Issues 21 &22&23...

...play around with what's often called "realistic drawing style" for whatever reason. And so far i find it quite enjoyable. It's been over 20 yrs that I've tried my hand at this (you know, muscles and stuff) and it's going surprisingly smoothly. So, has it been more difficult? Slower? Nope, quite the contrary, I'd say. After 23 however I should be returning to more familiar styles . But I won't leave it to this. There's two issues planned closer to the end of LÄSKIMOOSES (maybe around issue 35) that should be very very much in the vein of Marvel and DC. AND if (IF) things go to the right direction: it 's going to be in 4 colors! Excelsior!

Well...

a bit over a page is what i managed to do. The structure of the issue is a bit on the weirder side (don't worry H it still has plenty of those muscular males that we all like so much) and the drawing style goes to all directions, but it's an action packed rant so i think i'll get away with all the strangeness.

Catching up

Should be able to do one page in a day. This week was not good enough. So today and tomorrow i will try to do 3pgs. We'll see...

Well, it's a beginning

And

Now this should be interesting

Still dont know...

Yesterday was a diappointment. First of all I had slept badly which resulted to a bunch of bad decisions. Then i decided to start without sketching although i knew the panel could prove difficult. So i ended up drawing the same figure for the whole day and eventually ruining the scraper board. Sometimes a yesterday's mistake is today's success, but not today.   There are some compositional problems that can't be fixed, not anymore. And still today I dont quite know what Ohto Äijönpoika looks like. So back to the old drawing board.
On a brighter note: issue 20 is leaving for the printer

Crazy shit

What on earth?

10 minutes from this things started to go wrong BECAUSE.

Yesterday

the book was moving along nicely. Not today.

Some years back...

Drawings

Landscape with stars

Tuesday

Monday is usually better than tuesday and yesterday was good. If I could keep up the 5 panel pace, I would be soon done. Maybe in ten days maybe. Splitting the issue feels like a good decision now. There's a lot of action anyways and a change of tempo does a lot good for the storyline. I now try to tell it as straight as I'm able. There's going to be a lot weirdness again later on. 

A new collage...

...wasn't exactly what I needed...

What happened

Issue 21 started to turn really complex and LONG so I divided it into 2 issues. You know, I can do these things if I want to.

Seen

the first proofs of the poster in issue 20. Crazy! Should I do another one? Why the heck not!

Fall of the URO's

So, it was a good day panel-wise. Six of them finished. Issue 21 is moving along. Now there's 5 pages finished, more or less. Once more a totally silly issue with several twists and turns you could hardly have anticipated. The URO-storyline continues with the exploits of Ohto Äijönpoika.

Slowly

This picture was left out from the Opera post below

Page 4 done

Opera

How many of you have seen this? The opera based on my comics. Not too many, since it only had 5 performances in Helsinki in 2000. All sold out. There have been some plans from time to time to bring it abroad or revive it here. So far with no success. So far. Nuff said

From 21

Aint it so?

Original for sale

The original for the piece BELOW is for sale. Inquiries: mattihagelberg@gmail.com.
It has MOOMIN in it!

Collage

Issue 21

Getting to work

So it has taken some time, but now it looks like i'll be lettering issue 21 starting tomorrow. It'll again be an utterly silly issue. The Uro-people storyline will run until issue 22 at least and then it's again time to move to other things. From issue 25 or 26 onwards I'll return to Fu and a whole lot of secrets will be revealed.

Drawing panels

Done some writing (version 1.3), but mostly: been drawing panels.

This week

I'm going to continue the Läskimooses project. During the weekend I got an excellent idea for a spin off. This is something I would really like to do. I've got quite a few of these spin-off ideas already and wouldn't mind to get started on them, but with the main series I still have at least 22 issues left to do, approximately 3 yrs of work. Actually would be fun to hire others to work on these. As soon as we get the first 2000 subscribers.

Doing a commission job and läskimooses is in stand still

Lähetetty Windows Phonesta

19B

The secret issue delivered to my publisher. Only for subscribers.

Open studio Hagelberg/Tukiainen

Cable factory, door D, 5th floor, head right from the elevator. 7.9.14 from 12 to 6pm.
I will start my day at the festival tent, but will head to the studio at 2pm. Katja will be there from 12.

Läskimooses 20 delivered to my publisher, sealed with a kiss

The FF at the Sibelius monument, Helsinki

Recent tax deductions

News. Coming in 2015

Under construction

Preparations

Good start in a way

Working on page 1

Page one, 21

Saamo wild man

sent from windows phone that keeps turning these to all crazy directions any which way

Cover of 21 coming up

Collage

Issue 21