Month: May 2016

Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom My rating: 5 of 5 stars Palimpsest is an autobiographical graphic novel about a Swede who was adopted from Korea searching for her origins. Sjöblom has previously made shorter comics and illustrated children’s books, but this is her first full-length graphic novel.

Partydrottningen by Patrik Rochling My rating: 4 of 5 stars Scriptwriter Patrick Rochling and comics artist Li Österberg keep adding to their low-key but extensive book series about a fictional Sweden. First out was Johannasviten (the Johanna series), five graphic novels which were later collected in one volume. Right now they are in the midst…

Jamilti and Other Stories by Rutu Modan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great collection of early stories by Rutu Modan. I read most of them in the anthologies that her collective Actus Tragicus put out in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but rereading them in one go puts them all…

Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Re-reading this book in preparation for an artist talk with Modan in a few day, and actually enjoying it more than the first time around. Modan has a way of writing real people doing real things, having real relationships, and you sense that outside…

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…