In Plague Year, the latest episode of The History of Animal Kingdom, the country is struck by a mysterious and deadly illness. Events in the fictional kingdom very loosely follow those unfolding in the real world, as the autocratic prince and his friends display a toxic combination of spectacular vanity and lack of competence as leaders. The chickens alternately rebel and despair, as Prince Hoo Hoo Hoo is distracted by such marvels as the discovery of an unusually shaped potato and being kidnapped by pirates. I started drawing Plague Year in March 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to entertain my friends whom I could no longer meet in person.

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A Swedish translation of the prequel to The History of Animal Kingdom has appeared in Ord & Bild, one of Sweden's oldest culture magazines. This special issue 2-3 2022 is on the exhibition ‘The TV Trampoline: from Children's Television to Contemporary Art and Literature’ which features my comic, at Kalmar Konstmuseum, 2022, and Bildmuseet Umeå, 2022/2023.

A Russian edition of The History of Animal Kingdom – Plague Year, was published online in December 2021 by culture magazine colta.ru as a ‘Christmas present’ to their readers. This coincided with the exhibition ‘The TV Trampoline: From Children’s Television to Contemporary Art and Literature’, at Fabrika, Moscow, 2021/22.

Animal Kingdom: Choose Your Own Adventure (2017) is my contribution to a publication celebrating the oeuvre of the Swedish political artist Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976). My comic turns the book itself into a game, a ‘choose your own adventure’ story interspersed among texts by other authors. Faced with a political dilemma in every scenario, the reader dictates the fate of Animal Kingdom through their decision about which page to turn to next, creating an alternate history with each forking plot line.

Manipulate the World – Connecting Öyvind Fahlström, published by Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

In the prequel to The History of Animal Kingdom, commissioned by Swiss comics magazine Strapazin, the reader learns how the country has arrived at its current condition. In this episode the Prince industrialises Animal Kingdom, but, to his consternation, the chickens respond by founding a bizarre religious cult that brings the nation’s factories to a standstill.

Prince Hoo Hoo Hoo’s first appearance in public, in a frontispiece that I drew for an ‘Elite’ themed issue of the art magazine Frieze, March 2009.