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lisäpäivityksiä tulee kun lisäpäivityksiä tulee. tässä linkki qruiser-blogiin, au au jee jee.

Mari Ahokoivun inspiraatiokurssilta. palautteenannossa Mari luki sivut väärässä järjestyksessä, mutta kaipa tää toimii niinkin :D lähinnä kokeilin lutrata pullomusteen kanssa ja harjoittaa ruudutonta sarjakuvailmaisua, mutta tehtävänanto ei innostanut -> sisällöllisesti kakkaa. oh well. pfffffrktsptftkpt taidepaskaa.

photarikurssilta. nonsense-strippi, jonka ainoa funktio on olla väriensä kantaja. taidot toivottavasti parantuneet sitten tämän hirvityksen valmistumisen :D mut hauskaa oli :)

Muistin tämän kuvatiedoston olemassaolon vasta joulun jälkeen, ja ajattelin muutenkin että lienee huomaavaisempaa julkausta ihmisten saamia joulukortteja vasta hyvin joulun jälkeen. Tämä jäikin vuoden 2011 ainoaksi originelliksi joulukortiksi ja vähänkään joululahjaa muistuttavaksi asiaksi, jonka lähetin! Muut saivat Kyhäritie -postikortteja. Tunnistajat tunnistaa.

Ihan vaan koska on ollut hiljaista viime aikoina täällä, pistän tänne jotain jonka jo pistin deviantART-tililleni (jonka muuten poistin pari päivää sitten). Alkusyksyn satoa, pikapikamaalaus väriopin tehtävien lomassa.

Petteri Tikkasen kuvituskurssin viimeinen harjoitustehtävä oli juliste julkisuuden henkilöstä. Lady Gaga oli helppo valinta, koska a) siitä saa helposti tunnistettavan näköisen, b) siis niinq kaikki taiteiliat diggaa gagaa sillee kawaii. Hyvin jännällä tavalla tuli naurettavan pieni resoluutio kun sarjislinjan kuvista downloadasin. Oh well. Materiaali: lähikaupan vesivärilehtiön takakansi, lähikaupan musta permanenttitussi, valkoinen guassi, kuplamuovi, kaapinpohjalta löydetty huulipuna. Diggasin kyl ihan sikana työskennellä ei-valkoiselle pohjalle. Vois tehä vaik useampia juttuja tolla keinolla. Valkoisesta tulee heti astetta sielukkaampaa tällä tavalla. Tikkanenkin tykkäsi :)

" Jani Toivola ristillä ", akvarelli paperille. Näyttää maalausteknillisesti ns. hevonpaskalta ja krusifiksi tuli kyllä nähdyksi aikamoisen monta kertaa kritiikin aikana, mutta enpähän kuollut häpeästä; kyllä tätä esitellä kehtasi kuitenkin.

Tällä viikolla 1) ahdisti ja 2) oli tekstauskurssi. Syy-seurausyhteyksiä suuntaan tai toiseen ei voitane suoraan vetää, mutta kyllä se rivivälien yms kanssa tuskailu ja turhautuminen edesauttoi sitä riittämättömyyden tunnetta :D Mutta sen enempää kiusallisen henkilökohtaisia asioita kaivelematta, katselkaamme tätä kiusallisen henkilökohtaista sarjakuvaa! On se mieltäylentävää 21-vuotiaana tajuta, ettei osaa kirjoittaa suoraan. Ainakaan jos yrittämällä yrittää.

