John Porcellino

Galago, sedan nästan 30 år tillbaka Sveriges ledande tidskrift för alternativa serier, har blivit en serieantologi i bokform. I tre 200-sidiga volymer per år publiceras de bästa svenska och utländska serierna gjorda för en vuxen publik, tillsammans med tecknarintervjuer, rikt illustrerade noveller och diverse infall. I Galago volym 92 presenterar David Liljemark och Ruben Dahlstrand en lång originalserie om frijazz och förvriden sexualitet,Fabian Göranson låter sin kaosskapande apa löpa amok och Åsa Grennvall tränger djupt in i föraktets mekanismer. Numrets novell är en lång historia av New York-eleganten Jay McInerney, stilfullt illustrerad av Loka Kanarp. Pär Thörn skriver sinnesförminskande text och Frej från Slagsmålsklubben intervjuar Simon Gärdenfors om mastodontprojektet Simons 120 dagar. Dessutom: Mats Jonsson går runt i Stockholm med barnvagn! Liv Strömquist brinner! Italienarna är över oss! Och mycket, mycket mer.

Lång intervju med Ester Eriksson, Fredrik Jonsson i Norrbotten, Julia Hansen i Finland, Henrik Bromander i Japan, Karin 17 + Håkan 31 = SANT, Quinckes ödem, Johannes Nilsson behöver #prataomdet. Dessutom dikter av Marit Olanders, serier av Caroline Sury och John Porcellino, novell av Karolina Stenström, Långben-rutor av Ester Eriksson samt nya teckningar av Magdalena Nordin. "Vi borde ha relationstema i ett nummer. Förpackat i nåt tuffare begrepp kanske. Vi ska i alla fall komma fram till att allt är skit. Kärnfamiljen, singellivet och allt däremellan."

Nummer 23 har en mycket speciellt betydelse, och detta firar vi med ny prosa av Pär Thörn, Karolina Stenström och Johannes Nilsson, ny poesi av Klara Wiksten och Marit Olanders, nya serier av Amanda Vähämäki, Julia Hansen, Grace Wilson, Caroline Sury, Sling och John Porcellino och intervjuer med kvinnorna bakom namnkunniga musikakter som Neutral, Draugurinn och Källarbarnen. Magdalena Nordin berättar om fri mjukvarudårar och besöker ljusskygga platser på internet. Dessutom: En visit till Mussolinis grav, ett bildreportage från Stefan Sundströms spelning på norra Gotland i somras, en japansk feministikon och Israels nationalmellanmål.

"I stället för att mingla med bemanningsutsugare borde våra folkvalda ta en kopp beskt kaffe och läsa två texter ur detta magasin: Först Jonas Juuso och Karolina Dahls rysarbrevväxling om de bisarra och årligt försämrade villkoren i deras vårdjobb. Därefter Hanna Alfredssons serieberättelse om timanställningar. Jag får en knut i magen som håller i sig flera dagar. Alla måste läsa!" - Ida Therén, Aftonbladet "Få tidskrifter är lika bra som Det grymma svärdet på att bejaka tidskriftsformatets många möjligheter. När andra lägger fokus på pliktskyldiga temanummer ger man i DGS plats åt det ofärdiga, det rastlösa, det långa och vindlande. I #21 finns till exempel en chat mellan Pontus Lundkvist och Johannes Nilsson om den samtida vänstern, ett reportage om alternativa sociala medier av Magdalena Nordin och en härligt knastrig dagbokstext av Karolina Stenström. Ett andningshål, mitt i all torftighet" - Rebecka Kärde, Arbetaren

A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiar. Brimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester John Porcellino s coming-of-age memoir about the momentous and eternal year between the end of high school and the start of college. It s a year of awkward house parties, first kisses, spontaneous, open-ended road trips, and struggles with depression. Framed within the context of empathetic recollection, Perfect Example offers up a new way for us to read our own pasts and be kinder to our younger selves.

