Bosnian Flat Dog - Softcover

Andersson, Max; Sjunnesson, Lars

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156097740X ISBN 13: 9781560977407

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2006

Synopsis

Zombified NATO soldiers and mummified foreign dictators...in a Balkan comics convention?

The 1999 Nato bombing of Serbia. A grenade shell from a Sarajevo souvenir shop. A refrigerator with the frozen mummy of Tito... These serve as the starting point for a journey further and further down the collective unconscious of the Balkans, where the borders between dream and reality are erased and redrawn until they form a tale as exciting as it is fantastic, a tale which could be about our times and a war-torn Europe but just as well might be a deep dive into the psyches of its authors or a discussion about the essence of drawing. Bosnian Flat Dog is the result of a unique collaboration between two of Sweden's most internationally renowned cartoonists, Death and Cand and Pixy creator Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson. Each of them contributed to every single drawing to the extent that they no longer can tell themselves exactly who did what. This has lead to the emergence of an independent artistic entity which is neither of the two, but something else, at once familiar and unknown and perhaps a little bit scary.

About this title

About the Author:

Max Andersson and Lars Sjunneson live in Sweden.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* The title refers not to a Sarajevo apartment-dweller's pet but to the new breed that has evolved there in response to the dangers of being run over, crushed by falling debris, and otherwise vertically reduced. They're not necessarily dead, and one may rue making any such assumption. On the other hand, they're far from the most dangerous or outrageous phenomenon Andersson and Sjunnesson encounter in their search for a Bosnian friend at the time of the NATO bombing of Serbia. Instead, that would perhaps be the veiled Srebrenica women, or the zombies who were abducted American soldiers, or whoever's really running the underground ice-cream plant in Pale. It almost certainly isn't the corpse, missing one leg, of Tito, which pops up with alarming frequency. Although this mind-boggling black-comic mini-odyssey is about, rather than by, Balkan artists (Andersson and Sjunnesson are Swedes with considerable Balkan experience), it is of a piece with, though tonally poised between, the chilling novels of Albanian Ismail Kadare and the confounding stories of Serbian Zoran _ivkovi?. Collaboratively drawn in a blocky, woodcuttish style full of brutal, pop-eyed figures, it looks exactly right for the fun house-morgue aura of the story. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 156097740X
• ISBN 13: 9781560977407
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112