Sydän, sydämen keikka Oulun Kuusisaaressa oli sangen yhteisöllinen kokemus.

http://youtu.be/d4lPA5G0DOo

HUOM! 5. toukokuuta Tampere Kuplii -festivaaleilla myynnissä myös pienlehteäni, ks. kuva alla. Tulkaa ja ihastukaa! And now for something completely different:

Näistä nättimys-murusista vois tehä joskus vaik tarroja johki ernu-coniin! Who's with me?

http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/kulttuuri/roisit-kuvat-jarkyttavat-limingan-taidekoulun-toita-vaaditaan-tuhottaviksi/593444/

Enkä osaa oikeestaan ees suhteuttaa että onko toi nyt TOASin mittapuulla kauheen hyvä listasijoitus. Mutta yksiöissä olin ennen spesifikaatioiden spesifiointia jossain sijalla miljoona, että sikäli. Jee solukämppä Treelta! Jee homofobisia tiukkapipokämppiksiä á la Nixun eka oma kämppä! Jee katkeraa ironiaa ja marttyyriutta!

oma skanneri, jihuu! 40e maksoi jne liminka feels :'( pojat on tyhymiä. nunnailua jee!

Parljapuupa diipa duupa parljapuupa diipa duupa diipa dai. Sain mää toki rahaaki siitä keikasta, duh. Enhän mää nyt muuten.

Ei tota kyl afk-kynästä erota, ainakaan meikän nyyppäsilmä. Alla vielä wippiä, homehtunu viikkotolkulla nurkassa mut kyl toi jo alkaa joltaki näyttään: Sille ois tarkotus tulla pitkät tulipunaset leidikynnet. Ja rintakarvoja, rintakarvoja kaikkialle. Jalkoihinkin. Rintakarvoja jaloissa. Joo.

Muinoin mulla oli sarjisprojekti nimeltä Kolmipiikit. En aio pitkästyttää lukijoitani selittämällä jonkun olemassaolemattoman proggiksen juonta, mutta kerrottakoon sen verran, että alettuani piirtämään Pepperiä Pulssi -lehteen huomasin käyttäneeni viimeksimainitussa käytännössä kaikki Kolmipiikkien henkilökemialliset koukut. Pepperin humoristinen hassu-eläin-tekee-hassuja-asioita-formaatti sopi paremmin siihen pirtaan, mikä Kolmipiikeissä olisi ollut teiniangstia ja tahatonta komiikkaa. Alla oleva sivu on äsken väsäämäni muka-sivu Kolmipiikeistä(onko olemassa sanaa harjoituksen vuoksi tehdylle, enemmän tai vähemmän loppuun asti viedylle sarjakuvasivulle? Pseudosivu? Fauxview? Pitääkö moinen sana keksiä itse?). Halusin harjoitella kaikenlaisia asioita: dramaattista varjostusta, lasin ja nesteen heijastuksia, hieman kaupunkikuvaakin(joka yrittää olla Oulua ulkomuistista, traagisesti lässähtäen). Mutta ennen kaikkea etsin(siinä täysin onnistumatta) uutta, realistisempaa tyyliä, joka tarkemmin ajatellen sopii tarinan nykymuotoon vielä huonommin kuin yleensä käyttämäni cartoon-tyyli. Tykkään kuitenkin yhä Kolmipiikkeihin ajan myötä kehittyneestä taustatarinan aihiosta, ja tämä piirustustyyli(ja Johanna Sinisalo ) ohjenuoranani voisin kehittää kyseistä mytologoidia eteenpäin, astetta noirimpaan ja häiritsevämpään suuntaan.

Kyllä, imuroin alasti. Ja kyllä, imuroida-verbi on imperfektissä.

