CBA vol (2006-) - CBK Comics

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Current incarnation of CBA (C’est Bon Anthology), the international comics anthology for stories that try do so something new with the comics medium. CBA vol 23, 25, 27, 29, 31 and 33 are stand-alone stories by one single artist/book.

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CBA vol 66|67
More Stories
2024
144 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-40-8
COMING SOON!
More stories, no theme. A mix of new and established artists from various countries telling stories unfettered by predetermined themes or concepts. Stories that try out ideas, vent frustrations, share thoughts and explore concepts. Narrative experiments, shifting perspectives and pure fantasies. Stories to think about and be moved by.

Comics by: Ebba Gustafsson Ågren [SE], Hroge Cancelhaus [UK], David Kerr [UK/FI], Layal Safieddine [LB/SE], Fabijan Černeka [HR] & Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Daniel Wihlstrand [SE] & Johan Ahl Eliasson [SE], Rikard Stenius [SE], Stef Gaines [SE], Henna Räsänen [FI/DE], Josef Norén [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Julia Magnusson [SE], Ivana Geček [HR], Lea Elste [DE]. Cover, texts & illustrations by: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 65
Kolaż
2024
104 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-38-5

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.

Comics by: Pavol Bratský [SK], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Tom Mortimer [UK], Damir Stojnić von Ktonsky [HR], Susanne Johansson [SE], Markus Samnell [SE], Julia Nascimento [BR/SE], Adam Boman [SE], Mette Norrie [DK], Helena Menanda [SE], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Mileta Mijatović [RS/SE], Mårten Edman [SE], Miku Maria Gustavsson [SE]. Cover & main editor: Kinga Dukaj [SE].

CBA vol 64
The Box
2024
100 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-39-2

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?

Comics by: Mattias Elftorp [SE], Miguel Santos [AO/PT], Susanne Johansson [SE], Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi [SE], Manuel Rodriguez Navarro [DE], Josef Norén [SE]. Text & illustration by: Eileen Laurie [SE]. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 62|63
Liminal Space
2023/2024
168 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-35-4

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 [HR], Zlatko Krstevski [MK], Oskar Aspman [SE]. Text, cover & main editor: Oskar Aspman [SE].

CBA vol 61
Fingers & Teeth
2023
92 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-34-7

Few non-genital body parts are the object of nightmares and obsessions as much as fingers and teeth. Focusing on single body parts might seem hard when telling a story, or evoking feelings in art, but not regarding fingers and teeth. We all have some story connected to them. The human touch and the animal bite, desirable or dangerous. In this issue, we zoom in on the most bodily representations of anxiety and vulnerability.

Comics by: Jean-Jaques Tachdjian [FR], Patrick McEvoy [US] & Andrea Montano [US], Aiden Kvarström [SE], Tom Mortimer [UK], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Leviathan [SE], Damir Stonjić von Ktonsky [HR], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Susanne Johansson [SE]. Text, cover & main editor: Caroline Ulvros [SE].

CBA vol 60
Stories
2023
96 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-33-0

Stories are a way to escape reality, but also a way to communicate and to help us understand the world around us. These are stories on different subjects, told with different voices in different ways by 13 creators from 7 countries.

This volume of CBA has no theme, it’s just stories.

Comics by: Leviathan [SE], Oasis of Hate [PL], Daniela Filippin [IT], Eugenio Belgrado [AT], Hroge Cancelhaus [UK], Ivana Geček [HR], Joseph Hughes [US] & João Fraga Netto [US], Oskar Aspman [SE], Tom Mortimer [UK], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Marcel Ruijters [NL]. Text, illustrations, cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 59
Aloneliness
2022
120 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-32-3

In a world where everyone seems to be moving into the forced crowd that is the City (more than 50% of the entire population of earth live on the 2% surface that is urbanized, in Sweden the rate is 85%). The epidemic of loneliness is skyrocketing alongside the skyscrapers, we sit inside our empty little apartments with our empty little hearts. The mortality rate of being lonely rivaling those of smoking too much. We are but morals and the City is our graveyard it seems.
And one bad thing isn’t enough, because at the same time a new phenomenon is being researched. Aloneliness is the negative feelings that arise from NOT spending enough time alone. In a city, in a crowd there is never time to slow down, to contemplate, to ponder and to recover. Stress and its manufactured hellhole well-being-spa-solutions is in itself another epidemic.
SO this issue of CBA invites you to explore this longing to be more alone. These comics want to take you to your favourite place of solitude, show you moments of solitary relaxation, tell you the tale of nostalgia-ridden woodlands, a sunlit forest glade, the forgotten refuge on a rooftop in a crowded city.
Where do you go to, my lovely
When you’re alone in your bed?

Comics by: Gunnar Krantz [SE], Ole Comoll [DK], Julia Nascimento [BR/SE], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], AnnaKarin Fridh [SE], Maria van Driel [NL], Solo & Oz & AI [IN], Julia Magnusson [SE], Manasee Jog [AU], Tommi Musturi [FI], Anamarija Kvas [HR], Felipe Kolb Bernardes [BR/DE/SE], Ebba G. Ågren [SE], Stefan Petrini [SE]. Cover: Oskar Aspman [SE], Pernille Sys Hansen [DK]. Texts & illustrations & main editor: Oskar Aspman [SE].

CBA vol 58
Modern Glossolalia or the Erosion of Meaning
2022
104 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-30-9

How do we talk when words that used to mean certain things have become so vague that they can be freely appropriated by anyone, for any purpose? And what’s up with the currently so prevalent flirting with war, fascism and the dehumanization of anyone who doesn’t fit into the unspoken and conveniently unspecified national identity?
Objective truth (if there ever was such a thing) and even language itself seems to be sacrificed on the altar of rhetoric and propaganda.
What are the consequences when you can string any random, misspelled words together and people will make their own connections and decide to aggressively either agree or disagree, wholeheartedly even though the sentence actually makes no sense?

Comics by: Tom Mortimer [UK], Daniela Filippin [IT], Jesper Hellvik [DK], Felipe Kolb Bernardes [BR/DE/SE], Radovan Popović [RS], Aleksandar Opačić [RS], Jelle Kindt [BE], Gareth A Hopkins [UK], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Jean Jacques Tachdjian [FR], Helga Gorshe [RU], Miguel Santos [AO/PT], Leviathan [SE], Aiden Kvarnström [SE]. Texts by: Ainur Elmgren [SE/FI], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Illustrations by: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 56|57
UNCOMICS
2022
180 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-29-3

Uncomics – an artistic field where contemporary art and comics inform each other.
Where the absence of sequence encourages the reader to investigate the picture plane(s) in any direction and order, becoming an active co-creator in the process.
A space outside the tedious limitations of story, where images both abstract and suggestive interact.
Comics, at last, as a visual art form.

