{"id":115,"date":"2007-03-28T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=115"},"modified":"2013-09-11T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:40:05","slug":"bosnian-flat-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/28\/bosnian-flat-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnian Flat Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bfd.jpg\" title=\"Bosnian Flat Dog\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bfd.jpg\" alt=\"Bosnian Flat Dog\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Max Andersson<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Lars Sjunnesson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Fantagraphics Books)<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-10: 1-56097-740-X<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1-56097-740-7<\/p>\n<p>A startling and powerful excursion into the &#8216;collective unconsciousness of the Balkans&#8217; results in this surprisingly compelling and funny tale from two of Sweden&#8217;s finest comic makers (it originally appeared in <strong>Death &amp; Candy<\/strong> #2-4 in a somewhat less effective manner). Ostensibly, this is story of a journey by the creators to Slovenia and an alternative cartoonists convention that spirals into a manic road-movie quest. When they decide to reimburse an old friend for a story they \u00e2\u20ac\u0153borrowed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for their comic, an out-of-control ice cream truck begins shooting at them. Amongst the debris they find an engraved grenade shell with the word Sarajevo on it. They take this as a sign that they must do the right thing and embark on a Kafka-esque trip to the troubled Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way they encounter zombies, mummies, war atrocities and the man who has the corpse of Marshal Tito in a refrigerator in his car. Not to mention that rare breed of hound: The Bosnian Flat Dog\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>More treatise than adventure, and savagely underpinned by the appalling realities of the Sarajevo crisis, this thought-provoking psycho-comedy has compelling pictures, dark whimsy and enough fourth wall contravention to supply the reader with much metaphysical and social meat to digest long after they&#8217;ve finished reading. As surreal as it seems, though, there is still a distressing amount of truth to be found amid the icons of the fantasy world. This is a damned compelling book if you want a read that will wake you up and not lull you to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 Max Andersson &amp; Lars Sjunnesson. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Max Andersson &amp; Lars Sjunnesson (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN-10: 1-56097-740-X ISBN-13: 978-1-56097-740-7 A startling and powerful excursion into the &#8216;collective unconsciousness of the Balkans&#8217; results in this surprisingly compelling and funny tale from two of Sweden&#8217;s finest comic makers (it originally appeared in Death &amp; Candy #2-4 in a somewhat less effective manner). Ostensibly, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/28\/bosnian-flat-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bosnian Flat Dog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-comics","category-european-classics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}