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Aukio -CD cover and one page from the package. I will post more pages later. Finnish readers go and check: http://www.anssikela.com/jumittelua/?p=2354#comment-1684

people have written some nice comments about the cover. Aukio -CD will be published at 09.09.09 which is a nice date to publish things...

CD cover forAnssi Kela

Lately I`ve been busy illustrating a CD -cover and booklet for a finnish artist Anssi Kela. There will be 11 illustrations inside the booklet: one for every song. I`ll post some of them here soon as the CD comes out. Here is a cover for his CD -single "Aamu".

Split Lip in print

SPLIT LIP HORROR WEBCOMIC IN PRINT FOR THE FIRST TIME

April 28, 2009 – Providence, RI – Split Lip, the work called “the predominant original horror comic work on the Internet” by The Horror Blog, is now available in print in the United States for the first time.

Split Lip Volume 1, a 158-page trade paperback collecting 11 horror comics, is available now at http://www.splitlipcomic.com/slc-store.html

Split Lip debuted in Oct. 2006 and has published 24 stories – over 275 pages of free comics – at www.webcomicsnation.com/splitlip. Each story is written by Sam Costello and drawn by artists from all over the world, including Sami Makkonen (Blue, Deadworld: Slaughterhouse), John Bivens (Comic Book Tattoo), and Jason Ho (Agnes Quill).

Split Lip Volume 1 features the work of Makkonen, Bivens, and nine other cartoonists from the U.S., UK, Latin America, and Europe and has been described as "very well-done, very professional ... each story packs a punch" by Comics Should Be Good.

Pulse

Deadworld interview at Pulse. Go and read.

Whitesheet

Cover for the Clever Whitesheet #1. CW is a 6 issue mini-series with sci-fi/horror-crime themes from Ryan Burton and Niko Walter. If the book gets picked up you will see the remaining 5 covers too. All done by me.

Slaughterhouse TPB

Deadworld Slaughterhouse trade paperback (the graphic novel) coming in April 2009. 112 pages, black and white, $11.99. Diamond Order code FEB09 4243

Deadworld finished

Just finished illustrating Deadworld Slaughterhouse. Still planning to do whole new cover for the TPB if I only have time. We will see. I would like to use photos and stuff so it could look something like the CD cover of the previous post.

2009

It`s new year and it seems that I`m going to break my back with the workload I have promised to do. Also mental illnesses will come. Here is a CD -single cover for the finnish band called Rödsögården. There will be another covers after this one. Deadworld Slaughterhouse will be finished in few days. And I will continue with the Hatter M vol 2 but don`t have approval to show any art yet. Sorry.
But it will be the coolest thing I`ve done so far, I can promise.

Bunker

Expanding my artistic expression: WW II gingerbread bunker designed by me. Winter time at Karelia 1942. The scene includes mines, shrapnel covers, tiny spruces (the bigger ones been bombed to hell) and two dead soldiers. One blasted to the top of the roof.

Merry Christmas to you all!

News

Deadworld Slaughterhouse TPB is scheduled for April 2009 release. So beware.

Big news is that I`ve started a whole new graphic novel with Frank Beddor and that book is going to keep me busy for some time... I`m just telling that this IS going to be a big thing. But more about that later.

Halloween!

kvaak

For all ya who can understand the language: review of the Blue at the finnish portal for comics.

Mujer

Check out Mujer!

Mujer is a new webcomic by me and Sam Costello. A six pager full of terror.

Deadworld comps

Just got my copies of Deadworld Slaughterhouse #1 so here is how it looks. Pretty cool, eh? It should be out at the comicshops soon. I`m now hitting the third one. Yep.

at the bar. pic of the weekend

Me and photographer Anni Löppönen at some bar in Helsinki. At background: Helsinki city burning during the wartime (I think).

Me talking 2

...at the Pelit -magazine (finnish computer games mag).

Me talking

Interview at regional finnish newspaper. Check that out.

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!