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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.

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...

Toy army T-shirt

The Unitceller T-shirt final design by Juuso Semi.
Character design from left to right: Ville Löppönen, Juuso Semi, and me.

What I`ve been doing...

I`m in a middle of illustrating two pitches for american publishers. So I will be busy for next couple of weeks...

The Wounded Angel

After Hugo Simberg`s great painting.

Woods

Somewhere in the deep woods of Finland. The Farm.

HAHAA. Love to play with these ideas: Wandering in a forest surrounding the farm that Devil visited.

Carnage unfathomable

It’s not over until the fat lady sings

Gaslights 2

The protagonist encounters the empty streets
of a little town.

Gaslights

First page to a comic called "Gaslights". What happens? The protagonist has been married for seven years. He sleeps with his wife Anna. When he wokes up something is totally wrong. The woman next to his is called Anna but she is not the one he has been married to.

another farm pic

Really don`t know where the hell these come from...

I guess subconsciously I`m planning to do a horrorcomic ...or something weird anyway. But it happens on a farm! Partly.

Juggernaut!

That old panhead is so cool and so unstoppable.

More Marvel

Changed the settings so now you can comment my stuff. So please do it!

Frank

The Punisher. One of my favorite characters from the Marvel universe. It seems to be FUN to draw men with blazing guns again!

Of course war and shooting other people is the dumbest thing we can possibly do. Watched yesterday this film called "Joyeux Noel - Merry Christmas". A pasifistic film about first world war which shows that art can really change things.

Action!

Some new pages for the portfolio. Boom boom, blam!

Something strange was happening at the cowbarn...

Green Hell! ...or something

The Reverse Butterfly

Another page 5! This one is for the first chapter of the upcoming Reverse Butterfly -story.

The He-Pig

Page 5 for the giant pig story.