{"id":2358,"date":"2016-11-29T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=2358\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T19:58:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:58:15","slug":"the-egyptologist-the-writer-and-the-world-of-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/the-egyptologist-the-writer-and-the-world-of-comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egyptologist, the Writer and the World of Comic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the corner of Skindergade and Klosterstr\u00e6de stands Denmark\u2019s largest comic book shop. It stocks hundreds of thousands of comics: series collected in hardcover and softcover editions, Danish and English titles (both used and new), plus sections dedicated to manga (Japanese comics), novels and merchandise. This is Faraos Cigarer (The Cigars of Pharaoh). Enter it and you will have a choice to make\u2014to the left (beneath ground level) is the English department, to the right (on the first floor) is the Danish one.<\/p>\n

I choose to head to the left, down the stairs, where I meet Bo J\u00e6ger. Bo is usually found behind the counter, talking with customers, typing away on the keyboard and making sure people\u2019s comics-subscriptions are all right. In need of justification for telling Bo\u2019s story in the University Post, I enquire about his education: as it turns out, he is a graduate of the University of Copenhagen. Grabbing a hold of this thread, I dive deep into his recollections to learn how the man with a masters in egyptology became one of the faces of Faraos Cigarer. <\/p>\n

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Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n

Bo<\/h2>\n

It all started in the 80s\u2014when Bo\u2019s mom got a job at the publishing house called Winthers Forlag (they were the ones who released some of the first superhero-comics in Danish). <\/p>\n

Eight year-old Bo and his brother would often tag along and wander into the showroom (filled with the new, fresh-from-the-printer single-issues\u201420 page, magazine-format comics) and take whatever they liked- \u00bbI picked up the awesome covers,\u00ab Bo tells me. \u00bbFantastic Four was my first love; I wanted to be Reed Richards so bad,\u00ab he says and laughs, \u00bbwhich is why I was sad the movies were so horrible. I even liked some of the bad guys, like Doom and Galactus. The Galactus and Captain Marvel comics started my fascination with space, travelling and the cosmic\u2014anything goes once it\u2019s cosmic, and I like that.\u00ab <\/p>\n

A couple of years later, inspired by the works of Bill Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean, Bo became an artist himself, painting photorealistic watercolour images. <\/p>\n

\u00bbI was good, but not at whole [comic book] pages with panels, so I kept to doing standalone images,\u00ab he tells me, explaining why he never became a creator of comics. He did keep reading them though. When asked about his favourite titles, Bo lists books by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Richard Corben and Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) as well as works of Alan Moore. <\/p>\n

\u00bbIf I could only take one thing from the shop before leaving for the moon? It would have to be Moore\u2019s Watchmen. I read it every few years and I find a new angle on the story every time.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n

Bo goes to University<\/h2>\n

After high school, being an artist and an art-enthusiast, Bo wanted to study art-history, but his average wasn\u2019t high enough to get him accepted. Back then, however, once you got into UCPH, it was possible to switch studies without having to apply all over again (given that you were performing well enough during your first year). So this is what Bo had in mind when he applied not only to art-history but to comparative religion, egyptology and classical archeology as well. <\/p>\n

Thus it came to be that in 1996 he ended up in egyptology, but never got to the switch-over part. <\/p>\n

\u00bbOn the first lesson I fell in love. I was sold.\u00ab So much so, that he stayed for seven more years, finishing his masters in egyptology in 2003. Besides consuming Egyptian history, Bo learned how to read hieroglyphs in the many different languages they come in. \u00bbIt was hard work. 42 hours a week independent studying and no classes really.\u00ab Indeed, during his first semester, Bo had a maximum of 4 classes a week. \u00bbBut I liked it,\u00ab he says. \u00bbMost of my friends today are from Uni. I met a lot of people who had the same weird interests I had.\u00ab<\/p>\n

When I ask where his degree led him later in life, Bo simply responds \u00bbnowhere. It\u2019s extremely difficult to get a job with this degree.\u00ab Back when he started at the University of Copenhagen, there were about three possible jobs one could pursue with a diploma in egyptology: be a lecturer at Uni, work at the National Museum, or at the Calsberg Glyptotek (an art museum in Copenhagen). So, with the self-discipline developed during seven years of UCPH-life under his belt, Bo landed a job at a web-shop where he worked as managing director for about eight years. However, this was not the ideal place for him: 70-hour-weeks and work-filled holidays were efficient incentives that led to his resignation. It was then, that Bo found Faraos and Faraos found Bo\u2014he applied for the position of department leader of English comics. The rest is, as some say, history.<\/p>\n

