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KOLAŻ | THE BOX exhibition @ Malmö Stadsbibliotek

CBK presents:
KOLAŻ | THE BOX
Double release exhibition for CBA vols 64 & 65!

Where: Malmö City Library
When: The exhibition opening happens on Tuesday Nov 12 between 17–20 (to the left after the main entrance, up one floor then straight ahead)
We will be there giving out cookies and you’ll be able to buy both books on site.
It will stay up for 2 weeks (approx).

Who is CBK?
We’re comic artists running a non-profit publishing organization! Since 2001, CBK has worked for a more varied and exciting comics culture in Sweden and on the international scene. The main vehicle for this purpose is the international comics art magazine, CBA. We also arrange exhibitions of comics art, festivals and other cultural events.
Our vision is to push the boundaries of what can be done in comics, to broaden the perspective of what the comics medium is and can be, both in relation to itself and to other art forms.

About the exibition

In the exhibition you can see samples from the two latest issues, inspired by the following theme descriptions:

KOLAŻ
Step into the world of KOLAŻ, where images are discovered, altered, and transformed — merged with sketches, digital twists, and layered reconfigurations. It’s a creative process of cutting, rearranging, and reimagining, where fragments are pulled apart and pieced back together. Story themselves are patchworks of moments stitched into something new, where unexpected contrasts may emerge and magic happens when each reader brings their own meanings, their own interpretations, their own fragments to the pasteboard.

THE BOX
What’s in THE BOX? Who wants to know? How big is it? Where is it? Is it on its way somewhere? Why does it matter? Why can’t you know what’s in it? Or do you know?
This issue is a box filled with stories. But what is THE BOX if you think outside the box?

The books can be ordered/pre-ordered from Hybriden:
CBA vol 64 – OUT NOW!

CBA vol 65 – coming soon (available to order now)…

Subscribe to CBA (4 issues)

CBA vol 65 won’t be officially available until Nov 25, but we will have a few copies as a sneaky pre-release at the exhibition.

Facebook event

The exhibition is made with support from Malmö Kulturnämnd.

October 17, 2024

CBK

Uncategorized

Coming soon: CBA vol 65

COMING SOON:

CBA vol 65: KOLAŻ

Step into the world of KOLAŻ, where images are discovered, altered, and transformed — merged with sketches, digital twists, and layered reconfigurations. It’s a creative process of cutting, rearranging, and reimagining, where fragments are pulled apart and pieced back together. Story themselves are patchworks of moments stitched into something new, where unexpected contrasts may emerge and magic happens when each reader brings their own meanings, their own interpretations, their own fragments to the pasteboard.

15 artists cut and paste to create a surprisingly ominous collection of comics for this issue of innovative comics.

Comics by:
Pavol Bratský
Mattias Elftorp
Tom Mortimer
Damir Stojnić von Ktonsky
Susanne Johansson
Markus Samnell
Julia Nascimento
Adam Boman
Mette Norrie
Helena Menanda
Aiden Kvarnström
Mileta Mijatović
Mårten Edman
Miku Maria Gustavsson
Main editor & cover by:
Kinga Dukaj

104 pages!

Release date: November 25, but you can order it from Hybriden now and it will be available already at Seriefest i Väst and at the release exhibition!

Start a subscription today and this can be your first issue!

October 16, 2024

CBK

CBA

OUT SOON: CBA vol 64: THE BOX

COMING SOON:

CBA vol 64: THE BOX

What’s in THE BOX? Who wants to know? How big is it? Where is it? Is it on its way somewhere? Why does it matter? Why can’t you know what’s in it? Or do you know?
This issue is a box filled with stories. But what is THE BOX if you think outside the box?

In this issue: three longer short stories: a space operette about a space ship driven by a Schrödingerian probability box, a documentary about a prison riot and its aftermath in early 1970s Argentina and a strange case of the Dispensator, a wandering nocturnal psychologist. On top of that, some shorter stories of ruminations and a text piece on the myth of Pandora’s box.

Comics by:
Mattias Elftorp
Miguel Santos
Susanne Johansson
Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi
Manuel Rodriguez Navarro
Josef Norén
Text & illustrations by:
Eileen Laurie
Main editor & cover by:
Mattias Elftorp

100 pages of international comics!

