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Alternative Press Takeover: The Swedish Collection
Posted: May 30, 2011
There’s a comics party going on! I’m heading off tonight to The New Gallery, 92 Peckham Road, London SE15 5PY to see the opening, 7-10pm, of The Swedish Collection, an exhibition curated by Sarah Kläpp, artist and editor at Sweden’s cutting-edge global comics anthology C’est Bon Magazine. It’s a rare chance in London to see work by students and graduates from the Malmö Serieskolan or Comic Art School. I’ve been over to the school three times to lecture and give individual tutorials, invited courtesy of my pal Fredrik Strömberg, an indefatigable mover of Swedish comics (I helped him a bit with his latest study on sequential art, Comic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History which came out last year from Ilex Press).
On my every trip to Malmö, I’ve always been impressed by the individuality and quality of the students, with usually fifty-fifty female-to-male, if not more. Since its foundation in 1999, the school’s provision of full-time comics education has hugely energised the talent pool and diversity in comics in Sweden. Check out the comics by these students in the exhibition: Sarah Kläpp, Bo Ashi, Lisa Edwald, Stina Johnson, Anna Ahlén, Joakim Derlow, Henri Gylander, Anton Krull, Hanna Stenman and Sofia Lindh. The show runs till Sunday June 5th and is part of The International Alternative Press Festival‘s buzzing programme of exhibits and events.
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