Comics by: Tym Godek [US], Kimball Anderson [US], Warren Craghead III [US], Simon Russell [UK], Anastasia Hiorns [UK], Gareth A Hopkins [UK], Tana Oshima [JP/ES/US], Rosaire Appel [US], allison anne [US], William Lillstjärna [SE], Louis Deux [US], Mark Badger [US], Miika Nyyssönen [FI], Shaun Gardiner [UK], Laurel Lynn Leake [US], Churchdoor Lounger [US], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover: Jeremy P. Bushnell [US]. Texts, illustrations & main editor: Allan Haverholm [DK/SE].

CBA vol 54|55
Was it a car or a cat i saW
2022
180 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-28-6

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?

Comics by: 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]. Texts & illustrations: Kinga Dukaj [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Kinga Dukaj [SE].

CBA vol 53
Placeholder
2021
72 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-27-9

The pandemic was supposed to have a deadline, most of us agreed on a year but it lasted much longer. What happens when the world is paused for an indefinite time. What does this do to our experience of our existence? How do we replace our routines? We’re waiting, and in our wait, we imitate the “real” we hope will soon return. Like placeholders in our own lives.

Comics by: Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Tom Mortimer [UK], Saskia Gullstrand [SE], Adrián A. Astorgano [ES], Julia Nascimento [BR/SE], Nataniel E [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Matt Carr [US], Kinga Dukaj [SE], Felipe Kolb Bernardes [BR/DE/SE], Ivana Filipović [RS/CA]. Text & illustrations: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Leviathan [SE].

CBA vol 52
Burnout
2021
92 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-26-2

From hospital staff to comic creators to basically any job in the gig economy. Anyone who doesn’t have a steady income, or who is expected to do more work in less time than is reasonable, can feel it. This volume of CBA explores BURNOUT. Not so much stories of depressing social realism, but rather artistic expressions of that feeling, suggestions for solutions, wishful thinking and visual abreactions. Expressions of rage rather than apathy, insurrection rather than complicity. Something to read for strength in times of austerity.

Comics by: Steve Nyberg [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Henna Räsänen [FI], Iso Sling Lindh [SE], Tom Mortimer [UK], Radovan Popović [RS], Aleksandar Opačić [RS], Manuel Rodriguez Navarro [DE], Felipe Kolb Bernardes [BR/DE], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Julia Nascimento [BR], Aiden Kvarnström [SE]. Texts: Kinga Dukaj [SE], anonymous [SE], Lisa Weibull [SE]. Illustrations: Rasmus Gran [SE]. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 51
Underworld
2020/2021
144 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-25-5

The Underworld exists in many forms: an invisible realm of all deceased, a torturous prison for sinners, whatever alien societies rule a ‘hollow earth’, as well as the non- mythological but equally weird organisms that really do scurry around below us. Less literally, it could imply unseen aspects of any organisation, or the darkest moments in an individual’s journey.

This volume comes with a specially made poster by Sajan Rai. Something to look at and feel that even though this final issue of 2020 was a bit late, even with the pandemic and all the other catastrophes going on, there is still some beauty in the (under)world.

Comics by: Sajananami (Sajan Rai [UK/SE] & Nanami Takeuchi [UK]), Olivia Sullivan [UK], Shane Melisse [UK], Lily Vie [UK], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Kimmo Lust [FI], Damir Stojnic von Ktonsky [HR], Gar Shanley [IE] Elida Maiques [ES/IE], Tiffany Baxter [UK], Lars Krantz [SE], Eric Falier [BE]. Cover & poster artist & main editor: Sajan Rai [UK/SE].

CBA vol 50
2020
168 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-24-8

No theme, no limits, only members of the current and former editorial crew of CBA celebrating this anniversary issue by doing whichever comics they want!

Illustrated haiku poems! Vampires! Cyberpunk! Abstract patterns and ruminations on death! Working with the elderly and trying to find your husband in the realm of the dead! There’s also a seal.

Comics by: Sajan Rai [SE/UK], Gonzalo de las Heras [SE/ES], Allan Haverholm [DK/SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Susanne Johansson [SE], Leviathan [SE], Stefan Petrini [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE]. Text: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Illustration: Mattias Elftorp [SE], Gonzalo de las Heras [ES/SE]. Cover artist: Kinga Dukaj [SE] & Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 49
Origin of Life
2020
80 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-23-1

Where were you born? Where are you from? When these questions are asked really what the person means often is, who are you?

In the new volume of CBA we want you to ask yourselves some questions. Who are humanity as a collective consciousness? Where do we come from? All these little specks of life in this big dark space of nothing, and for what?

Comics by: Ana Biscaia [PT], Ivana Geček [HR], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Ivana Filipović [RS/CA], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Leviathan [SE]. Text & illustration: Lisa Örtlund [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Lisa Örtlund [SE].

CBA vol 48
Nedjem
2020
60 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-22-4

CBA vol 48 is about cats. Cats and the lifelong friendships we form with our furry friends. Bonds so strong and endearment so deep and ancient, it permeates our lives through time. You find cats in scary stories, in cute stories, they’re a sign of bad luck in some cultures and good luck in others, worshipped as deities or shunned like pests. Remnants of our relationships with the floofy furs are found not just all over the world, but all over the internet as well.
Here’s our contribution to the Cat Library of Time.

Comics by: Jonatan Rosén [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Filip Kelava [HR], Alexandra Duma-Dancai [RO/SE], Ivana Filipović [RS/CA], Helena Menanda [SE], Ivana Armanini [HR]. Texts: Joel Gordon [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Illustration: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Kinga Dukaj [SE] (theme & original selection: Mattis Telin [SE]).

CBA vol 47
Science/Fiction
2019/2020
84 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-21-7

Science and fiction rule our lives. The laws of physics seem set in stone while the laws of man are arbitrary mirrors of the morality of the times. Gods and spirits are creations of the mind but also the explanation when comprehension fails. What lies beyond our understanding? Is it more science or something else? What dark forces lurk outside our field of vision? What machineries of death and destruction are we yet to invent in the name of money (which used to be metal and paper but is now to a great extent nothing but speculation and expectations)? What (or who) else meet in the intersection between science fiction and real science? What came first? The egg or the hatching machine?