Release date: October 15 but you can order it from Hybriden now

Start a subscription today and this can be your first issue!

September 30, 2024

CBK

CBA

PRENUMERATIONSERBJUDANDE SERIEFEST

Special offer this weekend (starting now) during Seriefest: 1 year subscription (4 issues) for 50 kr!

Order att HYBRIDEN.

Normal price is 300 kr so this is a pretty good deal, if we may say so ourselves. It’s a good opportunity to try it out and see if it’s for you.

We will also have some of our recent back issues on our table at Seriefest. If you’re in Malmö this weekend, that’s the place to be for all your comics/zine needs. See you there!

Due to increasing postage costs, this offer is for subscribers in Sweden only. It’s also only for new subscribers.

August 30, 2024

CBK

CBA

Call for submissions – CBA vol 66|67: MORE STORIES

Call for submissions for:
CBA vol 66|67: MORE STORIES
Main editor: Mattias Elftorp
Deadline: October 15

No theme, just MORE STORIES.

Give us your comics and texts for this double issue of CBA!

—SUBMISSION GUIDELINES—
Please read and follow these guidelines:
Number of pages: We prefer comics that are about 5-30 pages, but any number is welcome.
Format: 20 x 26 cm
Color: Color / Black and white
Language: English
File format: .TIF
Resolution: 1200 dpi line art or 300 dpi CMYK (profile: PSO coated V3, or you can send it in RGB and we’ll convert it)
Length (texts): A good size for a text is ca 7500 characters (including spaces), but it can also be longer or shorter.
Bleed: 5mm. Think you know how to handle bleed? Read this to make sure you know what we mean.
Within this space, there are no limits.

Delivery: We prefer download links that do NOT require us to login anywhere (wetransfer usually works fine, for example).
Request: Please don’t use Comic Sans. We don’t like it and will ask you to change to another font.
And again; Please check our guidelines for bleed.
Please send us high-resolution files from the start. This saves time and we usually don’t have a lot of that.
Include a short bio*, with one URL (if you have a website or similar).

Please ask us if you are unsure about formats, resolution, bleed, etc. We prefer stupid questions to bad files. And there are no stupid questions!
Normally, we also organize a release exhibition showcasing sample pages from the new issue. Please let us know if you’re NOT ok with us using your works for that purpose.

Policy on generative AI: We do not accept submissions that are created using generative AI.

*Your bio should be approximately 500-700 characters in length and written in 3rd person. It should read more as an entertaining and informative bio and less as a CV. What you want to say about yourself is up to you, but it’s generally more interesting for our readers to know about your interests, who you are and what else you’ve published that they might find, rather than where you’ve studied. We may edit it if needed to fit our format.

Send comics, questions, etc to: submissions(a)cbkcomics(.)com

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Unfortunately we cannot guarantee you any payment for participating (although these last few years we’ve had more financing so we have been able to pay at least something, i.e. when all the expenses have been paid we will share the surplus of the financial support we receive for CBA amongst the participants). If we publish your submission you will receive 10 free copies of the issue. That’s all we can promise at this date. Hopefully you will find being in CBA an enjoyable experience. Naturally, copyright for your material will stay in your hands.

Also note that we are constantly overworked and there’s a great risk that we won’t get in touch in case your submission doesn’t make it into the current volume (we WILL, however, let you know if we do publish your submission, and if you don’t get into this one we might keep your comic for a future issue). We are sorry for this and will try to catch up as soon as things clear up (optimistically in 2029)…

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Feel free to share this call for submissions and/or the Facebook event to any comics creator you think would be interested!

August 27, 2024

CBK

CBA, Submissions

Piracy013 RELEASE event & exhibition

When: June 14 at 18-21 (the exhibition lasts until Jun 28)
Where: Rum för Serier (Friisgatan 12, Malmö)
What: Book release with comics exhibition
Opening hours:
Thursday (Jun 20): 17-20
Tuesday (Jun 25): 17-20
Thursday (Jun 27): 17-20

Piracy is Liberation 013: Missile Crisis is the latest part of Mattias Elftorp’s cyberpunk postapocalypse epic.

