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Pixy je prvič izšel leta 1992 na Švedskem. Govori o razpadajočem svetu mrtvih, v katerem se srečamo s pijanim, do zob oboroženim zarodkom, denarjem, ki prosjači, recikliranimi telesi ...
Nenavadni liki iz nadrealnega (podrealnega?) sveta so zelo pogosti v Anderssonovem ustvarjanju - ne samo v njegovih stripovskih zgodbah, ampak tudi v filmih, instalacijah ...
Pixy predstavlja eno najbolj originalnih del stripovske literature, njegovi odliki pa sta dinamično pripovedovanje zgodbe in predvsem obilica mračnega humorja. Čeprav je postavljena v izmišljen svet, zgodba na zabaven in vznemirljiv način govori o ne popolnoma izmišljenih pojavih in dogajanjih okoli nas.
V slovenščino je iz angleščine Pixy prevedel Matej de Cecco.
Nenavadni liki iz nadrealnega (podrealnega?) sveta so zelo pogosti v Anderssonovem ustvarjanju - ne samo v njegovih stripovskih zgodbah, ampak tudi v filmih, instalacijah ...
Pixy predstavlja eno najbolj originalnih del stripovske literature, njegovi odliki pa sta dinamično pripovedovanje zgodbe in predvsem obilica mračnega humorja. Čeprav je postavljena v izmišljen svet, zgodba na zabaven in vznemirljiv način govori o ne popolnoma izmišljenih pojavih in dogajanjih okoli nas.
V slovenščino je iz angleščine Pixy prevedel Matej de Cecco.
70 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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December 3, 2024
Svet poln morilskih zarodkov, kjer je resnica sveta napisana na tetrapaku za mleko. Mračno. Ogabno. Zelo dobro.
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August 11, 2024
A seriously bizarre trip of a book. Where the drug of choice is the future, where they see their success, and aborted fetuses live in a separate uncontrolled district in the kingdom of the dead. The main character Alka Seltzer is told by his girlfriend Angina to go kill their aborted fetus and travels to the Kingdom of Death where everything goes in reverse, only later to be replaced with their recycle bodies that quickly are killed and transform into furniture "because they are made from the same material." It's just bizarre thing after bizarre thing. The artwork is rough and a high contrast black and white but somehow reminds me of the 90s cartoon AAAH! Real Monsters, though I'm not sure why. I thought I recognized the name Max Andersson but looking him up after, he hasn't made anything I'm familiar with. It was interesting, but the plot just seemed like a 5 year old telling a story where everything is suddenly new nonsensical thing after new nonsensical thing.
March 31, 2020
Spaczone, prawdziwe, zajebiste. To może jakiś dodruk kiedyś co? Ładnie proszę?
April 11, 2019
Psychedelická magořina ohraničená příběhem. Což je podstatný rozdíl oproti Vykopávce a co Pixyho pozvedlo natolik, že jsem bojoval mezi čtyrmi a pěti hvězdami (a protože nejsem srab, tak jdu do plných).
Pořád je tu sice stejná kresba, o které jsem se minule nebál říct, že je ošklivá, ale přijde mi, že tu Andersson tou černou přece jenom trochu šetřil, protože jsem už neměl pocit, že se mu na to komplet dokreslení vylil kalamář s tuší.
Příběhově se to moc popsat nedá. Je to ujeté a většinu času budete mít pocit, že buď autor přebral drog anebo jich vy neberete dost. Ale díky příběhu to má nějakou hlavu a patu (byť na jiných místech než by člověk obvykle čekal) a docela to funguje, pokud máte náladu na poctivý úlet.
Mohlo by se vám líbit, pokud:
- váš dealer ještě nedorazil s dnešní dávkou a vy potřebujete nějaký ten trip na čekání
- vám přijde, že čtete zbytečně normální věci
Spíš vás zklame, pokud:
- si nemyslíte, že by se o potratech, násilí a moderní společnosti nemělo vtipkovat a už vůbec ne takhle úchylným způsobem
- neradi koukáte na z většiny černou kresbu ošklivých postaviček
Pořád je tu sice stejná kresba, o které jsem se minule nebál říct, že je ošklivá, ale přijde mi, že tu Andersson tou černou přece jenom trochu šetřil, protože jsem už neměl pocit, že se mu na to komplet dokreslení vylil kalamář s tuší.
