Climate Activism – Contemporary Swedish Feminist Comics

This article argues that, while the creation and publishing of comics can be seen as activism per se, also utilised in more direct activist contexts. It relates comics, feminisms masculinities to climate by analysing two prominent examples from Sweden: album Jag vill inte göra slut. Serier för klimatet, [I don’t want break up. Comics for climate] (2016), Karolina Bång Maskulinitet, genus och klimaträttvisa [Masculinity, gender justice] (2021), produced organisation Jordens Vänner [Friends Earth Sweden]. The are analysed visually verbally with regard specific they discuss – industrial modernist who denies crisis, ecomodernist, suggests unproductive, short-term solutions, ecological masculinity, including care nature each other, working equity, eradicating negative norms, reducing unfair consumption taking action justice. frequently use humour, irony, satire linked activism.