Good bye Konstfack good bye Stockholm

It is hard to believe, but my two years at Konstfack are already over. In a few days I will leave Sweden with a master degree in storytelling and a lot of different experiences. It has been a good time and it was great and inspiring to be surrounded by so many talented and hard working people. I will definitely miss my fellow students, the great facilities at school and the wonderful freedom of student life, but now it’s about time to get out of the cosy Konstfack bubble and head back to reality and freelance work.

Thanks to Konstfack and my new found friends for this exiting two years! Hope to meet you again in Berlin or wherever it may take me in the future.   

LEPIDOPTER RELEASE PARTY

There will be a small release thing for my comic album Lepidopter on friday night. If you are in the Stockholm area you are very welcome:

Grab a fruity drink, listen to some nice music, shake a leg, discover all the weird and wonderful things at Larry’s shop and buy a copy of Lepidopter for a super special release price of only 60 sek!

This might also be a good chance to say good bye before I pack my bags and head off to Berlin at the end of the month, so I hope to see all of you stockholmers there!

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Friday 11.06.2010

19:00–22:00

Larry’s Corner | Grindsgatan 35 | T-Bana Skanstull | Stockholm

Snow Powder Tape

A few weeks ago the finished rolls of my Snow Powder Tape arrived. It’s a repeat of seven characters and symbols that work either in a row or also cut into pieces.

Comes in handy in any sticky situation!

Letterpress

I spent one day in the letterpress studio at Konstfack to use the school’s facilities as long as I have the chance to do so. The calm atmosphere in the workshop and the slow paste of this printing technique were just right to clear my head after all the busy weeks.

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Forresten

You can find my short story ›The Glow‹ in the latest issue of the norwegian comic anthology Forresten. I had to translate the text to norwegian, therefore the title of the story changed to ›Gløden‹, and all characters suddenly use a lot of strange characters like ø and æ.

Artists who contributed in this issue are amongst others: Bendik Kaltenborn, Esben Titland and my three class mates Rui Tenreiro, Christian Brandt and Martin Ernstsen.

Above you see the nice cover, designed by Espen Friberg, below my 12 pages from the inside.

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LEPIDOPTER

After four months of work my degree project LEPIDOPTER is finally ready for printing. It is a 32 page comic album in A3 size and it will be printed in an edition of 1000 copies. I’m going to sell it at several comic festivals this summer and hopefully you will also  find it in selected comic shops in europe and the USA soon.

More details about the story, the price and shipping costs will follow.

If you would like to get a copy, just send me a mail and I will send it to you as soon as it is back from the printer.

Master project presentation

I will present my master project ›Lepidopter‹ today from 15:00 until 17:00. A few minutes ago – at 03:27 – I finally finished the pdf for the presentation and feel just as awful as the character above right now. My opponent will be Alvin Buenaventura from Buenaventura Press. Cross your fingers that everything goes well. 

I am very happy that my collage series ›The People of Reality‹ is nominated for the Kolla award in the category best student illustration. It will be fun to go to the kolla party and ceremony night, as it is right after the presentation of my master project and I will definitely be in the mood for beer and having fun after all this months of work!

Lyonel Feininger’s comics

I lately discovered to my surprise that German- American artist Lyonel Feininger was also making newspaper comic strips. I only knew his work as a fine artist with groups like Die Brücke or Der blaue Reiter and his connection to the Bauhaus.

Above you see one of his newspaper comics The Kin-der-Kids regularly published together with another strip by Feininger called Wee Willie Winkie’s World in The Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906-07. It was just at the same time as Winsor Mc Cay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, and I think it also looks graphically very interesting. I would like to see more of it, but it seems to be hard to find.