NEW ALBUM COVER ART
Max Andersson designed the cover and created the original art for the recent vinyl album release LUCIFERS LOVSÅNG (Galdr Records 2019).
TITO ON ICE / BOSNIAN FLAT DOG ANALYSIS
Max Andersson's and Helena Ahonen's documentary feature film Tito on Ice (and the graphic novel Bosnian Flat Dog) is one of the subjects of a detailed and extensive analysis of the representation of history and myth within comics and graphic novel narratives:
Geschichte und Mythos in Comics und Graphic Novels, Tanja Zimmermann (Hg.), Christian A. Bachmann Verlag 2019, 476 pages (German language). The cover image is a still from Tito on Ice.
FESTIVAL POSTER DESIGN
4-colour silk screen print for the 18th edition of Countryside Animafest Cyprus 2019. One of the most extraordinary animation events in the world, the festival is devoted to a small scale, local format in the mountain village of Salamiou.
FLAT DOG TOWN - SHORT FILM PREMIERE
Max Andersson's new stop motion short film Flat Dog Town, shot entirely using expired super 8 mm Kodachrome film stock only weeks before the last Kodachrome lab in the world shut down its developing machines, was premiered at the 17th Animafest Cyprus, July 2018. Festival screenings include Interfilm (Berlin) and Animateka (Ljubljana). The original music score of the film was composed by legendary guitarist Stefan Agaton (who also collaborated with Max on Spik-Bebis and other short films) and Mikael Nilzén. Distribution: Filmform - The Art Film & Video Archive.
SPIK-BEBIS DIGITALLY RESTORED
Spik-Bebis (1987) from Nail Films on Vimeo.
Max Andersson's classic 1987 short Spik-Bebis was digitally restored from the original 16mm film negative in 2018, within the Swedish Film Institute programme for the preservation of works of significant value for the Swedish film heritage. Distribution: Filmform - The Art Film & Video Archive.
CRACOW
March 24, 14h: Book presentation of the new Polish edition of BOSNIAN FLAT DOG (Kultura Gniewu 2018), with Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson at the 7. Cracow Comics Festival, Arteteka
March 24, 15h: Book signing, Arteteka
March 25, 12h: Book signing, Arteteka
MOSCOW
April 3, 19h: Opening of exhibition and Moscow Comics Festival KomMissia, Museum of Moscow
April 4, 19h: Discussion at Comics Klub
April 7: Tour of the exhibitions, Museum of Moscow
April 8: Comix Underground exhibition, Design Factory "Flacon"
April 8, 18h: Screening of TITO ON ICE (russian subtitles), Design Factory "Flacon"
AIX-EN-PROVENCE
April 7: Exhibition opening, Galerie Intuit.Lab
April 19, 18h: Meet the artist/exhibition presentation, Galerie Intuit.Lab
April 20 - 21: Festival "Rencontres du 9e art", Aix-en-Provence
MONTPELLIER
April 24, 17h30: Book signing with Mattt Konture, Libraire Sauramps
BEJA
May 25 -28: Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada de Beja, Portugal
Exhibition/Artist's Talk/Screening of TITO ON ICE
(More events/venues may be added)
MAX ANDERSSON RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION IN BELGIUM
An extensive retrospective including comics originals, drawings, paintings, objects and installations at BOX 41, the permanent exhibition space of ESA Saint-Luc, Liège, from 6 October to 31 October 2017.
A parallel exhibition of posters, prints and family portraits will be on display at the bookstore Livre aux Trèsors, also in Liège:
RETROSPECTIVE COMICS EXHIBITION IN MALMÖ, SWEDEN
Retrospective exhibition of comics originals from 1987-2016 at RUM FÖR SERIER, comics gallery and museum in Malmö. Also a variety of prints for sale. Open 28 September through 2 December 2017.
"L'EXCAVATION" PUBLISHED BY L'ASSOCIATION
The French edition of the new graphic novel The Excavation is out now, with a beautiful embossed cover.
"L'Excavation (...) est une petite diamant noir"
- Frédéric Hoylo, actuabd.com
Buy it here.
Extensive interview with Max Andersson about the book and his previous works, in French and English.
SAYONARA - NEW MUSIC VIDEO BY MAX ANDERSSON
Max Andersson created the official video for the recent single release "Sayonara" by Berlin-based band CHUCKAMUCK. The film was almost entirely shot using stop motion, combining artwork by Max and characters drawn by Chuckamuck's Oska Wald.
U.S. AND CZECH EDITIONS OF "THE EXCAVATION"
The English-language version of the graphic novel THE EXCAVATION is now available from Fantagraphics Books.
"Max Andersson's The Excavation is a warped, dark, pseudo-nightmare unlike anything in recent memory. (...) He achieves a fugue-like impossibility with stunning precision."
- Zach Hollwedel, Under The Radar
"The Excavation is a book always on the go with a relentless momentum... a wind-in-your-hair wild ride reminiscent of the stream of consciousness grotesquery of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch."
- Matthew Laiosa, The Quietus
"This jaunt through the seedy back streets of the unconscious isn’t for everyone, but lovers of Eraserhead-style hypnagogia will be in their comfort zone."
- Publisher's Weekly
"As despairing as it gets, Andersson always injects slapstick and cleverly amusing dialogue that reveals it as far more than just an exercise in negativity."
- John Seven, Comicsbeat
Meanwhile, Labyrint Komiks in Prague released this Czech version in an excellent translation by Jonas Thál.
