CBK and the rest of Hybriden (Tusen Serier & Wormgod) will be at CUTZINEfest at Tomrummet (Kopparbergsgatan 15) next Saturday (13/12) between 12-17!
You’ll find all the info about the event at their website: CUTZINE.org
or:
Mastodon
Pixelfed
Facebook-event
Instagram #cutzine
Here’s the full list of participants!
Important: you need to become a member of Tomrummet to get in at CUTZINEfest. You can do that (for free) before Dec 11 here: tomrummet.xyz/register
In collaboration with Malmö Seriefest, Fanzineverkstaden, Malmö University Comics Hub and Bildvärld Gränsland, CBK were behind this new award at Seriefest 2025, where we selected the winner of the festival’s best zine. And the winner is…
Lovisa Prage – Saltvatten
Ett fanzine som samlar alla aspekter: en stark historia, uttrycksfullt tecknat, genomtänkta materialval och papperskvalitet. Ett helhetsverk som en enig jury valde som vinnare.
instagram: @lovisa.prage
…with the following honorary mentions:
Svalan Sörblom – Kretslopp
För modet att följa narrativet och pennan in i det surrealistiska och absurda, med en berättelse som hela tiden förskjuter läsarens förväntningar.
instagram: @svalan_sorblom_art
Viktor Engholm – Immortal Guardian Aegis
För en utsökt tuschlinje och ett hantverk som visar stor teknisk skärpa och konstnärlig precision.
instagram: @viktormon_insta
Ylva Oknelid – Surviving Winter
För hur formatet används som en del av berättelsen. Genom A3-storleken skapas en upplevelse som inte bara förstorar bilder, utan formar läsningen i sig.
instagram: @ylvaoknelid
Siri Nuottaniemi – Skolfotot
För ett kreativt experiment med den handgjorda formen. Den inklippta plastfilmen i omslaget som förändrar teckningen bakom med färg, en färg som vävs in i berättandet genom hela tidningen.
instagram: @siri1siri2siri3
404isak_ – Loiter Dogs
För ett lekfullt narrativ som ger illusionen av valmöjligheter. Läsaren leds in i en berättelse som öppnar dörrar som egentligen inte finns.
instagram: @404isak_
NEW BOOK OUT NOW!
Offial release at the Seriefest anniversary party at Rum för Serier tomorrow (Friday) between 19-21 and at Malmö Seriefest this weekend!
Also available for orders at Hybriden and (soon!) at the internet bookstore of your choice.
A Perfect Place To Call Home
By Julia Nascimento
116 pages, in English
ISBN: 978-91-87825-42-2
A Perfect Place to Call Home is Julia Nascimento’s first collection of visual narratives about her experiences and reflections of life in different places as a foreigner. Stories about living everywhere and living nowhere.
Julia Nascimento is a Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist. While living in Japan she pursued postgraduate studies in fashion and worked in different sectors of the fashion industry. In 2017, she launched her career in illustration and comics, which solidified after her relocation to Sweden. Julia Nascimento’s work has been published in books and periodicals in Japan, Sweden, USA, and in the UK.
Our next appearance will be this weekend and the next, at Ystad Seriefestival and Malmö Seriefest respectively.
Come check out our latest books, including a sneaky pre-release of Julia Nascimento‘s A Perfect Place to Call Home, which will be officially released at Seriefest but will also be available in Ystad. Coming soon to the Hybriden webshop and other places, and stay tuned for info on exhibitions/events…
This weekend (Sep 2-3) it’s Seriefest in Malmö (in Ridhuset, Folkts Park).
We’ll be there with a selection of books, along with Tusen Serier/Wormgod/Hybriden (the policy is to only sell things made by creators who is present. Luckily, Mattias Elftorp will be there and he’s been involved in lots of books)…
There will also be 2 Hybriden-related items in the program:
Tusen Serier: Jorge Varas Varilla
(Saturday 1630-1650)
Jorge Varas Varilla from Tusen Serier talks about his career as a satire illustrator and how graphic humor was used as a tool for wishing for social change in the 1960s Chile. He tells about Allende’s government, about the military coup and also about his own arrest and exile.
www.varilla.se
CBK/Wormgod: Mattias Elftorp
(Sunday 1300-1320)
Talk with Mattias Elftorp about the international comics anthology CBA and about the cyberpunk postapocalypse of his Piracy is Liberation. War mania in a future where Capitalism is the only religion.
www.elftorp.com
See you there!
