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Kolor Klimax: Nordic Comics Now
Paperback
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781606995204
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Apr 3 2012
Pages: 250
Weight: 3.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 10.70
Language: English
In recent years Scandinavia has become a hotbed of cartooning activity, from the internationally acclaimed funny-animal stylings of Norway's Jason to the hilarious slacker romps of Sweden's Martin Kellerman and Dane Nikoline Werdelin's Eisner-Award-nominated urban slice-of-life stories. This anthology of comics -- many of them created especially for this book -- offers an intoxicating and compelling sampling of current works from these countries. Skaal!
Jenni Rope [Finland] tells a minimalist tale of heartbreak in The Island; Peter Kielland's [Denmark] Mr. Pig has an eventful day; Joanna Rubin Dranger [Sweden] is Always Prepared to Die for My Child; Crumb-esque satirist Christopher Nielsen [Norway] boils down all of life to an eternal journey up the Escalator; Tommi Musturi [Finland] provides two full-color Jim Woodringesque romps featuring his Samuel character; Johan F. Krarup [Denmark] visits a compulsive comics collector in Nostalgia; plus Bendik Kaltenborn's [Norway] The Great Underneath, a dazzling wordless piece from Mardon Smet [Denmark], the legendary Swedish cartoonist Joakim Pirinen's ultra-virtuoso My Life, Drawn & Quarterly-published Amanda Vähämäki's [Finland] pencil-smudged stylings, and much more.
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