Comic books
Canimus
A dog is living within every human, just as if it was an endogenous organ. But, it doesn’t seem to have any vital functions like the heart, lung, or liver. The Canimus’ purpose remains a mystery, which leads Mr. Cedermark to think that he might just as well be able to live without it. Like one could live on without an old friendship one has gotten so used to that it doesn’t seem to have any meaning at all anymore. This is an intense, surrealistic story that leads down in the underworld, through disreputable bars, desolate power stations and Kafkalike authority complexes. The old myth of the merchant of souls told anew in Larsson’s claustrophobic drawings.
The City of Crocodiles
A flooded city. Crocodiles are swimming around the houses. The crocodile hunter sells his catch to the butcher. As payment he gets spirits and gasoline. They play a game of Croco Chess. The crocodile soup is boiling on the camping stove at home. The crocodile hunter is dreaming along in his armchair and in the morning he gets a strange catch in his net. The City of Crocodile is a mythological story in a world without words.
Colonial Hospital
What is really happening at the big colonial hospital? And who is the evasive Miss X? The scattered notes in Doctor Proefrocks’s diary are puzzling, at the least…
“Lokmannen” The locomotive man
This book consists of short stories
The man is in love with the woman, but he relives his childhood trains so strongly that the woman gives birth to a locomotive. Another person is looking for the car’s evil heart. At the piano teachers place the boy is unable to play the homework and escapes down into the piano where other students are hiding. The comic book factory has got problems; they are out of paper, they are out of sketches and they are out of ink. Above all that, the ghostwriter has nothing to write. Comic books are not profitable and the printer is crying in the printing office. How will really the last comic strip end? The author sees himself when he’s looking through the keyhole and the letters became more and more expensive in the patented Alph
The book descriptions on this page are excerpts from the publisher translated by Johanna Suo.