Simon Hanselmann

Dåligt dejtande skildras i serieform av Anders Kvammen, Simon Hanselmann, Berliac och Cecilia Vårhed. Osunda relationer skildras i serieform av Caroline Sury och Tommi Parrish samt i textform av Karolina Stenström. Jonas Juuso intervjuar norrbottenskonstnären och rockstjärnan Mats Wikström. David Bremer skriver om en kuf som sprider lappar på stan. Mika Wiborgh skriver om bilutflykter i Gästrikland. Dikter av Tina Kjell, Marit Olanders, Pär Thörn och Ann-Helen Andersson. Dejting i Sarajevo, avvikande sexuella praktiker. Årets kulturtidskrift 2017!

Det Grymma Svärdet fyller tio år och firar det med sitt tjockaste nummer någonsin, med det flummiga temat "livet". Svek, droger, kärlek, kroppsvätskor, dödsfall, relationer som går sönder.... allt ryms i temat. Men det finns även plats för satir över identitetspolitik, en massa dikter, ostrullning, lantlig misärturism, vårdjobb, syttende maj-firande, tidelag, en stenåldersskildring, dagböcker... luttrade läsare LÄR känna igen sig.

Vi tänkte göra ett nummer om pengar, men det blev mer ett nummer om klass och om över- och underordning än något om pengar i sig. Väldigt mycket serier blev det också, en del av folk som aldrig publicerats på svenska innan som Tommi Parrish, Simon Hanselmann och Berliac. Andra Det Grymma Svärdet-debutanter denna gång: Noah Van Sciver, Evelina Mohei, Anders Kvammen och Stella Tallinger. De medverkande kommer från nio länder i fyra världsdelar!

The characters are imbued with far more pathos and depth than seems plausible given the stock comic premise -- drugged-out, slacker roommates. One More Year continues to give substance to the characters and personalities of its protagonists in ways that never fail to surprise, delight, and horrify.

Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It (TM)s a laff riot Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple time, although the trip gets off to a rocky start when they forget their antidepressants. They need Owl to come and help them save their relationship. But why does he have a suitcase full of glass dildos? And what will they do when they realize that the housesitting Werewolf Jones has turned their apartment into a oef#@k zone ? Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam collects all of Simon Hanselmann (TM)s contributions to Vice.com, the Ignatz Award-nominated short story oeSt. Owl (TM)s Bay,  and other surprises that will add additional color and background for fans of Megahex.

Megg is a depressed, drug-addicted witch. Mogg is her black cat. Their friend, Owl, is an anthropomorphized owl. They hang out a lot with Werewolf Jones. This may sound like a pure stoner comedy, but it transcends the genre: these characters struggle unsuccessfully to come to grips with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of work, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other in ways that have made Megg and Mogg sensations on Hanselmann's GirlMountain tumblr. This is the first collection of Hanselmann's work, freed from its cumbersome Internet prison, and sure to be one of the most talked about graphic novels of 2014, featuring all of the "classic" Megg and Mogg episodes from the past five years as well as over 70 pages of all-new material.