Kong Lov is a sprawling and ambitious graphic novel that tells the tale of post-war Norway and its relationship with capitalism through the actions of journalist and super hero Rickard Normann aka. Kong Lov (borrowing the title from my father's underground comic from the late 60s.) During his studies abroad, Richard falls in love with an American photo journalist, Liberty Lee, who is a rare mix of Asian, African, European and Cherokee. With her he tries a mind expanding drug called Mephisto and gets hooked on ideas such as freedom and democracy. Later, he returns to Norway, leaving his object of desire behind, but swears to fight for truth, justice and the American way through his vocation: a TV news anchor. Meanwhile a weird disease is spreading from the south: crooked cockism, a both hereditary and contagious affliction that causes male erect genitalia to form a sharp bend. A coalition of armed forces is fighting to keep the quarantine intact, but the insidious nature of the disease has everyone worrying nonetheless.
Feeling increasingly stuck in a dead end at his job as an anchor, and fueled by a TV appearance of Liberty from the battle field, he persuades his boss to let him travel to the quarantine zone. He wants to cover the war from the battle field as an embedded journalist. Soon after arriving he meets Liberty again, but she turns out to be quite different from what he remembered. The dark truth about the photo journalist, the disease and the war is about to get uncovered and Richard must face the reality of what he has become.
48 pages, full colour, unpublished.