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The first part of Hanna K's space saga! In the distant future of 2007, two orphan boys spend their days searching for food and hanging out. Until one night when a a mysterious accident changes everything...
40 pages, Unknown Binding
First published May 1, 2014
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June 4, 2014
Working my way down the pile of books and fanzines bought at Stockholm international Comcis Festival this year.
This is a beautiful little booklet, printed by the Swedish small publishing house Peow! Studio, which uses the very retro method of a risograph to produce their books. This is a great way of making the books look and feel special, and the general design of the books also makes them stand out among other Swedish comics, which either are published in traditional comic books and graphic novels or in much more modest fanzines. The books of Peow! Studio look more like books that I would associate with art press than with the comics culture.
That said, the printing method actually works somewhat less good in this specifik tome, as the art of Hanna K. is based on very fine lines and they get a bit obscured by a printing method that has every line reduced to, almost, visible dots.
But that's a minor complaint of an otherwise very interesting first volume in what seems to be the preparation for a long series of stories. The basic idea is pretty simple: on a gigantic malfunctioning space station, we get to follow two vagrants, one older and one younger boy who stumbles upon a mutant girl, whom they rescue from being caught and used as a lab rat. The setting is instantly understandable, the art is beautiful, printed in shades of blue, and the dialogue is great, flowing very freely and feeling surpassingly natural considering this is a Swedish artist writing in another language. Despite all this praise, I'm only awarding this three stars, as it's far too short and very obviously a set up for a longer story, to actually make a final judgement on the quality of the story.
Hanna K. (Nyström) made a splash last year, when she won first price in the big Fanzine Award handed out by the Swedish Comcis Association, and New Frontier definitely lives up to that hype. Looking forward to the next instalment in this series.
This is a beautiful little booklet, printed by the Swedish small publishing house Peow! Studio, which uses the very retro method of a risograph to produce their books. This is a great way of making the books look and feel special, and the general design of the books also makes them stand out among other Swedish comics, which either are published in traditional comic books and graphic novels or in much more modest fanzines. The books of Peow! Studio look more like books that I would associate with art press than with the comics culture.
That said, the printing method actually works somewhat less good in this specifik tome, as the art of Hanna K. is based on very fine lines and they get a bit obscured by a printing method that has every line reduced to, almost, visible dots.
But that's a minor complaint of an otherwise very interesting first volume in what seems to be the preparation for a long series of stories. The basic idea is pretty simple: on a gigantic malfunctioning space station, we get to follow two vagrants, one older and one younger boy who stumbles upon a mutant girl, whom they rescue from being caught and used as a lab rat. The setting is instantly understandable, the art is beautiful, printed in shades of blue, and the dialogue is great, flowing very freely and feeling surpassingly natural considering this is a Swedish artist writing in another language. Despite all this praise, I'm only awarding this three stars, as it's far too short and very obviously a set up for a longer story, to actually make a final judgement on the quality of the story.
Hanna K. (Nyström) made a splash last year, when she won first price in the big Fanzine Award handed out by the Swedish Comcis Association, and New Frontier definitely lives up to that hype. Looking forward to the next instalment in this series.
September 30, 2016
My all time favorite comic ever produced!!!!
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