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The Animation of Rules

SIMON BUKHAVE (DK) MIKE DIANA (US) SOFIA FALKENHEM (SE) CLARA JOHANSSON (SE) KOLBEINN KARLSSON (SE) VICTOR KERLOW (US) HANNA PETTERSSON (SE) HENRIK REHR (DK) MAKI SATO (JP)

art by allan haverholm

contents c’est bon anthology vol. 8 c

kolbeinn karlsson | [ Cover ]

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kolbeinn karlsson & hanna pettersson | Rules of Animation

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victor kerlow | Ponda Baba

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henrik rehr | Reykjavik

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clara johansson | Fencing

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mike diana | Down and Dirty with Diana

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maki sato | Bird

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simon bukhave | Dead Tree Car

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sofia falkenhem | Dawn

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c’est bon anthology vol. 8 (trente-trois points) [ this also being the 24th issue since we started, 13th issue since restart, and the 2nd issue of 2009 ] created & compiled by: Sofia Falkenhem, Allan Haverholm, Cin Iwarsson, Johan Jergner-Ekervik, Jamil Mani & Patrik Stigzelius designed & edited by: Jamil Mani publisher: Oskar Aspman write happythings: info@cestbonkultur.com

visit happyland: www.cestbonkultur.com | www.cbkcomics.com get happybooks: Order using PayPal from the web shop with support from: Kulturrådet [insert symbols] copyright © 2009 printed by: Ljungbergs, Sweden 2009 issn: 1652-2141 | isbn: 978-91-978089-2-7

kolbeinn karlsson & hanna pettersson | Rules of Animation

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victor kerlow | Ponda Baba

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henrik rehr | Reykjavik

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kolbeinn karlsson & hanna pettersson | Rules of Animation

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clara johansson | Fencing

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mike diana | Down and Dirty with Diana

mike dia down and dirty with diana

text & illustrations by mike diana | text edited by patrik stigzelius & allan haverholm

We met Mike Diana at the Small Press Expo in Stockholm in the spring of 2009.

Mike participated in a panel discussion with editors and artists, but very soon the other panelists were silent. Mike told his own very personal and powerful story about his provocative – and even offensive – art work, and how he received a court ruling that among other things prohibited him from drawing.

was born in a small town called Geneva in New York State. I became a fan of packages of stickers called Ugly Stickers by Topps Company. My dad would bring them to me and I started to draw my own monsters. My mother enrolled me into an after-school art class and I remember doing one art project when I was seven years old. The class took a trip to the beach of Seneca lake, each student had a bottom part of a milk carton and we were to collect shells off the beach to place in the carton. Plaster was poured on top and when it

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had dried you removed the carton and had a collage of beach items. Well, the lake was polluted and a lot of little dead fish and broken glass as well as plastic things were on the shore. I picked up those items for my art piece, feeling at this early age I was making a statement with my art, that I could not ignore the pollution on the beach.

Once in art class at school our task was to draw a portrait of our family. For some reason I drew my whole family nude. The teacher looked over my shoulder and

maki sato | Bird

DO FLIGHTLESS BIRDS DREAM OF ...

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THE BLUE OF THE SKY?

maki sato TRANSLATED BY MATT THORN

simon bukhave | Dead Tree Car

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sofia falkenhem | Dawn

Dawn

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kolbeinn karlsson & hanna pettersson | Rules of Animation

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contributing ARTISTS c’est bon anthology vol. 8 (in alphabetical order)

simon bukhave is a Danish illustrator with published works in comics, children’s books, and music videos.

His story Dead Tree Car was originally published at 122 x 244 cm for the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. www.simonbukhave.dk mike diana introduces himself very well in his text for this issue. The outrage against him has somewhat outshadowed the fact that he is a noteworthy cartoonist. www.mikedianacomix.com sofia falkenhem draws comics as well as YA books. She is active in the Swedish comics scene and hey, look! She’s a new member of C’est Bon Kultur! Welcome, Sofia! www.sofiafalkenhem.com sofiafalkenhem.blogspot.com clara johansson was a co-founder of Sweden’s feminist comics collective Dotterbolaget. She works and lives in Stockholm, creating subtly satirical narratives. bessijelle.wordpress.com kolbeinn karlsson is a Swedish/Icelandic cartoonist and performance artist. His works in this issue are collaborations with Hanna Pettersson, from the minicomic Rules of Animation. pappacomics.blogspot.com

victor kerlow, US illustrator with work for The New Yorker, New York Times, and Random House, is also a comics artist. This issue’s featured story, Ponda Baba, was original self-published in his mini-comic Gutter. www.victorkerlow.com choppedintwo.blogspot.com hanna pettersson, whose Rules of Animation-collaborations with Kolbeinn Karlsson graces this issue, has worked in a plethora of media , in and outside her native Sweden. klubbhanna.blogspot.com henrik rehr is a veteran cartoonist, having worked for 17 years on the syndicated strip Ferd’nand. In recent years he has been expanding his boundaries as an artist, case in point his latest book Reykjavik, of which this issue’s story is an excerpt. www.webcomicsnation.com/henrikrehr maki sato from Tokyo is an award-winning comic creator with several books under her belt. Her work has been translated into English and Korean. www.geocities.jp/vostok1961/vtop.html

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The Animation of Rules Cover: Kolbeinn Karlsson. The gray areas between art and rules. Feat. Simon Bukhave, Mike Diana, Sofia Falkenhem, Clara Johansson, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Victor Kerlow, Hanna Pettersson, Henrik Rehr and Maki Sato.

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Piracy is Liberation 001 – 006 by Mattias Elftorp

Piracy is Liberation 001 Information Wants to be Free Pirate, an information addict, recieves a mysterious cry for help. He has to find out what it means, but the infopolice are hot on his trail ...

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Piracy is Liberation 003 Wires

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Piracy is Liberation 005 Free Section

Piracy is Liberation 006 Violence

Pirate and Information rejoin the fight for freedom in the vast and oppressive City. Almost overwhelmed by the flow of the download, they begin the revolution.

Erica is a Slave, toiling away at her machine. But there’s a voice within her saying there could be more to life. Her Masters, however, don’t take kindly to rebellion...

The Class 4 Drivers go on strike, but taking on the Work Control police force is dangerous. Someone could die!

What happens when the rules suddenly change, when law and order are put out of the picture? What does it mean to go Outside for the first time? These are stories from the Free Section and beyond ...

The Free Section is being evicted and violence erupts. Information_copy has been captured. The keepers of the violence monopoly are stronger. Who will win in the end? Can there even be a winner?

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