Příběhově se to moc popsat nedá. Je to ujeté a většinu času budete mít pocit, že buď autor přebral drog anebo jich vy neberete dost. Ale díky příběhu to má nějakou hlavu a patu (byť na jiných místech než by člověk obvykle čekal) a docela to funguje, pokud máte náladu na poctivý úlet.
Mohlo by se vám líbit, pokud:
- váš dealer ještě nedorazil s dnešní dávkou a vy potřebujete nějaký ten trip na čekání
- vám přijde, že čtete zbytečně normální věci
Spíš vás zklame, pokud:
- si nemyslíte, že by se o potratech, násilí a moderní společnosti nemělo vtipkovat a už vůbec ne takhle úchylným způsobem
- neradi koukáte na z většiny černou kresbu ošklivých postaviček
August 3, 2015
I'm not even sure of I liked this book, but it was fucking weird, gruesome, and disgustingly funny. Drunken aborted foetuses, carnivorous money, microwaved head, and tremendous amounts of gratuitous violence. The artwork is supremely ugly, which is fitting for the subject matter.
July 31, 2018
Clever. Imaginative. Dark. Twisted. One of my favorite comic books.
August 20, 2025
7.0
Choć słowo to nie powinno zaistnieć przy tej lekturze, czytając "Pixy" czułem się jakoś dziwnie... zauroczony. Max Andersson dostarczył mi dziwności, których potrzebowałem - nawet jeśli nie byłem tego świadomy. Co prawda od momentu wstąpienia Pixy'ego do realnego świata całość robi się nieznośna i średnio zabawna, ale ostatecznie nie wpływa to w tak wielkim stopniu na całość.
Choć słowo to nie powinno zaistnieć przy tej lekturze, czytając "Pixy" czułem się jakoś dziwnie... zauroczony. Max Andersson dostarczył mi dziwności, których potrzebowałem - nawet jeśli nie byłem tego świadomy. Co prawda od momentu wstąpienia Pixy'ego do realnego świata całość robi się nieznośna i średnio zabawna, ale ostatecznie nie wpływa to w tak wielkim stopniu na całość.
March 25, 2017
Wild story, the kind I would expect from Andersson.
My copy of the book, a paperback, is old and while reading it would tend to crack around spine. Is that why I'm giving this only three stars? That doesn't sound fair...
My copy of the book, a paperback, is old and while reading it would tend to crack around spine. Is that why I'm giving this only three stars? That doesn't sound fair...
September 8, 2007
To celebrate a weekend that was generally quite un-pleasurable, today I finished 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', which I had picked up at the airport (I know). It did do nothing much to humour me.
Really, I give Bryson that his father was a very good sports writer, even the short paragraphs of his work that the book features show that (I keep repeating to myself 'the lordly Yankees') , but Bryson himself? 'Laugh-out-loud'? Not that I would have noticed....anyway...in one paragraph which proves to be interesting after all, Bill Bryson recounts his missing out on his paper route, because he was too bogged down in private fantasies; one of which was, how 'Bizarro world' would work.
'Bizarro World was a planet that featured in some issues of Superman Comics. The inhabitants of Bizarro World did everything in reverse - walked backwards, drove backwards, switched televisions off when thy wanted to watch and on when they didn't, drove through red lights but stopped at green ones, and so on. Bizarro World bothered me enormously because it was so impossibly inconsistent. The people didn't actually speak backwards,but just talked in a kind of primitive cave man 'me no like him' type of English, which was not the same thing at all. Anyway, living backwards simply couldn't be made to work. At the gas station they would habe to take fuel out of their cars rather than put it in, so how would they make their cars go? Eating meals would mean sucking poo up through their anus, sending it through the body and ejecting it in mouth-sized lumps on to forks and spoons. It wouldn't be satisfactury at all.'
Of course, I didn't think that all this couldn't be make to work, but rather sided with Willoughby, Bryson's more brainy friend. Since all laws of science would have to be reversed as well, there would be no primes any more.
One place where all of this is perfectly envisioned is 'PIXY' by Max Andersson, one of the best comic books I've ever known.
In the realm of the dead, Andersson shows the people to live backwards, and, what shall I say - they eject mouth-sized lumps on their forks and spoons (mercifully, one is spared the 'sucking up' part).
So there I was, at my ease, considering what it would be like for the time to go backward, through heartbreak and love to a time of innocence.
