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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 010
-Hypertext Consciousness-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
80 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978418-5-6
Price: 80 SEK
Having upgraded her consciousness to the next level, Purple decides to do something about the religiously capitalist leadership of the City and stages a one-woman revolution...
This book can, but does not have to, be read as a hypertext, i.e. a set of linked texts.
You also want to read it because it contains sex, violence and drug use.
Wormgod book 018.
January 2012.
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DYSTOPIA 12
Endrju
28 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-99-7
Price: 50 SEK
Title: SOCIETY
Art by Endrju
Text by Mattias Elftorp
A study in the weird back side of society, for those of us who missed the fine print in the contract.
A collection of drawings by Latvian artist Endrju, with an introductory text piece by Mattias Elftorp.
Wormgod book 017.
December 2011.
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A SUBTLE FUCK YOU
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Script on "Life is never now" by Ambra Bolin
124 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978418-4-9
Price: 100 SEK (10 EUR)
A Subtle Fuck You is a selection of short stories by Mattias Elftorp (Piracy is Liberation, Arg Kanin) from the last ten years, including some previously unpublished stuff. 124 pages of lost faces, rogue houses, romantic necrophilia and precarious living.
Stories from the edge of Swedish comics.
Wormgod book 016.
September 2011.
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DYSTOPIA 11
Fanny M Bystedt/Mattias Elftorp & Emre Özdamarlar split
32 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-98-0
Price: 50 SEK
SIDE A
Title: MY DARLING ELIZABETH
Story & art by Fanny M Bystedt
11 pages
The story of an odd couple. The story of a very special girl. A deadly love story...
SIDE B
Title: ROOMMATE
Story by Mattias Elftorp, art by Emre Özdamarlar
10 pages
A very symbolic story about a group of cops terrorising an area and its inhabitants...
Wormgod book 015.
May 2011.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 009
-Deicide-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson &
Mattias Elftorp
84 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978418-3-2
Price: 80 SEK
Spyware goes out of the City to fulfill a lifelong dream, but she finds more than she expected when she meets the ancient anarchists living there. They tell her a story from before the City even existed. A story about the death of God.
Bonus material in this book: The Lord of Flies from C’est Bon 1.
Contains the finalist story from the 4th Morning International Comics Competition: SPYWARE!
Wormgod book 014.
May 2011.
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DYSTOPIA 10
Wormgod
32 pgs, color
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-97-3
Price: 50 SEK
Title: ZOMBIES
Story & art by Wormgod (Mattias Elftorp & Susanne Johansson)
After the fall of civilisation, all living flesh shall be eaten and the dead shall walk the Earth as if they were
alive. Just another day in the Landscape of Death, the postapocalypse of our own stupidity and hunger for
power. You can not escape it. Soon you will be one of them.
Based on the Wormgod: ZOMBIES exhibition.
Wormgod book 013.
November 2010.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 001 (third ed.)
-Information Wants to be Free-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson &
Mattias Elftorp
68 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978418-2-5
Price: 80 SEK
Pirate is an information addict. When he recieves a cry for help: 'Information wants to be free', he has to find out what it means. Only problem is that the infopolice are hot on his trail, so he has to run and avoid falling in the same trap that Information did.
Wormgod book 012 (yes, there are two book 012).
July 2010.
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AltCom 2010 SEX & WAR anthology
The AltCom 2010 festival anthology
160 pgs, b/w
Designed by Mattias Elftorp
Edited by Natalia Batista,
Susanne Johansson &
Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-96-6
Price: FREE
SEX & WAR...
Two subjects that we are confronted with every day in one way or another. If you haven’t been in a war situation yourself, chances are you know someone who has. Or one of you neighbors that you meet in the elevator has. Or at least you’ve seen in on TV. It's there in the background whether you're aware of it or not. And sex... Sex surrounds us and is always present. On film, in advertising, magazines and in our daily human relations.
The stories in this book are a number of artists from different places giving their views on these topics.
Participating artists:
Ho Che Anderson (cover)
Fanny M Bystedt |
Ville Ranta |
Ina Korneliussen |
Doraya |
Karolina Bång |
Moacir Martins |
Amalia Alvarez |
Howard Hardiman |
Adam Boman |
Rauni Maneo |
Sonja Or |
Mika Lietzen |
Simon Petersen |
Cav Bøgelund |
Dennis Gustafsson |
Sylvain Runberg |
Emre Özdamarlar |
Ivan Brun |
Sofia Lindh |
Bo Ashi |
Helena Hellman |
Samuel Larsson |
Ainur Elmgren |
Mattias Elftorp |
Danijel Zezelj |
Sarah Kläpp |
Jyrki Heikkinen |
Jacob Ørsted |
Søren Mosdal |
Lisa Ewald |
Spyros Verykios |
Nicolas Krizan |
Nik Neves |
Chad Verrill |
Meme Zabratta |
Johanna Rojola |
Aino Sutinen |
Lucas Holmqvist |
Elise Rosberg |
Ofog |
Henri Gylander |
Minna Svensson |
Oskar Aspman |
Nedžad Maksumic |
Valerio Bindi
Wormgod book 012 (yes, there are two book 012).
