English Conversation

This mini comic by Flu Hartberg is a Norwegian slice of high school life , replete with parental angst, masturbation jinks and dating trauma. Happily Flu has allowed ten years to elapse between his own coming of age trauma and the construction of this story making ‘English Conversation’ a worthwhile read.
It’s pretty well drawn and sequentially easy on the eye. Most of the characters abnd setting are drawn in a loosely realistic style; it’s pretty pleasant but Flu chooses to draw his protagonist ‘Ulf’ and his mother as ugly caricatures, perhaps suggesting what the artist thinks of his former highschool self. A satisfying little read proving the universality of the excruitiating high school experience. It also ends with a really funny panel, leaving the reader on an up-note.
Good stuff.

Contact: fluhartberg@hotmail.com