Barnporrnografidebatt av... lite annat slag....

Det här är roligt på riktigt:

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3718&grupp=11231

Gå ner till debatten "Tänk på barnen"

Man måste ha lite humor i eländet.

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Pictures from Fanny!

Just got these fanart pics from my former protegé Fanny M Bystedt! I love them! So nice! I just posted all the ones she sent me, though the last one is cropped. Hope you don't mind, Fanny!
My favorite is easily that one though "Super-Janne"; how can your heart not melt for a bit of naked chest?

I've bloged about Fanny before in this entry, but she deserves another at least. She makes the loveliest comics, and she's so FAST. Kind of like the Mattias Elftorp of the Swedish manga scene.

She posts sample pages of her manga and illustrations on her webpage:

http://www.fannymbystedt.se/

There, I leave you to enjoy:

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Rediscover Maus - an exhibition

There is no recovery from Sundays catastrophic election in Sweden (Swedish democrats i.e our up until now marginalized nazi/racist party is in parliament), but trying none the less to get back to drawing, faking hope for the future. 

There will be no bookfair for me this year; I have one new book out ("Tam och Nydraken") but not much else to do there, and a lot of work here in London. But for those who are going I'd like to give you a tip about Serifrämjandes exhibition "Rediscover Maus". It will open at Gothenburg city library 24th of Sep 18.00, and also be shown during Altcom in Malmö in November. After that it's to tour around and at some point reach Stockholm, though I'm not sure of date yet.

The exhibiton consists of cartoonists depicting their relationship to/interpretation of Art Spiegelmans classic comic Maus. This was my very very gory contribution:

A special about Maus and the exhibiton will also be featured in the latest issue of Bild&Bubbla, no 148 available now:

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Mycket bra om barnporrlagen

"Kan serieteckningar vara barnpornografi?" - genomgång av barnpornografilagenlagen och senaste händerlserna i debatten på Obs, Svensk Radio:

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=503&artikel=4013683

Mycket bra program om än ensidigt (inget egentligt uttalande från någon som är för lagen).

Liv Lingborn - mangatecknare och medlem i seriefrämjandets styrelse - gör ett fantastiskt jobb när hon påpekar problemen sakligt och nyktert, lugnt och samlat. Heja Liv! Har påpekats förr men bra att det är så många kvinnliga serietecknare som står upp emot lagen, tror inte det var väntat från lagstiftarnas håll.

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