Mattias Elftorp's Blog, page 21
April 7, 2016
Slowly moving forward…
Like a bunch of zombies, in torn work clothes, the AltCom festival is moving forward…
We just got some more money confirmed, so we know that the anthology will happen again this year, and also some other things that wren’t ready to disclose just now.
See the AltCom festival website for news as we drag ourselves forward…
March 21, 2016
March 14, 2016
The Hybrid is open.
Last Friday’s opening of The Hybrid was a great success!
The exhibition will be up until the end of this month, possibly longer, and the opening hours are:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 16–20
So come on in and have a look at the combined release exhibition for CBAvol30 (with guest appearances from Tusen Serier) and samples from upcoming Tusen Serier books, look through our comics library and buy our books in the shop section!
Photos from the opening can be found at the CBK or Tusen Serier sites.
Kara Thrace is the harbinger of death.
End of line.
March 4, 2016
The coming of The Hybrid
We’re finally ready top open The Hybrid, the new space we’ve been building since the beginning of the year!
The Hybrid is Malmö’s new comics hang-out! A space for exhibitions and workshops, an artists’ studio and comic shop/library, open for anyone (if not necessarily at all times). Here, you will be able to see exhibitions of comics you’ve never heard of, by recognized and unknown comic creators. Join workshops to learn how to draw comics or experiment with new forms of storytelling. In our shop you will find books from CBK, Tusen Serier, Wormgod and exquisitely selected international comics found at various festivals in different countries. We also have a comics library section where you with zines, anthologies and graphic novels where you can sit and read in our sofas.
WHAT: Opening/exhibition/release/workshop
WHERE: Hybriden @ Mitt Möllan, Claesgatan 8, Malmö
WHEN: Friday, March 11, 16-22
EXHIBITION
The comics in the international comics anthology CBA have been called “supposedly poetical”. They have also been called “witty, challenging and eye-opening”. Judge for yourself when the all-new editorial crew show their own comics and artworks.
Same goes for Tusen Serier, where the inner circle shows their own works along with samples from the upcoming titles.
Artists: Amanda Casanellas, Christina Cromnow, Henrik Rogowski, Kinga Dukaj, Luddvig Melin, Mattias Elftorp, Oskar Aspman, Stefan Petrini, Steve Nyberg, Susanne Johansson, Shko Askari, Amalia Alvarez, Tanja Komadina, Jorge Varas Varilla, and Yossra El Said.
RELEASE: CBA vol 30: A NEW HOPE
The members of the new crew have made the comics in CBA vol 30: A NEW HOPE, to signal a kind of new beginning for the series, and because we wanted to find out what we’re actually doing. Anything from angst-ridden animals to a psychosomatic virus to a postapocalyptic Malmö and fragments of lego. You have to see for yourself what all this means in the new issue…
JAM COMIC WORKSHOP
Between 16-19 you can join a jam comic workshop where we collectively create a story on the theme of WHATEVER. No pressure, we’re just drawing togehter because it’s fun! No experience required, just bring a bit of imagination!
COMICS!
And of course, all our books will be available, as well as a few extra titles, in the bookstore section.
We’re going until 22 or when we fall asleep/run out of wine!
www.hybriden.tk
www.tusenserier.com
www.cbkcomics.com
+ You will also find us at the SciFi-mässan (Malmö) this weekend, March 5-6, where CBK & Tusen Serier share a table with Wormgod and the comics course of Malmö Högskola!
+ Also do not miss the ongoing (until Monday, March 7) special offer at our new webshop!
WELCOME!
February 29, 2016
Second Christmas!
Let’s celebrating the birth of the CBK web-shop!
You can find most of my books at the site, and a whole lot of other stuff.
From the site:
Once upon a time, there was a small group of comic artists with a big dream. 15 years later the shop was finally born. We invite you to celebrate this magnificent event, internally known as “Second Christmas.”
Saunter through our virtual bookshelves, sigh with pleasure upon seeing our works in all their glory and find that not only CBK‘s works are presented. Tusen Serier and Wormgod are our first affiliates that we are proud to represent.
Use coupon code: newcbkshop2016 to get a 20% discount on everything but subscriptions in our new shop.
We love taking orders from you!
February 9, 2016
February 1, 2016
AltCom 2016: WORK anthology – call for submissions!
Reposted from the AltCom website:
Time to announce the festival anthology of 2016:
We don’t have all the funding secured yet, but there’s a Kickstarter, so let’s assume that everything will be fine and open this call for submissions anyway!
The theme for this year is WORK, and we would like you to give us your stories interpreting that theme.
WHAT we want:
Pages: 1-5, black/white
Language: English
Format: 140x182mm (a little bit smaller than A5) +5mm bleed on all sides
Files: High-resolution .TIFF, preferably
If you are unsure what we mean by “high-resolution” och “bleed”, please ask. Lots of artists don’t know, and it’s better to ask than to send us files that we can’t use.
WHEN we want it:
Deadline: May 15
Send submissions to: submissions [at] altcomfestival [dot] se
Please feel free to invite more comics artists to the Facebook event.
WHO we are:
The AltCom 2016 anthology will be edited by the Hybrid of CBK & Tusen Serier.
As usual, no one gets paid for participating. But on the other hand, no one pays for it either since we’ll be giving the book away for free during and after the festival!
And yes, we do accept comics that have already been published elsewhere, as long as we like them and they fit into the theme.