Pyhäinpäivän kunniaksi kauhistuttavan luokatonta 24h-sarjakuvaa! Hauska viikonloppu oli, kiitos siitä vielä Limingan alumnille (Ja ennen kuin joku kysyy miljoonannen kerran niin 24HCD on se juttu kun piirretään 24 sivun sarjakuvastoori 24 tunnissa noniin jees ok) English translation included for my foreign friends! I am so sorry for polluting your eyes. Uu ne vetää pilvee, so edgy. Värejä oli hauska hinkata ja brushpen on jälleen suuri rakastettuni pitkän vihanpidon jälkeen "Phew!" "I know right!" "Eleven points out of ten to this stuff." Mukavuusalue! Pepperi the moniongelmainen homoporo on seikkaillut jo kahdessa Pulssi -lehdessä ilmestyneessä sarjakuvassa. "Not staying for meditation?" "Take a wild fucking guess." "O.K. then." Skannerin automaattiasetukset söivät sivun reunan :( Lisäksi cameo-rooli hippiäislaiskiaisena. Tämän ja muidenkin sivujen värittämiseen meni vähintään kaksi tai kolme tuntia. "Weed eyes." "F.U." "Is the wizard here yet?" "Probably." "You gonna drink that first?" "Hm?" "Nevermind." "Son of a--" Ja se toinen päähenkilö, sidekick ja järjen ääni. Yöhuikka on ihan oikea baari Oulussa. Tämä on äärettömän tärkeä tieto. "Evening, boys." Homobaarin naistenvessassa on shamaani. Argumenttisi ei päde. Tätä hinkkasin reippaasti yli kolme tuntia. "Kudos for all this moon-blood, Nalle. Everything I needed I found here." "Glad you like it." "What the fuck is moonbl--" *floating noises* "--ood. Ew." "Here's your spell. Have fun!" Reunasyöppö skanneri iskee jälleen! Lisäksi kompastuin sittenkin jokavuotiseen mukavuusalueeseeni. "Tänä vuonna en tee scififantasiaa-- Ohhoh." Pehmensin mukadiippiyttä tamponin hivelevällä vanupinnalla. Tämä oli viimeinen sivu jonka sain tehtyä loppuun asti. Loput ovat luonnoksia, jos niitä niiksikään kehtaa enää loppupäässä kutsua :D "I wonder if this jinx is legit." "Only one way to find out." "No. Don't you fucking... NO." -- "...ckin' faggot...!!!" Letkunpuisto woopwoop! Piccolo-Grill in memoriam :'''(( Tässä vaiheessa kello oli jo jotain neljä aamuyöllä ja ES pärisi. "Well, how'd it go?" "Well, the spell worked. That dude took me to his crib sporting a raging boner... Fucked me like a loony reindeer all night and fell asleep somewhere around small hours. -- Then, when I was about to leave, he was about to practically kidnap me. -- Then I ran for my life to my apartment. -- Some strong jinx, huh?" "It really shouldn't be that strong. I mean, it should have worn off by morning." "Maybe it's some kind of a 24-hour thing then." "Dunno. We should probably call the tecnomancer." Tekstiä tekstiä tekstiä. Oli lystiä piirtää poronnussintaa täydellisen univajeen kourissa. "That was Nixu. Something urgent." "Not staying for coffee?" "Take a wild fucking guess." "O.K. then." -- "You! Take me!" "No, me!" "What the fucking hel--" "TAKE US BOTH!" *Benny Hill -tunnari* "NIXU HELP ME" Nixu ei enää auta. Mikään ei enää auta. Pakene kun vielä voit, Pepperi. Pakene sinäkin, lukija. Ennen kuin wackyness ja väsynyt alisuorittaminen vievät sinutkin! Aaaaaaaaa! *** Pepperi seikkailee seuraavan kerran Pulssin numerossa 3, joka julkaistaan vielä tämän vuoden puolella ja on luettavissa myös .pdf-muotoisena Rovaniemen Setan sivuilla. Läpän taso luultavasti hieman korkeampaa, stay tuned!

It's sketchdump time! Woop woop! T-paitadesign viime kesältä. Oulun Setan suunnittelukilpailuun, tykkäsivät mutta oli liian raju esim. kouluvierailuille. Ai miten niin muka? :DD (sivellintussi, Photoshop) Sitten randomia jota en jaksanutkaan (juurikaan) selostaa. Noita kahta ylempää vois joutessaan kyl väritellä joskus.

Alimmaisena luokkakavereiden kesken Linja25/666:ssa kyhätty impro, värikoodattuna!

