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Historical Fiction
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Aida Nur
Data
2 books (48 pages each) or 1 book (96 pages)
23.0 x 31.5 (hardcover) or 22.0 x 29.5 cm (softcover)
Published in Danish, French, Dutch, German. Rights sold to Estonia.
Ages 9 and up.- Contact for Foreign Rights: rights@eudor.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Cairo 1922. With a handful of friends, the belly dancer Aida Nur locates an old Egyptian tomb. Through her contacts, she tries for an easy escape from poverty by selling its antique treasures on the black market. But the news of the intact vault attracts all kinds of greedy types without scruples – from the nightclub owner Mohassib to the 7th Earl of Curmudgeon.
A period crime story.New 2023 edition
During 2021/22 Aida Nur was published in the German ZACK Magazin. For this occasion, the complete Aida Nur series was rescanned from the original drawings & colourings and digitally restored and embellished by Sussi Bech. This new edition was published in Denmark September 2023.
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.
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Anepantla
Data
1 book
2 more planned
50 pages
21.0 x 30.0 cmAges 9 and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: Lina Rosé Saxtorph
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Anepantla is an expressive historical fiction drama that takes place during the height of the Aztec Empire. We follow the young court musician, Atl, as she discovers the secrets of the mystical Rain God whom she feels inexplicably drawn to.
Lina Rosé SaxtorphI’m a self-taught artist and illustrator from Copenhagen who debuted in 2021 with part one of my comic series: Anepantla. While working on this, I trained in Edinburgh for a degree in musical theatre. In 2018 I had my art exhibited for the first time, which officially marked the start of my professional art career. My comic and visual art are driven by my interest in Mesoamerican history and culture, and I find I tend to express this rich history best through watercolour.
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Berserker
Data
3 books
44 pages each
21.0 x 29.7 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Eric Knipper
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Berserker tells the tale of Saxnôt, who is consecrated as Berserker, a sort of holy warrior. Berserker is settled in the 8th/9th century when king Godfred of the Danes was fighting against Charlemagne, the mighty Frankish emperor.
Published on Comixology in English.
Eric KnipperEric Knipper lives in Copenhagen. His comics have been published in newspapers and book form: Twilight, Nørrebronx 1-2, Germania (with the National Museum of Denmark) and Berserker. He has contributed to several comics anthologies in Denmark and Australia.
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Bloodwedding
Data
1 book
80 pages, b/w
24.5 x 17.5 cm
Printing material: Available as TIFF files.
Age 15 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Henrik Rehr
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
An adaption of Federico Garcia Lorca’s play from 1932. Adaption by Henrik Rehr, art by Cav Bøgelund.
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.
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Bolette Hansen
Data
3 books
44 pages each
Black & white
29.5 x 21.0 cm
Ages 12 and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Paul Arne Kring
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
1920’s Copenhagen – a roaring, thriving metropolis and Bolette Hansen, crime novelist, is struggling with her latest novel.
A chance meeting with a stranger sets events in motion and thrusts Ms Hansen into the criminal underworld of the Danish capital.
Paul Arne KringBorn 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.
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Cassiopeia’s New Star
Data
1 book
270 pages, colour
18.2 x 12.85Ages 12 and up
Published in Swedish
- Contact for Foreign Rights: Anders Worm
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Charming and warm historic drama comedy. About renaissance science and the discovery of a new star in 1572 (a Super nova). Based on the Astronomer with the golden nose, Tycho Brahe’s (and his struggling sister Sofie’s) life and work, until his death at the court of Emperor Rudolf II Habsburg in Prague 1601.
Anders WormAnders Worm grew up in Roskilde, Denmark. His animation film from the National Film School of Denmark was in the Cannes Film Festival’s 2001 official selection. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden and works from his own studio for Television and Film. More than seven years were spent on research and production of the graphic novel debut, Cassiopeia’s New Star, before it was released in 2023.
