Turukhtan

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Me at the Gothenburg book fair

(Photo by Ainur.)

It's been a while already, but since Ainur put up these pictures I might as well mention it here.
For some reason, they had these lovely Monokuro Boo cushions in the children's book lounge. A guy from the newspaper Sydsvenskan came by at some point as we were sitting there and took our picture. It was in the newspaper the day after, with us having strange expressions, labelled as "from Malmö" (we never said that ...) and Ainur's name terribly misspelled ... Ainur hasn't gotten her ass off the wagon to scan it yet.

At "SerieLoungen" (the comic book lounge) some people actually bought 8 issues of my comic books. Yay!
The theme of this year was "free speech", so there were more interesting seminars and other activities than usually.

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Something bad is going on with my web host, but I hope it will be okay soon.

In a couple of hours I'll take the train to Copenhagen airport and fly to Berlin again, so I should go pack my things ...

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Inte helt oväntat, tyvärr ...

I riksdagen:

Högerregering med moderatstatsminister. Inte för att moderaterna fick flest röster, utan bara för att högerpartierna slagit sig samman och på så sätt med nöd och näppe fick majoritet.

Inga småpartier kom in i riksdagen. I F!:s fall (1 %) kommenteras det så här av Sören Holmberg, professor i statsvetenskap, i DN: "Jag tror det avgjordes för ett år sedan i och med de uppmärksammade tv-programmen som ledde fram till kritiken mot Roks. Namnet förknippades också med interna strider som visades i medierna."
Uppenbarligen är folk för dumma för att tänka själva och se igenom det mediala kriget mot F!, liksom Evin Rubars oprofessionella journalistik i dokumentären i fråga, med suggestiva montage, rumphuggna intervjusnuttar och guilt by association, samt att rent av lägga ord i munnen på personerna som intervjuas. (Kommentarer kring detta: 1, 2)

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I landstinget:

Skåne län: Sossar i majoritet. (Miljöpartiet: 4,3 %)

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I kommunen:

Kävlinge:
1. Sossarna (38,5 %)
2. Moderaterna (26,1 %)
3. Sverigedemokraterna (13,1 %)
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7. Miljöpartiet (2,6 %)

Frustrerande var ordet. Sossar och moderater kommer dock förmodligen att fortsätta samarbeta, så att det främlingsfientliga SD inte kommer att vara med och styra i kommunen. Men SD har varit väldigt framgångsrika i hela Skåne. Och vad säger det om väljarna ...?

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Avslutande länkar:
Valet är en illusion.(Även om jag personligen tycker att man ska rösta, men utan att för den skull "överlämna sitt ansvar" och låta sig passiviseras.)
Övervinn cynismen!

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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Former office, future home

(Click it to see it bigger & read my comments.)

And I will get back to my thesis ... real soon.

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It's about time we all get out and vote for love!

Today we have general elections. Though I think parliamentary democracy is a big joke that creates power-abusing opportunists in every political party, I also think it's important to use the little influence that this system does grant us who are not professional politicians.

A problem might be that there are no decent alternatives to vote for. There are a couple of somewhat decent parties, but they are all so small that they are very unlikely to get into the Parliament, because most people blindly vote for the mainstream parties.

Anyway, in both the municipal and county council elections, I voted for the green party (hoping they might do something about Scan's gigantic slaughterhouse here in Kävlinge, and perhaps pull through some decent agricultural policies).
As for the parliamentary elections, I voted for F!, one of the somewhat decent smaller parties. They might not get into parliament, but I couldn't vote for any of the mainstream parties.

Being dressed like this, the Social Democrat lurking outside the voting locale didn't try to give me any Social Democrat ballots ... Maybe I looked so determined that he didn't care to even try? (At the EMU referendum a couple of years ago, it was a woman who wanted me to vote 'yes'.)

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Links of the day

Gipi, one of my very favourite comic book authors, signing books in Angoulême:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/36983

http://www.dailymotion.com/aaapoum/video/xsjx_gipi-2

Check out how he holds his pencil!

