Christoffer Frostgård

”Varför gör det så ont i folk omkring mig? Varför vill en del bara dö?” Varor på band. Maskinsymfonier ekar som varulvstjut genom betongtunga lokaler samtidigt som hjärnan håller på att implodera. Några grottmänniskor uppfinner jordbrukssamhället och får storhetsvansinne. Ett barn ritar sin första sexteckning i rikets sal och för att ens lyckas hålla sig vaken på mötena drar de streck i en bok varje gång äldste brodern säger Gud eller Jehova. Den här antologin samlar elva serietecknares egna tolkningar av välfärdsdrömmar. Det är en skildring av ett land där hopplösheten och frustrationen dominerar. Där allting inte är vad det ser ut att vara och där våra liv kanske inte blev som vi önskade.

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 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>

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.