Preparing for the comics festival - zines, books, paper sculptures ...
What's this? A selfie? What has the world come to. It's come to me posing in my studio, probably giddy on the spring sun! (And exposing the messiness of the working studio ...) Would you like to see some of those WIPs being prepared for the Stockholm International Comics Festival? I see this festival as my chance to do crafts as well as books, and I often have an overarching theme for them; this year, I decided on "Letters". Here's a video of me trying out the idea: But I also made a spin-off of my own comic, "The Whole of The Moon" (available here ) - a newspaper set in the same world. Here's the prototype:: And then, totally unrelated to the theme, I'm making some stuff with all the old paper scraps I never ever throw out because you never know: Can you make out the shape of the bird? I can't decide whether to add eyes and details or not. Oh! Did I ever mention that I was illustrating a children's book? The book (in Swedish) is done a...
