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An Illustrated History of Heavy Metal
Data
1 book
100 pages, colour
16.8 x 25.8 cm
Age 13 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: s.mosdal@gmail.com
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
An Illustrated History of Heavy Metal is the first graphic novel to tell the story of one of the most popular and provocative genres of music with millions of fans across the world. Once heavy metal was the music of Satan and accused of driving it’s fans into suicide or commit murder and burn churches, today the genre has become a part of mainstram culture with French death metal band Gojira even opening the 2024 Olympics.
In the vein of Ed Piskor’s acclaimed and bestselling Hip Hop Family Tree this graphic novel tells the story of the genre from its origin and untill today through a combination of comics and illustrated non fiction. The emphasis is on the compelling and revealing anecdote but it is based on thorough research and knowledge of the genre.
The story is told as a mix tape consisting of 20 important songs and bands ranging from Black Sabbath in 1970 until the acts of today with stops at every important band from Metallica and Slayer to Norwegian black metal. Each song forms a chapter in the book and works as a starting point so that the 20 chapters combined takes you through all aspects of the genre and culture.
An Illustrated History of Heavy Metal is for the novice curious about what heavy metal is all about as well as for the die hard fan who wants to read an engaging and entertaining history of the genre.
From Black Sabbath to Kiss, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost, Napalm Death, Death, Entombed, Sepultura, Mayhem, Burzum, Rage against the machine, Slipknot, Sunn, Zeal and Ardour and more …Søren Glosimodt Mosdal
Born 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Based in Copenhagen, Søren has worked for the last 20 years as a comic artist and illustrator for many major Danish newspapers and magazines as well as a wide range of publishers abroad.
Benni BødkerBorn in 1975. He holds a Master’s Degree in Danish Literature and Philosophy and works as a publishing editor and teaches creative writing. He has published the novels Helvedesmaskinen (2004, The Infernal Machine) and Besættelse (2005, Occupation) for young adults and the children’s vampire series Nattens Børn (2006, Children of the Night) along with several easy reading titles. His books in English include Halloween (2004) and The Ghost Rider (2005).
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My Friend Nietzsche
Data
1 book
54 pages, b/w
21.0 x 21.0Ages 15 and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: Anna Laurine Kornum
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
My Friend Nietzsche recounts the harrowing descent of Friedrich Nietzsche into madness, as seen through the eyes of his friend and supporter, Danish literary critic Georg Brandes. A story of friendship, insanity, and the myths of a man who shaped history.
Anna Laurine KornumKornum (1978.) is an academic, painter, author, and illustrator. Born in Aarhus, Jutland, formally educated in biology and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. Kornum’s work spans from scientific/ anatomical illustration to book covers. In 2016 her graphic short story ‘A Mind Bomb’ was featured in Heavy Metal Magazine. ‘My Mind’s Eye’ (2022) is her Danish debut novel. It was awarded Best Danish Horror publication and won the Danish comic award, the Ping Prize for Best Debut. Her second novel, The Poppy Fields Paradox came out in May 2024. She is currently working on her third novel.
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Niels Bohr. Quantum Leap in Copenhagen
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1 book
140 pages, colour
26.6 x 18.4Ages 15 and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: klogehoveder@yahoo.com
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
The remarkable story about the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and the development of quantum physics in the first half of the 20th century.
The 140-page graphic novel invites us into the innocent time of the 1920s, where Niels Bohr became a unifying father figure for an entire generation of physicists from around the world until WWII, when he was forced to flee Europe and eventually enrolled in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Now in 2nd print run.
Niels RolandDebut in 1986 with The Studio (Atelieret), short satirical comics about a group of frustrated young artists. In 1990, 50 years after the German occupation, Roland, Morten Hesseldahl and Henrik Rehr made five volumes of Denmark Occupied (Danmark Besat), each covering one year of the occupation. Since then Niels has concentrated on daily and weekly comics for Danish newspapers, in recent years mainly Weekendavisen.
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Wayfinders
Data
2 books
216 pages in softcover, colour
17.0 x 24.0 cmAges 9 and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: Snackbagstudios
- Reading sample: PDF in English (Book 1)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (Book 2)
Description
‘Wayfinders: Off Course’ is a series of colorful, queer, fantasy graphic novels.
Three shipwreck survivors traveling from island to island, connecting to others, and how letting people in is the only way to save the world.
