Setting up sound: electricity goes from WHERE and goes to WHERE? Drawing: light goes from WHERE and goes to WHERE?? 💡💡💡💡🥴🥴🥴 That’s all, bye

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Our artist-in-residence @hennarasanen.bsky.social‬ will present their work at Bolderāja bārs next Wedneday, don't miss! komikss.lv/events/

Comic Invasion this weekend, honk if you are coming over to hangout with us 😎📚✍️🎨🩸✨

#CIB25 Artist Alley attendants ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 🩷 ZILCH – fischbrains & four_flies_on_black_vinyl (IG) 🩵 Parallelallee – parallelallee.de 🧡 Feminist Comic Network + Art Horse – feministische-comics.net 💚 HX – Henna Räsänen – @hennarasanen.bsky.social

A year, a month and a day ago, Athens. I met this Swedish guy in the residency house who spoke Ancient Greek fluently (but not a word of modern Greek 🤷🏼) and we had a coffee in front of the national archaeological museum. I staid back to draw this pentacle like sculpture.

In other news I’m thinking about trying ceramics again - anyone knows a nice course offer in Berlin? Mostly interested in sculpture. As a reference I did this bust of MY OWN HEAD as a teenage emo (note the snakebites and the unnecessarily dramatic paint job) as a 17-18?Y old& am not against it??

Not me reading stressed about DAX bc the news is too close to the plot of my UNPUBLISHED dystopia graphic novel. Wrote that in 2016!!! I know, this is what you get for being so damn slow 😩😩 I’m over halfway thru with the sketches to finish the book, if the Kollaps could just wait a bit plz??

Alright so it’s been a wild month, which I might update you at some point but rn let’s get together to celebrate that it’s You know what it is It is ✨✨SPArrGgellzEEEIItt!!!!1!!!✨✨ That’s it from me for now

Badeschiff, Berlin 2024. I’m absolutely obsessed with this place and have drawn it into multiple comics. It’s a “container swimming pool” built into the Spree 💦 that runs through the city, and is too contaminated to swim in. So we got our fake beach instead. I go as often as I can in the summer 😌

In the sea of Blau, central Berlin had voted almost 40% the shade of red I want to see :) Berlin mon Amour bleibt stabil ♥️ Featured is the view from having attempted to enter AlteNationalgallery last summer, but everyone and their moms was queuing to see paintings, so I sat down to draw instead.

Might be bit silent here for the next two weeks, after that the frequent notebook updates will return ;) just so you know! 😎😎

March 2024, the Alps 🏔️😮🫶🏼 me and Kimmo Lust had our 2nd satellite expo for our queer horror comic at Fumetto🖤 in Lucerne. I ofc got krank af but one day managed to drag myself up to the nearest mountain and was thoroughly awed. What beauty!! I’d only traveled through mountains before. #notebook

What they said (Athens, March 2024) #notebook

Last years notebook is a tiny thing with somewhat seethrough paper. I was moving about quite a bit-this was at Sitges, Catalonia right after the traditional 1st Jan swim. The whole town goes together but we were pick me’s and went on our own.

Including a comic by me!:))

No particular memory connected to this one - I spent so much time in trains the past year+ that I legit made myself a training program for a moving train 😆 gotta keep those weak comic artist muscles oiled somehow amirite.

More sketchbook moments :) Tampere 2024. I was waiting for a friend to come home from work, so I could go crash at hers. She had a new inflatable mattress for me, but alas no pump. Well two diy pnux should easily tackle this, right?

Ok an additional for digital artists - how do you stop yourself from zooming in WAY TOO DEEP? The tablet makes me loose all concept of size & I find myself polishing practically invisible pixels Silver lining is that them pixels be really popping now 🤠🤠

Ok so, here’s an article about 💫ME💫 from last May, still bit flustered haha And still find it extremely funny that they wrote “Mag Heavy Metal und Punk Rock” 😂😂😂 it’s true and it’s 1:1 what I said but why does it come off as a way too Finnish aka laconic dating profile bio?? 😆💫🩶

Getting out of the bus I saw a frantic teenager running from half a block away tryina catch it. I’ve been reading BrandoSando so felt heroic and stuck my arm to the open bus door. Bus waited, dude arrived, thanked, bus driver stared at me incredulously and I left w the air of hero heavymetal playing

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Berlin Punk Rock Market impressions, 2023 - the same old notebook :) This app feels exactly the spot to post these, IG somehow didn’t 🤔 curious but fun! Finally out in the world!

Introduce yourself with 4 movies. I’d be lying if it wasn’t a mix of silent era / cheesy vampire / ghibli / end of the world But do wanna put Sunset Boulevard the absolute masterpiece here 🤔🤔

Straight outta Mulholland Drive screening at Neues Off 🩶

Other notebook pages include this memory / fast sketches from Puntala Rock, the biblical year of storm and rain with tents collapsing all over whilst we sat in the distro area with zines and such and considered life choices hard 😆🌧️🌊⛺️ haha ya honk if you were there

Pearls from the archives, found this gem from an old notebook 😅😅 Kurvi echoes 😬 1. Encounters in the 24/7 Alepa Me/Clerk/a mega melon 2.what are you looking at?!! 3…what giant melons u got there 4. Giggles/tumbleweed 5.ach so/yax2/well bye 6. I just got a small one/ok

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First comic pages coloring with procreate and wow this is so much better than my old tablet! But damn too much screentime for my eyes, lowkey dizzy now 😅😅 how do you all full digital artists handle this? I don’t get dizzy like this from ink and paper. Back pain yes, dizzy no x) Real question!

Here’s a glam shoot I did last spring with Kimmo Lust and mine’s split queer horror book “Touch Water with Splintered Skin/Fungi” - printed in 3x riso so u know, fancy calls fancy 😌💅🏼😎 Some copies still available ;)

Yesterday’s “what I’m wearing in 5min” selfie drawing situation :) sitting on an invisible chair 🪑🤔and getting more and more of that Matami Mimmi rizz lately amirite

Do you ever read a fantasy book characters epic name, several thousand pages later realize it was written by an American, then try pronounce it that way and feel the whole (fictional) world crumble under you? Or just me?

How do we post here? Is “today I had to ink a protest scene with so many different characters, oh woe is me/damn the writer” reasonable? As a post/update 🤔 teach me o internet users

Our current call for submissions: no theme, just more stories! Deadline: March 20 Guidelines: cbkcomics.com/2024/12/17/c...

Some pics from my comic published in the Almanac Mag from last year to get this started