1 book
80 pages (63 comics pages + 12 page illustrated appendix)
23.0 x 31.5, hardcover
Published in Danish and English
Ages 13 and up
One spring day in 1820, during a lecture, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted allowed a current from a battery to pass through a platinum wire that lay across a compass – and the compass needle moved! Ørsted had thereby demonstrated the link between electricity and magnetism.
Hans Christian Ørsted is one of Denmark’s greatest natural scientists, and this comic book is being published to mark the 200th anniversary of his discovery of electromagnetism. But Ørsted was also one of the leading cultural figures of the Danish Golden Age and lived in a dramatic time for Denmark. This is the story of his life.
With six reprints and more than 5,700 copies sold so far, »Ørsted. He electrified the world« is the best selling comic of 2020 by a Danish author.
The team behind »Ørsted« has also made The Copenhagen Mystery, a thriller set in Copenhagen telling the history of Physics. This book was published in Spring 2023.
A 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.
Graduate from Design School Kolding.
Founding member of Gimle Studio in Copenhagen 1980.
Since 2006 he has collaborated with national museums using comics to visualise the lives of people who went before us: Iron age tribes in East Jutland, Saints from Jacques de Compostella to Santa Claus, Seamen in the Caribbean, crusaders, carpenters and scientists alike.
This work earned him the Hanne Hansen award in 2014.
Born in 1958. He holds a PhD in physics and is a senior researcher at the Danish National Space Institute, where he conducts research into climate change. He has previously worked at the universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen, the CERN research centre in Geneva and several US universities.
4 books
80-96 pages each
Book 4 out in Spring 2024
5 more books planned
20.0 x 28.0 cm
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, 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
www.kijara.com
Book 1: 48 pages
Book 2: 66 pages
Book 3: 88 pages
23.0 x 31.0 cm
The story follows Root, a mischievous young thrall living in captivity. By chance, he is freed by Vali, son of the trickster god Loki, whom Vali plans to free from the underworld, thus beginning the end of the world; Ragnarok.
Published in the US by Source Point Press.
Born in 1990 and originally a grade school teacher, Bjørk now creates historical comic books for kids and adults alike. Tall Tales mixes accurate historical details with a boost of humour and contemporary attitude.
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3 books
Book 1, 48 pages
Book 2, 96 pages
Book 3, 60 pages
29.5 x 21.0 cm
Ages 12 and up.
In the socialist future of tomorrow, Weneetryhl – who helped found the galactic federation – finds herself travelling through the universe, where she encounters unsavoury characters, patriarchal civilizations, the remnants of an old Christian space colony and dinosaurs.
Born in 1953. Paul Arne Kring is a theatre scenographer, puppet designer and comics artist. In 1969 he had his first story with Weneetryhl published in Denmark, and in recent years three more stories have come from his talented hands. His detective stories with Bolette Hansen was published weekly in the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet.