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Mats Jonsson’s autobiographical graphic novel, published by Ordfront Galago from 2021, blends personal history with the suppressed legacy of Sweden’s Indigenous Sámi people. Through his own family’s story, Jonsson explores themes of identity, colonialism, and cultural erasure, making visible a past long marginalized in Swedish comics. A singular, deeply researched work that matters for its intimate yet political reframing of national history.