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Friday, September 08, 2006

Some black and white photography

There are some in colour, too. I was photographing stuff I'll sell online (trying to get rid of as much as possible before I move), and one of the things is a Soviet army cap ('pilotka'). Since my face is the way it is, it was really hard to get a photo where both the cap and myself looked all right. In the process, I got quite a few funny and 'artistic' pictures.

(A propos 'pilotka', as I was confirming that the one I have is just an imitation, I involuntarily found out during my research that 'pilotka' is yet another Russian slang word for the female genitals. I guess it's because of the, uh, quite obvious shape. Argh, I swear, after this nothing will ever be the same again when I see Soviet soldiers! I won't be able to see anything but this huge olive green pilotka on their heads ...)

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Bilal vs. Moore

(Being possessed by gods and forced to have sex in comics)

As I watched "Immortel (ad vitam)", the film based on the comic books "La Foire aux immortels" and "La Femme piège" by Enki Bilal, I came to think about another comic book - "Promethea" by Alan Moore (etc.).

See, in Bilal's comics, Alexander Nikopol gets possessed by the god Horus, who uses him to have sex with one of the infinitely rare women who can procreate with a god - the beautiful blue-haired Jill:

Whereas in "Promethea", Sophie Bangs is possessed by the demi-goddess and 'mystic warrior woman' Promethea, and at one point has to take on her Promethea shape to have sex with a dirty and disgusting old man so he'll teach her magic.

The stories are a bit different, as Sophie is actively using Promethea to get what she wants, and it's supposed to be a bit of a 'challenge', as it obviously would be boring if she'd get all that knowledge for nothing. Nikopol, on the other hand, just gets caught up in the schemes of Horus and has little control over the proceedings.

But I still found this sequence of "Promethea" extremely disturbing ... Maybe not so terribly much before and during the act, but *definitely* afterwards, when Sophie has changed back into herself, and they start doing these little intimate things like him helping her with her bra ... Ewwwww ...

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So, anyway, I won't draw any conclusions from this comparison. That's up to you ...

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Life on Orust, late August

Sergei lurking behind the doorway ...

Today in the evening mum and I went on an expedition to see what was the source of the terrible smell that was brought to the yard from the field of young fir trees to the north. Up until today it had been pretty windstill, but now the wind brought a smell of carcass.

Unfortunately, we didn't find any source of the smell (it might have been fun to photograph), but we did see this double rainbow.

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Today I went to Gothenburg to print my little minicomic "The Compass Rose". (I'll put an English translation of it on the web when I get my ass of the wagon.) I made a Swedish and a German edition on special paper. The paper for the German edition - old, yellowed recycled paper, brownish for the covers and greenish gray for the guts - was lying around forgotten in the office of avant-verlag, where I did my internship this spring. I asked if my boss was doing anything with it, and he seemed happy to get rid of it.
I drew the comic specially for this paper. Unfortunately, there wasn't all that much of it - only enough for 31 issues with brown covers and 14 completely gray-green. I have to put ads in the papers, looking for old yellowed paper ...

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Tunguska #6!

I got Tunguska issue 6 fresh off the xerox machine today. It's without doubt the best issue I've made so far. (But Tunguska #7 will be even better!)

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Major Major

You scored as Art. You should be an Art major! How bohemian!

Art

100%

English

100%

Linguistics

92%

Philosophy

92%

Journalism

83%

Sociology

75%

Dance

67%

Chemistry

67%

Theater

67%

Mathematics

58%

Biology

58%

Engineering

58%

Anthropology

58%

Psychology

50%

What is your Perfect Major?
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Yeah, well, I guess that's what I *should* have been ... However, I chose the options #3 and #5 instead (and steered off #5 in the last minute). But maybe what I'm doing now instead of #5 - Publishing - has a bit of art in it. But I should perhaps have specialised entirely in Graphic Design, because that's what I like the most about my Publishing course.

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