November 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 09
Rocco Lombardi/Mattias Elftorp split
28 pgs, color
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-95-9
Price: 50 SEK
SIDE A
Title: ULAC SMAH ULAC
Story & art by Rocco Lombardi
8 pages
A story about the historical resistance against occupation in Algeria, a fight for true, direct democracy,
against the forced european parliamentarism.
SIDE B
Title: ME & MY DADDY & ZLATAN
Story & art by Mattias Elftorp
10 pages
About a little girl coming to Sweden as a refugee together with her father. About her meeting Swedish society,
trying to find a new life and waiting for her chance to meet Zlatan. But dark events from her past are trying to
catch up with her...
Wormgod book 011.
April 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 08
Jyrki Heikkinen
36 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-94-2
Price: 50 SEK
Title: THE MOON BOY
Story & art by Jyrki Heikkinen
A man and a woman leave their home to travel in a dream-like environment to find medicine for the boy
they have shackled in their basement. The mood turns even weirder after the man leaves his wife at one point.
Will he be able to find the medicine, or is he lost to powers unknown?
Wormgod book 010.
June 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 07
Sarah Kläpp solo split
36 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-91-1
Price: 50 SEK
Sarah Kläpp delivers two surrealistic and wordless stories taking place in a strange dystopia. A ruined
society creating individual dystopias for the anonymous main characters...
SIDE A
Title: WHITE LIGHT / BRIGHT HEAT
14 pages
SIDE B
Title: THE SHUT ROOM
9 pages
Wormgod book 009.
April 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 06
Rocco Lombardi/Amanda Casanellas split
28 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-90-4
Price: 50 SEK
SIDE A
Title: WAR PEACE
Story & art by Rocco Lombardi
8 pages
Dad was going to lose his job, so Mom and me went to the protests to keep the factory. I can still feel
the effects of the gas the police used, and now the TV is mostly talking about the war, but at least Dad got
to keep his job.
SIDE B
Title: BLATTE ROYALE
Story & art by Amanda Casanellas
8 pages
Casanellas describes a society that can seem strange for some swedish citizens but for others it's a
daily reality. The conclusions drawn in this comic explains why cars are burning in the suburbs by exposing
conflicts that affect not only the swedish society but also on a global level. She also names the villain of
the story...
Wormgod book 008.
April 2010.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 008
-Spiders pt. 2-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
92 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978418-1-8
Price: 80 SEK
More Spiders! More adventures in the deeper reaches of the information sea! Also in this issue:
A look into the halls of power (what does it take to become Master of the Week?)! Life on the street
level (what's life like when you don't need to pay rent?)! Theological discussions (is it ok to kill
a potential semi-god?)! Timetravel (can Technograph change the past?)! Will Purple survive beta-testing
the Information Upgrade (and what might she wake up by doing it?)? Don't miss the conclusion to the
Spiders story!
Wormgod book 007.
March 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 05
AKAb
28 pgs, color
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-88-1
Price: 50 SEK
Title: Munk
Story & art by AKAb
A comic about an illness and about living in your own personal dystopia. About a man with Munk's Syndrome,
making the afflicted unable to stop screaming. Having howled himself through various treatments he reaches
a doctor claiming to have the answer to his hopes and prayers. Will he finally find the silence he has sought all his life?
Swedish version: DYSTOPI 05 (Munk)
ISBN: 978-91-85161-89-8
Wormgod book 006 / 006SE.
February 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 04
Mattias Elftorp
24 pgs, color
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-86-7
Price: 50 SEK
Title: Reclaimed
Story & art by Mattias Elftorp
While on drugs, Information has learned how to fly.
Still under the influence, she arrives at a Reclaim the
Streets party to dance and party with her friends.
However, others are coming, and they don’t
intend to join the party in any friendly
manner.
Other recent works by Mattias Elftorp:
Piracy is Liberation books 001-007
(C'est Bon Kultur/Wormgod)
Swedish version: DYSTOPI 04 (Våra gator...)
ISBN: 978-91-85161-87-4
Wormgod book 005 / 005SE.
February 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 03
Spyros Verykios/Igor Hofbauer split
28 pgs, color
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-84-3
Price: 50 SEK
SIDE A
Title: TK 47
Story & art by Spyros Verykios
4 pages
A story set in one of the possible ways human civilisation could end. Kind of like Kafka making a
classic zombie story, with painted art by Spyros Verykios.
SIDE B
Title: NAIL STORY
Story & art by Igor Hofbauer
8 pages
Surrealist futuristic setting, but classic story about jealousy, monuments and nails in the head.
Title: RAMON
Story & art by Igor Hofbauer
4 pages
Even more surreal. Contains monkeys.
