Maybe

 Sirkusprinsessa maybe coming out next year. Around 200 pages, short stories, Asema.

Times are...

Know

 Don't know, but started to feel that it is a bit too hard getting a book out. Ateneum3 is being scanned and cleaned, but still I'm lacking funding. One year to go to conclude the series or sort of conclude. After that need to figure out some new way of working. Maybe. 

Slow

 Things moving slow. I have 17 finished pages for Ateneum4, aim to have 24 before summer. All and all the whole book should be done year from now. Book 5 is in plans but not absolutely necessary. 

Meanwhile I have 4 other books ready and waiting for funding, one very small book that I plan go do during the summer and third book of almost pictureless short stories. 

But things are in a bit of a standstill. 

The English translation of Läskimooses is done, Lola Rogers did an excellent job. Plans to publish exist but no timeline.

Comics journal

 The Matti Hagelberg interview: 'The secret to my humor is that I don’t have a sense of humor' - The Comics Journal https://share.google/BSaBJyIpkhqGK53d6

Un

 Unlikely

A3

 

Going

 Going to make some additions to Ateneum3, going to continue Ateneum4. Four needs writing, don't have any finished scripts, needs to be done. Three will probably be 72 pages although it was supposed to be 64. At this moment I prefer to draw, so I will. Will draw the back cover and will draw an additional page. 

Something happened

 

Glanced

 Glanced through Ateneum3, many thing seemed to function quite good, some spots might require SOLUTIONS, or maybe not. When there's a lay-out I'll be wiser. This book will be quite quite different from book 2, as book 2 was different from book 1. 

Am I more confident with this than I was with 2? I don't know. The book was done during a really stressful period of my life and the reviews of book 2 were short, few, and not so sweet. So, we'll see, we'll see...

Lately

 

Good

 Didn't do much good. It was what it was.

Recently

 

Well

 Well, there's really no way A2 could win so called SF award. Easy enough to figure it out. LÄskimooses could've, SR could've, A1 or 4 just barely could've/could. Two reasons I wouldnt mind seeing some my book win: a. I like the cash b. Would be interesting to see whether I really would not accept the price, which has been my general FEEL all these years. Well, we'll never know, will we?

One page

 Theoretically I should be able to do 2, even 3 pages in a week. But with classes and everything else going on one page in a week is realistic. Maybe when the book gets going, but it hasn't. I would prefer to be a bit faster, but apparently not. Thursday I got slowed down with the text, today I just ended up struggling with a doomed panel. Monday I will be able to continue.

Enough

 Haven't done enough

Late

 Is it too late

Progress

 Some mistakes were made, but got the first page of Ateneum4 started. If very lucky, I will finish it today.

Teaching

 Just one of the things I need to stop doing

Work

 A3 is now drawn, except for some minor detail. Lacking funds to get it scanned etc, not that I'm too excited of that prospect. Spent the day speculating mostly what I really should be doing in January. Starting A4 feels like a rather stupid idea. 

Teaching

 Cant quite remember when I started to teach comics, but at the university in 1998. Safe to  say that I've been doing it for 30 years, probably longer and mostly adults. I have had the good fortune to teach a wonderful group of people, no idea how many, many. 

All this will fade.

Proof reading

 One third of the book proof read. Pages done last spring are filled with holes, undecided texts, also lettered with another pen (due to difficulties in getting my trusted edding 1880)... on the bright side, it's interesting to arrange the material into a meaningful order. 

Really

 I should really stop this useless blog, but oh well... new plan is I start a very small comic book series in -27. Print run maybe 20 copies. As soon as I'm done with Ateneum. Maybe 50 issues, something like that. Start really modest and ugly, maybe also keep it like that.

