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– The Illustrated Dark Humor Companion
to Help You Understand Your Pet Kitten and Why It Drives You Mad
This is the only illustrated dark humor survival guidebook for cat lovers that you will ever need. It will keep you from going over the edge when your feline family member has taken control over your house and your life. The book's witty artwork and spot on cartoons depict life with cats as it is.
Text and Illustrations by Mona Eklund
The author and illustrator Mona Eklund has three cats Ramses, Exit, and Bastian. They all live in a small town in Sweden. Besides being an illustrator, Mona is a teacher of Swedish as a second language.
From the book:
E A Rantakrans is a photographer, journalist, writer, publisher, and university lecturer with more than 25 years experience from working in Philadelphia, Cairo, London, and Malmö. Nowadays, she is based in Sweden and is doing her PhD at
Mid Sweden University.
She holds a BS in photography from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA, and a MS in journalism from Lund Univeristy, Lund, Sweden. She is a qualified university lecturer and teaches Photography, Journalism, and Media and Communication studies. She has completed the mandatory courses Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Supervision in First and Second Cycles, 15 hp, at Jönköping University, Sweden, 2023. Univeristies where she has been teaching includes: Jönköping University, Malmö University, Linneus University in Kalmar, Högskolan i Halmstad.
The portfolio includes for example:
Work for newspapers:
The Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, NJ, USA; The Cairo Times, Cairo, Egypt; The Guardian, London, the UK; Sydsvenskan, Malmö, Sweden; Kvällsposten, Malmö, Sweden.
Book projects:
Examples of titles are: 55 proffsknep för bättre bilder – en praktisk digitalfotoguide (with Tobias Hagberg, HME Publishing, Stockholm, 2007), Kreativ fotografi – från inspiration till bild (transl, HME Publishing, Stockholm, 2009), Så tänker en fotograf (transl, HME Publishing, Stockholm, 2011), Bättre bilder: Fotoprylar (Dext/HME Publishing, Stockholm, 2010), Bättre bilder: Grunderna (with Tobias Hagberg, Dext/HME Publishing, Stockholm, 2011). The latter two titles also published in Germany by Dpunkt Verlag as Die richtige Fotoausrüstung and Das perfekte Foto, and in the U.S. by Rocky Nook as Buying the Right Photo Equipment and The Perfect Photo; The children’s book ages 3–6 Jag vill vara prinsessa! (e-book 2013, 2018), I Want to be a Princess! ((e-book 2013, 2018); Smyckepassion – Smycken av guld, silver och ädelstenar i skandinaviska smyckeskrin från forntid till nutid (Zetun Förlag, 2014); The Essential Survival Guide for Cat Owners by Mona Eklund(edit, layout, Zetun Förlag, 2016).
Lecture on Photography Composition for the Skara Fotoklubb, 2013; Lecture on Jewelry History for Kärnkonst at the Skaraborgs Hospital,Skövde, 2016.
Academic work:
Rantakrans, E. (2024). 'No One Is Going to Silence Me': A Comparison of the Conditions for Press Freedom and Independent Journalism As a Prerequisite for Democracy in the United States, Sweden, and Egypt. In Barkho, L., Lugo-Ocando, J., A., Jamil, S. [eds]. Handbook of Applied Journalism: Theory and Practice. Cham:
Springer, pp.615–629.
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