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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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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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Anepantla
Data
2 books
1 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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Far Below Zero
Data
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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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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Niels Bohr. Quantum Leap in Copenhagen
Data
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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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
2 books
60 pages
21.5 x 30.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights: Nicolai Hvidberg Jørgensen
- Reading sample book 1: PDF in English
- Reading sample book 2: PDF in English
7 years and up.
Description
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?
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
Book 4: 122 pages
23.0 x 31.0 cm- Contact for Foreign Rights:bjorkfriis@gmail.com
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 1)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 2)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 3)
- Reading sample: PDF in English (from book 4)
Description
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 Matias FriisBjørk 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/