Our heroes plunge into the ocean city Tirthea, where the merfolk plead for their help. But unknown dangers and difficult dilemmas lurk in the deep. Can they defeat the unknown, or will the ocean change them forever?
Nat & Q
Nat and Q both have a bachelor’s degree in respectively Animation and Graphic Storytelling from The Animation Workshop. Their skills supplement each other very well: Nat starts projects, gets them off the ground. Q finishes and polishes the stories so they are ready for the world.
Mainstream comics
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Dorthea’s Survivals
Data
10 books
More books in production
48 pages each
29.5 x 22.0 cm
Ages 9 and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Henriette Westh
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 1)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 2)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 3)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 4)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 5)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 6)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 7)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 8)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (Book 10)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (Book 11)
Description
Book 1: The Death List
Interpol agent Dorthea Bourgogne gets busy when Interpol discover that a deathlist exists on which Dorthea herself is next in line. Her investigation takes her to castles, dungeons, train roofs and house roofs before the mystery is solved.
Book 2: Lullaby
Interpol agent Dorthea Bourgogne spots the face of an assassin that once tried to kill her.
She goes undercover and is soon dangling from the ropes of a Viking ship before she identifies the assassin’s target and cracks the case.
Book 3: The Castle of Vultures
The conclusion to the previous book, ”Lullaby”. Dorthea wakes up inside a castle tower after having been abducted. She immediately sets out to survive and overcome the culprits, applying various mines and leftover weapons as well as her trusted fist.
Book 4: The Gates of Hell
When Dorthea takes out her horse, Rinaldo, for an endurance ride in Turkmenistan, they encounter a very spooked horse. What happened? The incident takes Dorthea and her horse to the Karakum Desert and to the crater, ”The Gates of Hell”.
Book 5: Phantasm
Dorthea’s XO, Nicky, has a thundering headache. Dorthea soon realises that Nicky is suffering from more than just common pain. Time and aggressive villains are their enemies in their quest to find a cure before Nicky’s head turns to mush.
Book 6: Brat!
Four prequels from Dorthea’s past: 1 – BRAT! describes a pivotal time in her childhood when she encounters a certain Interpol agent for the first time; 2 – Ruh Inche Altyn Dogry concerns her education as an Interpol agent; 3 – The Affair of the Baroness is about how she met the Baron and the Baroness; and finally The Specialist is about how she was appointed a special team.
Book 7: Zoo
Dorthea and her team have to cut short a recreational weekend when they are called in to investigate the disappearance of a colleague. The case brings them to a zoo in Toronto where Dorthea goes undercover as a zookeeper. Apart from birthing giraffes and horny silverbacks, she also encounters a particularly aggressive Siberian tiger and the most vicious species of all: humans!
Book 8: Blood Ties
What is Dorthea doing on the back of Saint Peter? And sporting a shiny desert eagle instead of a key? She is probably pondering about that question herself. Dorthea’s Interpol colleague, Belle, appears to have joined a cult based in Rome. What possessed her do that? Dorthea and the rest of the team travel to Rome and are soon in direct confrontation with statues, aggressive cult leaders and even the Vatican.
Book 9: The Revenge of Ding-Dong
A dangerous criminal escapes from prison, hellbent on revenge. Dorthea and her team were the agents who put him away and their lives and the lives of their friends and family are now in imminent danger. Will they succeed in bagging Ding Dong before it is too late? Or will the world dissolve in explosives and flames?
Book 10: 10
Interpol sends Dorthea and her team Last Chance off to Ireland to investigate the disapperance of two agents, who had gone undercover in the smuggling business. The leads take them to the Faroe Islands where Dorthea slowly realises that the case is connected to her own deceased nd then it becomes personal. Very personal!
Book 11: Last Chance
When Interpol agent, Nicky, suddenly disappears, Dorthea is quick to follow her colleague’s trail to Brazil where Nicky has been looking into a shady business that involves a hospital and sharp scalpels. Will she manage to find her friend before he loses more than his mind?
Henriette WesthBorn 1963, autodidact artist with an affinity for comics. In 1988, her first professional comic book, “Hamlet 5. akt, scene 2” was published by Bogfabrikken. In 2020 she rekindled her old comics character, Dorthea, and created a full story of 44 pages and established her own publishing house. Henriette is constantly working on new comic books, and she has no intention of stopping any time soon.