CBK presents, with Wormgod and Tusen Serier:
Piracy is Liberation 012: Outer Enemy & Vårdfällan, double book release with exhibition and book talks!
Where: Poeten på hörnet (Södra Förstadsgatan 65B, Malmö)
When: One-day event on February 25 at 18-21 (or whenever we’re finished)
This is the release event for 2 new books from CBK/Wormgod and Tusen Serier: Mattias Elftorp’s Piracy is Liberation 012: Outer Enemy and Raquel Lozano’s debut novel Vårdfällan. You can read about both books here.
There will be a small exhibition of prints from Piracy is Liberation. There will be wine. The books will be presented, with a reading from Vårdfällan. The books will be there, the authors will be signing, it’ll be great!
Welcome!
Both books are available for order now, from Hybriden and other places (Adlibris, Bokus, etc).
ORDER Piracy is Liberation 012: Outer Enemy (email us about review copies!)
ORDER Vårdfällan (email us about review copies!)
It’s getting harder and harder to be visible in social media, so feel free to help us by inviting anyone you know who might be interested! Thanks!
CBA vol 50 was included in the official selection for the Supertoon animation & comics festival of 2021 (July 19-23).
We’re accompanied by some other CBK-related friends/artists, like Komikaze and Stripburger in the magazine selection and Radovan Popović and Igor Kordej in the book selection.
And of course the festival poster was made by Danijel Žeželj.
We won’t be at the festival, but a copy the book will be there!
CBA vol 50 is available at Hybriden, as is CBA subscriptions.
CBK will be at SIS (Stockholms Internationella Seriefestival) this weekend (Apr 6-7). The festival is to be found at Konstfack this time.
You’ll find us next to Tusen Serier and Wormgod and a few extra tables for individual artists from the groups (Mattis Telin, Lisa Örtlund, etc).
We’ll also receive zines for Fosfor (the zine distro that’s included in our new webshop at Hybriden).
See you there!
You may or may not have noticed that we won’t be at the Gothenburg book fair* this year.
CBK, TUSEN SERIER and WORMGOD decided collectively not to participate at the book fair after learning that Fria Tider** are once again welcomed by the organisers.
Some months have passed since this news came, and several voices have been raised against the book fair, but it doesn’t look like they have listened to the criticism.
We know what Fria Tider stand for. They have connections to national socialist organisations (the kind that actually calls/recently called themselves nazis) and they want to remove people like us.
Among us are immigrants, homosexuals, anarchists etc, and we have an international perspective in most of what we do. We do not accept the idea that Swedish culture would be superior to others or even big enough to be able to stand on its own. So when the Book fair open their doors to Fria Tider, we take it as a sign that we are not welcome.
Shutting someone out who wants to silence others would not be a crime against the freedom of speech, as some people claim. Rather, it’s self defense. The Book fair should be about culture and communication. So it wouldn’t be wrong to make it a free from those who want to reduce the cultural sphere to only include what they see as “Swedish” culture.
We hope that the Book fair in the future will take their part of the responsibility for preventing the fascist and nazi regimes of old to happen again. In the name of free speech.
*The annual book fair in Gothenburg is the biggest one and one of the biggest cultural events in Sweden.
**A web-based “news” site with strong ties to the Swedish nazi movement.
Follow @cbkcomics on Instagram. During the current crowdfunding campaign, we’ll be posting images from the comics of the upcoming volume, so it’s a good way to see some really nice art!
If you want to support us but can’t afford it yourself, maybe you know someone who could/would want to? So it would still be a great help if you just share it 
Here are some links:
Indiegogo
Youtube promo video
Facebook event
And if you want to help but don’t like the Indiegogo platform, you can also give us money via PayPal instead: info [@] cbkcomics [.] com
or meet us live, for example this weekend at Seriefest (or the official party Seriefestfesten at Hybriden on Saturday).