January 13, 2016
Illustration samples
So I’m officially available for work now, and I thought I’d show off some illustration samples.Mostly newspaper illustrations, but also some other stuff which you may have seen before…
Here you go:
You can find more at my main website: www.elftorp.com.
January 7, 2016
Memories of 2016…
As we have seen in The Troll. memories work both backwards and forwards in what we usually see as the linear flow of time.
They’re not always exactly corresponding to what actually happens when it actually happens, so bear that in mind when reading these recollections from the future:
SPACE
CBK and Tusen Serier will move into a new space together at Mitt Möllan. It will work as a combined exhibition space and studio, with the possibility for workshops and a store for buying our books, as well as stuff from Wormgod, Ritualen and others that are connected to CBK or Tusen Serier in some way.
BOOKS
Personally, I really really want to get started on the next Piracy is Liberation book. I also have ideas for The Troll 2, but I promised myself I would make another Piracy book first. It’s been far too long…
I wrote the script for a book that is now being drawn by Shko Askari, to be published by Tusen Serier pretty soon, I hope. I have a preliminary title for it, but I’m trying to think of a better one, so I won’t tell you what it is.
I didn’t manage to make the Transgressions 2 book last year, which would have a soundtrack by Brazilian band Anarcho Vomit Noise, but with any luck that could also happen this year.
PUBLISHING
Apart from the Askari book, there are several more books planned from Tusen Serier. Here are a few of them:
Myling by Amanda Casanellas & Yossra El Said:
Five stories about prostituters by Amalia Alvarez:
Void by Susanne Johansson (published as a collaboration between Wormgod & Tusen Serier):
Mapuche – Jordens folk by Jorge Varilla (no cover image yet).
From CBK, CBA vol 30 already came from the printer but hasn’t been officially released yet, so that will happen when we get the new space up and running:
This is actually the last issue from last year, so there will be 4 more in 2016. But more on those later. We’re right now in the process of finishing the selection for vol 32, which has been a far more complicated process that expected, then there’s a graphic novel issue by Julia Scott (some time around May) and two more anthology issues before the year is over. We’re right now preparing the call for submissions for those books.
I will be the main editor of vol 37, but that’s not until 2018. No hurry…
EXHIBITIONS
The Troll exhibition is still up at the old Tusen Serier place, but it’s not really open for the public any longer…
We also have some other stuff planned for the new place, but it’s all very vague so far, so I can’t say any more about it yet…
I’ve been asked to have an exhibition at the comics centre in Oulu in August. That’s gonna be fun, especially if I’ll be able to go there to see it myself. Tommi Musturi will have an exhibition there at the same time, so that could turn out really nice.
FESTIVALS
So the AltCom festival will happen in August, after all (for a while we thought we would have no budget for it at all, but then we got some so now everything is ok). We will try to figure out the last details in the coming few months, and then there will be some kind of announcement about it.
Not sure yet which other festivals I’m going to, but here’s a preliminary plan for the tour of 2016:
Uppsala Comix
Fumetto
SIS
CRACK!
Helsinki
Novo Doba
Maybe also Å-fest and possibly something else. It all depends on funding, mostly. Anyway, see you there, hopefully!
MORE
Oh, and did I mention that I am currently unemployed? Luckily, there should be no problem with the unemployment insurance, so it’s ok, but I will need to spend some time looking for new paid jobs. Some of the above will come with some money, but most of it is pure creativity and lack of self-preservation skills.
As you may have noticed, I didn’t include any links here, so for more information you can go to www.elftorp.com and find your way to most of what I’ve mentioned here.
Anyway. The future is coming towards us and not all of it is bright. As usual. So let’s just do our best and I’ll see you when it arrives.
December 19, 2015
Christmas is coming…
The Holidays are coming, when we celebrate Capitalism and its Prophit, the Coca Cola-colored Santa Claus who will bring us gifts, bought in the finest stores and prepared by his many sweatshop workers, the elves.
Here are a few suggestions for things to give to your loves ones etc (unless otherwise stated, these are all in English):
Jag & min Pappa & ZlatanAvailable in Swedish or English
120 sek
By Mattias Elftorp
You can try to hide the ugly face of Sweden by forcing all immigrants to wear masks, but will it work? Sara’s dream is to meet Zlatan, but will her dreams come true or her nightmares?
The Troll150 sek
By Mattias Elftorp
5D consciousness explained! Claypocalypse! Troll magic! Includes 3D glasses.
After The Ends Of The World120 sek
By Mattias Elftorp, Susanne Johansson & Heidi Somero
Visions from after the ends of the world.
Includes soundtrack by Comcrete Threat, Knullkraft, Feberdröm, Nimam Spregleda & Dekoder.
Transgressions120 sek
By Mattias Elftorp & Susanne Johansson
A story about transgressing borders of gender, nations, species and even reality itself.
Includes soundtrack by Feberdröm.
Piracy is Liberation vol 01: Only Sinners Disobey180 sek
By Mattias Elftorp
Cyberpunk postapocalypse!
Collecting books 001-006. 436 pages!
Piracy is Liberation vol 02: Download everything180 sek
By Mattias Elftorp
Cyberpunk postapocalypse!
Collecting books 007-011. 336 pages!
A Subtle Fuck You80 sek
By Mattias Elftorp
Collection of short stories.
HOW TO ORDER
You can order these and more using PayPal or bank transfer from www.wormgod.net or from the Swedish web-based bookstores, lika AdLibris, Bokus, etc.
