comics / French
L'Excavation
L’Association, 2017, 376 pages. b/w, format 15 cm x 20,5 cm
Ce livre relié au petit format est un concentré d’apocalypse dans lequel Max Andersson creuse et déterre les vestiges d’un monde enfoui dans les ténèbres. L’Excavation est un merveilleux cauchemar interminable où tout est cassé ou en voie de rupture, les choses comme les êtres, où tout est en décomposition ou en voie d’extinction, le pouvoir comme la résistance, où tout est absurde et drôle, comme un désespoir qui aurait encore du savoir-vivre. Encore un peu. Pas pour longtemps. Dépêchez-vous…
Pixy
L´Association, 1997, ISBN 2-909020-76-2, 72 pages, b/w, format 22
x 29 cm
This graphic novel about "safe sex suits, buildings that eat people,
drunken foetuses with bazookas, money that shits on you, and recyclable
bodies" became an instant classic and has so far
been published in eleven languages.
Lamort
& Cie
L´Association, 1998, ISBN 2-84414-003-3, b/w, format 22 x 29 cm
Book collection of short stories including Car-Boy, Santa Claus, Death,
Johnny Gun and more.
Bosnian Flat Dog
L’Association, 2005, 80 pages. b/w, format 21,5 cm x 29 cm
A unique collaboration between Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson resulted
in this graphic novel-length piece of surreal comics journalism, erasing
and re-drawing the borders between dream and reality to form a tale both
sincere and fantastic. Each of them contributed to every single drawing
to the extent that they no longer can tell themselves just who did what.
This has led to the emergence of an independent artistic entity, one who is
neither of the two, but something else, unknown yet strangely familiar and
perhaps a tiny bit scary. The story is based on true events.
This book edition also contains an extensive illustrated glossary and
a preface by Stefan Skledar. Bonus extravaganza only in this edition:
it comes with a real, folding map of Ex-Yugoslavia and Sarajevo like you
never saw them before (and never will again)!
"This is a damned compelling book if you want a read that will wake you up and not lull you to sleep."
Win Wiaciek, Now Read This!
L´Excavation
Les étoiles et les cochons, 1997, ISBN 2-911995-12-0, 32 pages,
b/w, format 12 x 16,5 cm
Original edition of the story which now forms the first chapter of the graphic novel The Excavation.
Exquisite, hand-separated 4-color cover.
Lapin
L’Association
This legendary anthology contains material (not available anywhere else
in French) by Max Andersson in the following issues: 14, 17, 23, 26, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35.
Comix 2000
ISBN 2-84414-022-X
L’Association, 1999, 2000 pages, b/w, 16,5 x 25 cm
Monumental anthology which includes the “Tractor-Girl” story later reprinted in Death & Candy #2 and in the book version of Bosnian Flat Dog.
Hopital Brut
Le Dernier Cri
Artwork by Max Andersson is to be found in #5/6 of this unspeakably beautiful, silkscreened anthology.
TOY Comix
ISBN 978-2-84414-251-1
L’Association, 2007, 160 pages, hardcover, color and b/w, format 17 cm x 25 cm
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 Toy Museum at the Louvre in Paris.
The result is an extraordinary journey into the secret life of toys and its connections to the sources of comics.
This 160-page catalogue 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.
Bonne Annee (flip book)
L'Association, 2018, 128 pages, b/w, 10 x 5,5 cm
Limited New Year's edition for subscribers of L'Association. Not for sale.
New Years