Comics by: Danijel Žeželj [HR/US], Radovan Popović [RS], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Ivana Filipović [RS/CA], Avi Heikkinen [FI], Francisco Sousa Lobo [PT], Oskar Aspman [SE], Kinga Dukaj [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Text & illustration: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

CBA vol 46
Deep
2019
80 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-20-0

What do we find in the depths? What lies in the depths of the oceans? What hides in the deep darkness of the corner of your room when you’re about to fall asleep? What thoughts trickle through your mind when looking deeply inwards, what do we find when we look where we can’t see?

Comics by: Julia Nascimento [BR], Lisa Örtlund [SE], Sofia Ciente [PT], Mikko Jylhä [FI], Ivana Filipović [RS/CA], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Sajan Rai [UK/SE], Francisco Sousa Lobo [PT], Maria Stoian [RO]. Texts: Lisa Örtlund [SE], Mattis Telin [SE]. Illustrations: Lisa Örtlund [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Lisa Örtlund [SE].

CBA vol 45
QTOPIA
2019
104 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-19-4

So many LGBTQ narratives end in tragedy as a consequence of the LGBTQ-hood of the characters. Those stories are important because LGBTQ people are still being targeted by prejudice, discrimination and violence, but in this volume of CBA we encouraged artists to do something different. To tell queer stories where the queerness isn’t a narrative catalyst for bad things, but rather a source for joy or love or just one characteristic among others.
Queer tales about situations involving LGBTQ characters. Utopian queer tales in the sense that everything might not be perfect, but at least the horrible things that happen don’t have anything to do with the characters’ sexual orientation.

Comics by: Casco [SE], Lisa Örtlund [SE], Ylva Oknelid [SE], Ivana Geček [HR], Korin(a) Hunjak [HR], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Saskia Gullstrand [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE]. Texts: Adrian Malmgren [SE]. Illustrations: Love Pascal Prelog [SE], Adrian Malmgren [SE]. Cover artists: Kinga Dukaj [SE], Luddvig Melin [SE], Lisa Örtlund [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE]. Editors: the CBK crew

CBA vol 44
LORE
2019
108 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-18-7

Folklore – it’s the stories our parents told us as children as well as a glimpse into another world, of fairies, trolls, and magic. But folklore is more than just stories about bad children who get eaten by witches; it’s our shared fears, hopes and dreams and they often share similar themes across the world. Folk tales have been told by an infinite number of people with equally infinite motives; some to warn, others to encourage and some who just try to make sense of the world around them. In volume 44 of CBA we want to dig deep into the roots of folklore from different cultures and explore what it has to say about ourselves as human beings regardless of nationality.

Comics by: Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Mattis Telin [SE], Kalk Comics [EG], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Martin Böer [DE], Max Björkman [SE], Mikko Jylhä [FI], Emily Ryan [SE], Ivana Filipovic [CA], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Mattis Telin [SE]. Texts: Mattis Telin [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Illustrations: Mattis Telin [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Mattis Telin [SE]

CBA vol 43
Corners
2018
84 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-17-0

I’ll see you around the corner. Yeah, cool, but where exactly is that?
Corners are physical and mental places. Whether it’s is in your room or by the street down the block, they can be mysterious and shady spots. Corners have secrets to hide and stories to tell. Streets are packed with them, but so are the insights of the mind and its verging thoughts; so are comics as a panelled narration form.
They host dust and spider webs, they might be grimy and smell like shit, but overall, corners are meeting points. Literally the angles made when two ways intersect. But also where two feelings or two people collide.

Comics by: Diego Shim [ES], Alice Monvaillier [FR], Pablo Gil [ES], Alva Nylander [SE], Margo [PT], Bori Tompa [HU], Laura Endy [ES], Rui Moura [PT], Adrián A. Astorgano [ES], Vibi LeFleu [ES], Viti Sanchez [ES], Claudia Torán [ES]. Texts: pablo_diablo_69 [ES], Gonzalo de las Heras [SE], Insulyna [VE]. Illustrations: Margarida Ferreira [ES], Insulyna [VE]. Cover artist & main editor: Gonzalo de las Heras [SE]

CBA vol 42
Subversive Superhero Stories
2018
84 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-15-6

In this volume of CBA the focus is on superheroes, but instead of the conventional view we have instead subverted the genre, resulting in comics and texts that really explore something different within the superhero genre.

Comics by: Patrick McEvoy [US], Olivia Pelaez [US], Martin Böer [DE], Mattis Telin [SE], Manuel Rodriguez [DE], Lisa Örtlund [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Svalan Sörblom [SE]. Texts: Jonatan Westerman [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Illustrations: Noel L Kinnebrand [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Kinga Dukaj [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Henrik Rogowski [SE]

CBA vol 40|41
Worst Case Scenario
2018
124 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-87825-14-9

What’s the worst that could happen? And if that happens, what’s the worst that could happen? And if that happens, what’s the worst that could happen? And so on…

There’s a psychiatric method in cognitive behavioral therapy called “The Downward Arrow Technique” where you begin by writing down the answers to this repeated question and we thought it’d be the perfect theme for CBA vol 40|41. Especially since this is an election year in Sweden. Especially since war and famine and climate change and personal disasters are on the horizon. So how bad can it get?

Comics by: Martin Böer [DE], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Oskar Aspman [SE], Katharina Vittenlind [SE], Stef Gaines [SE], Aiden Kvarnström [SE], Nicolas Krizan [SE], António José Lopes [PT], Anna Krztoń [PL], Manuel Rodriguez [DE], Leviathan [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Madhav Nair [IN], Vladimir Palibrk [SR], Lina Lefevre [FR]. Texts: Raquel Lozano [SE], Merima Dizdarević [SE], Illustrations: Kinga Dukaj [SE], Ver Eversum [IT], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover artist & main editor: Kinga Dukaj [SE]

CBA vol 38|39
Fragments
2018
108 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-13-2

The past can be found in the form of small parts inside your body. Some parts are impossible to get rid of. Maybe they’re important, maybe they’re not. But they do exist for a reason. What is your reason?

Even though your past time is out of reach, there is always the possibility of deciding how it will look in front of other people. What would your fragments look like if you showed them in public?