The City is firing sentient smart-missiles against terrorists hiding in the previously unknown desert. But who is this outer enemy?
Using metamagic, Purple learns how to fly and takes Information and Erica on an expedition to find out, but the truth comes with unexpected dangers.
Piracy is Liberation is a mix of classic cyberpunk elements in a dystopian future with a glimmer of postapocalyptic hope and a pinch of metamagic.

The story, which started in book 012, is a comment on the increasingly war-hungry media climate. It takes place far into the future, in a city where Capitalism is the only remaining religion, where the people don’t know that anything exists outside the City (until now) or that things have ever been different.

We invite you to an exhibition with material from the book along with some more stuff, new and old.
Haven’t read the earlier books in the series? Don’t worry, they’ll all be available at a special price.
Come and hang out, look at the pretty pictures, buy the pretty book and have some wine, it’ll be great!
We’ll keep going until 21 unless we decide to stay longer…

The exhibition is presented by Wormgod & CBK in cooperation with the Swedish Comics Association.

Feel free to share and invite people to the Facebook event.

June 3, 2024

CBK

Events, Exhibitions, Piracy is Liberation

Extended deadline – CBA vol 64: Kolaż

We’ve decided to extend the deadline for CBA vol 64: Kolaż to May 31!

You can find all the submission guidelines for this issue here.

THEME:

Kolaż (Polish for collage) is an art where you weave existing images into new narratives. Dive deep into various techniques and tech. We want your unlimited comic fusions!

Explore the art of collage with us in blends of found images with drawings and digital manipulations, dissections and reassemblies, insertions and rearrangements. Share your stories, your subversions and discoveries of meaning through combinations and reinterpretations. Create new comics or cut up your old ones, make new life out of previous stories.

Be inspired by pioneers like Mary Shelley’s Victor F, Hannah Höch, Romare Bearden, Dave McKean and many more, whose unique approaches reshape artistic boundaries.

Join us to celebrate this remarkable art form in CBA vol 64: Kolaż (polish for Collage) where innovation and imagination breathe life into fragments, woven through the magic of artistic amalgamation.

Is collage your passion and you want to write an article about it? Great! A good size for a text is ca 7500 characters (including spaces), but it can also be longer or shorter.

***Disclaimer***
Copyrighted material:
Be mindful of the images you use to create your collage. In general, using copyrighted images in your collage without permission could potentially constitute copyright infringement.e
AI:
If you use AI art it has to be clearly stated that it is AI, what AI platform it is made at and what words and/or base images you used to create the comic. We want to discourage the use of AI and you will not receive any payment for AI- images.
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May 15, 2024

CBK

CBA, Submissions

Available NOW: Piracy is Liberation 013 & CBA vol 62|63

Two new books are coming soon, but you can order them already from Hybriden! Approximate release date will be April 20.

Both books and much more will be available at the Stockholm International Comics Festival, May 25-26!

Piracy is Liberation 013: Missile Crisis

The City is firing sentient smart-missiles against terrorists hiding in the previously unknown desert. But who is this outer enemy?
Using metamagic, Purple learns how to fly and takes Information and Erica on an expedition to find out, but the truth comes with unexpected dangers.

Weighing in at 236 pages, this book continues the story started in Piracy is Liberation 012: Outer Enemy.
Published by CBK in cooperation with Wormgod, Piracy is Liberation is political theory, filtered through autobiography, masked as fiction in the form of cyberpunk postapocalypse.

Story art and design by Mattias Elftorp, cover by Susanne Johansson, illustration & editorial assistance by Kinga Dukaj.

CBA vol 62|63: Liminal Space

Liminal space, a concept that deconstructs the notion of fixed boundaries and absolute realities. It is a space that challenges the dualities of self and other, inside and outside, past and future. A bridge to cross, a door to open. A place to question and transcend.

Liminality has always been a part of humanity. Maybe not as a state of transition but rather as a state of constant becoming. It is a space that disrupts the linearity of time and questions the stability of identity. That area of blurred boundaries is very much an integral part of the creative process for us as humans and artists.
A realm of ambiguity. A pause in time, a shift in state. A realm of potentiality. Where form and meaning await.

