A stringent line, sometimes white, sometimes red, runs through the design of serieantologin ”Draw the line” and joins 19 serieskapares disparate idiom to a variegated whole. The consistent line underlines the antologins ambiguous nature of the title: a year after the metoo to be boundaries drawn, re-established and renegotiated in life as such, in relationship to the own body and in the graphical work.
”Now it is serietecknarnas tour”, as the editors Malin Biller and Karin Didring, also the participating artists, notes in the preface. As in most anthologies, there are advantages and disadvantages to letting a twenty authors come together at 190 pages. The collective power is so clearly incorruptible, but also contributes to some works never get off the ground because the space is small and the quality varied.
treasures, including Malin Skogbergs gently coloured blyertsepos ”the Swimming pool”, about two young girls ‘ encounter with a snuskgubbe at the bathhouse. The story shines in all its lågmäldhet and are thus similarities with Anneli Furmarks and Joanna Hellgrens cooperation, ”Mommy is on course”, where two teenage girls get a visit from mom’s new guy Kenneth in the sauna. It is a depiction that, with the help of Hellgrens precise refer’d to a committee, and the colour scheme and Furmarks responsive dialogue, describe a grey area – where the older man skojfriskt fläker out their our children nakedness without a thought of the discomfort it creates in others.
Men who, like Kenneth, takes up too much space, there are plenty of in Lisa Medins wonderfully witty ”Boss Lady”, which revolves around the ”talented Jessica” as the harrows around on an incredibly misogyn workplace in the advertising industry. The male colleagues shovels their duties, as well as the taunts, of her. This is until Jessica begins to document their systematic humiliation of the company’s female employees and developed into a full-fledged whistle-blowers. Medin delivers berättarteknisk feel good of the highest quality, which also succeeds in placing the responsibility where it belongs.