Comics by: Marie Jacotey-Voyatzis [UK], Victor Expolio [ES], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Martin López Lam [ES], Anna Krztoń [PL], Diego Shim [ES], Stefan Petrini [SE], Hanna Lundin Tistelö [SE], Insulina Kid [ES], Rakel Stammer [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Gonzalo de las Heras [SE]. Texts: Claudiu Revnic [RO], Saskia Gullstrand [SE], Johanna Rojola [FI]. Illustrations: Gonzalo de las Heras [SE], Kinga Dukaj [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Johanna Rojola [FI]. Cover artist & main editor: Christina Cromnow [SE]

CBA vol 36|37

In the pits of madness
2017
84 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-11-8

Let’s plunge together into the pits of madness. Let’s watch the dissolution of reality, let’s dance with clear heads and see where it takes us. Let’s travel the river hiding in the desert sands until the wind rises and we reach the final collapse. Let’s look deep into the eye of the tiger. And see afterwards if we dare to dream.

Horror meets madness and the inevitable collapse in this new volume of CBA, beautifully drawn and painted in heavy brush strokes and oil paint and sharp lines and halftones.

Comics by: Akab [IT], Spyros Verykios [GR], Elena Guidolin [IT], Serena Schinaia [IT]. Cover artist: Radovan Popović [RS]. Text & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE]

CBA vol 35
Bleed
2016
100 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-10-1

Blood is of the essence.
It can be a mesmerizing thing. Either when it gushes from an artery or trickles down a finger, drips delicately from the ceiling or whooshes in your ears.
Are you sure those chills that run down your spine aren’t ones of pleasure as you notice your fellow passenger picking mindlessly at a scab, and you imagine yourself ripping it off and licking it clean then and there?

Comics by: Rakel Stammer [SE], Kinga Dukaj [SE], Darkam [SM], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Gonzo Rodher [SE], Stefan Petrini [SE], Magda Boreysza [UK], Ella Eiranto [FI], Nicolas Krizan [SE], Mai Northcote [DK], Henna Räsänen [FI], Susanne Johansson [SE]. Cover artist: Rakel Stammer [SE]. Interior illustrations & main editor: Kinga Dukaj [SE]

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CBA vol 34
Re: Creation & Idleness
2016
76 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-09-5

It’s time to put on your leisure suit and get to work on whatever. Whatever you want. Whatever. Is it working? No! It’s not working at all. Maybe it’s a sci-fi utopia. Or is it a fantasy? It’s all the time in the world. Odd moments are even. Time is money and everyone’s a billionaire. Spare some time? Here: free time for everyone! High quality time! No work and all play.

Published to coincide with the AltCom 2016: WORK festival.

Comics by: Harukichi [JP], Jasmina Grudnik [SL], Petra Lilla Marjai [HU], Javier Triviño Murillo [ES], Anna Krztoń [PL], Aurélien Leif [FR], Štěpánka Jislová [CZ], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Cover artist: Alexander Robyn [BE], Interior illustrations & main editor: Steve Nyberg [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 33
Repeat Offenders
2016
68 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-08-8

Everyone wants to feel connected to something bigger than themselves. When it comes to millennial ennui, however, things get complicated. Living the very American dichotomy of privilege and trouble, more often than not we gravitate towards anti-heroes and villains to break us out of our daily grind. But at what point do the troublemakers of American pop culture start resembling it’s youth more than the heroes? Diary essays paired with familiar faces create a dream landscape mirroring the millennial adolescent psyche.

CBA vol 33: Repeat Offenders is Julia Scott’s solo debut about growing up weird, growing up other, and taking courage from the seemingly innocuous cartoon villains that populated the childhood of a generation.

Julia Scott is an American working artist based out of the very raucous Baltimore, Maryland. Some of her clients include Warner Bros, Archaia Entertainment, and Lion Forge Comics. She draws the comic The Telepath Generation with writers Josh Tierney and Bobby Myers, and considers herself an animated pop culture connoisseur.

Artist & cover: Julia Scott [US]

CBA vol 32
Blue Beginnings
2016
68 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-07-1

Blue isn’t just a color. Mostly you’d associate it with depression, moodiness, full moons and break-ups. But, have you ever spent a cloudy afternoon on an old jetty by the sea, staring into the depths? Watching the intricate patterns fold and unfold into new and recurring shapes… Remember the feeling of liquid calm spreading through your scattered brain? Hypnotizing and invigorating. Like pouring fresh, wet, blue paint on a white canvas.
New beginnings can be blue.

Comics by: Alexander Robyn [BE], Anna Ehrlemark [SE], Anna Krztoń [PL], DZAIZKU [RS], Hanna Alfredsson [SE], Marie Tillman [SE], Mauro Trotta [DE], Nicolas Krizan [SE], Ylva Oknelid [SE], Cover artist: Inés Estrada [MX], Interior illustrations: Oskar Aspman [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 31
Find me in this city
2015
112 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-87825-06-4

Find me in this city is a story about isolation, finding your self and learning to be alone. The book mixes fiction and autobiographic elements. The end result is a fictive story of a girl who has lost her face in a strange city. While she is looking for herself, the cat is looking for the scary yet intriguing dark character who the dog is calling Nightmare.

But can you trust a dog who is always lying?

Find me in this city was first published 2009 in Finnish by Asema Kustannus. It was Mari Ahokoivu’s first graphic novel, although not her first published comic book. Other publications by Mari Ahokoivu includes Sarjakuvantekijän opas (BTJ kustannus 2007), Lola Olifante (Éditions Cambourakis 2014-2015) and Sanni och Jonas (Rabén & Sjögren 2015).

Mari Ahokoivu (b.1984) is a Finnish comic artist and illustrator who draws comics for adults and for kids and has been published in Finland as well as abroad. She has studied comics in Finland, France and Sweden and now sometimes teaches comics herself. Ahokoivu enjoys watching movies and playing roller derby. At the moment she lives in northern Finland.

Artist & cover: Mari Ahokoivu [FI]

CBA vol 30
A new hope
2015
100 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-04-0

First volume with comics by the new editorial crew! New design! New paper stock! New logos! New hope! This is a glimpse of an exciting future. We live in interesting times. See how we deal with it through our comics. Please do not be afraid.

Comics by: Mattias Elftorp [SE], Steve Nyberg [SE], Stefan Petrini [SE], Kinga Dukaj [SE], Christina Cromnow [SE], Luddvig Melin [SE], Henrik Rogowski [SE], Emei Burell [SE], Oskar Aspman [SE], Special guest star: Frøydis Sollid Simonsen [NO/DK], Cover artist: Mattias Elftorp [SE], Interior illustrations: Kinga Dukaj [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 29
What we knew
2015
228 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-87825-03-3

What We Knew is a collection of wordless surrealist poetry in the form of a graphic novel. The novel aims to be a selfish and intimate experience for both artist and reader, where the reader can find their own meaning and interpretation instead of taking on the artist’s.
The stories in the novel take place in a silent world filled with subtle momentary expressions, where the world itself is as loaded with emotion and as much a part of the storytelling as the characters. The outer reality becomes the inner emotional world and static things take on a movement that can’t be controlled or avoided.