Here (or in there) we can push the boundaries of the unexpected. With comics, the idea of the liminal space can be used to craft stories and narratives that exist between different realms of reality.

Comics by: Svalan Sörblom [SE], Anamarija Kvas [HR], Tom Mortimer [UK], Miku Maria Gustavsson [SE], Edmund Mortimer [UK], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Saskia Gullstrand [SE], Kekube [PL], Tomxyz & fishboneseater [PL], Adam Kołodziejski [PL], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Damir Stojnic-Ktonsky [RS], Zlatko Krstevski [MK], Oskar Aspman [SE].
Cover, text, illustrations & main editor: Oskar Aspman [SE].

168 pages of international comics in this double issue!

Get it from the Hybriden webshop!

This is also a good time to start a subscription.

March 25, 2024

CBK

Uncategorized

Call for submissions – CBA vol 65: THE BOX

Call for submissions for:
CBA vol 65: THE BOX
Main editor: Mattias Elftorp
Deadline: July 10

What’s in The Box? Who wants to know? How big is it? Where is it? Is it on its way somewhere? Why does it matter? Why can’t you know what’s in it? Or do you know?

Fill this issue of CBA with stories of The Box, as if the issue was a box needing to be filled. And don’t forget to think outside the box!

Also don’t miss our other current call for submissions: CBA vol 64: Kolaż

—SUBMISSION GUIDELINES—
Please read and follow these guidelines:
Number of pages: We prefer comics that are about 5-30 pages, but any number is welcome.
Format: 20 x 26 cm
Color: Color / Black and white
Language: English
File format: .TIF
Resolution: 1200 dpi line art or 300 dpi CMYK
Length (texts): A good size for a text is ca 7500 characters (including spaces), but it can also be longer or shorter.
Bleed: 5mm. Think you know how to handle bleed? Read this to make sure you know what we mean.
Within this space, there are no limits.

Delivery: We prefer download links that do NOT require us to login anywhere (wetransfer usually works fine, for example).
Request: Please don’t use Comic Sans. We don’t like it and will ask you to change to another font.
And again; Please check our guidelines for bleed.
Please send us high-resolution files from the start.
Include a short bio*, with one URL (if you have a website or similar).

Please ask us if you are unsure about formats, resolution, bleed, etc. We prefer stupid questions to bad files. And there are no stupid questions!
Normally, we also organize a release exhibition showcasing sample pages from the new issue. Please let us know if you’re NOT ok with us using your works for that purpose. It’s part of our marketing and it usually takes place in a physical exhibition space, although these days we’re more likely to make a digital exhibition online at the Hybriden website.

*Your bio should be approximately 500-700 characters in length. It should read more as an entertaining and informative bio and less as a CV. What you want to say about yourself is up to you, but it’s generally more interesting for our readers to know about your interests, who you are and what else you’ve published rather than where you’ve studied. We may edit it if needed to fit our format.
Send comics, questions, etc to: submissions(a)cbkcomics(.)com

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Feel free to share this call for submissions and/or the Facebook event to any comics creator you think would be interested!

February 12, 2024

CBK

CBA, Submissions

Call for submissions – CBA vol 64: Kolaż

Call for submissions for:
CBA vol 64: Kolaż
Main editor: Kinga Dukaj
Deadline: ~~May 12~~ Edit: May 31

Kolaż (Polish for collage) is an art where you weave existing images into new narratives. Dive deep into various techniques and tech. We want your unlimited comic fusions!

Be inspired by pioneers like Mary Shelley’s Victor F, Hannah Höch, Romare Bearden, Dave McKean and many more, whose unique approaches reshape artistic boundaries.

Is collage your passion and you want to write an article about it? Great! A good size for a text is ca 7500 characters (including spaces), but it can also be longer or shorter.

Also don’t miss our other current call for submissions: CBA vol 65: THE BOX

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Feel free to share this call for submissions and/or the Facebook event to any comics creator you think would be interested!

January 23, 2024

CBK

CBA