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Inge Lehmann
Data
1 book
90 pages, colour
23.0 x 31.5
Ages 12 and up.- Contact for Foreign Rights: rights@eudor.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
In 1936, Inge Lehmann, the world’s first female seismologist, proposed the theory that the Earth has a solid core. This comic explores her life throughout the 20th century, highlighting her groundbreaking research and the obstacles her era imposed on women pursuing scientific careers. It was only after World War II that Inge Lehmann gained the recognition she rightfully deserved—and this recognition came from the United States. However, she remained relatively unknown in her home country, Denmark, until late in the century.
With an illustrated afterword about Inge Lehmann and her research, written by Helle Houkjær.
Sussi BechA 1983 graduate from the School of Applied Arts in Copenhagen, Sussi Bech is an award-winning cartoonist living in Denmark. Her most popular graphic novel is Nofret – 13 volumes so far – which stars a young Egyptian girl in the land of the pharaohs and combines her adventures with historically accurate depictions of ancient Egypt. Sussi Bech has won several awards for her work.
Helle HoukjærHelle Houkær is a schoolteacher with a Master’s degree in education specializing in physics/chemistry. She has authored several educational books (15 titles on science/technology, 1 on mathematics, 3 on physics/chemistry, and 2 for teacher training). Additionally, she has received several teaching awards, including the Novo Nordisk Foundation Teaching Award and Politiken’s Teaching Award.
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Kijara
Data
4 books
80-96 pages each
Book 4 out in Spring 2024
5 more books planned
20.0 x 28.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Tatiana Goldberg
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
The Kijara comics take place in a united European Union where genetic modification is common and people with illegal modifications are deported to camps.
Kijara is illegally modified herself and forced to work for a special police unit dealing with genetic crime.
Tatiana Goldberg
Tatiana Goldberg, born 1981. Illustrator and author. Creator of the award winning graphic novel series Kijara as well as award nominated graphic novel Anima.
Teaches comics and character design.
www.tatianagoldberg.dk
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The Ballad of Yano Young-Star
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1 book
54 pages
21.0 x 28.5 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Jacob Thybo
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
In a fantasy colony, originally inhabited by elves and orcs, the white colonizers have built up a society similar to what we saw in Africa, Australia or America round 1900. We follow a little group of street performers in their struggles.
YANO is a stand-alone, finished story.
Jacob ThyboJacob Thybo was born in Denmark, and travelled to Finland, at an early age, to study arts.
Back in Denmark, he has done preschool teaching, washing clothes for the local soccer team, garbage sorting and all along, comics illustrating.
Graphic novels
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Buster
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1 book
270 pages, colour
16.0 x 23.0 cm
Age 13 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: raj@rasmusjulius.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
During an operation, 8-year-old Buster dies unexpectedly. 2 years later, on Buster’s 10th birthday, Buster’s father is again reminded of his great grief and the world that relentlessly continues.
Rasmus JuliusRasmus Julius was born in 1969. Has worked in the commercial business and has made funny strips since 2000. His comics have been published in newspapers and magazines in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Mexico, Venezuela and Costa Rica.
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Chronobiology
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1 book
58 pages, colour
17.0 x 24.0 cm
Age 13 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: sofielouisedam@live.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
This science comic takes you on a time-travelling adventure through the history of research into circadian rhythms and our body’s clock, as we follow the scientist Amy in her most recent experiment. It is made in collaboration with scientists from the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research in Copenhagen.
Website: https://www.sofi elouisedam.com/#/tales-from-the-chronobiology-lab/
Kristin HusseyKristin Hussey is a historian, curator and science communicator who works on circadian rhythms.For more than three years, she has collaborated with chronobiologists to think about the importance of their research for society. She is currently writing a book on the history of circadian rhythms for Polity Press. In 2021, she was awarded the Whitfield Prize for her first book, Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Sofie Louise DamSofie Louise Dam is a cartoonist and illustrator, who has worked on graphic novels including This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States and Hviskeleg. She graduated from the Animation Workshop in 2017 and currently works at studio Kulkælderen in Copenhagen.
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Far Below Zero
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1 book
160 pages, colour
18.0 x 24.5 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Craig Frank
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
A group of Scandinavian hunters carried out a remarkable operation in WW2. Using dogsleds, their mission was to guard the Greenland coast and protect weather stations for the allies. A battalion of 18 nazi soldiers landed and the battle began.
Publication: Autumn 2025
Craig Frank
Born in 1961, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Moved to Denmark in the late ’80s. Graduated with a BFA and has worked in animation. Has directed several animated films (JOURNEY to SATURN) and has created several graphic novels. JFK Secret OPS and COOL VALLEY.
