Om kriget kommer

Lars Sjunnesson’s Om kriget kommer is a stark, single-issue graphic meditation published by Ordfront Galago in 2004, drawing its title and grim premise from the Swedish government’s classic civil defense pamphlet. Through Sjunnesson’s sparse, haunting art, the comic distills the cold bureaucratic language of wartime preparedness into a deeply personal, unsettling experience. It matters as a quietly powerful example of how comics can interrogate national policy and the psychological weight of survival, remaining a resonant work in Swedish comics culture.