Fredrik Strömberg
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Archive for February, 2014
Que for signings by the speaker of tonight, Natalia Batista.
February 10, 2014
Comics artist Natalia Batista talks about stereotypes in Japanese comics, at the first evening meeting of 2014 with the local chapter of the Swedish Comics Association.
February 10, 2014
Camilla Läckberg joins the Swedish crime fiction authors who have had a novel turned into a graphic novel for the prolific French comics market. Would be fun if at least some of these could actually be published in Sweden.
February 4, 2014
Swedish comic strip Rocky sold in a comic store in Paris, with the added note: “A young, idle but hilarious Swede. Fantastic!!!”
February 4, 2014
Good morning! A day in Paris, and nothing planned. Going for a walkabout.
February 3, 2014
At a pub in Paris, discussing the design of magazines about comics, testing the new Belgian Trappiste beers and listening to a great live music trio with violin and guitars. Life’s good.
February 3, 2014
The renowned recluse Bill Watterson is announced as next years President of the Angoulême festival. The American publisher (via cell phone): “I’ll try to get him to come, but he doesn’t like to travel…”
February 2, 2014
Whoa, has Peter Madsen seen this?
February 2, 2014
One of the trends of French comics today: biographies, reportage, autobiographies, realism.
February 1, 2014
For those who didn’t know, it was a graphic novel first.
February 1, 2014
This year’s outdoors exhibition celebrates the 80th anniversary of the French Mickey Mouse magazine.
February 1, 2014
The wine of the comic, or the comic of the wine…
February 1, 2014
One of the major international guests of the festival, Israeli Rutu Modan, walked by and fell I love with Swedish artist Emelie Östergren’s book Evil Dress. Fortunately we had two display copies, so We could give her one to take to her French publisher, to convince them to publish it here.
February 1, 2014
Whoa! Visiting another really emotionally exhausting exhibition (it’s turning out to be a good exhibition year for the Angoulême festival): the Korean exhibition on the “comfort women”, i.e. the Korean women who were forced to be prostitutes for the Japanese army during WWII. Major controversy surrounding this exhibition, with Japan launching a formal complaint to the festival.
February 1, 2014
Dinner with “Team Sweden” in Angoulême 2014, the biggest Swedish group to ever attend the festival.
February 1, 2014
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Probably one of the oldest comics murals still in existence in Angoulême.
Winners of the award for best album of the year, Philippe de Pierpont and Eric Lambé for Paysage apres la battallie, with the presenter and president of the jury, Posy Simmonds.
Action in the Swedish booth, with signings by Kim W. Andersson and Mattias Adolfsson.
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At a major exhibition with original art and sketches by the incredible Sven Nordqvist! Well worth a visit.
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Portrait by Matt Madden, with me as the character in his incredible 99 Ways to tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
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Portrait by Matt Madden, with me as the character in his incredible 99 Ways to tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
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Portrait: By the great Per Åhlin.
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Another beautiful panel from the Morris exhibition.
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