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CRACK! 2026

We’re going to the CRACK! festival at Forte Prenestino, June 25-28 in Rome!

We’re bringing a selection from the CBA issues that’s come out since the last time we were there, including the latest issue, CBA vol 73: BUGS and Julia Nascimento‘s A Perfect Place to Call Home.

 

We’re doing an exhibition with various prints, including a series of jam comics we made recently for just this occasion and the festival’s HAPPINESS theme, together with our friends from Tusen Serier, Wormgod, Cálice Magazine and Ystad seriefestival.

 

And here’s a reminder not to forget the calls for submissions for APATHY and WORLD WITHOUT PICTURES – ART ON STRIKE!

 

 

June 22, 2026
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CBA vol 70|71: A RUSSIAN DANCE WITH SHACKLES – release/exhibition

CBK presents:
CBA vol 70|71: A RUSSIAN DANCE WITH SHACKLES

Where: MaU/ Niagara (ground floor, Norra Neptunigatan 1, Malmö)
When: Nov 24 (opening 15–18), end date: Dec 5

Release & exhibition for the new volume of CBA:

This issue of CBA offers new insights through voices of resistance from a neighbor who affects us all: Russia. How were its dreams of democracy shattered? How did it go from flaunting extravagant Eurovision stunts to prisoners dying at the frontline in Ukraine? From celebrating V-day with Americans on the Red Square to threatening nuclear war. Is it possible to steer into other pathways? Through the stories of Russian and ex-Russian artists, these comics share rarely heard perspectives on what it means to live within these changes, reflections that are normally out of reach for Western readers.

At the opening of the exhibition, drop by and listen to further perspectives presented by:
Bo Petersson, Professor of Political Science and IMER at Malmö University, and director of the research platform RUCARR – Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus Regional Research
and
[anonymous artist] from the anthology
and
Victoria Lomasko – recorded interview with the artist, known for her work on contemporary Russian society.

CBA vol 70|71
A RUSSIAN DANCE WITH SHACKLES
2025
148 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-44-6

ORDER it from Hybriden

Participating creators in this volume & the exhibition:
Comics by: Olesya Gonserovskaya [RU/UA], Victoria Lomasko [RU], Party of the Dead [exRU], Raisa Doloto [RU], manifestophilus [exRU], Mitya Pax [RU], La Blum [RU], Criminaliza [exRU], Ole Guacamole [exRU]. Interview with: Mia Liinason [SE]. Illustrations by: Åsa Harvard Maare [DK/SE]. Illustrations & co-editor: Oskar Aspman [SE]. Text & main editor: Caroline Ulvros [SE].

Subscribe to CBA (4 issues)! 

Feel free to invite people to the Facebook event and share wherever you can!

The exhibition is arranged in collaboration with Malmö University, with support from Malmö Kulturnämnd.

 

November 14, 2025
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CBA vol 69 release/exhibition

CBK presents:
CBA vol 69

Where: Rum för Serier (Friisgatan 12, Malmö)
When: Oct 31 (opening, between 17–21), end date: Nov 14, opening hours this week (Nov 24-28): Tue-Wed: 10-14

Come celebrate our 100th publication and vol 69 of CBA with a comics exhibition!

We’re doing it! And by “it”, we mean, well, haha: SEX.
We’re diving into it; Queer, straight, emotional, horny, funny, serious. Comics that explore intimacy, desire, awkwardness, joy. Stories where sex moves the plot, reveals character or simply celebrates pleasure and the sheer joyfulness of a great fuck. 

Participating artists:
Aiden Kvarnström
Rikard Stenius
Sandra “Sam” Mattsson-Robertsdotter
Gordy Chaffey & Vincent Rose
Malin Biller
Sindre Lo
Thea
Predrag Stamenković
Mattias Elftorp
Josef Norén
Kye Cooks
Kinga Dukaj

You’ll find samples from the comics in our previous blog post here.

Order CBA vol 69 at Hybriden and/or subscribe to CBA (4 issues)! 

Feel free to invite people to the Facebook event and share wherever you can!

The exhibition is arranged in collaboration with Seriefrämjandet (Rum för Serier), with support from Malmö Kulturnämnd.

October 21, 2025
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KOLAŻ | THE BOX – photos

In case you missed the KOLAŻ | THE BOX exhibition, here are the photos!

