Susanne Johansson

One day, Gregor Samsa woke up and found himself transformed into an insect. Do you think that bugged him? Puns aside, insects are fascinating. Many people find them disgusting and associate them with filth and decay, but without them we wouldn’t have anything to eat, considering they’re also the main pollinators of our plants. How could we survive in a world with no bugs? Then again, fleas were quite significant in spreading the plague. Insects are hailed as the protein of the future and shunned as vectors of disease. They’re pests, pets and objects of fear and fascination. But they aren’t the only kind of bug out there. If you’re sick, you’ve caught a bug. If your computer program doesn’t run as intended, it’s due to a bug. If you experience a glitch in the matrix, there might be a bug in the very fabric of our reality. If something is bugging you, you can’t stop thinking about it. And remember: shrimp are also bugs. Comics by: Aiden Kvarnström [SE], The Chemical Jam [IT], Matteo Galasso [IT], Angela Schmold [CA], Monica Nielsen [SE], Sandra G [RS], Adrián A. Astorgano [ES], Jon Högman [SE], Susanne Johansson [SE], Vlad Gaast [PT], Jason Song Quinn [US], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Text & illustration by: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Aiden Kvarnström [SE].

You have entered into the weird forest. You are one of its creatures now. Welcome. You will never leave. The only path laid out before you, your only choice, is to go deeper, deeper, until you are completely and utterly lost. Not until then can you find who you are and where you’re going. If you’re lucky. Comics by: Tomasz Kontny [PL] & Tomxyz [PL], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Michael Elton Crye [US], Athanasía Aarniosuo [FI], Knut Larsson [SE], Susanne Johansson [SE], Svalan Sörblom [SE], Xico Santos [PT/SE]. Text & illustration by: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

Latest issue of the international comics anthology series: Step into the world of KOLAZ, 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, Mattias Elftorp, Tom Mortimer, Damir Stojnic von Ktonsky, Susanne Johansson, Markus Samnell, Julia Nascimento, Adam Boman, Mette Norrie, Helena Menanda, Aiden Kvarnström, Mileta Mijatovic, Mårten Edman, Miku Maria Gustavsson. Cover & main editor: Kinga Dukaj.

Latest issue of the international comics anthology series asks the questions: 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, Miguel Santos, Susanne Johansson, Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi, Manuel Rodriguez Navarro, Josef Noren. Text & illustration by: Eileen Laurie. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp.

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.

New issue of the international comics anthology CBA: 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?

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.

Once more, Wormgod explores the different ways the world ended. From a hindsight perspective we delve into various scenarios to pinpoint the details of the apocalypse. Comics and illustrated texts from the minds behind Wormgod, a roadmap of things to navigate to come out on the other side of the future. Also a furious description of the world we live and die in now, with all its horrors. Includes industrial/harsh noise soundtrack available for download upon purchase, featuring: SYSTEMET NIMAM SPREGLEDA FACTORY FARMING TRAUMA COMMAND FEBERDRÖM KOEFF

The world ended in many different ways at once, creating time lines diverging from the straight line that used to be known as history. Self-destruction! All-consuming fire! Undeath! Catastrophe! These are visions of the futures that may yet come after the end of life as you know it. The expansion of an exhibition held at AltCom 2014. Includes downloadable industrial/harsh noise soundtrack, available upon purchase: Dekoder, Nimam Spregleda, Feberdröm, Knullkraft & Concrete Threat.

Det stora löparäventyret. 8 länder. Drygt 70 dagar. Äventyraren och kontinentlöparen Rune Larsson tar med sin löparkollega Susanne Johansson på småvägar från Portugals södra kust, genom Europa och hem till Sverige. Ett äventyr som blir lika mycket en inre som en yttre resa för dem båda. Tillsammans har de en överenskommelse: "Vi ska hålla ända fram".

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.

Niklas Asker (comic and cover) Martin Flink Martin Simpson K I Zachopoulos Vassilis Gogtzilas Spyros Verykios Chad Verrill Jamil Mani Mattias Elftorp Susanne Johansson Johan Jergner-Ekervik (illustrations)

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS IN C'EST BON ANTHOLOGY vol. 3 James Jean (cover) Susanne Johansson Koren Shadmi Yvan Alagbé Stefano Ricci Andrea Bruno Gorg Mallia (text) Jessica Kurki Mattias Elftorp Daniel Novakovic