1 book
100 pages, colour
16.8 x 25.8 cm
Age 13 years and up
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 …
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.
Born 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).
1 book
270 pages, colour
16.0 x 23.0 cm
Age 13 years and up
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 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.
1 book
58 pages, colour
17.0 x 24.0 cm
Age 13 years and up
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 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 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.
10 books
More books in production
48 pages each
29.5 x 22.0 cm
Ages 9 and up
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?
Born 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.
1 book
160 pages, colour
18.0 x 24.5 cm
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
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.
Born in Denmark in 1967, educated as a historian. 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.
1 book
90 pages, colour
23.0 x 31.5
Ages 12 and up.
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.
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.
Helle 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.
1 book
184 pages
18.0 x 24.5 cm
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 — coming out in Autumn 2023.
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.
10 books
28-32 pages, hardcover
21.0 x 21.0 cm
Ages 6 years and up
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 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 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.
1 book
54 pages, b/w
21.0 x 21.0
Ages 15 and up
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.
Kornum (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.
1 book
140 pages, colour
26.6 x 18.4
Ages 15 and up
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.
Debut 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.
2 books
60 pages
21.5 x 30.0 cm
7 years and up.
Book 1: A tale of Ogier the Dane and his travel to France as a penance by Charles the Great. He ends up spending a large part of his life in Paris, where he grows up and becomes a legendary paladin.
Book 2: When Ogier is awakened from his 1000-year sleep, he feels the urge for adventure (and a drink) and sets off half-blind into the Danish countryside for a night he will never forget?
Freelance illustrator since 2009 working on illustration assignments ranging from posters, drawings to magazines, comic books, vinyl covers, portrait drawings, character designs to storyboards, murals, performance art, advertising ads, visual identity and T-shirt and logo design.
1 book
More in production
48 pages, colour
16.1 x 23.5 cm
Ages 8 years and up
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 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.
Book 1: 48 pages
Book 2: 66 pages
Book 3: 88 pages
Book 4: 122 pages
23.0 x 31.0 cm
Ciraita and Gerd are shipwrecked in viking age England causing them to be thrown into a struggle to overcome the dangers of a country torn by war, where iron, fire and malice are the tools by which you carve out your means of survival.
Published in the US by Source Point Press.
Bjørk is a selftaught illustrator and comic artist, working from Copenhagen. His works are mostly historical in nature, with a flair of mythology, mystique and the fantastical.
A lot of his works dives into the heart of old cultures and myths, and seeks to interpret and retell ancient tales not usually put in the spotlight by modern media.
Having worked with several historical museums in both Denmark and Germany, Bjørks craft has also been made into educational material and animation. His comic book series “Tall Tales of Midgard” will have it’s fourth volume out in spring, 2025.
www.instagram.com/bjoerkfriis/
1 book
104 pages, colour
18.5 x 18.7 cm
Ages 12 years and up
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.
Danish illustrator and graphic designer.
Creator of Teeny Tiny Comics, a series of relatable and funny comicstrips on social media, based on personal life.