Artist & cover: Sarah Kläpp [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 28
Signs and science
2015
88 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-878250-1-9

Signs of science? The science of signs? Or neither, or both. How about the sleep depriving thought of eternity when you turn off the lights at night. Of the ever reaching deepness of space, black holes and the creation of photons in the core of the sun.
How about when you get lost in thought, staring at your thumb, thinking about how the cells in your skin work and work and work, divide and fall off. The molecules they are made of. The vanishing weight of the atoms.
How did the insects develop wings? What is the purpose of the flick-flack of the Rechenbergi spider, the tiny squeak of the desert rain frog, the Higgs boson? And what is dark energy anyway? The history of the natural sciences is filled with wonder, with horror and gore, with idealism and the search for truth, but above all curiosity. These questions were the basis for this issue of CBA.
Full speed ahead, towards the event horizon of CBA!

Artists: Steve Nyberg [SE], Jamil Mani [SE], Maciej Kalymon [SE], John Daily [SE], Marine Schneider [BE], Carolina Hicks [US/SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Mari Ahokoivu [FI], Allan Haverholm [DK], Ylva Oknelid [SE], Christoffer Frostgård [SE], Karoline Stjernfelt [SE], Milena Simeonova [BG], Cover artist: Christina Cromnow [SE], Interior illustrations: Emei Burell [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 27
Picking up pieces
2014
72 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-979570-8-3

An airbrush-painted story about loss and psycho-geography; how our environment affects us psychologically. The story follows a young woman, who in dealing with the death of her lover, finds that the traumatic memory of her loss is tied to a collapsed archive. Later, she realizes that not only the archive, but other places in different ways similar to it, triggers the same painful recollections. Now at her wits end, she makes a discovery.
The dustcover also folds out to become a blueprint.

Artist & cover: Christian Skovgaard [DK]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 26
Romance
2014
68 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-979570-9-0

A possessive black and white kiss in an impossibly uncomfortable angle. A mad dash with no consideration for overworked airport security staff. Boomboxes held high. Roses, carnival prizes and the warm light from a fire. Romance is a narrative and a script, and yet in that moment when we share a look and know instantly that we’re stuck, that this is it, every cliché feels justified. Perhaps not ideal, but understandable. C’est Bon Anthology is an anthology of graphic short stories from artists from all over the world. The selected works are based on a will to experiment and a passion for telling good stories. A mix of established artists and new talent.

Artists: Hanna Lundin Tistelö [SE], Chris Reijnen [NL], Sara Hausenkamp [SE], Valentine Gallardo [BE], Shuxian Lee [SG], Anna Åhlén [SE], Daria Bogdanska [SE], Saskia Gullstrand [SE], Anna Krztoń [PL], Cover artist: My Murphy [SE], Interior illustration: Frøydis Sollid Simonsen [NO/DK]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 25
Lapsos
2014
160 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-87825-00-2

The first graphic novel from Mexican comics artist Inés Estrada. A psychedelic science-fiction epic trip across different planes of reality. Lapsos follows the adventures of two friends who discover the existence of various dimensions between their home city in Mexico, and the gradual realisation that everything is connected, it’s marked with Estrada’s signature gross-but-touching humour and vivid characterisation.

Artist & cover: Inés Estrada [MX]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 24
Hair
2013
72 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-979570-7-6

Everywhere in the room around you, something is growing. It might be blatantly obvious, like a plant in your windowsill. It might be the stubble on your chin, or leg. This is of course, brilliant. C’est Bon Anthology is an anthology of graphic short stories from artists from all over the world. The selected works are based on a will to experiment and a passion for telling good stories. A mix of established artists and new talent.

Artists: Johannes Bergström [SE], Marie Dahlén [SE], Tinet Elmgren [DE], Christoffer Frostgård [SE], Henri Gylander [SE], Harukichi [JP], Sofia Karlström [SE], Nicolas Krizan [SE], My Murphy [SE], Slobby Psyk [SE], Sylvie Ringer [DE], Jenny Wildfang [DE], Cover artist: Mari Ahokoivu [FI], Interior illustrations: Sofia Karlström [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 23
All Saints
2013
120 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-979570-6-9

Dutch artist Marcel Ruijters’ funny and unusual All Saints 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. Marcel Ruijters is well known in his home country, and is published in several other European languages.

Artist & cover Marcel Ruijters [NL]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 22
Singularity
2012
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-979570-5-2

C’est Bon Anthology is an anthology of graphic short stories from artists from all over the world. The selected works are based on a will to experiment and a passion for telling good stories. A mix of established artists and new talent.

Artists: Henri Gylander [SE], Frøydis Sollid Simonsen [NO/DK], Derik A Badman [US], Karolina Bladh [SE], Adam Boman [SE], Magda Boreysza [UK], Olaf Brill [DE], Marie Dahlén [SE], Martin Simpson [UK], Karoline Stjernfelt [DK], Anna Syvertsson [SE], Michael Vogt [DE], Cover artist: Sarah Kläpp [SE], Interior illustrations: Leif Engström [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 20-21
Kolorama
2012
148 pgs
Color
ISBN: 978-91-979570-4-5

C’est Bon Anthology is the Swedish based international comics anthology that will always be by your side when you dive into that experimental ocean of comics in which we float.
First regular issue in full color!

Artists: Mari Ahokoivu [FI], Bo Ashi [SE], Oskar Aspman [SE], Joakim Derlow [SE], Kaja Avberšek [SI], Leif Engström [SE], Oliver East [UK], Sofia Falkenhem [SE], Eliza Frye [US], Henri Gylander [SE], Allan Haverholm [DK], Dunja Jankovic [US], Jamil Mani [SE], Ulli Lust [DE], Warren Craghead III [US], Andrei Molotiu [DK], Søren Mosdal [DK], Nik Neves [BR], Jess Smart Smiley [US], Frøydis Sollid Simonsen [NO/DK], Jan Solheim [DK], Chad Verrill [US], Jenny Wildfang [NL], Tym Godek [US], Sarah Kläpp [SE], Anna Åhlén [SE], Cover artist: Kolbeinn Karlsson [SE], Interior illustrations: Sarah Kläpp [SE], CBQ&A: Kolbeinn Karlsson [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 19
Interposed
2012
92 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-979570-3-8

This issue is themed Interposed. Because we want to know what happens when something or someone is placed, not in this defined space here, nor in this defined space here, but rather in that unspecific inbetween. And also because this issue is released to accompany the C’est Bon Kultur exhibition in><between that first and foremost deals with inbetween panels. But we knew there was more to this.
Interposed, inbetween panels, the actual story stands tall and proud and says hi.
Inbetween the superfluous lies pure essence.

