Bosnian Flat Dog!

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:33 pm

Sweet, sweet, sweet! Oh, how long I have waited for something awesome from Sweden to be made available for English-speaking people. My two favorite cartoonists, Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson, wrote the bizarre, freaked out comic "Bosnian Flat Dog" a few years ago...and apparently it's been translated into English! So I felt that I had to recommend it to everyone! Gahwd it's the best thing to ever come out of Sweden.

(At least if you like creepy, surreal and nightmarish underground comics

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Sekshun8phoenix · Post by **Sekshun8phoenix** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:38 pm

What's it about?

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:56 pm

It's allegedly "based on a true story". Max and Lars go to a cartoonists' convention in Bosnia. While they are there, they get a phone call from Skledar, a guy Lars Sjunnesson used to know and whom he used as a cartoon character. Now Skledar wants money! But as they try to find him, they get drawn into a huge and bizarre conspiracy that involves ice cream packaged in grenade shells, the widowed women of Srdan..something, who kidnap men in the middle of the night, and Josip Tito's mummified, frozen body which is stored in a bunch of refridgerators....except fo rhis leg, which was given away to a hungry person... And everywhere are the Bosnian Flat Dogs. They are a type of dogs that only exist in Bosnia. Due to the way traffic works there, they are flat and wrinkly and pour their way over the streets instead of walking. And they eat paper and use it to create big nests where they can live. Zombies and drugs are also involved.

But at the same time, it's also a serious reflection on the war in Bosnia...

Sekshun8phoenix · Post by **Sekshun8phoenix** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:10 pm

.....

Interesting 8)

That's almost worth having a gander at.

Maybe next time I'm downtown I'll look around for it...

Mooman · Post by **Mooman** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:12 pm

Sippan wrote:drugs are also involved

I wouldn't have guessed.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:34 pm

Sippan wrote:drugs are also involved

So much starts out like this.

DEVO-Bot · Post by **DEVO-Bot** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:47 pm

Sounds spectacular, do you know if it's available in the states?

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:02 pm

http://www.maxandersson.com/serie-flatdog.htm

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:13 pm

Does "seire" mean comic, by any chance?

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:29 pm

Warren wrote:Does "seire" mean comic, by any chance?

"serie" unsurprisingly means "series".
"bande dessin

Sippan · Post by **Sippan** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:28 pm

Yes, serie means comic. It also means series. Word-with-

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:36 am

I haven't had a chance to read it but originals were on gallery exposition back when comic was first published. I saw it, and it looks interesting enough, Max Anderson is certainly one of the most interesting european underground artists. We get a lot of his work here, as he is in good terms with croatian undergrounders. Actually, I thought by now someone would publish "Flat dogs" here too, especially because it's bostian thematics, sadly they didn't.

there's not much european comics available on english, not here. Most we get are on french. Luckily, recently I got lucky to grab integral "Nikopol trilogy" on english. Irony is, I can get "Watchman" only on french too.