THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Angry Duck (Arga Ankan in Swedish) is the creation of KA aka Karen Anna aka Karen Anna S. Sandholm, a Norwegian cartoonist attending Thought Bubble for the first time. According to Sandhom’s website, KA earned a bachelor degree in art from NKF in Norway and Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Then during nine years living in Edinburgh, Scotland, KA learned graphic design at EKA at the University of Edinburgh.
Angry Duck is the vehicle KA uses to relate autobiographical vignettes of really terrible people that we all run into at work or in real life. The unique angle that makes Angry Duck Volume 1 such compelling reading is anthropomorphizing each personality as a different animal or insect, both allowing us to relate to Angry Duck’s frustration at the miscreants he encounters and making us laugh despite ourselves as dinosaurs, prunes, and cows misbehave or are, alternatively, being victimized.
Angry Duck Volume 1 is comprised of one and two-page strips each focusing on one of these creatures behaving badly. However, rather than being episodic or disjointed each page builds on the reader’s mounting disbelief and being able to relate to the experiences portrayed. By the end of the comic we are totally immersed in Angry Duck’s intense world, as he takes down corrupt business lizards, prunes, and elephants; foils rude pigs, lemmings, and sheep; and, most importantly, stands up for the victims of the aforementioned. The very first strip has Angry Duck come to the realization that, “It’s better to try to do something, or at least care. There are so many awful people out there who are never called out.“ KA Sandholm more than succeeds at that with Angry Duck.
Stop by C38 in the middle of Redshirt Hall and check out KA and her sculptures, comics, and other cool merchandise.
KA Sandholm (W/A) • Self-published, $10.00
Review by Gary Usher
KA will be at Table C38 in the Redshirt Hall at Thought Bubble.
Thought Bubble 2025 runs from November 1oth-16th with the convention weekend taking place on the 15th-16th. More details on the Thought Bubble site here.
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Poster by Ng Yin Shian
