This may be the wEirdest comic I’ve made lately. Refused from the upcoming RADIO issue of Stripburger, and I will probably forget all about it tomorrow, so you’ll have to read it here instead.
Category: Work
BLÅ
BLÅ är en av de två senaste böckerna från Tusen Serier. Den finns nu att beställa från Aparts webshop.
Blå handlar om flykt, kärlek, sex och sorg. Blå är berättelsen om en kvinna som befriar sig från de sagor som fabulerats om henne i århundraden. Shabnam Faraees visuella uttryck färgas av mötet mellan den iranska och svenska bildtraditionen.
Manus & bild av Shabnam Faraee
Endast 120:-!!
Direktlänk till boken på Aparts webshop, som är det enda stället du kan beställa boken just nu.
Språk: svenska.
Om Shabnam Faraee (författare & tecknare):
Shabnam Faraee kommer ursprungligen från Iran och har bott i Stockholm sedan september 2002. Hon arbetar gränsöverskridande med grafisk design, mönsterdesign, animation och illustration. Hennes visuella uttryck färgas av mötet mellan den iranska och svenska bildtraditionen.
Radio…
This is what happened last night after working for 10 hours and finding a reminder for a forgotten call for submissions.
I like “why not?” as an answer to various questions.
So this is an exerpt from an 8 page comic that may turn up in an upcoming anthology. Or maybe not, we’ll see. Title: RADIO
Stora Läsarpriset 2013 till Tusen Serier!
Fem papperslösa kvinnors historier (Five Undocumented Women’s Stories) by Amalia Alvarez won the big readers’ award for best Swedish graphic novel 2013!
The book, which is trilingual (Swedish/Spanish/English), was one of the first to be published by Tusen Serier and is available for ordering from Serieaffären.se or Apart förlag.
Five comics based on the true stories of five women living in or having lived in Sweden “illegally”. One woman who the author met at the women’s shelter tells her story as an “imported wife”, another women whom she met in the trade union tells about the situation for the female undocumented workers in Sweden, trafficking, networks that exploit and abuse women, etc. Yet another story is about a woman whose application for asylum was rejected. She tells the tale of her road to Sweden.
Naturally, the details of these stories have been changed to protect the integrity of the persons involved, as they are illegal according to the system.
About Amalia Alvarez (writer & artist):
Amalia Alvarez is a self-taught artists and has drawn for Arbetaren, Liberación, Mana and Clandestin@, a magazine for undocumented workers.
Website
Me & my Daddy & Zlatan
This book has been a long time in the making, but now it will soon become reality as a collaboration between Tusen Serier and Wormgod.
There will be more information soon, I just wanted to post the cover right now because I’m so excited. I wanted to pick a few preview pages, but it’s too late to do that now so I’m seving it for later.
This may well be the best single graphic novel I’ve made so far, on many levels. It’s not really like anything I usually do, leaning more towards the mainstream rather than cyberpunk or the various other styles I usually work with. You will see, sometime during the upcoming spring months…
So here are the two covers for the Swedish & English editions:
Radio interview from Feira Laica 2012…
Hållbar konsumtion
Doing this in Swedish since the comic is in Swedish. Sorry…
Fick vidarebefordrat en inbjudan till den här tävlingen häromdan. Innan jag ens hunnit resa mig ur sängen hade jag skrivit ett manus som jag sedan tecknade samtidigt som jag gjorde det jag egentligen skulle göra.
Insåg såklart att den aldrig skulle vinna mig några 100 000 kr, så jag visar den här istället.
Varsågod!
Arg Kanin om Omänskliga Rättigheter
Arg Kanin om Omänskliga Rättigheter, från Asylkalendern 2013 (Asylgruppen Lund).
Klicka på sidorna för att se dem i större storlek.
3 days of darkness
I was going to have a vacation after AltCom and TRAUMA and the ERA exhibition at the new Tusen Serier space, but noo… The new issue of C’est Bon Anthology will be in color! And the deadline is next week!
So of course, I had to submit something to them.
