ABSTRACT
A powerful comic image by the artist Gunnar Karlsson shows a small piece of ice floating in the open sea. It holds a family of five; the ice is so small that there is barely room for them all. The father, dressed in a suit with his tie loose around his neck, sits with his head bent as if he has lost all hope, while the mother stands, holding a small child in one arm with another two clinging desperately to her. She waves a ribbon with the colors of the Icelandic flag, obviously begging for rescue. It is evident that if they are not rescued soon, the small iceberg will melt completely, leaving them to fall into the dark, deep and cold sea. What the family does not see, however, is a large shark rising directly underneath the ice, ready to swallow them up. The teeth of the shark tell the rest of the story, as they form the letters ICESAVE (see Figure 9.1).
