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Pontus Lundkvist har i många år varit seriesveriges sämst bevarade hemlighet som äntligen kommit upp i ljuset. Hans skämtteckningar och serier i bland annat Galago, Rocky magasin och Aftonbladet Kultur har varit en av landets främsta skrattspeglar mot samhället. Få kan tävla med honom vare sig i komisk timing eller som satirisk provokatör.
I Du som välte pinnen blandar Pontus Lundkvist kunskapsbasen och kompetensen hos någon som suttit lite för många timmar framför internet med fullständigt inkorrekta vetenskapliga fakta. Det hela bildar ett helt eget universum. Det är argt, obekvämt, perverst och så in i bomben fantastiskt roligt!
Pontus Lundkvist har i många år varit seriesveriges sämst bevarade hemlighet som äntligen kommit upp i ljuset. Hans skämtteckningar och serier i bland annat Galago, Rocky magasin och Aftonbladet Kultur har varit en av landets främsta skrattspeglar mot samhället. Få kan tävla med honom vare sig i komisk timing eller som satirisk provokatör.
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152 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2014
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About the author
Pontus Lundkvist
14 books12 followersA Swedish comic artist, musician, author and filmmaker. He created the fanzine Mina Ögon!! Mina Ögon!!! (My Eyes!! My Eyes!!!) and was a member of the noise band Kekkonens from 1993-1995 as wella s the noise group Det här är straffet from 2001-2006.
Since 2007 he is an editor for the journal Det grymma svärdet (tidskrift). In 2008 he released his debut novel Okända djur, which is a collection of blog articles, editorials, poems and journal entries.
Preview "Okända djur" at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=EXew...
Since 2007 he is an editor for the journal Det grymma svärdet (tidskrift). In 2008 he released his debut novel Okända djur, which is a collection of blog articles, editorials, poems and journal entries.
Preview "Okända djur" at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=EXew...
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September 4, 2014
This is the second collection of short comics and cartoons by Swedish satirist Pontus Lundkvist, and it is, I must admit, both clever and funny, though not as provocative as I was expecting.
I had great fun reading this book, but I am divided in my estimate of its content. On the one hand it contains some really intelligent satire, satire that makes fun of phenomenon in the Swedish society right now and turns a lot of things on it's head, several times over. More often than not, you can't figure out a joke by Lundkvist in advance, which is sadly otherwise too often the case with humorsist and satirists of today. There is a Pythonesque whimsy to this that I really like. And some of these comics has me actually laughing out loud, which I don't do often when reading.
On the other hand, the longer comics felt too unwieldily, as if they had about the same amount of ideas as the shorter ones, only stretched out further. This often had me loosing interest somewhere halfway through. There are exceptions, like the initial comic, which presents a mock history of the nobility in Sweden, but mostly the longer comics lack the punch of the shorter ones.
The style that Lundkvist uses looks very close to that of comics from the American era of underground comics, i.e. it's rough, sketchy and often grotesque. If I was ever in any doubt that Lundkvist had read his underground, the evidence is in a very clever pastiche of a Robert Crumb comic, which is included in this book. That said, I think that the art in this volume is actually a bit more polished compared to the former volume, Full sysselsättning from 2011, something I'm not sure Lundkvist wants to hear, but there it is.
Lundkvist has a reputation as being the "enfant terrible" of the Swedish comics community, and has in the past started heated debates with for instance comics depicting Swedish politicians from the right wing as more or less nazists, ready to start executing people if they win the election. Lundkvist IS a provocateur, but an intelligent one. There are others who tries to do what he does but only manages empty provocations, and forgets that there needs to be a reason to provoke. Lundkvist always seems to have a goal in mind with his satire, even though it's not always aimed at a certain group or even a certain side in politics. That I really like. I just feel a bit cheated by not being more provoked by this book...
I had great fun reading this book, but I am divided in my estimate of its content. On the one hand it contains some really intelligent satire, satire that makes fun of phenomenon in the Swedish society right now and turns a lot of things on it's head, several times over. More often than not, you can't figure out a joke by Lundkvist in advance, which is sadly otherwise too often the case with humorsist and satirists of today. There is a Pythonesque whimsy to this that I really like. And some of these comics has me actually laughing out loud, which I don't do often when reading.
On the other hand, the longer comics felt too unwieldily, as if they had about the same amount of ideas as the shorter ones, only stretched out further. This often had me loosing interest somewhere halfway through. There are exceptions, like the initial comic, which presents a mock history of the nobility in Sweden, but mostly the longer comics lack the punch of the shorter ones.
The style that Lundkvist uses looks very close to that of comics from the American era of underground comics, i.e. it's rough, sketchy and often grotesque. If I was ever in any doubt that Lundkvist had read his underground, the evidence is in a very clever pastiche of a Robert Crumb comic, which is included in this book. That said, I think that the art in this volume is actually a bit more polished compared to the former volume, Full sysselsättning from 2011, something I'm not sure Lundkvist wants to hear, but there it is.
Lundkvist has a reputation as being the "enfant terrible" of the Swedish comics community, and has in the past started heated debates with for instance comics depicting Swedish politicians from the right wing as more or less nazists, ready to start executing people if they win the election. Lundkvist IS a provocateur, but an intelligent one. There are others who tries to do what he does but only manages empty provocations, and forgets that there needs to be a reason to provoke. Lundkvist always seems to have a goal in mind with his satire, even though it's not always aimed at a certain group or even a certain side in politics. That I really like. I just feel a bit cheated by not being more provoked by this book...
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