Tommy grows up in a free-church Christian home where his days are structured around Bible reading, church visits, and preaching. At school he stands up for his faith, while within the congregation he’s told that he isn’t trying hard enough. Over time, he begins to doubt whether the congregation’s way of life is truly meant for him.
Församlingen / La Congrégation is a 184-page graphic novel, printed in two colors with a tinted book block to evoke the feeling of an old Bible.
Thomas Olsson, born in 1979, is a Swedish cartoonist and publisher known among other things for the humor series Rogert. He made his debut in 2007, and in 2015 released the book “Det är inte meningen att man ska vara här” about Sir John Franklin’s expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The graphic novel is in Swedish.