Artists: Derik Badman [US], Anna Degnbol [DK], Oliver East [UK], Mikaela Elf [SE], Leif Engström [SE], Christoffer Frostgård [SE], Tym Godek [US], Allan Haverholm [DK], RM Rhodes [US], Milena Simeonova [BG], Evgeny Yakolev [KZ], Cover artist: EME [ES], Interior illustrations: Allan Haverholm [DK]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 18
What is Art?
2012
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-979570-2-1

To celebrate that this issue actually, or to some extent, deals with art we decided to let the comics tell you what art is. Or is not.
The most probable conclusion to draw from the pages you are about to delve into is that Art stems from the depths within each artist. And that the creativity that fill these cavities, deep within, pours in from the surrounding world. Nothing is original. Everything is unique. We still aim at showing the enormous width of comics artistry, the immense force of storytelling with comics and the endless possibilities to develop and renew the medium. Art as a metaphor for other art, we truly live in a world of our own. The map has been pinned to the wall, please, bring out your flashlights.

Artist: Nicolas Krizan [SE], Zlatko Krstevski [MK], Anna von Hausswolff [SE], Rikke Hollaender [DK], Therese Lundin [SE], Martin Simpson [UK], Bo Ashi [SE], Sarah Kläpp [SE], Allan Haverholm [DK], Thomas Kindenberg [SE], Jess Smart Smiley [US], Oskar Aspman [SE], Cover artist: Niklas Asker [SE], Interior illustrations: Bo Ashi [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 17
10 year anniversary issue
2011
92 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-979570-1-4

10 years of C’est Bon, 10 years of broadening the horizons of what comics can be, 10 years of comics as art, of art as comics. We celebrate this with return appearances of some of the great artists who have been in the anthology before and a CBQ&A with one of the founding members, Oskar Aspman.

Artists:
Mari Ahokoivu [FI]
Bo Ashi [SE]
Oskar Aspman [SE]
Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Victor Kerlow [US]
Chiu Kwong Man [UK]
Knut Larsson [SE]
Jamil Mani [SE]
Jess Smart Smiley [US]
Chad Verrill [US]
Emelie Östergren [SE]
Cover artist: Susanne Johansson [SE]
CBQ&A: Oskar Aspman [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 16
Astoria
2011
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-979570-0-7

C’est Bon Anthology is the Swedish based international comics anthology, presenting beautiful, and sometimes even mind boggling, short stories to all you comics aficionados. The theme for the voluptuous volume 16 is “Astoria”.
Where is the line between comics and music? Vol. 16 is a symphony with pen and paper where comics and music meet.. We asked ourselves the question how can you express musik through comics and what can and can’t you express with images versus sound. C’est Bon Anthology vol. 16 – Astoria is the answer. A soundless concert for the eye!

Artists:
Magda Boreysza [UK]
Warren Craghead III [US]
Eliza Frye [US]
Allan Haverholm [DK]
Dunja Jankovic [US]
Sarah Kläpp [SE]
Andrei Molotiu [US]
Shalo P [US]
Cover artist: Allan Haverholm [DK]
Interior illustrations: Sarah Kläpp [SE], Mats Kläpp [SE]
CBQ&A: Warren Craghead III [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 15
Motion Picture
2011
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-9-6

C’est Bon Anthology is the Swedish based international comics anthology, presenting beautiful, and sometimes even mind boggling, short stories to all you comics aficionados. The theme for the voluptuous volume 15 is “Motion Picture”, and we ask you to ask yourself: Is there really a connection between comics and film?
Film is the vision of a director (and a producer, and a board of CEO’s, and their daughter, and the pony she rode in on) filtered through a cameraman, a cast of actors, a sound designer, an editor, and, ultimately, a projector. Comics are the vision of a cartoonist, filtered through anything that might leave a mark on paper; the cartoonist sends his or her work to C’est Bon Anthology, you read it, end of the line. Go ahead and read this issue, but be aware that we might be spoiling movies for you altogether!

Artists:
Bo Ashi [SE]
Karolina Bladh [SE]
Davide Catania [IT]
Henri Gylander [FI]
Sarah Kläpp [SE]
Søren Mosdal [DK]
Nik Neves [BR]
JM Ken Niimura [JP]
Jacob Ørsted [DK]
Cover artist: Dame Darcy [US]
Interior illustrations: Bo Ashi [SE], Pia Johansson Goldmann [SE]
CBQ&A: Dame Darcy [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 14
/Rabid Rabbit 13 (double issue flip book collaboration)
Square One
2011
84 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-8-9

C’est Bon Anthology is an international comics anthology, bringing beautiful short stories out to the world. Rabid Rabbit is C’est Bon Anthology’s American sister, also bringing beautiful short stories out to the world. Merging our anthologies, for one double issue flip book collaboration, was only the natural thing to do. And we decided to call this double issue “Square One”.
“Square One” presents work from no less than twenty-nine artists from all over the world. Every story begins with the same first panel, the same square one. From there, the stories twist and turn in a myriad of directions, limited only by the imagination of the artists who created them. Which needless to say, is no limit at all. C’est Bon Anthology and Rabid Rabbit simply presented a door to each artist, and where that door took them, you’ll have to find out for yourself.

Artists CBA vol 14:
Mari Ahokoivu [FI]
Bo Ashi [SE]
Niklas Asker [SE]
Ole Comoll Christensen [DK]
Sofia Falkenhem [SE]
Allan Haverholm [DK]
Clara Bessijelle Johansson [SE]
Kolbeinn Karlsson [SE]
Sarah Kläpp [SE]
Cover artist: Kolbeinn Karlsson [SE]

Artists Rabid Rabbit 13:
C. M. Butzer [US]
Sung Yoon Choi [KR]
Adam Eye [US]
Nathan Fox [US]
Paul Hoppe [DE]
Aya Kakeda [JP]
Victor Kerlow [US]
Adam Kidder [US]
Sakura Maku [US]
Reuben Negron [US]
Neil Numberman [US]
Tao Nyeu [US]
Matt Rota [US]
Fay Ryu [US]
Ben Sea [AU]
Anuj Shrestha [US]
Ben X Trinh [US]
Andres Vera [US]
Chadwick Whitehead [US]
Kripa Yoshi [NP]
J. T. Yost [US]
Cover artist: Reuben Negron [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 13
Levels
2010
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-7-2

There are many kinds of levels out there: Physical, psychological, spiritual and digital. Every story in C’est Bon Anthology vol. 13 is on a level of its own.
In Giving Ground, Lars Krantz shows the passing of time as a mechanism in body and clockwork alike. In Chad Verrill’s stories, medieval art meets video game graphics and creates a unique vision. Victor Kerlow blurs the line between being awake and dreaming, in a story called Weird Things Downstairs. Veiko Tammjärv creates iconic narrative art scapes in Ape and the City, where story is symbolic as much as it is sequential. And more stories, more levels.

