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Live: Angoulême - Day 2
The second day of the festival is over, and it has been a hectic and very successful day for the Swedish delegation. I started out by giving a talk about the Swedish comics history at the beautiful...
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Live: Angoulême - The Official Dinner
The Swedish delegation in Angoulême is bigger than ever this year and there has also been more new contacts made than ever, of which I will report more later. We gathered the ones who had been involved...
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Live: Angoulême - Day 4
We have now entered the very last day of the festival, and there is a steady stream of visitors coming to look at the Swedish exhibition, buy catalogues and books, talk about Swedish comics, look at...
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Live: Angoulême - Rayon Frais
Swedish comics have been getting a lot of attention here in France these last few days, and the biggest splash was made by the anthology Rayon Frais, co-published by Swedish Galago and French Les...
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Live: Angoulême - Going to Paris
So, the Swedish exhibition in Angoulême is over and done with. It's been a great four days, but now it's time to move on. I will travel home to Sweden, but the exhibition will go on to Paris, where it...
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Live: Paris - Building the Exhibition
It's getting close to the grand opening of the Swedish comics exhibition in Paris, the second showing of La Vie n'est pas pour les amateurs. This time we are in a venerable 16th century building in the...
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Live: Paris - The Grand Opening
Yesterday was the grand opening of the Swedish comics exhibition La vie n'est pas pour les amateurs, at the Swedish Institute in Paris, and it was a great success. We started out in the afternoon with...
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Live: Paris - Panel Discussion
The events planned in conjunction with the Swedish comics exhibition in Paris keep rolling on. Yesterday we held a panel discussion on Swedish comics in general and Strindberg and comics in particular....
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Live: Paris - La vie n'est pas pour les amateurs
As of right now, the big Swedish comics exhibition La vie n'est pas pour les amateurs (Life is not for amateurs) is on display at the Swedish Institute in Paris, and will be so until the 15th of...
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News: Jewish Images in the Comics
It's getting closer and closer to the launch of my third book in the "Visual History" series from Fantagraphics. As many of you know by now, the topic this time is Jewish culture and Jewish History and...
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A new trend among Swedish comics seems to be to create trailers for upcoming graphic novels. Here are two recent ones, made to promote two Swedish graphic novels by Kim W. Andersson and Åsa Ekström...
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For Kristiina, with love
We have lost one of the most tenacious fighters for comics in Scandinavia, and I have lost a friend. Kristiina Kolehmainen, head of Serieteket in Stockholm, has passed away. I will write a longer text...
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Happy Easter!
Enjoying a quiet Easter with my family. Haven't seen any Easter Bunnies, but I found this great cover. There is a strange and wonderful American comic book cover for every occasion.For those wanting...
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News: The Comic Art School at work
Right now the students at The Comic Art School of Malmö are painting a mural on a wall at newly furbished institution in Malmö, which has comissioned us to give one of their rooms an artistic touch. It...
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Live: MoCCA 2012 - Day 0
Having arrived safely to New York late last night, I had the opportunity to spend a whole day in this buzzing city before the main event, the MoCCA Art Fest started. I spent the day walking about,...
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Live: MoCCA 2012 - Day 1
Today, the festival got started and the beautiful great hall of the Armory filled up with visitors. There was a long queue hours before opening, and my personal favourite: a street playing Boba Fett,...
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Live: MoCCA 2012 - Day 2
The second day of MoCCA has ended, and I'm exhausted but very pleased with the way things has turned out. I've had another signing session with Fantagraphics, and my book was actually sold out at the...
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News: Zlatan the Duck Man
Here's a fun fact for all lovers of comics and football (that's soccer for all of you from across the Atlantic Ocean). The issue of Kalle Anka & C:o (the Swedish Donald Duck magazine) currently on...
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News: Oslo Comics Expo
The weekend is getting near and I am packing my bags once agin, this time to go to Oslo and Oslo Comic Expo (OCX). I have never before attended OSX (this is a troublesome period of the year for...
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News: Victory in our Time! The Manga Case has been Repealed
Sentence has been delivered by the Supreme Court in Sweden in the so called Manga Case (Mangamålet - even the Supreme Court now calls it that...) and the translator Simon Lundström has been exonerated!...
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