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Bendik Kaltenborn är en norsk tecknare född 1980 i Oslo. Han har en magister i illustration och design från Konstfack i Stockholm och är en av grundarna av seriekollektivet Dongery. Hans verk syns regelbundet i The New Yorker, The Washington Post, och en rad andra tidningar. Han är även en hyllad affischdesigner och har gjort en rad uppmärksammade skivomslag till artisten Todd Terje. Hans förra seriesamling "Serie som vil deg väl" vann en rad priser i Norge, bl.a. kulturdepartementets seriepris. "GILLAR LÄGET" samlar serier och teckningar gjorda de senaste fem åren.
180 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2013
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June 10, 2024
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January 13, 2025
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-›maybe my only self-translated (with help from Tom Devlin)
Narrative: *
There are some stories of short length, that get abandoned more than he finishes them, but this is mostly ₁pagers that mostly aim for cringe and shock-value. This guy seems to be for a certain humoristic audience that I'm not part of and and probably don't want to be. His brand of awkward offbeat experimentation, that scoffs at convention as a rule, is not funny if the audience doesn't understand it.
Visual: **
His reckless brush/... looks too lazy and unfinished for any positive qualities to appear to me besides when the sloppiness aids the intended silliness.
-›maybe my only self-translated (with help from Tom Devlin)
Narrative: *
There are some stories of short length, that get abandoned more than he finishes them, but this is mostly ₁pagers that mostly aim for cringe and shock-value. This guy seems to be for a certain humoristic audience that I'm not part of and and probably don't want to be. His brand of awkward offbeat experimentation, that scoffs at convention as a rule, is not funny if the audience doesn't understand it.
Visual: **
His reckless brush/... looks too lazy and unfinished for any positive qualities to appear to me besides when the sloppiness aids the intended silliness.
October 12, 2020
Me gusto la recopilación de historias que tiene este libro, humor negro y un lindo estilo grafico creo que algunos remates del chiste se pierden por la traducción y tal vez eso haga a pensar a la gente que no tiene sentido pero en general me entretuve bastante.
March 9, 2025
El conjunto es una explosión de color animada por un espíritu gamberro y surrealista.
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December 28, 2016
Bendik Kaltenborn has a weird sense of humor. Some of the squibs and assorted nonsense that populates this book is inspired, some of it feels just random and bizarre for its own sake. But he's a confident improviser, and, as an artist, he creates some very memorable images. I'm a big fan of his illustrations, and it was a pleasure to see his talents in a comic format as well, uneven as they may be.
November 5, 2022
i remember when they were working on this book, I never got to work on it but remember maybe reading a proof at one point, but I forgot about it immediately. Reading it more for the content now, I just got nothing out of it emotionally. and it’s not that I don’t like surrealist comics… i got so much out of marc bell’s work, and really loved Brian chippendale’s puke force when I read it way back when. Part of that is I think those two have much more compelling narrative through lines, and often create really interesting commentaries on class and capitalism in their work (Stroppy is power to the people babe!). They use the absurdism of their art as really effective satire more often, I guess is what I’m saying. And I just find that more compelling to read and look at.
Bendik’s art is obviously gorgeous. But so much of the surrealist humour in adult contemporary just does not land and feels incredibly vacuous (and NOT in a fun way!!), and I wonder if it was a translation thing, but I also just think so much of the humour is essentially just: “horrible man being horrible and racist very loudly” without any true challenging of it, so it becomes tacitly racist unfunny “jokes” under the hat of absurdism. I guess it just wasn’t for me……..
Bendik’s art is obviously gorgeous. But so much of the surrealist humour in adult contemporary just does not land and feels incredibly vacuous (and NOT in a fun way!!), and I wonder if it was a translation thing, but I also just think so much of the humour is essentially just: “horrible man being horrible and racist very loudly” without any true challenging of it, so it becomes tacitly racist unfunny “jokes” under the hat of absurdism. I guess it just wasn’t for me……..
January 20, 2026
No me acaba, quizá si estuviera ordenado de otra manera o si las explicaciones no estuviesen en letra pequeña al final... Pero es curioso, al menos es curioso
November 18, 2014
This is a tough book to review. Just as the title indicates, Liker stilen (Like the style), I do like the style of Kaltenborn. I like it a lot. And there are some real gems in this collection of short comics from the last three or four years. Like the one page comic about three persons happily heading, arm-in-arm towards the opera after a full dinner, when they suddenly realise that the third person does not belong with the married couple at all, and he himself starts to wonder who he really is. I know, I know. It doesn't sound all that fun, but believe me it is, with Kaltenborn's beautiful, stylistic artwork and to-the-point mimicry of the characters.
And theres lots more like this. I for instance loved the absurd one pagers about three sharp dressed men, who drink too much and discuss literature into the night, which are done for a Norwegian literary magazine. Or, the longer story about a publisher trying to get his reluctant author to accept the design of his next book but ends up being killed by a strange man dressed in orange. That one feels like a bad dream. Its that absurd and unpredictable.
As you can tell, absurd is the common theme to almost all of these comics. Sometimes that works and sometimes it falls flat. For me, the latter prevail in this volume, sadly. The art is always wonderful to look at, though, and that combined with the real gems that are hidden in here, has me giving this book a four star rating. I still feel that as a comics artist, Kaltenborn has yet to reach the potential that is so obviously there.
And theres lots more like this. I for instance loved the absurd one pagers about three sharp dressed men, who drink too much and discuss literature into the night, which are done for a Norwegian literary magazine. Or, the longer story about a publisher trying to get his reluctant author to accept the design of his next book but ends up being killed by a strange man dressed in orange. That one feels like a bad dream. Its that absurd and unpredictable.
As you can tell, absurd is the common theme to almost all of these comics. Sometimes that works and sometimes it falls flat. For me, the latter prevail in this volume, sadly. The art is always wonderful to look at, though, and that combined with the real gems that are hidden in here, has me giving this book a four star rating. I still feel that as a comics artist, Kaltenborn has yet to reach the potential that is so obviously there.
July 4, 2016
I'd never heard of Kaltenborn before picking this book up, but I'm now 100% a fan. There's a kinship with B. Kliban in his (mostly) well drawn absurdist comics that hit you in unexpected ways. This collection is a mixed bag of napkin doodles, tightly designed anthology submissions and everything in between. Some of it isn't great, but the stuff that IS great blew me away.
My personal favorite entry was the "Bum" comic strips that include internet commentary. Pretty sure Kaltenborn channeled Andy Kaufman while drawing these.
My personal favorite entry was the "Bum" comic strips that include internet commentary. Pretty sure Kaltenborn channeled Andy Kaufman while drawing these.
March 22, 2016
I loved the artwork. some of the stories were great!
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