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Germania
Data
1 book
72 pages
21.0 x 21.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Eric Knipper
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Germania is about the Iron Age and has been created in cooperation with the Danish National Museum and Forlaget Faraos. You´ll follow the Cimbric warrior Hariuha as a mercenary at the roman Limes and Danish warlord.
Eric KnipperEric Knipper lives in Copenhagen. His comics have been published in newspapers and book form: Twilight, Nørrebronx 1-2, Germania (with the National Museum of Denmark) and Berserker. He has contributed to several comics anthologies in Denmark and Australia.
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Harald Bluetooth
Data
1 book: Meet the Parents
23 pages
21.0 x 21.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Nikolaj Lauritzen
Description
Harald Bluetooth was the 2nd Viking King of Denmark (and Norway and parts of Sweden). This is the (kinda) true and (almost) honest story of his (daily) life. It’s all about being an old-time Viking in a modern world!
Nikolaj LauritzenA 47-year old proud Viking Dane, father of 3 and grandfather of 2. Married to Sarah, and a servant of their free-roaming rabbit Della. Started the Harald Bluetooth Cartoon strip precisely on the 1st of January 2019. His inspirations for the strip are legion: – but I can see that I’m DEF an “Ol’ Timer” when it comes to comic strip style. My keys to making “a joke a day”: I usually say nicotine and caffeine … but it’s also a question of “getting the ball rolling”…and (more to the point) KEEP IT ROLLING!
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History of the Runes
Data
1 book
40 pages
17.0 x 25.0 (hardcover)
Published in Danish
Ages 9 and up.- Contact for Foreign Rights: Niels Roland
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
A comic book which follows the runes from their creation and up to today, told by historical and mythological characters like the god Odin and Queen Thyra of Denmark. Their history has never before been told in comic book format.
Published in March 2022 – 3rd printing ordered.
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.
Anders Lundh HansenHistorian and science reporter attached to the danish broadsheet newspaper ’Weekendavisen’. He has published a handful of historical books in Danish, and runs the facebook-site “1000 Viking Facts”, which has more than 12.000 followers.
www.facebook.com/1000VikingFacts/
Lisbeth ImerThe resident runologist at the National Museum of Denmark is one of the world’s leading experts on runes. In addition to scores of peer reviewed research papers, she has also published the monographies “Peasants and Prayers” (2017), and in Danish ”Rigets runer”(2018) and ”Danmarks Runesten” (2016).
www.natmus.dk/historisk-viden/temaer/runer/
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Hour of Need
Data
1 book
176 pages
15,2 x 21,6 cm
Ages 13 and up.Published in USA
- Contact for Foreign Rights: turid.weingartz@littlebeebooks.com
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
“Hour of Need – The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During World War II”
When the Nazis move to round up young Mette and her fellow Danish Jews in a surprise raid in 1943 after years of letting Denmark rule its people, her father must make life and death decisions to save his family.
Ralph ShayneAn entrepreneur and finance professional, and the son of a mother who was a Danish citizen until she married an American and immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. Born and raised in Chicago, his mere existence is predicated on being the offspring of a mother who was part of the one in ten European Jewish children to survive the War because of the rare bravery, compassion and exploits of her fellow Danish citizens.
www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-shayne/
Tatiana GoldbergTatiana 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
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Hunger
Data
1 book
80 pages, b/w
24.5 x 17.5 cmPublished in English
Printing material: Available as TIFF files.
Age 12 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Henrik Rehr
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Drama in a medieval setting.
Matthew, a young squire, barely escapes with his life from a large battle and finds shelter with a miller’s family.
Other stragglers are haunting the roads and soon more visitors arrive at the peaceful village, forcing Matthew to make a choice.
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.
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Master Lucifer
Data
2 books
48 pages
22,0 x 29,5
Published in Danish
Ages 9 and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Ingo Milton
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Set in medieval Denmark AD 1450. Three travelling puppeteers are invited to perform at a castle. They meet a knight returned from Constantinople with PTSD and his estranged sister. In book 2 they try their luck at the clandestine trade in holy relics.
