Cramp - Fredrik Rysjedal Obsesses Over a Fear of Drowning in this Slyly Funny Take on Autobio Comics – Broken Frontier

Cramp - Fredrik Rysjedal Obsesses Over a Fear of Drowning in this Slyly Funny Take on Autobio Comics – Broken Frontier

There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by a fjord but his love of the water comes with limitations. He has always been afraid of drowning. In the pages of Cramp he looks to overcome that fear by finally facing it head on. It’s a self-deprecating and somewhat irreverent take on autobiographical comics w…