Celebrating Mayday the hermit way
Since I just came back from Stockholm International Comics Festival, I thought I could use some solitude before working my ass off again.
So here’s a bunch of photos from my little May 1st holiday …
Morning light.
Dandelions and this annoying weed that spreads everywhere have taken over the future potato patch. Dandelions are of course edible, but I don’t really like their taste, so they will probably have to make room later on.
I sowed corn and sunflowers along the empty spot next to the fence. Unless the slugs munch them all up, maybe they can provide some shade from my neighbours’ curious eyes this year … The bushes I’ve planted there are still too small to make a diference.
Evening light, not enough to illuminate my Andy Kehoe print.
Post-Stockholm International Comics Festival 2012
I will write a longer post (in Swedish) later, when I have more photos …
It was a fun festival this year, as always. I presented to the world Drivgods, one of the fattest books of the year, and perhaps one of the strangest comics to ever have been published in Swedish. Maybe I should have made the inside covers blank, or at least left more empty space on the title page, because there wasn’t that much space to draw impressive things when I signed it for people.
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Also, my zine Tunguska #9 won the Swedish Comics Association’s big comics zine award 2012! I don’t remember the motivation, but perhaps they will publish it somewhere eventually. V^(oo)^V Apparently the jury thought it was the best among about 300 zines that they had received (apart from the ones that had won too often already …). :3
But the greatest moment was when a wonderful person bought issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Tunguska. I signed them all.
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Those who didn’t have enough money to buy Drivgods or couldn’t make it to SIS but want it, see the instructions in the top of the left column!
Tunguska #10!
80 sidor, A4, 40 kr!
I detta nummer publiceras sista kapitlet av Drivgods. Samtidigt kommer ju Drivgods även ut i en fet samlingsvolym, vilket kanske kan tyckas vara lite knäppt.
Men nu kan man i alla fall välja helt fritt om man vill ha fanzinet eller boken, och slipper utpressas till att köpa fanzinet först för att man inte kan hålla sig innan man får läsa fortsättningen på berättelsen, eller hela boken fast man redan har alla fanzinen med de föregående kapitlen … Fast man kan så klart köpa både fanzinet och boken, på en gång, nu med. V^(oo)^V
Det som finns i fanzinet och som inte finns i boken är ett omslag med pitbullterriern Emma, heta kravallgreker på sidan 3, lite skisser (inklusive fanservice!!! :3), och åtta sidor fotografier och historik om Gateshead i norra England, där detta kapitel utspelar sig. Sen är ju även själva serien tryckt i större format än i boken.
Posters och vykort :3
Omslaget till Drivgods-boken blev ju så jävla snyggt, så jag kände mig tvungen att trycka lite vykort och posters med det.
Vykort – med runda kanter!! V*(oo)*V
Sen tryckte jag posters på linduk. Det är snyggt och håller mycket bättre än papper. Om man för ett nomadiskt leverne som jag uppskattar man att man helt enkelt kan rulla upp dem och inte behöver oroa sig för att de ska skrynklas eller plattas ihop i packningen.
Om man inte för ett nomadiskt leverne kan man även spänna upp dem på en kilram (30 x 40 cm).
Jag gjorde tre av varje motiv, så det är med andra ord en extremt limiterad upplaga!
Detaljbilder.
Interview, and other news
There’s an interview with me on the Swedish Comic Sin blog … :3
And the Epix blog presents their new spring books. Among the five books, all of them very nice, is the Swedish edition of Driftwood!
The fruits of my hard work!
Building the fence yesterday was a really nice little “vacation”. Looking back at January, February and March up until now, I didn’t do much else than working my ass off in a haze of coffee, Club Mate and cheap frozen pizza, drowning out my silly panicking brain with Ursula K. LeGuin audiobooks.
(Cheap frozen pizza, blown out lightbulbs, budgie food, oatmeal and Club Mate bottles = Tinet’s January-March 2012)
Towards the end I had like mental breakdowns every night, but I did finish it, and I don’t think it’s bad or too rushed at all. V^(oo)^V After this experience I know for sure that I can trust my creative spirit, if I just shut up and do as it says.
So, the Swedish Driftwood book is at the printers now, and will be out at the end of April. I’ll be signing it at the comics market at Stockholm International Comics Festival, April 28th-29th. (An English edition will follow in the summer.)
The final chapter of Driftwood will also be published in #10 of my photocopied zine Tunguska, for those who have all the previous zines and might feel cheated if they had to buy the whole book just to read the last chapter. It will be a big fat zine with some behind the scenes stuff and other nice things.
Maybe I’ll also make posters of the cover and back cover of the book, because it’s so nice. :3
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Another book that will be out at Stockholm Comics Festival, and which I’ve also worked hard for, is the erotic comics anthology Swedish Comic Sin! I’ve contributed a story to it, which I’ve posted some previews of here already.
It’s a total indie publication, so all contributing artists pay together for the printing cost and sell copies of it themselves. I’ll sell and sign copies of it in Stockholm and other upcoming festivals, and you can of course order it from me (details on the store page).
Fencing
So today Ilan helped me build a new fence in place of the old (mostly) wooden one that was totally falling apart.
We forgot to take a “before” picture, but anyway, the old fence is in a pile under the plum tree here:
Surveying the scene …
Goodbye, cardigan ;_;
I wish to announce to the world that I have lost my non-fuzzy wool mix zipper cardigan that has been an extension of my body in the colder parts of the year since 2003 or so. I was wearing it in Freehold, New Jersey, above, and I also wear it in all my hourly comics.
It fell off my bike somewhere between Treptow and Alexanderplatz, and it was nowhere when I went back to look for it. ;_;
Luckily I had not yet washed it or mended all the holes in it as I was planning to do soon. I.e. it was pretty nasty and full of holes. :o/ Maybe someone threw it in the trash. Or maybe some hipster picked it up and is going to use it for some stupid art project, because it’s just so … authentic. Most of all I hope it was adopted by somebody who really needs it. :3
I got it from the Christian thrift store in Lund, Sweden, in my early university years. At first I thought it was kind of strange and I wasn’t sure how to wear it. But gradually I realised how extremely practical it was, and it became my perhaps most used item of clothing ever.
Now I will have to fill this void with another cardigan that will be equally or even more practical and versatile, because how else am I supposed to wear summer jackets in the winter like I usually do.
Finished the Swedish Comic Sin comic … :3
I’m terribly embarrassed about it and don’t want anyone to read it
Yeah.
It was kind of fun to use grey shading. It certainly is one of the prettiest comics I’ve ever drawn.
I still have no idea if I will manage to finish Driftwood before its deadline if it’s going to be published as a book for Stockholm Comics Festival. I guess I’ll just take it one page at a time and see what happens.
(If not, that’s fine too. Seriously, I wouldn’t mind self-publishing it at all …)
