Kolor Klimax: Nordic Comics Now

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 Drang- er [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 Woodring-esque 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 Mardøn 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.

• Author
• Matthias Wivel, Jenni Rope, Rui Tenreiro, Bendik Kaltenborn, Emelie Östergren, Tommi Mutsuri, Peter Kielland, Amanda Vähämäki, Joanna Rubin Dranger, Johan F. Krarup, Joanna Hellgren, Aapo Rapi, Joakim Pirinen, Mari Ahokoivu, Mårdøn Smet, Mikkel Damsbo, Gitte Broeng, Signe Parkins, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Christopher Nielsen, Vanessa Baird, Ville Ranta, Thomas Thorhauge

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 250

• Publisher
• Fantagraphics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781606995204

• Genres
• comics, anthologies

• Release date
• 2012