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Here they are… the books I’ve been working with through 2022–2023, all finally out the printers – happy days!
TIHKU is the first book in new Kutikuti anthology series, presenting 12 Finnish contemporary comic artists. The book is (or will be soonish) out in English (Living The Line), French (La 5e Couche) and Finnish (Zum Teufel). I’ve been part of the editorial team along Hannele Richert and Heikki Rönkkö, while Benjamin Bergman worked out the design. The twelve works are carefully edited into a wholesome of 104 pages with two tones. Comes with a different cover for each language edition. The US edition is currently available for backing in Kickstarter so feel free to help LTL and the release of the whole serie (that’s planned to be four books).
SARJAKUVAN PAIKKA (engl. ‘The Room / Space of Comics’) is a book written by Ville Hänninen defining the current state of comic art in Finland, with focus on contemporary comics and how our dear field is fit in art scene in general. I worked with this as the planner and later producer. The book is in Finnish (as it’s meant for the structures around comics in Finland). Includes essays from Ilan Manouach (AI in comics), Aarnoud Rommens (contemporary comics around the world) and me (contemporary comics in Finland). 112 pages full of information, printed with to tones with graphic design by Eeva Meltio.
Future and the merely textual book on Samuel I’ve already posted about so no more about them.
Anyway, really glad to have all of these out. 648 pages and a lot of work. Thanks to all the authorities who made the projects possible with funding. Cheers to the translators, letterers and everyone involved as well.
New projects ahead! Ahoy!
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So, we also made a 50 pcs edition of Samuel cap as classic 80s trucker snab-backs. This is only for the brave ones, shouting out colourfully yet one more Samuel slogan ‘Make Life Great Again’. Get this one as well from Sam’s store.
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People have asked for Samuel shirts so I made some with ‘epic’ Samuel silhouette. The pink and green are ordinary tees while the white one is one size & long length and the grey one women’s loose fit. All 100% cotton and available from the new Samuel site.
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Just a quick look at the new prints made for the release of Sam’s website.
The idea here was that Samuel interacts with other ‘comic characters’. I aimed to do a small book based on these but ended up doing prints. There will be more made if people want, scripted 24 of them. And yes, I’ve asked permissions from active artists, in this case Gunnar, Jim and Olivier.
Just to say, these are all in size 20 x 20 cm, silkscreened with four neon colours with edition of 100 pcs each. Get them for 20 € / pcs in Samuel’s webstore.
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While Samuel’s third book is getting some shape, Ari and I have worked out a real oldschool WEBSITE for this silent white fellow of ours.
Please notice that there’s a LOT of new stuff in the webstore that’s basicly released at this very moment – prints, tees and more. All very limited print-runs so be fast.
Besides that the site contains some surprises that we let you find on your own. More to come at some point.
Anyway, thanks to Ari for the code, all the tuning and patience!
In case you’re looking for good anthologies and have missed Fanta’s recent serie NOW you better check it out. Fresh & international with mostly new works. The latest second issue contains 120 pages and a new Samuel 6-pager among them.
In all featuring works from Ariel Lopez V., Fabio Zimbres, Conxita Herrero, Dash Shaw, Nick Thorburn, Sammy Harkham, Joshua Cotter, Susan Jonaitis & Graham Chaffee, Anuj Shrestha, Andrice Arp, Joseph Remnant, James Turek, Christian Rex Van Minnen and me.
Tommi Musturi 