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Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n

Faraos\u2014a heavy comic book ballet<\/h2>\n

\u00bbWorking here is like dancing in a ballet\u2014we [department leaders] have to dance smoothly and in harmony with each other to make it work. Also, there\u2019s a lot of heavy lifting,\u00ab Bo explains, \u00bbwe carry mountains of books.\u00ab In fact, Faraos Cigarer receives somewhere between 300 and 800 kilograms of comics every week. <\/p>\n

\u00bbWe carry them in the shop after arrival, count them, price them, put them on the shelves and into the bags for the customers. The only time we don\u2019t carry the comics is when the customer takes the bag and leaves for the door,\u00ab Bo laughs and adds \u00bbif you\u2019re not fit by the time you start here, you\u2019ll either get fit or die.\u00ab His favourite part of the job is being around the customers: talking comics and being the go-to guy. \u00bbWhether a person comes in with 30 DKK or 3,000 to spend, they should feel they received the best service.\u00ab <\/p>\n

I ask Bo if he has any plans on leaving Faraos: \u00bbI think it would be strange to sell comics to 15-year-old girls as a 60-year-old man,\u00ab but for now he reaffirms his love for the store, saying \u00bbit\u2019s the best comic book shop, period. I\u2019m happy to work here and I have good colleagues. We are not the normal, everyday people; we are a bit special. Different. Just like our customers.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Henry<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s travel back to the 80s once more: in the summer of 1982, Winthers Forlag (where Bo\u2019s mom used to work) released issue 37 of its Edderkroppen series (the Danish edition of Spiderman). That August, a boy, age 10, bought one of these issues, setting in motion his reading and collecting endeavours for good. This boy was Henry S\u00f8rensen. <\/p>\n

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Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n

From then on, Henry immersed himself in American and Danish comics alike, newspaper strips and works like Tintin and Alan Moore\u2019s From Hell series. Later, the gravity of more \u201cartsy, European comics\u201d pulled him towards the graphic novels of Anke Feuchtenberger and Dominique Goblet. (He recommends their works warmheartedly to you, reader of this article.)<\/p>\n

Collector and Artist<\/h2>\n

Henry\u2019s passion for graphic stories has resulted in an impressive collection of around 5,000 comics. \u00bbI have almost all the Uncanny X-Men single-issues\u2014most of the stories are crap though,\u00ab he says and adds \u00bbmy wife says I should sell them. They take up too much space.\u00ab<\/p>\n

When we talk about the nature of comic books, Henry mentions a feature unique to the art form: the way in which the entire page and a specific image (in a panel) are in the reader\u2019s eyesight at the same time; our eyes can hop back to the past by looking at the previous panel or into the future by taking a quick peek at the drawing in the next. <\/p>\n

He tells me about Richard McGuire\u2019s graphic novel, Here<\/em>, which makes use of this aspect of comics to \u201cplay with time and perception\u201d: the story spans more than 10,000 years, focusing on a room (seen from the same angle in each double-page image) and mixing past, present and future by inserting panels that portray parts of the room (and what happens in them) in different times on the same page. Henry gave this book a 5\/5. <\/p>\n

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Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n

But Henry was not only a lover of consuming graphic storytelling, he was also in the business of creating it\u2014he drew and he wrote, which, he tells me, is quite common for comic book creators in Denmark. Some of his works were published, but, somewhat mysteriously, his drawing endeavours came to a definite end when he started at the University of Copenhagen. <\/p>\n

\u00bbI just didn\u2019t have time for it,\u00ab Henry explains. About 20 years ago, the Danish comics-landscape was much harder than it is today. \u00bbNobody in their right mind would work a year on a graphic novel for a market that seemed to be on the verge of collapse. There was nothing going on\u2014you could work your ass off, but there were very few venues where you could get published.\u00ab <\/p>\n

But things have changed, and Henry says he is pleased with the diversity of the present Danish scene: \u00bbNow there are more smaller publishers who are willing to take chances. The kids today are way better off.\u00ab Even so, Henry has never returned to making comics and when I ask if I could see some of his works, he responds with a smile and a shake of the head: \u00bbnope.\u00ab <\/p>\n

University of Copenhagen + Journalism<\/h2>\n

In 1998, Henry started at UCPH and studied Theology for a year. Then, he changed studies and enrolled in Comparative Literature. \u00bbThough I was always interested in religion, literature is a great passion of mine and I wanted to expand my knowledge on it.\u00ab <\/p>\n

