I Fremtiden blogg

I fremtiden har fått sin helt egen blogg, dere. Der blir det lagt ut en stripe per dag.
Gå hit for å få vite hvordan det vil bli!

http://ifremtiden.blogspot.com

Through the habitrails



Just received my copy of Through the habitrails by Jeff Nicholson. I first noticed his stuff in early nineties indie horror anthology Taboo (the one where Lost Girls did its first run, r.i.p.). Just one of those "How come I haven't seen this guy's stuff all over the place?"-moments. Then I remembered my taste is pretty weird. Anyways, I tracked down a collection published 1994 on an indie called Bad Habit, California (?) it plunked down in my mailbox yesterday and god damn, this is good.

To quote Artbomb.net:

The guy in THROUGH THE HABITRAILS has a job that involves getting taps installed in the back of his neck so his ghoulish bosses can drain him of his juice. His main boss is apparently a gigantic, fat little bastard of a hamster wearing a crown. The job gets so bad that he fashions a jar around his head so he can remain pickled in beer all the time. He has to live with his coworkers, professional politics intermingling inescapably with the personal. These coworkers are egomaniacs, sycophants, drug burnouts, or hollow shells of humans living in cages. He dates some of them anyway.

My point is, track down this man, Jeff Nicholson, make sure he gets his due, elevate him to celebrity status and saturate the market with the products of his imagination.

Really.

SPX 08



Came back yesterday from a fine weekend with Small Press Xpo at Serieteket in Stockholm.

Quick linkspread of personal highlights:

Ulli Lust
Nettinarttu
Nou nou hau
Optimal
Galago
Marko Turunen
Electrocomics
and
Kim Andersson

Take the time to click any of these links. You won't regret it.

Showed my stuff to people from Galago and Top Shelf. I can never make up my mind if I do more damage than good by actively pushing my material upon innocent publishers. Especially after two days of, ehum, immersion into underground culture.

Big thanks to Kalis and Mikko for putting me up + being great company.

I fremtiden stripe 100 - Revenge of the Kjøpesenter, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

I anledning jubileet har jeg postet 13 i Fremtiden-favoritter på Flickr-siden min.

Ta en titt og fortell meg hva du syns.

Things my cat has told me



By Karstein and Oskari the cat

Back in Helsinki

I left Kuala Lumpur airport seven hours before this happened.

12 hours flight in economy class (cramped, bumpy, but the inflight thingy was my friend until the very end) from Kuala Lumpur to Frankfurt, arrived 35 mins late, missed my connecting flight to Helsinki. Had to spend four hours in the grey speck of boredom that is Frankfurt International Airport. I've seen morgues with more joie de vivre.

Big kudos to the Finnair people for great inventiveness when mr. German security man told me I couldn't bring my sealed whiskey with me. It arrived in one piece.

Anyway, the Asia trip was a nice experiment in working while travelling. This is the output:

Tor

Tor er ikke bare hyggelig og dritflink til å lage tegneserier, han er også flink til å si bra ting i avisen.

Så deler av 90's Love song i fjor sommer og det jeg så gikk Ser du meg nå en høy gang. Og det er på ingen måte ment å rakke ned på den boka, for den var helt nydelig.

I fremtiden kommer tilbake til Aftenposten



Leverte for noen dager siden fem nye striper av I Fremtiden, som vil starte i Aftenposten daglig, fra og med 1. April.

jeg gleder meg.

Den observante leser har selvfølgelig fått med seg at I fremtiden allerede går hver lørdag i Dagsavisen, sammen med Are Kalvøs spalte. Ikke sant?

Who is Karstein Volle in Finlandswedish?

In this fst interview, Karstein has slept far too little, but is in good spirits.

Boktid site is live!



The site for Boktid (Book Time), the tv programme I've been making comics for, is up.


For a special behind-the-scenes-featurette on the program, go here.

This of course begs the question if I should start blogging in swedish. For the moment, I'll let that question hang ominously in the air...

Anyways, broadcast time will be Fri 14/3 20:25 on FST5,
rerun sun 16/3 16:35 on the same channel.

Jason in NYT

Pride of Norway, Jason, has started a western project in the New York Times weekend supplement. Go here to check out the two installments available of Low Moon. Looking good.

Night of the Lepus / wussup?

Classic trailer



What is the Lepus? Giant bunny rabbits. I kid you not.

Slow posting here, in the middle of a deadline jam. Episode 4 of action-horror-scifi-pastiche Gokk and a new project for finnish television, premiering friday 14th of March, 20:25 on FST.

Heads up

Anyone with even a passing interest in the medium of the serial pictorial narrative should read Ben Katchor.

Just sayin'.

Trip to France up on Flickr

Polidor interior, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Yes, a week of Angouleme and Paris documented on a craptacular phonecam.

Angouleme

By this time tomorrow, I'll be situated at the largest comics expo in Europe, Angouleme.

Things could definetely be worse.

Gokk episode 2

Gokk episode 2, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Analog comix in the making...