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!

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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.