I ask him how it was to study at the University of Copenhagen, to which he replies \u00bbit was okay\u2014you develop a more critical approach to reading. But I was much older than my classmates: I was in my late 20s and most of them were 10 years younger.\u00ab So Henry didn\u2019t socialise much. \u00bbI wasn\u2019t an outcast or anything, but I kept to myself.\u00ab <\/p>\n

On the side, he had a job at an after-school centre (where he worked with the kids), was moving in to a new apartment, and, yes, he met a girl and fell in love. Eventually, with all this going on, he dropped out of Uni. \u00bbIt seemed like the thing to do.\u00ab <\/p>\n

I ask if he ever regrets this decision: \u00bbsometimes I do\u2014it\u2019s nice to have a paper to show to people. Otherwise there is much you can\u2019t do.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Besides studying and working, Henry did quite a lot of writing for magazines as well. One of them, called Rackham, was a comic book journal created by two of the most influential figures of the Copenhagen comics-scene\u2014Matthias Wivel and Thomas Thorhauge (both ex-UCPH students themselves). Though he says \u00bbI\u2019m very slow at finishing my critical work,\u00ab Henry has also written (both reviews and interviews) for another comics-journal, STRIP!, as well as for Denmark\u2019s leading comic book magazine nummer 9 (nummer9.dk)\u2014of which he is one of the founding members. Steffen Rayburn-Maarup (head of the publishing house Aben Maler) has suggested Henry be paid and given \u00bblet\u2019s just say, all the comics released\u00ab to review, \u00bbhe writes Denmark\u2019s best comic book reviews, bar none.\u00ab <\/p>\n

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Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n

Faraos Cigarer<\/h2>\n

Sometime after his dropout from UCPH, a friend in publishing informed Henry about Faraos. They were hiring and he applied. He has worked here as the manager of the Danish department for six years now. \u00bbIt\u2019s nice to work with your interest,\u00ab he says. \u00bbHere, customers will find a passion they can\u2019t find on the internet. Everyone is an expert in their fields.\u00ab <\/p>\n

