Matti Hagelberg

Had a fever of 39 C for 2 days. Now slowly recovering. Meanwhile the recent "discussions" within the Finnish so-called scene have ...

I love the very early stages of a book when you start with a concept and then it starts to evolve into something completely different. And t...

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The things already written, that I forgot to have written and The things unwritten that I'm not sure whether they are already written o...

Thinking out the form of my next book, the book after L and notes to L. In many ways the favorite part of the process for me. I now have a p...

Yes it seems this book is coming out in English. I don't want to jinx it but yes Lola Rogers is translating (at this very moment)and a L...

Ordered 5 boxes of Essdee scraperboard to get me through the next couple of years.

If I had the liberty to follow my instincts to the fullest I would never give any interviews or in any way talk of my work to anyone.

In issue 46.

Wrote a quick synopsis for Suomaa strip parts 29 to 77. As usual there are spots I really can't wait to write and then the other spots t...

As a form of publishing I still believe in the pamphlet comic book, although THIS project hasn't been a commercial success - in a long s...

I think all publicity is useless

The ending of this issue wasn't in the first drafts of the story. I think the current ending started to come about a year back, maybe ...

Does incompleteness make art interesting? Does "the work" cease to be interesting if it ceases to be incomplete? Strategies to hol...

Thinking although impossible of the times after Läskimooses. I do have plenty material for the so called "notes" and pretty sure I...

Well occasionally I would like to turn this into a movie. But since I would want to make it with puppetry, matte-paintings and stop motion a...

Issue 46 now well under way. Some cosmic action coming up. Might be some surprise there for true believers. I won't ...

26 sheets of 50x70cm white Essdee scraperboard needed from 2019 to end of 2020.

1171 pages now wrapped up. Did a quick calculation that this means the finished product will be 1400 pages long. Well that's an estimate...

Well more like 1200... started it on 2012 and looks like I'll be finishing it in 2020. Apart from occasional feelings of loosing faith i...

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Although sometimes it seems I'm working in a void and that there isn't much interest to this thing I'm working on, it IS kinda C...

A year of working on Suomaa strip now behind and what has changed? Not much. All and all it's been a good year. Got a grant from Skr and...

http://syndicatedzinereviews.blogspot.com/2018/11/laskimooses-issue-43.html?m=1

People, I just finished episodes 24 and 25 for Suomaa (look it up from kirkko and kaupunki) and even though I will do some writing for 26, I...

In case you're interested 23 pages done of issue 44.

It's been kinda slow. My classes are starting all around and feels like issue 44 is proceeding real slow. Issue 43 is at the printer and...

This thing: one of the main thing in Läskimooses is that it is in the state of happening. It's not a finished book or object but it is b...

September 2019 I will put together a show of all of the material I've profucef for this project. Here at Cable Factory. Mulling it over ...

Seldom or really seldom it happens I spoil a panel. But it happens sometimes and it happened yesterday with panel three in Suomaa #17. Every...

I need to work a lot harder.

1. To finish Pynchon's Against the Day

For some reason the couple of plans to translate my books in English have proceeded really slow. Basically this is ok for me since I have ot...

Seems more and more that Läskimooses will end in issue 54. The story has already taken a turn towards the end, hope you are liking. But afte...

Working on issue 43, which is going to be one of these 'turning point' issues. At the moment 8 pages remain undone. Exchanged to day...

https://areena.yle.fi/1-4114476 Now it can be viewed.

For whatever reason my comics class at aalto is not getting students. Information of its existence doesn't seem to reach the students. O...

I would like to know what is my strongest talent. And then maybe concentrate on that. Writing? Art? Teaching? BecauseI only have so many day...

This month is dedicated on working on Suomaa. So far I've finished episodes 12, 13 and 14 in bw. Working on episode 16 now, there was a ...

January 1986 I opened the door of University of Industrial Arts in Arabia district for the first time. I had started my studies few months b...

Still remember how big a leap it was to finish a 10 pg story in 1995, or then the 25 page story in 1998. Or how Holmenkollen felt like a mon...

From maximal order to maximal disorder

I have this stupid idea that whatever you do whatever your line of work you should always do the best you can and always strive to better. I...

From 2012 I've had a pretty clear idea of how this book will end. And this has not changed. There are still however spots that I feel ha...

Seven pgs left to do of issue 42. Might be 8...if there's surprises. Tomorrow I will need to do some writing to keep it going. Aim to fi...

When you're young build up your skills. It'll be much harder later. Draw and write all you can. Draw what you see draw from life. W...