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Cover for the Finnish edition of Sam Pink’s book I Am Going To Clone Myself Then Kill The Clone And Eat It that’s soon out from Poesia, which by the way provides the best of Finnish new poetry. Buy all their books and you won’t be disappointed – post millenium times can still bring something creative.

Just for your information: about ten years ago a cover I did for a book I don’t quite remember atm was honoured with a prize of ‘The Uggliest Book Cover Of The Year’ at the Turku Book Fair here in Finland. The prize was given based on people’s votes. It made me blush. Anyway, with this cover for Sam’s book I kind of aimed to win that prize again.

And the main thing: it’s a great book that made me laugh most of the time!

Thanks to Rachel and A Bolha Editora Samuel is now out in Brazil as well! Made a new cover for it that’s above. You can take a peak inside in this clip from Bolha. Meanwhile I’ve got +50 pages done for the 2nd book, which is kind of delayed. Anyway, not really hurrying with it as I’m trying to re-figure to whole thing. What I can tell is that the book will be quite different from the 1st one, about the same length but different partitions inside, not just episode after episode. Pretty excited on what I’ve found and now just waiting I’ll really have few months time to concentrate on taking it all to the next level. I’ve scheduled this book to be out Spring 2014 but meanwhile you can most likely find some of the material released here and there in advance. AND I shall finish The Last Book of Hope before that as well, until next autumn. This book will end the five book serie. It took me 10 years to finish it – that’s around 14% of life of an average Finnish male.

That’s a new exhibition – all new works, paintings, drawings and animations done together with Jarno Latva-Nikkola. The title translates to something like ‘Rat & Matchie – The Glass Carriers’. So this is actually what we’ve been working through most of the autumn. I’ll upload some more images later. Meanwhile you can see this stuff until 18.12.2012 in Gallery Rajatila in Tampere, Finland.

Due chaos this comes bit late but anyway: Specter is a new oversized (A3) colourful 40-page anthology from Kutikuti. I think it’s about the first time we had a theme which in this case was Horror & Science Fiction. So, that’s kind of a reality show indeed. Tried out blow pens for the first time with the cover which despite of fainting was kind of fun. Anyway, see more & buy it from KK.

French Alkom’X is a serie of artbooks and its 7th volume a tribute to The Voynich Manuscript. Better get this 256-page book now if you want it, do it here Le Garage L. Some more samples in here. Did one spread for this.

There’s a new episode of Samuel released in Allt för konsten 10 – a +300-page mammoth anthology from Optimal Press in Sweden.