I ask what\u2019s worst about the job: \u00bbit\u2019s that I\u2019m not with my daughter as much,\u00ab he says. Henry married the girl he fell in love with during his UCPH-years and they now have a three year-old daughter called Lea. \u00bbShe likes Spiderman,\u00ab Henry tells me, with a kind laugh. Later, I learn why: \u00bbthey held fastelavn at my daughter\u2019s kindergarten at one time and I went dressed as the web-crawler. So she thinks I\u2019m Spiderman.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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Two hearts with a deep-seated love for comics. Two stories spanning 30+ years and including almost a decade of studying at the University of Copenhagen. Meet the driving forces behind Denmark\u2019s largest comic book store: Henry and Bo. ","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":false,"user":false,"contributor_name":"Soma Bir\u00f3","contributor_title":" ","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>On the corner of Skindergade and Klosterstr\u00e6de stands Denmark\u2019s largest comic book shop. It stocks hundreds of thousands of comics: series collected in hardcover and softcover editions, Danish and English titles (both used and new), plus sections dedicated to manga (Japanese comics), novels and merchandise. This is Faraos Cigarer (The Cigars of Pharaoh). Enter it and you will have a choice to make\u2014to the left (beneath ground level) is the English department, to the right (on the first floor) is the Danish one.<\/p>\n<p>I choose to head to the left, down the stairs, where I meet Bo J\u00e6ger. Bo is usually found behind the counter, talking with customers, typing away on the keyboard and making sure people\u2019s comics-subscriptions are all right. In need of justification for telling Bo\u2019s story in the University Post, I enquire about his education: as it turns out, he is a graduate of the University of Copenhagen. Grabbing a hold of this thread, I dive deep into his recollections to learn how the man with a masters in egyptology became one of the faces of Faraos Cigarer. <\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/dsc_9263.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Bo<\/h2>\n<p>It all started in the 80s\u2014when Bo\u2019s mom got a job at the publishing house called Winthers Forlag (they were the ones who released some of the first superhero-comics in Danish). <\/p>\n<p>Eight year-old Bo and his brother would often tag along and wander into the showroom (filled with the new, fresh-from-the-printer single-issues\u201420 page, magazine-format comics) and take whatever they liked- \u00bbI picked up the awesome covers,\u00ab Bo tells me. \u00bbFantastic Four was my first love; I wanted to be Reed Richards so bad,\u00ab he says and laughs, \u00bbwhich is why I was sad the movies were so horrible. I even liked some of the bad guys, like Doom and Galactus. The Galactus and Captain Marvel comics started my fascination with space, travelling and the cosmic\u2014anything goes once it\u2019s cosmic, and I like that.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>A couple of years later, inspired by the works of Bill Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean, Bo became an artist himself, painting photorealistic watercolour images. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI was good, but not at whole [comic book] pages with panels, so I kept to doing standalone images,\u00ab he tells me, explaining why he never became a creator of comics. He did keep reading them though. When asked about his favourite titles, Bo lists books by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Richard Corben and Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) as well as works of Alan Moore. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf I could only take one thing from the shop before leaving for the moon? It would have to be Moore\u2019s Watchmen. I read it every few years and I find a new angle on the story every time.\u00ab<\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/dsc_9156.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Bo goes to University<\/h2>\n<p>After high school, being an artist and an art-enthusiast, Bo wanted to study art-history, but his average wasn\u2019t high enough to get him accepted. Back then, however, once you got into UCPH, it was possible to switch studies without having to apply all over again (given that you were performing well enough during your first year). So this is what Bo had in mind when he applied not only to art-history but to comparative religion, egyptology and classical archeology as well. <\/p>\n<p>Thus it came to be that in 1996 he ended up in egyptology, but never got to the switch-over part. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOn the first lesson I fell in love. I was sold.\u00ab So much so, that he stayed for seven more years, finishing his masters in egyptology in 2003. Besides consuming Egyptian history, Bo learned how to read hieroglyphs in the many different languages they come in. \u00bbIt was hard work. 42 hours a week independent studying and no classes really.\u00ab Indeed, during his first semester, Bo had a maximum of 4 classes a week. \u00bbBut I liked it,\u00ab he says. \u00bbMost of my friends today are from Uni. I met a lot of people who had the same weird interests I had.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>When I ask where his degree led him later in life, Bo simply responds \u00bbnowhere. It\u2019s extremely difficult to get a job with this degree.\u00ab Back when he started at the University of Copenhagen, there were about three possible jobs one could pursue with a diploma in egyptology: be a lecturer at Uni, work at the National Museum, or at the Calsberg Glyptotek (an art museum in Copenhagen). So, with the self-discipline developed during seven years of UCPH-life under his belt, Bo landed a job at a web-shop where he worked as managing director for about eight years. However, this was not the ideal place for him: 70-hour-weeks and work-filled holidays were efficient incentives that led to his resignation. It was then, that Bo found Faraos and Faraos found Bo\u2014he applied for the position of department leader of English comics. The rest is, as some say, history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/dsc_9175.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Faraos\u2014a heavy comic book ballet<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbWorking here is like dancing in a ballet\u2014we [department leaders] have to dance smoothly and in harmony with each other to make it work. Also, there\u2019s a lot of heavy lifting,\u00ab Bo explains, \u00bbwe carry mountains of books.\u00ab In fact, Faraos Cigarer receives somewhere between 300 and 800 kilograms of comics every week. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe carry them in the shop after arrival, count them, price them, put them on the shelves and into the bags for the customers. The only time we don\u2019t carry the comics is when the customer takes the bag and leaves for the door,\u00ab Bo laughs and adds \u00bbif you\u2019re not fit by the time you start here, you\u2019ll either get fit or die.