Slaughterhouse #1

Remember that Deadworld Slaughterhouse #1 will be out at October. Get your copy. The Diamond Order Code for your retailer is: AUG08 3977.

Soon there will be a new webcomic out too. You`ll know the date when I know it.

Deadworld press release

Press release at comicbookresources.com

Tilausmahdollisuus

Kansalaiset!

Voitte tilata Blue:n myös suoraan minulta. Kirjoita sähköpostia osoitteeseen samimakkonen merkkiväliin gmail.com, niin laitan albumin postiin. Hinta: 7 euroa + 3 euroa postikuluihin. Eli kymmenen. Saat kirjan omistuskirjoituksella ja piirroksella varustettuna.

Blue on: 80 sivua, mustavalkoinen + lisäväri. Mukana myös Yes, Mother -tarina.

Lisäys 27.10.2008: Albumia ei voi enää tilata minun kautta, mutta Amazonista yms. sarjakuvakaupoista jne. sitä voi edelleen tilata. Suurkiitos kaikille kannatuksesta!

Me

Photo by Anni Löppönen. And no; the eye is not photoshopped. It`s just me.

Deadworld

BBRRAAIIINNNSSSS!!!

Started illustrating a Deadworld storyarc for Desperado. Called Slaughterhouse, written by Gary Reed . I`ve been a huge Romero fan for years and years so this is a dream come true gig for me. The dead will walk the earth. Once again.

Amazon

Blue is availeble for pre-order at Amazon.

And another preview of the book at Stainless Steel Droppings.

Publishers Weekly

Blue announcement at The Beat. Click the headline.

reprint

"Yes, Mother" is going to be reprinted in the
Chemistry Set anthology, out from Desperado Publishing. It will be in the June Previews.

Blue blog

Starting now, everything concerning Blue will be posted to our new blog.
There is already some new drawings so go and check them.

BLUE

Okay.

Back at last. Whooh. I`ve been working a lot lately and it`s the main reason for not sending any new stuff to my blog. But here is something: Elizabeth Genco started a whole new blog for our graphic novel project "Blue"; go and see (click the headline of this post as usual). There is some news for you.

These pages are from the Blue as well. As are the pages I posted on February 01, 2008

6d

Illustration for SixDegrees magazine article about prostitution.

Sarjainfo

Two and a half page Interview at the new Sarjainfo (finnish magazine about comics).

Summoning the Pages

BTW: The new profile picture is by photographer Anni Löppönen. You`ll find the link to her blog from the right corner of this page.

6D

Illustration for the new Six Degrees magazine.

http://ohjelmat.yle.fi/krappu/etusivu

I am this months artist at the K-rappu homepage (finnish TV-show about culture and arts). And I`m proud to be the first one. It is going to be four pics in total; one each week so check those out. And yes, it is in finnish... It`s also a comic so there will be some continuity.

The Secret

Illustration for SixDegrees magazine article about The Secret.

90s

Illustration for SixDegrees magazine article about 1990s.

...Well it was inspirational.

The Harvestmen

The first five pages of The Harvestmen by me and Sam Costello is now at Split Lip (Click headline). It`ll be 5 pages each Sunday throughout October until all 20 are posted. Go and get horrified.

Negative Burn #13

Negative Burn #13 is out! Get your copy; Yes, Mother is in it!

XXX

Pornshop owner of Kallio

"That whore."

The monstrous pornshop owner of Kallio observes the people passing by his store.

sketching

Here is a sketch for a short story I will write and draw soon as I have time... It`s about disabled person who writes intelligent things to a building wall.

go to chemset 2

Forgot to mention this: if you still haven`t read it, the Yes, Mother is now in its entirety at chemset. Click the headline.

