Tag: childrens’ comics

Superhästen by Emmanuel Guibert My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ariol is quickly becoming my favourite children’s comic. Guibert constantly delivers scripts that really feel like they depicts the reality of children, as opposed to all those stories about children, written by adults from a safe distance. In this volume, for instance, I loved the…

Henriettas monsterbok by Liniers My rating: 4 of 5 stars The second book by the Argentinian comics artist artist Liniers in Swedish and just like the previous one, Regnballongen, a wonderful, compassionate, thoughtful little book that is suitable both for those who recently learned to read, and for reading aloud.

Benny Björn tänker utanför ramarna by Philippe Coudray My rating: 4 of 5 stars The second collection of the French children’s comics Benjamin Bear/L´ours Barnabé, which is just as strange and at the same time pedagogical as the previous volume. In my review of the first collection Benny Björn på rätt spår I compared this…

Regnballongen by Liniers My rating: 4 of 5 stars   This is a low-key story of two young siblings who spend a Saturday together, trying to busy themselves, despite the rain falling outside. Nothing much happens and the pace is quiet and laid-back, which is really nice for a change from many action laden comics…

Benny Björn på rätt spår by Philippe Coudray My rating: 4 of 5 stars Benjamin Bear is a strange little comic, a bit like a childrens’ version of the absurd Cowboy Henk , if anyone can imagine that… The protagonist is an anthropomorphic bear living in an undefined world seemingly without any humans. The comics…