who knows his Ozu from his Antonioni) could have conceived and realized such a place.
To paraphrase the Righteous Brothers: If there’s a
cinema heaven, well you know they’ve got a hell of a credit arbitration process.” — Jim Emerson (Scanners / RogerEbert.com)
"Critics who are struggling to fit a film’s core issues in 800 words, take notice! Peet is able to capture filmmaker’s essences in a few word balloons, while still being funny and illuminating." — Pablo Villaça (Cinema em Cena)
"That movie-mad medium Peet Gelderblom has been to the Great Beyond and lived to tell about it. If you’ve ever wondered about the great mysteries of life (i.e.: What does Andrei Tarkovsky think of The Bourne Ultimatum?; Would I like Ingmar Bergman when he’s angry?), look no further than Directorama, the Antonioni-esque urtext of cinephilia, a Kubrickian head-trip beyond the widescreen veil.” — Keith Uhlich (The House Next Door)
"Peet Gelderblom: the master of cine comics." — Juergen Lossau (Smallformat Magazine)
"One of Peet’s singular achievements with the series is that he has found a voice within the comic strip medium that invites serious consideration of cinematic issues as well as imaginative flights uncommon to more conventionally grounded criticism." — Dennis Cozzalio (Sergio Leone and The Infield Fly Rule)
"This is movie satire of the highest order... (Peet's) angular and stylized characters perfectly capture the figures that he’s parodying, probably the best work of that kind that I’ve seen this side of Kate Beaton or the earlier Dave Sim caricatures." — Michael Petersen (Patchwork Earth)