John Porcellino s visual style is iconographic but infused with the authentic feeling of a note written in love or friendship. Salon. Never before have so few lines conveyed such a wealth of meaning as in John Porcellino s quietly riveting book about memory, relationships, and selfhood. During a period of isolation following a divorce, Porcellino penned Map of My Heart, endowing it with the sensitivity and emotional depth so characteristic to his minimalist style. His tender drawings and spacious panels shape an autobiographical testimony where no moment is too small or insignificant for posterity. Pensive walks in the forest, encounters with rogue woodland creatures, school yard fights, Zen meditations, long lost crushes, and childhood exploits are the heart of this therapeutic account of the ever-fleeting present.

Unvarnished. Punk. The New York Times. King-Cat Classix collects material from the first fifty issues of John Porcellino s King-Cat Comics as they appeared in self-published, handmade zines throughout the 1990s. These strips span Porcellino s dynamic evolution from saturated, punk drawings to his characteristic refined minimalism, revealing his work as nothing short of a catalyst that has inspired artists like Chris Ware in the emerging literary comics scene. In the inky drawings featuring beloved pets, awkward teenage one-night-stands, and everyday blunders, we see a nascent style steeped in truth and transparency one that continues to ring true today. Porcellino s mind is spread out on the page, with an uninhibited id running wildly about dreams and sexual fantasies, not unlike the gritty, stabbing pen strokes of Julie Doucet. He sketches fragmented moments and glimpses of interaction that seem to reflect the very manner in which we process memory: we are made up of a stream of consciousness, captured in fleeting mental images, and Porcellino externalizes that messy internal reality. Follow along the path of Porcellino s dynamic evolution and relish in the inspirational power of this groundbreaking collection.

"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." So said Henry David Thoreau in 1845 when he began his famous experiment of living by Walden Pond. In this graphic masterpiece, John Porcellino uses only the words of Thoreau himself to tell the story of those two years off the beaten track. The pared-down text focuses on Thoreau's most profound ideas, and Porcellino's fresh, simple pictures bring the philosopher's sojourn at Walden to cinematic life. For readers who know Walden intimately, this graphic treatment will provide a vivid new interpretation of Thoreau's story. For those who have never read (or never completed ) the original, it presents a contemporary look at a few brave words to live by.

"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." So said Henry David Thoreau in 1845 when he began his famous experiment of living by Walden Pond. In this graphic masterpiece, John Porcellino uses only the words of Thoreau himself to tell the story of those two years off the beaten track. The pared-down text focuses on Thoreau's most profound ideas, and Porcellino's fresh, simple pictures bring the philosopher's sojourn at Walden to cinematic life. For readers who know Walden intimately, this graphic treatment will provide a vivid new interpretation of Thoreau's story. For those who have never read (or never completed ) the original, it presents a contemporary look at a few brave words to live by.

John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams, and overgrown abandoned lots that surround every city. He studies the flora and fauna around us. He looks at the overlooked. Porcellino also digs deep into a quintessential American endeavour the road trip. Uprooting his comfortable life several times in From Lone Mountain, John drives through the country weaving from small town to small town, experiencing America in slow motion, avoiding the sameness of airports and overwhelming hustle of major cities. From Lone Mountain collects stories from Porcellino s influential zine King-Cat John enters a new phase of his life, as he remarries and decides to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday. Over the past three decades, Porcellino's beloved King-Cat thas offered solace to his readers: his gentle observational stories take the pulse of everyday life and reveal beauty in the struggle to keep going.

I den tjugofemte delen av Det Grymma Svärdet hittar vi bland mycket annat Magdalena Nordins försvarsbrev till A-kassan som kräver henne på 150 000 kronor. Jonas Juuso dokumenterar trädkojor, Pär Thörn skriver novell, Lars Nilsson tänker på när Skurt var i Tjernobyl. Och vem vill inte läsa en femton år gammal intervju med Freddie Wadling? Serier av Nichole Shinn, Hanneriina Mosseinen, John Porcellino, Julia Hansen och Grace Wilson. Texter om skogar, en stympad spelning, Bigfoot, ostbågar på onsdag.