JP Ahonen Livres

Juggling work and family can be... hell. Calvin & Hobbes meets Call of Cthulhu as the sensationally popular heavy metal webcomic Belzebubs comes to print in a grim, goofy, and gorgeous hardcover. Belzebubs is a "trve kvlt mockumentary" focusing on the everyday challenges of family life: raising kids, running a small business, and making time for worship. Except the kids are named Lilith and Leviathan, the business is a black-metal band, and the worship... isn't exactly aimed upstairs. In a few short years, what started out as improvised social-media doodles has now become a wildly successful webcomic with hundreds of thousands of fans. The irresistible cartooning of JP Ahonen (Sing No Evil) combines relatable slice-of-life humor with over-the-top occult antics and references from metal music to Lovecraftian horror, making Belzebubs a devil of a good time.

Hail Satan and help with your kid's math homework! It's the return of everyone's favorite demon-summoning family next door, the cartoon black-metal band Belzebubs! Sløth is juggling his stay-at-home dad obligations with his lifelong dream of being a black metal icon. His breadwinner wife, Lucy, is fed up with her job and just one meltdown away from sacrificing her colleagues to Satan. Their teenage daughter, Lilith, is wielding the effects of her raging hormones on her boyfriend, Sam--who also happens to be Sløth's new drummer. And then there's Leviathan, who appears to be the only one exhibiting some sort of societal normalcy in the family. Unfortunately, he's only nine. Can Sløth handle his fierce wife, wicked kids, a very lively mother-in-law, a very deceased father-in-law, his dysfunctional band, their mounting debts, and still achieve his dream? Probably not, but that sure as hell won't stop him from trying. In a matter of years, the comic strip Belzebubs has become a global online phenomenon with half a million fans, a chart-topping album, and animated music videos. No Rest for the Wicked is the second collected edition of the beloved cult sensation, documenting the daily lives of your beloved black-metal BFFs. Featuring an introduction by Max Sarin and an afterword by Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth!

Twenty-something guitarist Aksel stutters when he sings, and the latest reviews say he has the voice of a crow with throat plague. That’s not a compliment, even for the avant-garde music his band Perkeros plays. Aksel is having a hard time keeping the band together, stopping his girlfriend from kicking him out, and not getting eaten by his drummer (who happens to be a cranky brown bear). There are also the rival bands that Perkeros find themselves in battle with to save the city from supernatural forces set loose by ancient music. The key to it all could be in the music Aksel hears in his dreams—if it doesn’t drive him mad first. With a visual soundtrack that blasts off the page, Sing No Evil is a wild ride through otherworldly dangers and the power of pure rock’n’roll.

Ďábelský komiksový fenomén se jako bouře žene planetou a rozsévá kolem sebe děs i vtip. Vypráví o rodince se zálibou v temné hudbě a okultních vědách. Táta Sløth, mamka Lucyfera, dospívající Lilith a benjamínek Leviatan se vyžívají v té nejroztomilejší morbidnosti, servírují humor černý jak šálek satanissima a ve své nekontrolované zábavě se nezaleknou ani velmistra Lovecrafta. Kolik kovových hrotů se vejde na jednoho člověka? Dá se na ultrazvuku poznat, jestli se vám narodí Antikrist? A na jakých hranicích budete podezřelí, když nepovezete narkotika? Sami se přesvědčíte, proč se o tomhle komiksu mluví jako o setkání Calvina a Hobbese s Voláním Cthulhu.

Sløth, der Frontmann von Belzebub, kämpft im Berufsverkehr mit der Herausforderung, Zeit für seine Band und Familie zu finden. JP Ahonen zeigt das tägliche Leben dieser okkulten Familie mit einer unwiderstehlichen, infernalischen Wärme.