Ihmislakki

Working on this

Taivaan Pappa

Issue 23

is now written and I can start to draw it.

Silvia Regina

My 2010 book is coming out in French in June, or so it seems. Next week I need to draw a new cover. Might be a bit hard since I should do it in my old scraperboard technique. I will be posting some sketches, but you have to buy the book to see how it came out.

Drafts

Started to letter the "final" text of issue 23. Already making changes. Sometimes a word sometimes a sentence... From the actual FIRST draft to the lettered... final... version it takes three to four working days. Not always the most intense working days but still. Tomorrow i hope that part is done

This stage

When I draw panels (4 each pg) and draw the round corners for the panels and measure 27 mm from below the panels for the texts and then draw the lines for the texts and then i can start the lettering. Maybe tomorrow.

Writing

Is everytime like jumping to cold water. Well despite of this the first version of issue 23 is now written. Today I'll do the second version. The third is then the one i write on the actual originals.
Starting after a break is hard. And 2015 will be filled with many extra things. The first is that I need to do the cover for the French edition of Silvia Regina. And with my old technique too. Boy... I don't turn that easily.

Here we go

Starting

starting the work for this spring. Issue 21 soon to arrive to subscribers and issue 22 heading to printer during the weekend. Tomorrow i'll be really starting on issue 23. And as soon as it can be confirmed I have some sizzling hot news regarding Läskimooses. Maybe in february maybe a bit later. Excelsior!

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Good news

Got some good news.

An unfortunate delay

Issue 21 will be delayed until january due to Christmas. Issue 22 probably very soon afterwards. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Here we go

issue 21 goes to printer and 22 to scanner. Issue 23 on drawing board. Cheers

How things are

Just delivered issue 22 my publisher although (haha) some things undone in issue 21. Currently the story tells in some detail of the adventures of Ohto Naulo. I'll continue on this track for one more issue, then go to more general info of the fall of the URO-people. Issue 25 will most likely tell of the conspiracy of the elite and list the rock solid evidence of the facts revealed in part 3 of the book. Issue 26 (or 27) will be an intermediate issue and issue after that will take us back to Mars. After this I'll get started with part 4 which will among other things reveal the true story of Agner Mang, the person who tried to save the Fu, and failed. If everything goes as planned the tension will pack up until the darkest secrets of planet Läskimooses are revealed. And that is not yet going to be the end of the book. Some loose ends have to be tied up. For one: why are the 2 men on the ice breaker? And then we are at issue 40 or 42 or 46...

Sorry to interrupt

Moving on

Famous 5

Issue 22

has been more or less drawn and will be shipped to my publisher in just a few days. Meanwhile issue 21 is undergoing scanning and all that. I enjoyed doing these two but in retrospect I'm not quite happy with some panels. Maybe a change of direction for 23... Or for 24.
Plan is to finish the whole story before 2018. Remains to be seen... But will it ever come out in book format? Maybe not , not in Finland anyways. Who knows.

Blog

Haven't been posting for a while. Basically I don't see the internet as a useful tool. I'll probably return to this next year, but for know I will hold my peace. Issue 22 is proceeding.

Plan

at some stage i would like to do a book with pages in various crazy sizes and forms

A star wars assignment for my students

Thinking

Stone giants rampant

Numbers

Counted that I have enough white sraperboard for an additional 400 pages. I need to get at least 3 full packages more. For drawing I'm using textmark markers, haven't found anything better. They wear out relatively fast so I'm using approximately 20 in a month. The project requires 3 more years. 12 x 3x 20 equals 720. I collect the used markers to a plastic bag beside my desk.

Old work

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of my old work. When it's done it's over. The Kekkonen book from 2004 has been in many ways my biggest suggest. Due to some decisions my finnish publisher made i pretty much hate the book. Same goes with Holmenkollen. The french editions are a lot nicer, but the finnish editions... At that time there was a technological change going on and the old analogical technology was being replaced by the digital. Kekkonen was the first of my book that was scanned and I had to do the corrections myself. I hated every moment. Don't get me wrong, I would've been quite happy scraping and correcting films like it was done before. I used to love that part of the work, working really close to the printing machine. But with scanning there's always the pixels. And I hate the look of them (when it's not intentional). So during the years one thing lead to another and here I am drawing with a marker. And although the drawing has evolved from issue one of läskimooses i still aim for shittiness. And people still seem to remember my kekkonen book the best and i still hope i had never done the ugly monster with all those pixels lurking beneath the surfus.

The best place

the best place to be is the 5 first pages or so of a book,  after 7 or 8 it usually gets a bit hairy. Carry on.