Troels Rasmussen
Born in Denmark in 1967, graduated MA in History. Worked many years as a researcher and has written several historical books. Today Troels works as a historian in a large international company and has worked together with Craig Frank on many animated projects.
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Learning for Life
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1 book
192 pages
18.0 x 24.5 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Forlaget Eudor
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
A young inexperienced teacher takes the big step from a small art school to a huge institution for young adults. We meet the uptight, strict teacher who sees the school as a factory and the mellow, seen-it-all-before type, who’s just holding out for retirement. In the melting pot of this environment, a modern teacher is created.
A harsh satire based on the Author’s own experience as a teacher.Scheduled for publication in March 2025.
Best Danish Comic Award-winner
“Learning for Life” is Simon Petersen’s next graphic novel after the highly acclaimed “Punk Life Crisis”, which won the Claus Deleuran Award for Best Danish Book in December 2022.
Simon PetersenSimon Petersen is a Danish cartoonist, who has been published for many years in Denmark, but also in many other countries, especially the U.S. He has been nominated for an ‘Ignatz’ award. His American publisher Pronto Comics has put out 7 of his books during the years. Simon works mostly with the themes of dark humor and no-filter satire.
Family & Children
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Max and Meta
Data
10 books
28-32 pages, hardcover
21.0 x 21.0 cmAges 6 years and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: post@forlaget-meta.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
The Max and Meta books celebrate the truly brilliant and diverse world of nature that children live in today. They entertain, inform and delight readers about the colours, sounds, senses, forces of nature – and much more!
The first books in the series cover topics like the Moon, Gravity and Time. Max and Meta explore the natural world around them with curiosity and silly stunts. With a snap of her fingers, Meta can do magic tricks, like time travel and transporting our two heroes to new places.
1. Max & Meta: The Moon
2. Max & Meta: Time
3. Max & Meta: Colours
4. Max & Meta: Atoms
5. Max & Meta: Thunder
6. Max & Meta: Gravity
7. Max & Meta: Water
8. Max & Meta: Plants
9. Max & Meta: The Body
10. Max & Meta: Climate and Lightning
Lars-Ole NejstgaardLars-Ole Nejstgaard is a cartoonist and illustrator of children’s books, several of which have been adapted for film. He is also the political illustrator for a number of magazines and yearbooks – and has exhibited at the Comics Art Museum in Brussels. He is a member of Cartooning for Peace founded by the UN and Plantu from Le Monde.
Troels GollanderTroels Gollander is one of Denmark’s most popular writers of science literature for children and young adults and is the prize-winning author of more than 100 natural science books for grade 1-9 pupils. He was a science teacher for many years and now writes about the subject he loves. He often speaks at schools and libraries to inspire children’s interest in the fantastic world of the natural sciences. With his motto “Making the complex simple” Troels Gollander makes science accessible to everyone.
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Shadow Guard
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1 book
More in production
48 pages, colour
16.1 x 23.5 cmAges 8 years and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: mail@jankjaer.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
The boy Dion is born in the slum.
But his unusual magical powers soon draw the
attention of the Emperor’s Shadow Guard, the fier-
cest warriors in the country and Dion’s life is turned upside down in his search for answers.#1: Magic Blood will see publication in 2025.
Rights sold to Sweden.
Jan KjærJan Kjær was born 1971 in Denmark and is an award-winning writer and illustrator.
After high school, he served his apprenticeship as a Graphic Designer and worked for LEGO a few years before moving to America to attend ‘The Kubert School’ comic book in New Jersey. After graduating, Jan moved to Los Angeles and worked as a storyboard- and concept artist for three years for different Hollywood productions companies
In 2002, he moved back to Denmark and continued working for LEGO, doing illustrations and story development for lines such as BIONICLE and LEGO STAR WARS.In 2004 Jan decided to try his hand at writing and illustrating his own stories. He has now written 70 books and comics, and his work has been published in 15 countries.
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The Danish Samurai
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1 book
96 pages, colour
18.5 x 26.0 cmAges 9 years and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: martin.petersen@natmus.dk
- Reading sample: Coming soon
Description
Who hasn’t dreamed of being a samurai?
In “The Danish Samurai”, we follow the Danish girl Regitze, who doesn’t just dream: as a child in Copenhagen in 1882, as a young woman in Yokohama in 1890, and as an adult back in Copenhagen in 1925, she is… the Danish Samurai. In the final chapter, Regitze fights a hundred yōkai monsters.
