News: International Womens Day

Again, I must start by apologizing for not being able to uphold a steady flow of writings here, as the combination of finishing the book Swedish Comics History, finishing an issue  of Bild & Bubbla and writing several papers for my PhD studies is just zapping all energy out of me. 

Today, though, I can't help but write about the fact that it is the International Women's day. And what better day then to write a few lines about the feminist Dotterbolaget (lit. Subsidiary, but in Swedish also Daughter Company), created in 2005. Yesterday there was a major article about Dotterbolaget in our local newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet (seven pages!), and I was just going to link to that, but it doesn't seem to be online... If it does go online, please tell me!

In the meantime, here are some links that you might find interesting:

There's the official site, but that's sadly, pretty deserted as far as I can tell. Right now, though, there's a major exhibition about Dotterbolaget at Arbetets Museum (The Museum of Work) in Norrköping. Then there's the anthology Dotterbolaget Antologin from 2009, collecting some of the best comics from the group’s earlier mini comics, released on doob, a publishing company run by one of the members. For basic information, there's the entry in the Swedish Comics Wiki. Oh, and here's a pretty recent article in Dagens Nyheter, and here's an ever more recent interview from the magazine Malmö Fria.

Well, you get the picture. Google the net for Dotterbolaget, and you will find loads more of information, interviews, articles etc.