Really, I give Bryson that his father was a very good sports writer, even the short paragraphs of his work that the book features show that (I keep repeating to myself 'the lordly Yankees') , but Bryson himself? 'Laugh-out-loud'? Not that I would have noticed....anyway...in one paragraph which proves to be interesting after all, Bill Bryson recounts his missing out on his paper route, because he was too bogged down in private fantasies; one of which was, how 'Bizarro world' would work.
'Bizarro World was a planet that featured in some issues of Superman Comics. The inhabitants of Bizarro World did everything in reverse - walked backwards, drove backwards, switched televisions off when thy wanted to watch and on when they didn't, drove through red lights but stopped at green ones, and so on. Bizarro World bothered me enormously because it was so impossibly inconsistent. The people didn't actually speak backwards,but just talked in a kind of primitive cave man 'me no like him' type of English, which was not the same thing at all. Anyway, living backwards simply couldn't be made to work. At the gas station they would habe to take fuel out of their cars rather than put it in, so how would they make their cars go? Eating meals would mean sucking poo up through their anus, sending it through the body and ejecting it in mouth-sized lumps on to forks and spoons. It wouldn't be satisfactury at all.'
Of course, I didn't think that all this couldn't be make to work, but rather sided with Willoughby, Bryson's more brainy friend. Since all laws of science would have to be reversed as well, there would be no primes any more.
One place where all of this is perfectly envisioned is 'PIXY' by Max Andersson, one of the best comic books I've ever known.
In the realm of the dead, Andersson shows the people to live backwards, and, what shall I say - they eject mouth-sized lumps on their forks and spoons (mercifully, one is spared the 'sucking up' part).
So there I was, at my ease, considering what it would be like for the time to go backward, through heartbreak and love to a time of innocence.
July 22, 2017
I'm a regular reader of alternative and experimental comics, and I put Pixy on the very top tier of alternative classics. The humor is razor sharp and it is as twisted and weird as anything out there. This book is wholly irreverent and insensitive, yet not targeted at anyone specifically. Just keep in mind that this came out around 1990, so let's just say that Andersson wasn't quilting a blanket for current social sensitivity. Approval is the least of his concerns. Here is an example... Angina's aborted fetus calls her on the phone because the fetus is drunk and feeling rowdy in the kingdom of the dead. He threatens to call Angina's mom and tell her that he's been aborted unless Angina reads him a bedtime story over the phone. She reluctantly agrees, and proceeds to read passages from Kafka's The Castle! I just about fell out of bed from laughter the first time I read this part of the story. So the entire book is pretty much like this. It never lets up. Pixy is a genuine, no-holds-barred, alternative classic.
October 11, 2008
This is my all time favorite freaky graphic novel ever. It's so refreshing to see abortion treated like any other topic - up for twisted grabs! Here, all the little abortions have massive guns and binge of candy and sacrifice TVs to Ikea. I hope that's what my teenage abortion is doing - blasting flame throwers and stuffing its face with chocolate! Rock on!
Yeah, of course there is a lot of weird stuff going on as a story. I think the cartoonist is Swedish so imagine a kinda modern day fun house version of the 7th Seal and just weird things happening that make total sense.
I have read way too many comic books and if I say this is weird enough to rank #1 then trust me. The art is great because there is a lot more black than white space.
Maybe it wasn't written in English and that makes it so bizarre?
I dunno I just love it love it love it!
Yeah, of course there is a lot of weird stuff going on as a story. I think the cartoonist is Swedish so imagine a kinda modern day fun house version of the 7th Seal and just weird things happening that make total sense.
I have read way too many comic books and if I say this is weird enough to rank #1 then trust me. The art is great because there is a lot more black than white space.
Maybe it wasn't written in English and that makes it so bizarre?
I dunno I just love it love it love it!
March 31, 2008
Another book I have read several times. Welcome to see the show everybody.
July 5, 2012
Amazing world, weird story
February 18, 2014
Komiks o trampotách, které se dějí potracenému děckovi. Popravte domy nakažené grafity!!!
April 12, 2016
so f**king great until the ending! but still good comics.
July 29, 2016
Impressively bleak landscape filled with drunk fetuses, bleeding money, and burning cities -- all played for belly laffs. A nice companion to Mark Beyer's "Amy and Jordan" strips.
3.5 stars
3.5 stars
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