Läskimooses 19 B

Läskimooses 19 B. Only for subscribers. Risograph printed. 100 copies.

Hello

yes, issue 21 is packed away and first page of issue 22 is finished. I had hoped a 16 page issue but it doesnt look like that. Also started to work on the back cover with famous five. Plan is to have it all finished before going to Tokyo in december. Well... Any which way this goes issue 22 will be the last issue of 2014.
But what really thrilled me today is a sketch i wrote for a very strange all collage issue. Oh, that's something i would really like to start to work with. Sidetracking...

My top countries

My top countries: Kohde	Sivun katselut
Suomi	2544
Ranska	287
Yhdysvallat	271
Saksa	168
Puola	67
Venäjä	37
Turkki	37
Ruotsi	34
Romania	25
Latvia

First panel

First panel of issue 22

This spot

Been polishing issue 21. The first two pages need completely new texts. I was dissatisfied with them from the very beginning and now I pretty much have a solution, but I hate it when this happens. I would like to move on to 22, but today at least  i have to do this. Club page undone and the color for the back cover. This book requires three more years. Meanwhile I don't get a lot of feedback. Does it work? I will put 6 years to this project so it better work, somehow. At this age I also calculate how many more books I can finish. Well, it depends. I have a couple of ideas that probably have only 200 pages or so... I don't know ...3 or 4 big books or several smaller. Ha, if i'm able to finish this one.

Questions

1. Who will lead the Uro-people?
2. Who controls Läskimooses?
3. What clanks in the engine room?
4. What is the innermost secret of Läskimooses?
5. Why are the men in the ice breaker?
6. Where is the origin of the Uro-people?
7. How come the Fu didn't see the killer planet coming IF they are so wise?
8. Will there be another giantsize poster in Läskimoooses?
9. How would I get my face on it?
10. Would money help?

Saturday

Was working on the cover of issue 21. Later I came home and glanced through some of the older issues. The Thing requires some corrections and editing, and a part of me would really like to start  polishing the text. But that would probably be against the rules. I still have 3 years to go and then... I expect that I need to rewrite things on maybe 50 pages, make some additional pages (maybe 20) and then it would pretty much be what it wanted to be or close. For the moment I'm quite enjoying the drawing part and everything I can do with it. The writing brings me more grief. Mainly the parts that need to lead to some specific result in some specific order. Soon I need to read my notebooks to gather every piece of information and nice story twists that I've written down during the last 3 years in order to put the next 3 issues together and not forget anything.

I guess

I guess I started this project in order to have a "work in progress"
like Joyce had.

Issues

the meaning was to make a 250 book in a year and half. Now after the current calculations the story is going to span to 50 issues and at least 1200 pages. I aim to finish in 2018, but who knows. Now, we could use some help to get some more subscribers. So if you are a reader and IF you like the story and would like to see it concluded, pass the word. I have all sorts of plans of full color issues and all, but my publisher is a poor person and we could use more subscribers. 900 or so... Ha!

Moving on

Issue 20 is out and issue 21 is drawn.    The special issue 19b has also be printed. The conclusion of the story is at least 25 issues away. There are some pages i like in past issues but so what?

Issue 21: the actual pages drawn

Thank you for turning the picture upside down windows phone

One way to make time more easy passing

subscription

So, this is a crazy 1000 page (well over thousand at this stage) comic book in making and subscriptions are pretty much the only way we can keep going. Go to kreegah.net and look it up. Comes with a handy translation to english.
The project has now reached it's imaginary midpoint with over 500 pgs of strangeness. The current issues reveal the roots of the finnish people in their former glory. After issue 24 we 'll get back to the mysteries of Fu. Are the Fu-people really extinct? AND after that the true nature of the killer planet will be finally revealed. Is there any way to avoid the cataclysm? And meanwhile: what on earth is that clanking sound? Hey, don't count on this coming out in book format!

You can order via publisher's website or just send email to kreegahbundolo (at) gmail.com.

Yes well, some day... I should've taken pictures. The panel took a lot of punishment but in the end I managed to turn it for the better (thanks to Eadward Muybridge). Tomorrow I'll go to the studio for just a few hours. Plan is to finish 1 to 3 panels. This issue requires one more week. Some texts not done, cover not done, 5 panels unfinished, 2 additional pages not done, club page not done...maybe I'll need more weeks. Problem was I started to add pages and panels and so here I am. Again.

More

Refugees

Issue 21, 11 panels left to do. That equals approximately 3 pages. Of the actual story, that is...

Leftovers

Sketching