They’re supposed to send it to print December 21. The last day of the Mayan calendar.
There was a viral rumor going around last week(?) saying that NASA had confirmed that there will be three days of darkness because of some alignment or other. So, I thought: Why not?
Read the whole thing in the new issue (if they accept my comic, of course). This here is page 2:
AltCom 2012!
AltCom 2012 is getting closer. Read all about it here: http://www.altcomfestival.se
To sum it up, this is what you should do:
WEDNESDAY (Nov 7):
– Tusen Serier exhibition opening @ Folkets Park 16-18.
This is an outdoors exhibition with me and Amanda Casanellas+ some of the artists of our project Tusen Serier: Amalia Alvarez, Emre Özdamarlar, Aida Ghardagian, Marco Leal. There will be wine, music, fire…
Then take a small break before going to
– CBK: In> <Bestween @ Biograf Spegeln 19-22
C’est Bon Kultur, my old comics collective, doing an exhibition about the stories in between the pages of a story by Allan Haverholm. There will be more wine and probably some other entertainment as well.
THURSDAY (Nov 8):
– CCC: Sem Fronteiras @ Galleri Ocampo 12-18
Portuguese Chili Com Carne had an exhibition a year ago at the same place. You might remember it (Futuro Primitivo). This time, it’s four artists, Ana Biscaia, André Lemos, André Coelho and Jucifer (two of which will be attending the festival), showing off their drawings. I’ve seen some of them already, they look great! There will be wine. I know that’s what you’re really after.
– Stripburger in print @ Café Simpan 18-01
A collection of Stripburger prints, posters, covers. This Slovenian group was probably my first contact with the European underground of comics, when some of them visited Malmö and SPX in 2003(?). Through them I discovered Danijel Zezelj, for example. Who you should really check out if you don’t already know his work…
FRIDAY (Nov 9):
– Nema Granice @ Kanten 13-17
This is a one-day exhibition only, so don’t miss it! I first discovered this part of the Balkan comics scene at some point when I stumbled upon an old piblication from Serbian Kosmoplovci/Studiostrip which I think was an exhibition catalogue or portfolio maybe. I thought there were some really interesting things there and I wanted to publish these artists in C’est Bon Anthology. I got their contact info through Ivana Armanini of Komikaze. Or I discovered them on the Komikaze site first and found the book later, who knows?
Meeting them all in real life for the first time at CRACK! years later, I heard about the Novo Doba festival in Belgrade so I went there the following year and met the people organizing it and here we are. And here they will be: Studiostrip, Komikaze, Turbo Comix/Novo Doba.
And yes: There will be wine and a DJ set by DJ Tozd.
Just after that, go from Kanten, across the street, through the fence and around the building to:
– Wormgod: Transgressions & TRAUMA @ Borgen 17-04
I tried to figure out what pictures to make under the title TRANSGRESSIONS for our Wormgod exhibition, but it seemed easier to make a book first and then use that as inspiration for the images. So I did. The art was a collaboration between me and Susanne Johansson (the other half of Wormgod) and there will be a soundtrack by Feberdröm. I got the books from the printer already and now we’re waiting for the CDs. And yes, then we made those pictures and we’re waiting for them to get printed too.
The first hour is the exhibition opening and there will be no entrance fee during this time, when we will also play a CD by Sektor 304 (who were going to play at TRAUMA but couldn’t make it) and show a video session with videos from Studiostrip/Kosmoplovci. Then TRAUMA starts, with 5 o’clock traffic, Anatomiteatern, Knullkraft, Khmer Noir and Lenhart Tapes (who I also met at CRACK!). There will be wine. There will be noise.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY (Nov 10-11):
– Comics fair @ Folkets Park 12-18 with lots of books, panels & presentations and more exhibitions, performance etc. I have to go to sleep now, so follow the link in the beginning of this post to see the details for this one. You’ll have to bring your own wine for this one.
And at all of these events, you can get the AltCom 2012 NO BORDERS anthology for free! 176 pages, comics by lots of international artists, cover by Bill Koeb. Niice!
