Allan Haverholm

New issue of the international comics anthology CBA: 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.§

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!

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. First regular issue in full color!

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. 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>

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.

Bild & Bubbla nummer 215 innehåller intervjuer med fristadstecknaren Khalid Albaih, reportage om den tyska mangagenerationen, tips om serierelaterade utflyjtsmål, en artikel om franska politiska serier, samt en förhandstitt på Pelle Forsheds kommande seriebok Under isen. Dessutom rapporter från jordens alla hörn av våra korrespondenter, recensioner av nyutkomna serieböcker, porträtt av redaktören Karin Didring (doob), med mera.

Bild & Bubbla nummer 208 är som vanligt en smältdegel av information om serier från hela världen. Numret innehåller till exempel intervjuer med de kritikerrosade serieskaparna Joann Sfar, från Frankrike och Rutu Modan, från Israel. Ena delen av intervjun med Sfar presenteras dessutom i serieform. Tidskiften innehåller vidare en artikel om den brittiska serien Hitler på nya äventyr, en intervju med konstnären Jan Håfström, som ofta hämtat inspiration från seriernas värld samt en förhandstitt på Åsa Grennvalls kommande seriebok Jag håller tiden. Dessutom naturligtvis rapporter från världens alla hörn av våra korrespondenter, recensioner av nyutkomna serieböcker, porträtt av redaktören Danilo Brozovic (Nubeculis) med mera.

Bild & Bubbla nummer 207 utkommer mot slutet av maj och är som vanligt en smältdegel av information om serier från hela världen. Numret innehåller bland annat en artikel om den kritikerrosade österrikiska serieskaparen Ulli Lust, mest känd för hennes självbiografiska serieroman Idag är sista dagen på resten av ditt liv. Vi publicerar även en ny serie av Lust, för första gången på svenska. Tidskiften innehåller vidare en artikel om den klassiska brittiska västernserien Matt Marriott, en intervju med serieskaparen Klara Wiksten – som nyligen utkom med boken Hjärnan darrar, en artikel om den amerikanska serieskaparen och pedagogen Lynda Barry – skapare av den omtalade inspirationsboken What it is, en artikel om hur serier och filmaffischer har inspirerat varandra samt en förhandstitt på Rene Engströms bokversion av serien Anders Loves Maria. Dessutom naturligtvis rapporter från världens alla hörn av våra korrespondenter, recensioner av nyutkomna serieböcker, porträtt av redaktören Elisabeth Sparring (Cobolt) med mera.

“When the last story is told, its absence rings with colour: Shapes & structure linger”– Like the clap of thunder when the air rushes to fill the vacuum from a supersonic plane, Allan Haverholm poses the question: When the last story is told, what fills the space it leaves? In the latest book by visual artist Allan Haverholm, narrative gives way to another order of meaning. Although the pages are divided into comic book grids there is nothing to constitute a traditional story, or even pictures in a sense that one would expect. The only text in the book, quoted above, frames the 60 pages of minimalist colour compositions alternatingly obscured with bold strokes of white paint and abstract, black textures. The book questions one of the basic elements of our culture: storytelling and its underlying structures. Its very title suggests a potential end of narrative, but also that something else may fill the gap, a still-fluid substance or undefined fictional construct forming after this universal aphasia. Like a message from an alien mind, When the last story is told is loaded with meaning encoded in an undecipherable language.

Bild & Bubbla 202 är det första numret med en helt ny design. Vi har gjort om denna ärevördiga kulturtidskrift och försett den med en modern, elegant design och gått upp i format för att kunna ha fler och större illustrationer. Vi har även tänkt om vad gäller innehållet och lagt till nya inslag som skapande, förhandstitt på kommande serieböcker och intervjuer med proffs från seriebranschen, förutom redan etablerade delar som recensioner och aktuellt. I detta nummer kan man bland annat läsa en intervju med fransmannen Sylvain Runberg om serieversionen av Stieg Larssons Millenniumtrilogi, en artikel om den nya trenden med serier om mens, vulvor och onani, en intervju med den hyllade norrmannen Jason, en artikel om den nyligen avslutade japanska succén Naruto, instruktioner i hur man tuschar serier samt artiklar och debattinlägg om attacken mot den franska satirtidningen Charlie Hebdo.

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!

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. Volume 13 features Niklas Asker (SE), Allan Haverholm (DK), Victor Kerlow (US), Lars Krantz (SE), Lawrence Marvit (US), Jess Smart Smiley (US), Veiko Tammjärv (EST), Chad Verrill (US), Rikke Villadsen (DK) and Henric Wallmark (SE). Beautiful narrative art by the best artists on every level.

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 as SCND THGHTS. In total, volume 11 features work by Oskar Aspman (SE), Mattias Elftorp (SE), Sofia Falkenhem (SE), Martin Flink (DK), Allan Haverholm (DK), Susanne Johansson (SE) and Jamil Mani (SE). The best short stories by some of the most talented graphic artists out there.

Artists: Michel Ducourneau (SE) Eliza Frye (US) Allan Haverholm (DK) Ed Homer (US) Jacob Rask (DK) Chad Verrill (US) Cover artist: Eliza Frye