Regitze is a fictional character, but at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, there was significant interest in Japan and samurai culture in Europe and the US. The comic and the afterword deals with this remarkable period.
Martin PetersenMartin Petersen is a senior researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, specializing in East Asia.
Martin researches topics such as cosplay, Danish K-pop fans, South and North Korean comics, shamanism, and samurai.
Since 2019, he has collaborated with a wide range of Danish, South Korean, and Chinese comic creators to craft stories about the National Museum’s collections, Denmark’s history, and contemporary South Korea.
Angelica InigoDanish freelance illustrator and cartoonist living in Copenhagen, Denmark with a big passion for creating meaningful stories that influence and inspire children and young adults for the better.
Angelica has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Storytelling from The Animation Workshop, Viborg, and experience with children’s books, graphic facilitation and illustration work. -
Worried Sick
Data
1 book
104 pages, colour
18.5 x 18.7 cmAges 12 years and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: thomas@afart.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
With lighthearted humor, this book depicts life with anxiety from a personal point of view.
The comicstrips are easy to understand and a safe and loving place for anxious people to relate to, and for non-anxious people to better understand.
Sofie TornemarkDanish illustrator and graphic designer.
Creator of Teeny Tiny Comics, a series of relatable and funny comicstrips on social media, based on personal life.
Picture books
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Alf wants a pet NOW!
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2 books, 28 pages each
21,0 x 21,0 cm
Ages 4 and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Forlaget Eudor
Reading samples:
Description
Two crazy and fun picture books for kids (and their parents) with illustrations in an appealing cartoony style that will make children want to hear the stories over and over again.
Book 1: Alf wants a pet NOW!Alf is 5 years old. Alf likes animals very much. Every day Alf asks his mom and dad if he can have a pet. Please! In the end, mom and dad drive Alf to the pet store to buy a pet. But Alf does not want a hamster. Alf wants a wild animal!
Book 2: Sussi and the senseless shoes
Sussi is 5 years old. Sussi is extremely fond of shoes. Every day, Mom tells Sussi to wear her sensible shoes for school. But sensible shoes are boring and annoying company. One day, Sussi finds a pair of shoes in her Mother’s locker she has never seen before. It is as if they’re talking to her!
Frank MadsenA creator of children’s books and graphic novels – notably the adventures of Kurt Dunder – Frank Madsen is an award-winning cartoonist and three times Best Danish Comics Author nominée. Author of the weekly satirical cartoon Eks Libris since 2010.
Frank has also written the popular picture books for children Snus Mus about a mouse detective, with illustrations by Sussi Bech. The books were published in Chile in 2018 and more are in production. -
Beetle and Bear
Data
1 book
30 pages
Book 2 in production
23.0 x 23.0 cmAges 4 and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: Peter Hermann
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Wordless stories about everyday events that turn into small adventures.
In book 1, Beetle and Bear go for a walk at night, so Beetle can pee before he goes to sleep.
We follow their walk in the cosy and imaginative city, looking for just the right tree.
Peter HermannPeter Hermann is a Danish artist who loves to mix elements of comic books and children’s books, drawn in a loose and colourful style.
He was educated at the Kubert School in the USA and at Designskolen Kolding in Denmark.www.phermann.com
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The Man, the Fly and the Unruly Girl
Data
1 book
Graphic picture book w/ linecut illustrations
Published in English and Spanish
21.5 x 30.0 cm (wide)- Contact for Foreign Rights: Inge-Lise Kristoffersen
Description
A man shares his lunch with a fly. When the fly tells of its many journeys, wings are growing out from the man’s back, and together they fly out into the world only to be captured by an insect-collecting girl.
Inger-Lise KristoffersenGrew up in Denmark, Colombia and Hong Kong. Graduated from Design School Kolding. Working with illustration for children, paintings, drawings and graphics.
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Tribute
Data
1 book
46 pages, b/w
20.5 x 20.5 cmPrinting material: Available as TIFF files.
Age 15 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Henrik Rehr
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
A mix of a meditation, a rap and a confession.
Henrik RehrHenrik Rehr, born in 1964. He has published comics from, amongst others, Futuropolis, Dargaud/Urban China, Vents d’Ouest, Lerner Graphics, Ponent Mon, Jacoby & Stuart, Safara Editore, Carlsen Comics and Forlaget Fahrenheit.
Henrik Rehr can read scripts in Danish, English, French, German, Swedish and Norwegian and is available for projects.
