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Swedish cartoonist/rapper Simon Gardenfors left his home to spend four months on the road. His rules were simple: During the 120 days he wasn't allowed to return to his home, or to spend more than two nights at the same place. Otherwise, anything could happen - and it did. The result was an epic adventure across Sweden as Simon slept on strangers' couches, visited an ostrich farm, ate a psychedelic cactus, practiced free love, received death threats, was beaten up by teenagers, got adopted by a motorcycle gang, drank obscene amounts of alcohol, and sacrificed his underpants to the Nordic god Brage.
Swedish cartoonist/rapper Simon Gardenfors left his home to spend four months on the road. His rules were simple: During the 120 days he wasn't allowed to return to his home, or to spend more than two nights at the same place. Otherwise, anything could happen - and it did. The result was an epic adventure across Sweden as Simon slept on strangers' couches, visited an ostrich farm, ate a psychedelic cactus, practiced free love, received death threats, was beaten up by teenagers, got adopted by a motorcycle gang, drank obscene amounts of alcohol, and sacrificed his underpants to the Nordic god Brage.
17 pages, ebook
Published May 2, 2012
About the author
Simon Gärdenfors
12 books8 followersSimon Gärdenfors is a Swedish cartoonist, rapper, television presenter, and radio host.
His comics are drawn in a round icon-like cartoony style, although their content is often realistic or autobiographical.
Alongside his childhood friend Calle Thörn, he is also a member of the underground hip-hop duo "Las Palmas" that received a lot of airtime on Swedish radio in the fall of 2004, primarily with the song "Spökskrivare" ("Ghostwriter"), claiming that it actually was Simon who had written all famous hip-hop songs. He is also part of an additional hip-hop project, Far och Son (Father and Son), featuring Frej Larsson of Slagsmålsklubben.
His graphic novel The 120 Days of Simon (Simons 120 dagar) was published in English translation by Top Shelf Productions in 2010.
(From Wikipedia)
His comics are drawn in a round icon-like cartoony style, although their content is often realistic or autobiographical.
Alongside his childhood friend Calle Thörn, he is also a member of the underground hip-hop duo "Las Palmas" that received a lot of airtime on Swedish radio in the fall of 2004, primarily with the song "Spökskrivare" ("Ghostwriter"), claiming that it actually was Simon who had written all famous hip-hop songs. He is also part of an additional hip-hop project, Far och Son (Father and Son), featuring Frej Larsson of Slagsmålsklubben.
His graphic novel The 120 Days of Simon (Simons 120 dagar) was published in English translation by Top Shelf Productions in 2010.
(From Wikipedia)
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February 1, 2018
I’m scratching my head here about all these comic previews which I have been reading and how completely inept they are at their purpose. A comic preview should be basically an advertisement to entice you into buying the comic. But it seems in the comic world their idea of a preview is just to give you the first few pages of a comic. That sometimes means it gets to a point where it can hook you, but in the bigger graphic novels that is generally not the case. I hate to say it but they really should do a completely new 10 page comic to sell the big comic.
Now since it’s a review of this particular comic, all I get to see is two dudes talk to each other about what the comic is going to be about. One states what it is about then the other one repeats what he just said… Why the repeat? This one kinda has the hook, if you are interested in knowing what some random person is going to do for 120 days basically hitchhiking through Sweden. So to me the writing is terribly basic and boring with just parroting of each other.
The artistry is pretty bad in my opinion as well. I mean it is ok because my eyes weren’t bleeding, but the artistry is very basic and mundane as well with no depth to it.
Overall, this would not make me spend $5 to buy the whole 400 page book, and if I did own it, about the only thing that could probably force me to read it, is my Read 1 A Day goal and want to bring my average daily reading page count up.
I got this free preview a few years ago, it doesn’t seem to be available for purchase anymore. But my copy has a DRM Free option via Comixology.
Now since it’s a review of this particular comic, all I get to see is two dudes talk to each other about what the comic is going to be about. One states what it is about then the other one repeats what he just said… Why the repeat? This one kinda has the hook, if you are interested in knowing what some random person is going to do for 120 days basically hitchhiking through Sweden. So to me the writing is terribly basic and boring with just parroting of each other.
The artistry is pretty bad in my opinion as well. I mean it is ok because my eyes weren’t bleeding, but the artistry is very basic and mundane as well with no depth to it.
Overall, this would not make me spend $5 to buy the whole 400 page book, and if I did own it, about the only thing that could probably force me to read it, is my Read 1 A Day goal and want to bring my average daily reading page count up.
I got this free preview a few years ago, it doesn’t seem to be available for purchase anymore. But my copy has a DRM Free option via Comixology.
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