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.
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.
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.
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.
1 book
48 pages
17.0 x 24.0
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.
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.
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.
3 books
44 pages each
21.0 x 29.7 cm
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 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.