The eminent Sarah Kläpp has concocted a great, portable exhibition, Cabinet of Curiosity. Hidden inside are all kinds of mysteries and curiosities. We will bring the exhibition to Stockholm International Comics Festival as well as other festivals we attend this year. We’re really excited to show off this cool exhibition.
Yesterday, CBA vol.24: HAIR arrived from the printers! Email us at info@cestbonkultur.com to place your order today!
We are currently awaiting shipment of our latest anthology from Poland, and we have some great stuff for you this time!
Contributors for this volume, on the theme “hair”, are Johannes Bergström, Marie Dahlén, Tinet Elmgren, Harukichi, Sofia Karlström, Nicolas Krizan, Slobby Psyk, Sylvie Ringer and Jenny Wildfang, with C’est Bon Kultur members Christoffer Frostgård, Henri Gylander and My Murphy, all packed in a glorious cover by Mari Ahokoivu!
Not only have we decided to publish every volume in full colour after the success with last year’s Kolorama, the Hair volume will also present to you a total redesign of the magazine (which you got a sample of with our first hardcover book, All Saints). Our future covers will feature wraparound panorama illustrations, enhanced by UV foil printing for a delicious finish.
The content remains the same, high quality comics art from exciting new talent as well as veteran artists, united by their will to take the comics form in new directions. We hope you will like the new packaging, too!
C’est Bon Kultur has decided to take our anthologies one step further and will now publish every other anthology as CBA Presents, which focuses on an individual artist who we think deserves a wider audience. First up is Dutch artist Marcel Ruijters with his funny and unusual All Saints! This is a collection of short stories featuring female saints and their lives, depicted in a style inspired by illuminated manuscripts and told with a wry sense of humour. It is in full colour and co-printed in Danish, by Forlæns, and in Dutch, by Sherpa.
Marcel Ruijters is well known in his home country, and is published in several other european languages. But to this date he has only been published once in English, by Top Shelf, with his novel Inferno, which also won the prize for best Dutch graphic novel in 2008.
We’re really excited about All Saints, and look forward to publishing other interesting artists in the future.
Write to shop@cestbonkultur.com to buy a copy of this awesome book!
2013 October
C’est Bon Kultur are proud to present a new exhibition, “Sånger om björnar” (“Songs of Bears”) at Biograf Spegeln!
Bears appear frequently and in many forms throughout history and are embedded symbolically in many narratives, from the Russian Bear to Winnie-the-Pooh and Smokey. In this exhibition, comics artists explore the world of the members of the family Ursidae. Delving deep into the mind of the animal, revealing playfulness as well as ferociousness.
“While we watch the animals in their joys of being, in their grace and ferociousness, a thought becomes more and more clear. That it is not so much a look at wild nature, as it is an insight into ourselves, our nature.”
Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man (2005)
Contributors: Henri Gylander, Allan Haverholm, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Karoline Stjernfelt, Mattias Elftorp, Christoffer Frostgård, Frøydis Sollid Simonsen, Bo Ashi, mf
We in the C’est Bon-crew are working hard on our newest exhibition – Sånger om björnar (Songs of Bears). It will be a part of the ISV-festival in Malmö, with the opening night at 23 October at Biograf Spegeln and we are so psyched!
The word Singularity has alot of different, variations, versions and comes in many colors. Many different professions and studys have their own version of the word, but one definition unites them all:
Change, and transforming into something undefined. Something far beyond what we know now.
For the next issue of C’est Bon Anthology, we want to know what you belive lies beyond or what the word Singularity means for you.
The deadline is in between now and March 15th! You can use the submission-page on our website or send us an email to info@cestbonkultur.com!
Spec talk:
Anything is welcome, but best suited are comics about 4–22 pages. The format is 200×260 mm (7.9×10.2 in), black/white, in English. Within this space, there are no limits. If you’re interested, please send digital files using the form below, or paper copies to the address given here. We accept low-res files for consideration and will ask you for high-res files if your submission is accepted. The work can have been published before.
Note this: We are mainly looking for comics, graphic stories and sequiential art that tries to do something new and experiments with the medium. We LOVE new ideas and creative thinking.
We are loking forward to your submissions!
Here’s a little something from Wikipedia about it to get your thinking going.
“Singularity (plural singularities)
The state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual A point where all parallel lines meetA point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value(mathematics) the value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist(physics) a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated withblack holesA proposed point in the technological future at which artificial intelligences become capable of augmenting and improvingthemselves, leading to an explosive growth in intelligence.
Pre-order a copy today: order@cestbonkultur.com.
Featuring the astonishing talents of NICOLAS KRIZAN, ZLATKO KRSTEVSKI, ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF
RIKKE HOLLAENDER, THERESE LUNDIN, MARTIN SIMPSON, BO ASHI, SARAH KLÄPP, ALLAN HAVERHOLM THOMAS KINDENBERG, JESS SMART SMILEY, OSKAR ASPMAN and NIKLAS ASKER you are bound to get your kicks!