Bottomless desk drawer

Nakupelle

B.E.M.böle

Vajoava Ateneum 3

Mämmikoura

Kekkonen edited

Sirkusprinsessa

Teaching

 Would prefer not to think about teaching, would prefer not to write about teaching

Picture from the Q theatre play Opettaja nyt by Numminen & Sarkola

Answers

 I think I've figured out most of the storylines in Ateneum. Now I need to figure out what I will actually reveal to the readers. Maybe best would be to end the series in book three

Maybe

 Maybe I don't like to draw. 

Less

 Less than 10 pgs left to do of Ateneum3. After that still shitload of things to do. Classes soon to be over. Problem with motivation on all fronts. Pretty much abandoned the idea of writing on teaching comics, better forgotten. Ateneum I will eventually conclude, but again one of the things that mean nothing. Started considering to continue on the short stories, maybe that is a direction.

Do I

 Do I really have any reason to finish this book? Less/less.

Regrets

 I have regrets.

Books books books

 Next year I could bring out 6 books, but for that I would need 18000 euros. Not quite likely then.

Ateneum 3 might be doable. Maybe. 

I was thinking

 I was thinking I really should write about teaching comics. Then I was thinking I really shouldn't write about teachinc comics. Then I was thinking I really should write about teaching comics, and it would maybe be important. Then I was thinking I really shouldn't write about teaching comics no matter what. Then I was thinking I really should. Then I was thinking I really shouldn't. Then I was thinking, if I won't write about teaching comics it will be forever forgotten. Then I was thinking: good. Then I was thinking maybe I should write about teaching comics. Then I was thinking maybe I shouldn't write about teaching comics... etc

Ateneum 3, nemo nascitur artifex

 Well, for a month now I have felt good with this series. Finally. Looks like I have 19 pages left to do of book three. Might be 64 pages or might be 72, will know in February. This book will be very much  Juri Näppas special.

Thing

 Will not participate in any dimwit discussions on any of the so called "rules". Fuck the rules, every rule.

Kustannustoimituksellista tukea

 Tarvitsetko apua sarjakuvateoksesi valmiiksi saattamiseen? Olen tehnyt kustannustoimituksellista työtä 20 vuotta ja auttanut lukuisien teosten valmiiksi saattamisessa. Ole yhteydessä mattihagelberg(at)gmail.com 

Grim

 Vajoava Ateneum 3: going to be 64 pgs, 15 pgs left to do, out in the Fall 2026 if I get funding

Sirkusprinsessa, done, out when I get funding

Mämmikoura, done, out when I get funding

Nakupelle, out when I get funding

Läskimooses English edition, being translated

Kekkonen, corrected edition, out when I get funding

B.E.M böle, out when I get funding

Säätytön murhenäytelmä, half way through, will get back to this maybe summer 2026, maybe later

Vajoava Ateneum 4 and 5, depends on how things move on and if I get funding. Part four I should be drawing 2026, maybe out in 2027 maybe not

Suomaan kansan muinaisusko, some scripts and synopsis, maybe some day...

Somehow

 Been lucky in many ways. But even so, I would need 500€ extra each month for the next couple of years to make the ends meet. Eternal struggle, that's what it is. Choices are limited especially since I try to keep all my projects going. Maybe something will come up somehow.

The book

 I think it doesn't even exist, but maybe it will exist some day

Think

 I think I have too many things I'm working on.

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Alumni

 I'm a Taideteollinen korkeakoulu alumni, NOT an Aalto alumni. 

Possible

 Ateneum 2 is B.E.M.#32. I think I'm able to reach #50 in the time give, but would've preferred to reach #70. Oh well...

So far

 So far it has not been a happy year.

Something 4 LDC

 

So/so

 

What can I say

 I think there's a direction, but it's complicated

50/60

 50/60 that I won't finish this series. Don't really care.

Old news

 

 ooo

Old wisdom

 If I'd remember how hard it is to do a book, I would never do another.

A2

 Maybe out in August

No-one

 What I'm doing, I'm doing for no-one, not even myself. Starting to feel a bit isolated.