Recent collection of short stories by Igor Hofbauer:
Prison Stories (MMMNNNRRRG)
Swedish version: DYSTOPI 03 (TK47 / Spiksaga / Ramon)
Translated by Mattias Elftorp.
ISBN: 978-91-85161-85-0
Wormgod book 004 / 004SE.
January 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 02
Artùras Rožkovas
36 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-82-9
Price: 50 SEK
Title: Freak Dreaming
Story & art by Artùras Rožkovas
A dreamlike story consisting of a selection of psychedelic drawings that combine to tell the story of
a stillborn wolf child. Or perhaps a society whose population has been asleep for too long. Is it just a dream,
or something more?
Swedish version: DYSTOPI 02 (Freak Dreaming)
ISBN: 978-91-85161-83-6
Wormgod book 003 / 003SE.
January 2010.
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DYSTOPIA 01
Danijel Zezelj/Carol Swain split
28 pgs, b/w
Designed and edited by Mattias Elftorp
ISBN: 978-91-85161-80-5
Price: 50 SEK
SIDE A
Title: VANJA & VANJA
Story & art by Danijel Zezelj
12 pages
Vanja meets Vanja after practice to share a fruit. Vanja likes Vanja's medal, but he has to run because
he isn't allowed to be off on his own for too long so they'll meet again the next day. This story was adapted
into a short film: Racconto di guerra
which is available on YouTube...
Other recent works by Danijel Zezelj:
Sex & Violence (Grifo Edizioni)
Luna Park (DC/Vertigo)
Kong of Nekropolis (Hazard Edizioni)
Stray Dogs (ISGM & Charta)
Small Hands (Petikat)
Caballo (Petikat)
Reflex (Petikat)
SIDE B
Title: DESERT
Story & art by Carol Swain
4 pages
A group of soldiers are making their way across a desert landscape.
Other recent works by Carol Swain:
Crossing the Empty Quarter and Other Stories (Dark Horse Comics)
Giraffes in my Head (Fantagraphics)
Swedish version: DYSTOPI 01 (Vanja & Vanja / Öken)
Translated by Mattias Elftorp, lettered by
Oskar Aspman.
ISBN: 978-91-85161-81-2
Wormgod book 002 / 002SE.
December 2009.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 007
-Spiders pt. 1-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
68 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978418-0-1
Price: 80 SEK
The gods are real, but most of them are dead. Pirate learns this and many more secrets from
the anarchists in the desert as he gets his new assignment. Something is moving on the net.
Some kind of entities seem to be interfering with its users. Are these signs of the birth of a new
god, or is it something else entirely? And how does it affect the plans for the Information Upgrade that the
anarchists are planning? We also get some insight into everyday religious life in the City through the
surveillance cameras of a Shopping Temple...
Wormgod book 001.
September 2009.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION BOOKS PUBLISHED BY C'EST BON KULTUR
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 006
-Violence-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
88 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-978089-0-3
Price: 80 SEK
The Free Section is being evicted and violence erupts, on both societal and individual levels. Information_copy has been captured by the Infopolice, but can their interrogator break her? The keepers of the violence monopoly do their best as usual to enforce order and control and they are stronger, have better weapons. So who will win in the end? Can there even be a winner?
This book wraps up the first volume of the PIRACY IS LIBERATION series (books 001-006).
2009.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 005
-Free Section-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
76 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-976528-8-9
Price: 80 SEK
What happens when the rules suddenly change, when law and order are put out of the picture? When the police can do nothing but watch as people party in the streets? What happens when even the rules of reality can be broken? What does it mean to go Outside for the first time? These are stories from the Free Section and beyond...
2008.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 004
-Copies and Originals-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
72 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-976528-7-2
Price: 80 SEK
The Class 4 Drivers go on strike, but taking on the Work Control police force is dangerous. Someone could die!
This book also contains the follow-up on the events in book 001: Information Wants to be Free. What consequences are there to being a copy of oneself?
2008.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 003
-Wires-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
64 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-976528-5-8
Price: 80 SEK
Erica is a Slave, toiling away at her machine, and she is satisfied with it. She's got family, friends, food on the table. What does she want with freedom? But something is starting to grow within her. A voice calling itself Information, saying there could be more to life. But the Masters will not stand by as the Slaves free themselves, and Erica will soon find out what her machine really does...
2007.
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PIRACY IS LIBERATION 002 (2nd ed)
-Infotrip-
Story, art and design by Mattias Elftorp
Cover by Susanne Johansson
72 pgs, b/w
ISBN: 978-91-976528-3-4 (2nd ed)
Price: 80 SEK
Set a year after Information Wants to be Free, we follow Pirate and Information as they rejoin the fight for freedom in the City that's become synonymous with the world to its inhabitants. Back in the free and illegal flow of information after a year without it, Pirate and Information are almost overwhelmed, but that's ok. It's part of the high. Technograph visits the old people in the desert outside the city, and a whale passes through the City's airspace.
This all leads up to an event of great importance for the resistance. It is the beginning of something new. A seed for the future.
2007.
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