Among the nominees for Swedish Culture Periodical 2016 is Bild & Bubbla, the quarterly comics journal I redesigned last year and continue to layout!
Bild & Bubbla has been in print since 1968 (originally under the name Thud) which makes it the world’s second-oldest magazine of its kind, only predated by a few months by the Dutch Stripschrift. This is B&B’s second nomination for the Swedish Culture Periodical award, keeping my fingers crossed for the prize this time!
(b.1976) is a graphic artist, editor and teacher living in Malmö, Sweden. Alumnus of the Malmö comics art school, co-founder of the Danish comics association, former member of art collective C’est Bon Kultur, and currently pursuing a MA in Visual Culture at Lund University. He also gives drawing concerts with musician Allan Grønvall, and is at the centre of the Haverholm Complicity.
Whittling away at sequential narrative from graphic novels, via musical expressions in comics and minimal, observational work, to the abstract collage work that comprises his current efforts, he feels he has cut to the bone of comics and is now going for the marrow.