\u00ab His favourite part of the job is being around the customers: talking comics and being the go-to guy. \u00bbWhether a person comes in with 30 DKK or 3,000 to spend, they should feel they received the best service.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>I ask Bo if he has any plans on leaving Faraos: \u00bbI think it would be strange to sell comics to 15-year-old girls as a 60-year-old man,\u00ab but for now he reaffirms his love for the store, saying \u00bbit\u2019s the best comic book shop, period. I\u2019m happy to work here and I have good colleagues. We are not the normal, everyday people; we are a bit special. Different. Just like our customers.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Henry<\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s travel back to the 80s once more: in the summer of 1982, Winthers Forlag (where Bo\u2019s mom used to work) released issue 37 of its Edderkroppen series (the Danish edition of Spiderman). That August, a boy, age 10, bought one of these issues, setting in motion his reading and collecting endeavours for good. This boy was Henry S\u00f8rensen. <\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/dsc_9240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From then on, Henry immersed himself in American and Danish comics alike, newspaper strips and works like Tintin and Alan Moore\u2019s From Hell series. Later, the gravity of more \u201cartsy, European comics\u201d pulled him towards the graphic novels of Anke Feuchtenberger and Dominique Goblet. (He recommends their works warmheartedly to you, reader of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Collector and Artist<\/h2>\n<p>Henry\u2019s passion for graphic stories has resulted in an impressive collection of around 5,000 comics. \u00bbI have almost all the Uncanny X-Men single-issues\u2014most of the stories are crap though,\u00ab he says and adds \u00bbmy wife says I should sell them. They take up too much space.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>When we talk about the nature of comic books, Henry mentions a feature unique to the art form: the way in which the entire page and a specific image (in a panel) are in the reader\u2019s eyesight at the same time; our eyes can hop back to the past by looking at the previous panel or into the future by taking a quick peek at the drawing in the next. <\/p>\n<p>He tells me about Richard McGuire\u2019s graphic novel, <em>Here<\/em>, which makes use of this aspect of comics to \u201cplay with time and perception\u201d: the story spans more than 10,000 years, focusing on a room (seen from the same angle in each double-page image) and mixing past, present and future by inserting panels that portray parts of the room (and what happens in them) in different times on the same page. Henry gave this book a 5\/5. <\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/dsc_9261.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But Henry was not only a lover of consuming graphic storytelling, he was also in the business of creating it\u2014he drew and he wrote, which, he tells me, is quite common for comic book creators in Denmark. Some of his works were published, but, somewhat mysteriously, his drawing endeavours came to a definite end when he started at the University of Copenhagen. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI just didn\u2019t have time for it,\u00ab Henry explains. About 20 years ago, the Danish comics-landscape was much harder than it is today. \u00bbNobody in their right mind would work a year on a graphic novel for a market that seemed to be on the verge of collapse. There was nothing going on\u2014you could work your ass off, but there were very few venues where you could get published.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>But things have changed, and Henry says he is pleased with the diversity of the present Danish scene: \u00bbNow there are more smaller publishers who are willing to take chances. The kids today are way better off.\u00ab Even so, Henry has never returned to making comics and when I ask if I could see some of his works, he responds with a smile and a shake of the head: \u00bbnope.\u00ab <\/p>\n<h2>University of Copenhagen + Journalism<\/h2>\n<p>In 1998, Henry started at UCPH and studied Theology for a year. Then, he changed studies and enrolled in Comparative Literature. \u00bbThough I was always interested in religion, literature is a great passion of mine and I wanted to expand my knowledge on it.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>I ask him how it was to study at the University of Copenhagen, to which he replies \u00bbit was okay\u2014you develop a more critical approach to reading. But I was much older than my classmates: I was in my late 20s and most of them were 10 years younger.\u00ab So Henry didn\u2019t socialise much. \u00bbI wasn\u2019t an outcast or anything, but I kept to myself.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>On the side, he had a job at an after-school centre (where he worked with the kids), was moving in to a new apartment, and, yes, he met a girl and fell in love. Eventually, with all this going on, he dropped out of Uni. \u00bbIt seemed like the thing to do.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>I ask if he ever regrets this decision: \u00bbsometimes I do\u2014it\u2019s nice to have a paper to show to people. Otherwise there is much you can\u2019t do.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Besides studying and working, Henry did quite a lot of writing for magazines as well. One of them, called Rackham, was a comic book journal created by two of the most influential figures of the Copenhagen comics-scene\u2014Matthias Wivel and Thomas Thorhauge (both ex-UCPH students themselves). Though he says \u00bbI\u2019m very slow at finishing my critical work,\u00ab Henry has also written (both reviews and interviews) for another comics-journal, STRIP!, as well as for Denmark\u2019s leading comic book magazine nummer 9 (nummer9.dk)\u2014of which he is one of the founding members. Steffen Rayburn-Maarup (head of the publishing house Aben Maler) has suggested Henry be paid and given \u00bblet\u2019s just say, all the comics released\u00ab to review, \u00bbhe writes Denmark\u2019s best comic book reviews, bar none.\u00ab <\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_files\/dsc_9224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Foto: Soma Bir\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Faraos Cigarer<\/h2>\n<p>Sometime after his dropout from UCPH, a friend in publishing informed Henry about Faraos. They were hiring and he applied. He has worked here as the manager of the Danish department for six years now. \u00bbIt\u2019s nice to work with your interest,\u00ab he says. \u00bbHere, customers will find a passion they can\u2019t find on the internet. Everyone is an expert in their fields.\u00ab <\/p>\n<p>I ask what\u2019s worst about the job: \u00bbit\u2019s that I\u2019m not with my daughter as much,\u00ab he says. Henry married the girl he fell in love with during his UCPH-years and they now have a three year-old daughter called Lea. \u00bbShe likes Spiderman,\u00ab Henry tells me, with a kind laugh. Later, I learn why: \u00bbthey held fastelavn at my daughter\u2019s kindergarten at one time and I went dressed as the web-crawler. 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