Free Section

Piracy is Liberation #5

by Mattias Elftorp

What happens when the rules suddenly change, when law and order are put out of the picture? When the police can do nothing but watch as people party in the streets? What happens when even the rules of reality can be broken? What does it mean to go Outside for the first time? These are stories from the Free Section and beyond...

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Has written and drawn the cyberpunk postapocalypse of Piracy is Liberation since 2001 (first collection published in 2004). Also other graphic novels like The Troll, Me & my Daddy & Zlatan, Bekele, En Andra Chans, After the Ends of the World, Transgressions, etc. Creator of the furiously political comic Arg Kanin (Angry Animals) and many short stories in various anthologies such as CBA, Novo Doba, Futuro Primitivo, Alkom’X, Workburger, Komikaze, Swedish Comic Sin, Asylkalendern and the AltCom anthology.

Active in various comics/art-related collectives/organizations:

WORMGOD
Comics/horror art collective: publishing comics, organizing art exhibitions, noise events.

CBK
Publisher of the international comics anthology CBA. Art comics, experimental comics, visually interesting narratives etc.

TUSEN SERIER
Working to open up the Swedish comics culture to readers & creators with other perspectives than the "Swedish" one. Antiracism, comics, exhibitions, workshops. Also running FANZINEVERKSTADEN, a place with resources for self-publishing comic creators in Malmö.

HYBRIDEN
Collective/network and webshop for the above.

ALTCOM
Organizer of the AltCom comics festival (2010: sex & war, 2012: no borders, 2014: postapokalyps, 2016: work, 2018: how to survive a dictatorship) and one of the organizers of Wormgod’s Trauma music festival (harsh noise, power electronics and other things to hurt your ears). Both held in Malmö, Sweden.

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