Ingo MiltonGraduate 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.
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Nofret
Data
13 books
48-56 pages each
23.0 x 31.5 (hardcover) or 22.0 x 29.5 cm (softcover)
Published in Danish, Swedish, French, Dutch, Indonesian.
Ages 9 and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Sussi Bech
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 1)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 2)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (book 10)
- The Nofret Series: PDF, a 1-page overview
Description
One of the greatest graphic novel successes in Scandinavia. The Nofret series follows the exploits and travels of a girl in ancient Egypt: During the reign of Akhenaten, Nofret must free herself from slavery in Babylon, survive as a dancer in Mephis, fight against pirates in the Aegean Sea and intrigue with the temple priests in Luxor.
Book 13 »Tutankhamun« came out in the Spring of 2022 and brought the series to its final conclusion. In book 13 Pharaoh Akenaten’s reign comes to an end and a new pharaoh is hailed as King of Egypt.
»A Slave in the Levant« is a special one-shot story telling the origin of Nofret.
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 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.
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Nofret: A Slave in the Levant
Data
1 book
80 pages
23,0 x 31,5, hardcover
Published in Danish
Ages 13 and up.- Contact for Foreign Rights: Sussi Bech
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
A Slave in the Levant is a special one-shot story, telling the origin of Nofret. The book can be read independently of the rest of the series.
Nofret is captured by pirates and sold at the slave market in Byblos. She is forced to march through the desert of Syria and married to a rich, old merchant in Babylon.
Published in Denmark with two variant covers, one for the younger audience and one for older readers.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.
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Ogier
Data
1 book
60 pages
21.5 x 30.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Nicolai Hvidberg Jørgensen
- Reading sample: PDF in English
7 years and up.
Description
“Ogier” is a comic about Ogier the Dane and his travel to France. Ogier is taken as a penance by Charles the Great. He is transported from Denmark to Paris, where he ends up spending a large part of his life. We follow him in his development and see what resistance he encounters on his way.
Nicolai Hvidberg JørgensenFreelance 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.
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Ørsted. He electrified the world
Data
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- Contact for Foreign Rights: Ingo Milton
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
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.»Ørsted« outsells the competition; now in 7th printing
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.
Next: The history of Physics
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.
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.
Ingo MiltonGraduate 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.
Jens Olaf Pepke PedersenBorn 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.
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Tall Tales of Midgard
Data
Book 1: 48 pages
Book 2: 66 pages
Book 3: 88 pages
23.0 x 31.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Árni Beck Gunnarsson
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 1)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 2)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 3)
Description
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.
Bjørk Matias FriisBorn 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.
twitter.com/bjorkfriis
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The Cuban Fall
Data
1 book
80 pages, b/w
24.5 x 17.5 cm
Published in French, German and Spanish.
Printing material: Available as TIFF files.
Age 15 years and up- Contact for Foreign Rights: Nicolas Grivel
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Biography of the Danish journalist Jan Stage, Cuban spy and friends with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. Script by Morten Hesseldahl, art by Henrik Rehr.
Henrik RehrHenrik Rehr, born 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.
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The Shadow
Data
1 book
40 pages
17.0 x 24.0- Contact for Foreign Rights: Ingo Milton
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
Hans Christian Andersen’s little known eerie fairytale about a young scholar’s struggle with the dark side of his personality in a world that favours superficial glimmer and scandal over
substance.
Written in 1847 the story is surprisingly relevant today.Ingo MiltonGraduate 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.
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The Travelling Journeyman
Data
1 book
48 pages
17.0 x 24.0- Contact for Foreign Rights: Ingo Milton
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
This ‘edutainment’ comic is created in collaboration with Denmark’s Village Museum and based on memoirs of a carpenter apprentice around 1850 and his travels in Europe as a journeyman.
We learn secret rituals and workings of the Trade Guilds at the time.Ingo MiltonGraduate 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.