The covers. CBA vol 64 by Mattias Elftorp, CBA vol 65 by Kinga Dukaj

Mette Norrie, Aiden Kvarnström, Mårten Edman

Manuel Rodriguez Navarro, Susanne Johansson, Miguel Santos

Pavol Bratský

Damir Stojnić von Ktonsky

Josef Norén, Adam Boman, Mileta Mijatović

Helena Menanda, Eileen Laurie

Tom Mortimer, Susanne Johansson

Miku Maria Gustavsson, Mattias Elftorp, Markus Samnell

Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi, Julia Nascimento, Mattias Elftorp

And here, of course, are the books: CBA vol 64: THE BOX & CBA vol 65: KOLAŻ

It’s all high quality stuff!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 16, 2024
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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.

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June 3, 2024
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PAPER ECHOES exhibition

CBK presents:
PAPER ECHOES

Where: Ateljé XX (Industrigatan 20B – entrance from the yard, Malmö)
When: March 4 (one day only) 15-22 (fika until 18, then wine)

During the fall of 2022, we invited a group of comic creators to join a number of workshops, where we took turns to introduce each other to new techniques or ways of making art and/or comics.

This exhibition is the result. From gelli printing to painting with razor blades to a non-chronological jam comic, we’ll be showing the best results of these workshops.

ARTISTS: Eileen Laurie, Saskia Gullstrand, Oskar Aspman, Caroline Ulvros, Henrik Rogowski, Kinga Dukaj, Mattias Elftorp

Facebook event

 

This project has support from Malmö Kulturnämnd.

CBK presenterar:
PAPER ECHOES

Var: Ateljé XX (Industrigatan 20B – ingång från gården, Malmö)
När: 4 mars (endast en dag) kl 15-22 (fika till kl 18, efter det tar vi fram vernissagevinet)

Under hösten 2022 bjöd vi in en grupp serieskapare för att vara med i ett antal workshops där vi turades om att introducera varandra för nya tekniker och sätt att göra serier och/eller konst.

I denna utställning visar vi resultatet av dessa workshops, från gelliprints till att måla med rakblad till en icke-kronologisk stafettserie.

KONSTNÄRER: Eileen Laurie, Saskia Gullstrand, Oskar Aspman, Caroline Ulvros, Henrik Rogowski, Kinga Dukaj, Mattias Elftorp

Facebook event

Detta projekt genomförs med stöd av Malmö Kulturnämnd.

PHOTOS from the exhibition opening

Oskar Aspman

Saskia Gullstrand

Caroline Ulvros (Leviathan)

Eileen Laurie

Henrik Rogowski

Henrik Rogowski

Henrik Rogowski

Non-linear jam comic by Oskar Aspman, Caroline Ulvros, Henrik Rogowski, Mattias Elftorp

Kinga Dukaj

Mattias Elftorp

 

PHOTOS from the workshops

 

 

February 22, 2023
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RELEASE EVENT: Piracy is Liberation 012 & Vårdfällan

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!

 

February 16, 2023
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Digital exhibition: WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW (CBA vol 54|55)

CBK presents:
WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW
A new digital exhibitions to celebrate the release of CBA vol 54|55!

Where: hybriden.se
When: The exhibition starts Friday Sep 16 at 17:00
and will stay active for the foreseeable future (or at least until Nov 30).

Have you ever had to just stop what you’re doing and go: “Wait, is this a dream?”
When the unknown starts bleeding into reality and you are forced to question your sanity, if just a little bit.
You know the sort of thing that happens in dreams that makes you sure it’s just a dream? How do you cope when it happens in the waking world?

Artists: Kinga Dukaj [SE], Knut Larsson [SE], Oskar Aspman [SE], Radovan Popović [RS], Aleksandar Opačić [RS], Marcel Ruijters [NL], Saskia Gullstrand [SE], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Katie Handley [UK], Felipe Kolb Bernardes [BR/DE/SE], Susanne Johansson [SE], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Ollie Severin [SE], Sid Church [CA], Henrik Rogowski [SE], David Lasky [US].
Exhibition by: Kinga Dukaj.

Go HERE to see the exhibition.
CBA vol 54|55: WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW and other books can be ordered from the Hybriden webshop.

This exhibition is presented with support from

 

Edit:

We’d like to say a few words about one of the comic creators in CBA vol 54|55, Ollie Severin.
We recently heard about their untimely passing due to illness and we are heartbroken. We would like to send our deepest sympathy and sincerest condolences to their family and all their friends and comics colleagues.

September 16, 2022
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