The Helsinki Comic Festival 2

Got the first price (5000 euros) from the competition. The jury`s argument for my work was as follows: "Rohkea aihevalinta, viittaa suomalaiseen taiteeseen ja historiaan. Haasteelliset limitetyt aikatasot. Vahva aloitusrepliikki, komea toteutus. Tarttuu voimakkaasti aiheeseen, ja näyttävä kuvallinen esitys." For those abroad I`m saying that these were pretty encouraging words. Now you can at least think: "what the fuck is this language they are mumbling at the country where the icebears walk the streets". They don`t.

The Helsinki Comic Festival

The Helsinki Comic Festival will take place on the 15th and 16th of September which means next weekend! So if you happen to be here, you must be there! I`ll be on stage at Sunday some point between 12.15-12.45pm when the winners of the comic competition (check older posts for details) are announced. Also the competition comic book "5 fantasiaa" or"5 fantasies" will be published (includes "Pelastus ja Anteeksianto" by me). Be there and say hello to me!

Amaranth

New official Nightwish video has an interesting theme also familiar to me. Click the headline.

Split Lip

A 20 pager I just started illustrating. The Harvestman is written by Sam Costello and it will be published at Split Lip as a webcomic. Starts at October. Will give you the exact launching date soon as I know it.

Last Monday

Michelangelo Antonioni is dead.

Ingmar Bergman is dead.

go to chemset

Yes, Mother will be going up on Chemset starting Wednesday. A page a week. Go and see! (Just click the headline).

Negative Burn

Yes, Mother will be published in Negative Burn -anthology series issue 13, by Desperado publishing.

Pelastus ja Anteeksianto

...will be published in Sarjis 2007 -competition anthology this autumn. The competition was announced by the Egmont publishing and Sarjakuvantekijät ry (association for finnish comic creators) earlier this year. I am one of the finalists. The winner will be declared 16.9.2007 at Helsinki comic convention.

http://www.chemsetcomics.com/

Long long time since...

But here is what: I just finished (few minutes ago) illustrating an 11 -page comic "Yes, Mother" (grayscale). Written by Elizabeth Genco it will be published on The Chemistry Set -site ( I will give the starting date soon as I know it). If you don`t already know E. then go to her site: http://www.elizabethgenco.com/
There is also something about Yes, Mother if you scroll the page...
Anyway here is the page one of it. I`ll be back sooner than this time.

It`s been a while again... but yea; I´ve been working the title called "Pelastus ja anteeksianto" roughly translated as `Salvation and Forgiveness`. These are just clips from it. But it`s finally finished, the ten pages of it, so I`m moving forward to something new...

Some new shit. Just to feel it. The Ghost Collector.

http://www.myspace.com/samimakkonen

I finally have myspace. It still is a kind of skeleton of what it should be but there is some pics you haven`t seen here. And if u want to be my friend...

Cover art

First version of a CD cover for a finnish heavy rock band.

It`s very much inspired by Black Sabbath`s "Black Sabbath" cover, released in 1970.

Finally back

Here is a page from a 10 page comic I`m doing for some competition. I`m now struggling to find new ways to make my art more fresh and more horror. It`s gettin better but at this stage It`s more concentrating, more thinking so it`s also going to be less pics. Which hopefully are better.

Hyvää joulua!

I probably won`t be here until January 2007 so merry christmas and happy new year everybody!

playing with dolls

...That`s what I`ve been doing.

The Ghost Collector

This is a page from previous package I did with american writer Justin Jordan. We are still waiting a response from a couple of US publishers... Although I am starting to believe we didn`t get the greenlight with this one. Shit. Damn. The story is great!

...from the Beach

Another page from the same package.

It`s my birthday today and I`m feelin tired.

Beach 4.0

Sorry I`ve been away for so long but all kinds of shit have happened meanwhile.

However here is the possible cover for the story.

Beach 4.0 is a dark gothic (as you can imagine) story about vengeance, lost love and ghosts of the yesterday written by Christian Westerlund and illustrated by moi.

Logo by Juuso Semi

Horror said Brando

Still working with the same sample pages (second pitch). Took a little longer than I had thought because of the atmosphere that is totally different from the first one. Adapting you know...

Ghosts of the children

A detail from a pitch I`m illustrating right now...