TITO ON ICE RELEASED ON VoD
Finally, Tito on Ice is available for streaming or download online! Watch the full movie on these streaming platforms:
Vimeo on Demand (English/German subtitles)
NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL RELEASED
Max Andersson released his all-new original Swedish graphic novel UTGRÄVNINGEN (The Excavation) in February 2016, after having devoted himself primarily to filmmaking for a while.
The book has had a slightly unconventional genesis, and as a result took 18 years to complete since the first chapter was published in 1997, as a small independent volume in the art book series SCHOKORIEGEL by the French publisher Les étoiles et les cochons. The decision to expand the story into a graphic novel emerged gradually and was initially not a conscious plan.
During this period Max released several other major works, including DEATH, BOSNIAN FLAT DOG and the feature film TITO ON ICE, but work on The Excavation has continued as an intermittent process in the background or in the foreground, depending on the perspective. Like different living organisms, some artwork require a longer time to reach maturity.
The Excavation is autobiographical in the sense that the plot is based entirely on actual dreams. The raw material constituted dreams from 1986 to 2011, thus comprising a quarter of a century. These have been connected to form a narrative where every detail seems to live its own life but also proves to be a indispensable building block of the whole.
MEXICAN EDITION OF 'PIXY'
A Spanish-language version of PIXY is now available! It was published by the Mexican Legioncomix, in an excellent translation from the Swedish.
'PIXY' IN KOREA
Independent publisher Sai Comics in Seoul released a beautiful Korean edition of PIXY.
'TITO ON ICE' AWARDED IN OTTAWA AND CORFU
Max Andersson's latest film won the prestigious Grand Prize for Best Feature at Ottawa International Animation Festival 2013, and the prize for Best Feature at BeThere! Corfu Animation Festival 2014.
It is currently being screened in festivals around the world. For a complete and updated list of screenings click here.
The film mixes live documentary scenes with stop motion sequences shot on Super 8 mm. During the production, more than fifty different sets and an infinite number of characters were constructed to form an entire parallel universe exclusively made out of wastepaper, cardboard boxes and garbage.
To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Max Andersson and colleague Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator.
Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot parties, admiring mutant iron-curtain disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
More info and images:
NEW BOOK IN SWEDISH
Including an interview and lots of previously unpublished drawings, sketches, paintings, prints, photos, and film stills. Published by Orosdi-Back.
'ARLAHAREN' SILKSCREEN PRINT
This signed silkscreen print by Max Andersson is available in the 2011 EDITION by Double Elvis Gallery, Stockholm.
EXHIBITION IN TREVISO, ITALY
September 22-25, 2011
Max Andersson is a guest and participator in the exhibition "Suezia: Laboratorio d'Europa" at the TREVISO COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL.
THE LAST MATCH / O ÚLTIMO FÓSFORO
January 16 - February 8, 2010
ARTSIDE
RUA S. JOÃO DA MATA 53, LISBON, PORTUGAL
A project of the latvian comics magazine kus!, this travelling exhibition features matchbox-sized artwork by Max Andersson and 172 other international comics creators.
HOTWIRE VOL. 3 OUT IN JANUARY 2010
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS, 138 PAGES, BIG 9"x12" FORMAT.
New Car-Boy color pages in the third issue of the Harvey and Eisner nominated anthology of "action, chills, thrills and transgression", edited by Glenn Head. Other contributing artists include David Sandlin, Jayr Pulga, Sam Henderson, R. Sikoryak, Mack White, Matti Hagelberg, Blanquet, and many more.
KOMIKSFEST! IN PRAGUE
31 October - 11 November 2009
Max Andersson will be the guest of honor at the 4th annual multimedia festival of comics in Prague.
The program includes an exhibition celebrating the Czech release of BOSNIAN FLAT DOG (with Lars Sjunnesson, VICE Gallery, opening Nov 5th), a special performance of the stage adaption of PIXY by local theatre company Ježek a Zižek (Klubovna, 2. PATRO, Nov 6), and Max' lecture THE GENESIS OF SICK IDEAS (Roxy/NoD, Nov 7).
OCCUPIED LONDON #4
Spring 2009
In the latest issue Max Andersson contributes a bicolor wraparound cover plus more than a dozen rare illustrations, many of which were never previously published outside of Sweden. Some of the content can be seen on the Occupied London website.
WIE KRANKE IDEEN ENTSTEHEN / THE GENESIS OF SICK IDEAS
18.00 June 3, 2008
HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG, SCHLOSSSTRASSE 31, OFFENBACH AM MAIN
Poster for Max Andersson's lecture which is currently being held at irregular intervals in randomly selected venues around Europe. Watch for information about a date and place near you.
TOY COMIX EXHIBITION
November 14, 2007 – MARCH 9, 2008
LES ARTS DÉCORATIFS
107, RUE DE RIVOLI, 75001 PARIS
34 international artists were invited to create 3 pages of comics each representing their personal interpretation of a toy chosen from the collection of the museum.
The result is an extraordinary journey into the secret life of toys and its connections to the sources of comics.
The show also includes 3-D installations, films and interviews with the artists.
The 160-page catalogue, published in French by L’Association, presents all the artwork as well as photos of the toys, sketches by the artists and texts by the curators Dorothée Charles and Jean-Christophe Menu.
TOY Comix
ISBN 978-2-84414-251-1
L’Association, 2007, 160 pages, hardcover, color and b/w, format 17 cm x 25 cm