Category: Politics

HD, Piracy, Crack!, Ship to Gaza…

Yesterday, another illustration in Helsingborgs Dagblad (Världens Lyckligaste Folk by Lena Sundström):

Today: Chapter 2 och Piracy is Liberation 001: Information Wants to be Free begins:

http://www.elftorp.com/piracy/

And next week, I’m representing Wormgod at the Crack! festival in Rome:

I feel right now that I should say something about Ship to Gaza, but I’ll just express my sympathy and solidarity with the people of Palestine and post this video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlnsIW3zJk&feature=player_embedded]

HD: Urban terrorist myths…

Couldn’t find the text at Helsingborgs Dagblad‘s site, which is too bad because I really liked today’s chapters. It was about urban myths about terrorists (the thankful terrorist who returns a good deed by giving advice about places to stay away from during certain periods of time – nowadays the tale’s star is an arab, some time ago they were Irish). I did my own version:

Caption:

Early 2002:

W:

I’ll give you a tip: Stay out of Iraq in March…

World Tour 2010…

How come everytime you decide to take a night off, it’s to survive rather than relax? At least in this line of work (precarious illustrator, pro-bono graphic designer, cyberpunk comics artist)…

Anyway. This is what’s going on this year, past and future, as far as I can see right now. I may skip some of it to take a night off, and I may end up in places I haven’t yet thought of.

February 27 – Con-Dom/Pestdemon / Metal Pip! (featuring Susanne Johansson as DJ Wormgod), Malmö
March 25 – C’est Bon Black Box 4 – Wormgod: Spiders (featuring Vampirebarbie & Mari Jansson), Malmö
April 23-25 – Small Press eXpo, Stockholm
May 15-16 – Kemi comics festival, Kemi
May 22-23 – Komiks.dk, Copenhagen
June 12-13 – Punk Illegal, Munkedal
June 17-20 – Crack! conics festival, Rome
July 23-24 – Möllevångsfestivalen, Malmö
August ?? – Malmöfestivalen, Malmö
September 10-12 – Wormgod: konSEKVENS @ Helsinki Comics Festival
September ?? – Bok- och Biblioteksmässan, Göteborg
October ?? – Anarchist Book Fair, London
October 30-31 – Wormgod: konSEKVENS @ Örebro [comics &] book fair
November 5 – Wormgod: ZOMBIES @ AltCom 2010, Malmö
November 5-7 – AltCom 2010 first weekend: animated films, Malmö
November 12-14 – AltCom 2010 main weekend: SEX & WAR comics festival, Malmö

And of course, yesterday was Sunday, which meant another illustration for Helsingborgs Dagblad‘s publishing of Lena Sundström’s Världens Lyckligaste Folk:

Translation:

Why of course, everyone is welcome in Sweden! Where did you say you’re coming from?

Eritrea? Oh no. You can come back when you’re from Holland…