Artists:
Allan Haverholm [DK]
Victor Kerlow [US]
Lars Krantz [SE]
Lawrence Marvit [US]
Jess Smart Smiley [US]
Veiko Tammjärv [EE]
Chad Verrill [US]
Rikke Villadsen [DK]
Henric Wallmark [SE]
Cover artist: Chad Verrill [US]
Interior illustrations: Chad Verrill [US], Niklas Asker [SE]
CBQ&A: Chad Verrill [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 12
Expiration Date
2010
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-6-5

This volume of C’est Bon Anthology explores the Good, the Bad, and the Putrid. An Expiration Date is the point dividing a period of time in “before” and “after”. And the after rarely smells very good.
The graphic short stories in C’est Bon Anthology vol. 12 – Expiration Date, all deal with things that expire, whether it be bodily flesh, or emotions that change and turn sour. Although we like to think that C’est Bon Anthology ages like fine wine, you should definitely read this issue while it’s fresh.

Artists:
Mari Ahokoivu [FI]
Oskar Aspman [SE]
Ole Comoll [DK]
Davide Catania [IT]
Victor Kerlow [US]
Sarah Kläpp [SE]
Jess Smart Smiley [US]
Cover artist: Victor Kerlow [US]
Interior illustrations: Allan Haverholm [DK], Carolin Hansson [SE]
CBQ&A: Victor Kerlow [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 11
Variations
2010
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-5-8

For almost ten years, C’est Bon Anthology has presented graphic short stories by artists from all over the world, with occasional contributions from the anthology’s changing roster. With this new offering, vol. 11, we wanted to present the current editorial board as well as give a high five to the crews of the past: Every contribution is a variation, remix, or mutation of stories that have been published in an earlier volume of C’est Bon Anthology.
In C’est Bon Anthology vol. 11 – Variations, Sofia Falkenhem, Martin Flink, and Jamil Mani interpret each others’ previous CBA contributions in a threesome of playful trolls (The boy), urban totem animals (Dusk), and personal purgatory (Room). Allan Haverholm counterpoints Mattias Elftorp’s short story Violence with Sex, and Oskar Aspman remixes Niklas Asker’s critically acclaimed Second thoughts.

Artists:
Oskar Aspman [SE]
Sofia Falkenhem [SE]
Allan Haverholm [DK]
Martin Flink [DK]
Jamil Mani [SE]
Cover artist: Allan Haverholm [DK]
Interior illustrations: Mattias Elftorp [SE], Susanne Johansson [SE]
CBQ&A: Jamil Mani [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 10
Apocrypha (those having been hidden away)
2010
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-4-1

C’est Bon Anthology exposes the hidden things, the secret things. Apocrypha is an old Greek word that means “those having been hidden away”. And we all have dirty little things tucked away somewhere, don’t we? Whether they’re feelings we repress, unreflected actions, or guilty pleasures; they are the unknown factors that animate the mask we show to the world. Much like the 90% of an iceberg hidden below the waterline. We are happy to give you with this anthology a look into the works and minds of artists that face their hidden baggage in so many different, surprising ways. A compilation of graphic short stories, an interview (“CBQ&A”) with a Finnish comics artist and a special guest (Comics as Art – Art as Comics); an artist from another branch within the visual arts.

Artists:
Mari Ahokoivu [FI]
Davide Catania (IT)
Martin Flink [DK]
Loka Kanarp [SE]
Ib Kjeldsmark [DK]
Leo Scherfig [DK]
Cover artist: Martin Flink [DK]
Interior illustrations: Sofia Falkenhem [SE], Simon Diamant Silfverberg [SE]
CBQ&A: Mari Ahokoivu [FI]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 9
Entanglements
2009
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-3-4

C’est Bon Anthology gets entangled in story and image alike. Eliza Frye shows what might take place on other levels for a father and a daughter during something as ordinary as a dinner at a Chinese restaurant.
New segments! We present the first piece in the series Comics as Art – Art as Comics. We invited visual artist Michel Ducourneau to create a piece especially for this issue of C’est Bon Anthology. For every new issue we will invite an artist who does not usually work with comics, to create one full color page as a bridge between comics and other forms of expression within the visual arts.
Through the years C’est Bon Anthology have presented text pieces that shed light on the art form from unexpected angles. From now on we are focusing our gaze in order to give a deeper insight into the world of comics. In CBQ&A we will be turning our attention to the creative process of imagemakers and storytellers that are featured within the covers of this anthology. The first artistic voice to be heard is Allan Haverholm; co-editor for the anthology, as well as a brilliant and prominent comics artist.

Artists:
Eliza Frye [US]
Allan Haverholm [DK]
Ed Homer [US]
Jacob Rask [DK]
Chad Verrill [US]
Cover artist: Eliza Frye [US]
Interior illustrations: Martin Flink [DK], Michel Ducourneau [SE]
CBQ&A: Allan Haverholm [DK]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 8
The Animation of Rules
2009
68 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-2-7

C’est Bon Anthology explores the gray areas between art and rules. Presenting a text piece by Mike Diana who tells the story of how a court ruling prohibited him from drawing. Kolbeinn Karlsson and Hanna Petterson give you their take on the rules of animation.

Artists:
Simon Bukhave [DK]
Sofia Falkenhem [SE]
Clara Johansson [SE]
Kolbeinn Karlsson [SE]
Victor Kerlow [US]
Hanna Pettersson [SE]
Henrik Rehr [DK]
Maki Sato [JP]
Cover artist: Kolbeinn Karlsson [SE]
Interior illustrations: Allan Haverholm [DK], Mike Diana [US]
Text: Mike Diana [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 7
2009
100 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-978089-1-0

C’est Bon Anthology delivers comics from all over the world. The compelling volume 7 features Greek (Vassilis Gogtzilas, Spyros Verykios), Swedish (Susanne Johansson, Mattias Elftorp, Jamil Mani, Niklas Asker), Danish (Martin Flink), British (Martin Simpson) and US comics (Chad Verrill). The cover is contributed by rising star Niklas Asker (Second Thoughts). Always complete stories, top quality art comics and extraordinary visions. If there’s only one international comics anthology to buy, this is the one!

Artists:
Niklas Asker [SE]
Martin Flink [DK]
Martin Simpson [US]
K I Zachopoulos [GR]
Vassilis Gogtzilas [GR]
Spyros Verykios [GR]
Chad Verrill [US]
Jamil Mani [SE]
Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Susanne Johansson [SE]
Cover: Niklas Asker [SE]
Interior illustrations: Johan Jergner-Ekervik [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 6
2009
96 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-976528-9-6

C’est Bon Anthology presents another brilliant anthology of international art comics. Visit the brain of Olivier Schrauwen, watch the watery apocalypse of Lina Blixt, read the unorthodox fairy tale by Chiu Kwong Man and get hit by the violence of Mattias Elftorp. Also in this issue: Jamil Mani, Johan Jergner-Ekervik, Rebecka Lindberg and a text about black images in comics written by Eisner-nominated Fredrik Strömberg. Cover by Swedish star artist Knut Larsson. Always top quality art comics, always complete stories.

Artists:
Lina Blixt [SE]
Jamil Mani [SE]
Johan Jergner-Ekervik [SE]
Olivier Schrauwen [BE]
Chiu Kwong Man [UK]
Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Rebecka Lindberg [SE]
Cover: Knut Larsson [SE]
Interior illustrations: Susanne Johansson [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Jamil Mani [SE]
Text: Fredrik Strömberg [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 5
2008 June
100 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-976528-6-5

C’est Bon Anthology continues to deliver graphically enticing international comics. This issue offers TV-clips by John Malloy, Marko Turunen’s Alien trading places with the Devil, a nightmarish vision of Limbo by Lars Krantz and a story about risking your life for a chicken by Ohad Zofy and Gilad Seliktar. There’s also another beautiful tale by Andrea Bruno, a text piece about creativity by Knut Larsson, and more, complete with a cover by Susanne Johansson! Always top quality art comics. Always complete stories, for your reading pleasure.

Artists:
Emelie Östergren [SE]
Ohad Zofy [IL]
Gilad Seliktar [IL]
Marko Turunen [FI]
Andrea Bruno [IT]
Jyrki Heikkinen [FI]
John Malloy [US]
Lars Krantz [SE]
Cover: Susanne Johansson [SE]
Interior illustrations: Mattias Elftorp [SE], Jamil Mani [SE] Knut Larsson [SE]
Text: Knut Larsson [SE]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 4
2008 January
96 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-976528-4-1
SOLD OUT

Always top quality art comics. Always refined (and complete) stories. In this issue: David Mack, Rutu Modan, Chiu Kwong Man, Jamil Mani, Amanda Vähämäki and more, including a text piece on Wimmen’s Comix by Trina Robbins. This comics anthology continues to push the boundaries of what can be done in the art form!

Artists:
Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Amanda Vähämäki [FI]
Chiu Kwong Man [UK]
David Mack [US]
Rutu Modan [IL]
Andrea Echorn [IT]
Jamil Mani [SE]
Cover: Junko Mizuno [JP]
Interior illustration: Susanne Johansson [SE]
Text: Trina Robbins [US]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 3
2007 July
100 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-976528-2-7

C’est Bon Anthology continues with the third volume of comics from all over the world. This is an exciting blend of artists, established and up-and-coming talents, displaying visual treats and refreshing storytelling. With a cover by James Jean (Fables), the book ranges from a tale of an obnoxious head without a body brow-beating his assistant (Koren Shadmi) to a dreamlike story of a school boy carrying a gun in an old book (Yvan Alagbé). This ongoing anthology features self-contained stories and high-quality production.

Artists:
Susanne Johansson [SE]
Koren Shadmi [IL]
Yvan Alagbé [FR]
Stefano Ricci [IT]
Andrea Bruno [IT]
Jessica Kurki [SE]
Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Daniel Novakovic [SE]
Cover: James Jean [US]
Interior illustrations: Niklas Asker [SE], Jamil Mani [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Text: Gorg Mallia [MT]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 2
2007 February
104 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 978-91-976528-0-3
SOLD OUT

C’est Bon Anthology continues, with comics ranging from an artistic murder mystery by Henrik Rehr (Tuesday) to dystopic future sports by Danijel Zezelj (Corinthian, Loveless) to a text piece on art and comics written by Paul Gravett (Graphic Novels: Stories to change your life). With a 3D cover by Nathan Fox, this is a mix of established artists and new exciting talent, collaborating to expand the boundaries of what can be done in the comics medium. This ongoing anthology features self-contained stories and high-quality production.

Artists:
Danijel Zezelj [US]
Jessica Khane [PT]
Pedro Nora [PT]
Vincent Stall [US]
Kim W Andersson [SE]
Henrik Rehr [DK]
Dash Shaw [US]
Knut Larsson [SE]
Marko Turunen [FI]
Jimmy Jönsson [SE]
Aleksandar Opacic [RS]
Jyrki Heikkinen [FI]
Cover: Nathan Fox [US]
Interior illustration: Susanne Johansson [SE], Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Text: Paul Gravett [UK]

C’est Bon Anthology vol 1
2006 August
140 pgs
B/W
ISBN: 91-974765-6-0
SOLD OUT

C’est Bon Anthology features artists from all over the world who create their comics with artistic ambition and a will to experiment rather than conform to what’s already been done. Established artists such as Ho Che Anderson, R Kikuo Johnson and Martin Tom Dieck join forces with new exciting talent to expand the boundaries of what can be done in the comics medium. This ongoing anthology will feature self-contained stories and high-quality production.

Artists:
Radovan Popovic [RS]
Björn Öberg [SE]
Arne Bellstorf [DE]
Mattias Elftorp [SE]
Ho Che Anderson [CA]
R Kikuo Johnson [US]
Igor Hofbauer [HR]
Susanne Johansson [SE]
Jimmy Jönsson [SE]
Mia Fredriksson [SE]
Danijel Savovic [RS]
Loka Kanarp [SE]
Chiu Kwong Man [UK]
Filjio [HR]
Martin Tom Dieck [DE]
Cover: Brian Wood [US]
Interior illustration: Oskar Aspman [SE]
Text: Fredrik Strömberg [SE]

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