"Mitä, olet 21-vuotias etkä ole kertaakaan nähnyt Star Warseja? Etkö tiennyt, että kaikki maailman kulttileffat pitää olla nähtynä ja klassikkokirjat luettuna niiden julkaisuvuonna tai viimeistään ennen teini-ikää?"

sit biletettiin kauppayhtiöl lol no1 curr

Kahtokkeepa tämän uutisen kommenttiosio lämppäriksi (Ranneliike on suomalainen hlbt-portaali). Esiinnyn siis itsekin k.o. DVD:llä, mikäli tämä ei käy ilmi uutisessa. Ja loppukevennykseksi vielä tänään kirpparilta bongaamani paita, joka on toistaiseksi "homomaisin"/"neitimäisin"/whateverein vaatekappale jonka olen ikinä ylleni pannut. Yllättäen ostopäätöksen sinetöi printti ja 1,50€ hinta. Stay classy, stay fabulous, stay queer!

Triidriim julkaistaan Tampere Kuplii 2013 -festivaaleilla Pienlehtimarssissa lauantaina 23. maaliskuuta! Hinta 2€! Hae omasi! Pöö!

http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/kulttuuri/roisit-kuvat-jarkyttavat-limingan-taidekoulun-toita-vaaditaan-tuhottaviksi/593444/ http://tajukankaankutoja.sarjakuvablogit.com/

I got a closet! / Clothing inventory: / Golly what ugly clothes I have! I've grown out of several of these, and carried them with me for years. / Time to book a flea market table, then! Yet another virginity to lose. / Then I shaved my moustache. / I miss those whiskery sons-of-bitches already. check out my back n booty yo

"I'm the smallest pony in the world / small and adorable / I'm the raddest pony in the world / Fuck all y'all yeah yeah!" Perhaps it's not the right moment to resume smoking. / Asthmatic pressure in my throat inspired me to outline a comic short story. / Mute guy adventures! Social justice! / Drawing in a train has its own challenges. / Can't really focus on details or small pictures. / (Opening-slash-graduation clothes: Collar shirt, cleavage shirt, tie, skinny jeans, Converse sneakers) / ~Free punch party!~ Renovation accident: / Damnit. / (The sock box broke down on me) / (Removing the old band-aid) / Coolest scar ever! Spring in Hatanpää. / I felt way more inspired on the outward journey. '

(On a stroll, minding my own business.) / (Harem pants) / (Ukulele) (Ice cream) 'Dude, was that a BOY or a GIRL?' 'Both, perhaps?' / 'Nah, it was totally a boy.'

'Would you like to sign a petition for preserving health services in Oulu?' / 'Absolutely!'

"Honey u so dull u must be havin banal sex " // Today in Nixu's kitchen! / #666: Vegan Qrust-Punx Stew Stuff! / "Yay." // 1) Boil things in water! (Macaroni & soya chunks will do) // 2) Smother with spice and ketchup! // 3) ENJOY! "Yay." "Today I'll need chocolate, nuzzles, and an AK-47." // At home: / "OMP." //"Huh, I don't feel like killing people anymore. / And screw the nuzzles, too."

This is my soul. / Or my heart or my self in its entirety or whatever. / IT'S A CONDOM WITH A TURD INSIDE. // Then the shit ferments inside the condom and produces gases. / And the condom inflates like so. // Then sometimes I open my mouth to talk about irrelevant shit or to laugh or to make others laugh or to cry , and the gas comes out. / Fuck what stench. // BUT THE SHIT STAYS AND WON'T GO. Ever. / THE END.

Painting class has been a blast! Of shit. On my face. But sometimes it's been really rewarding and lots of fun. Here are some of my favourites. All have bee painted with acrylic paints, usually within a couple of hours because I'm lazy and impatient. Leeeaaaves Mooore leeeaaaaves and letting the wet paint run artistically to distract the viewer from all of the randomness! Replica of Mother and Child by Egon Schiele. And this. Guess which one is the free-time for-shits-and-giggles painting about a subject of choice, e.g. glass ceiling, self-indulgent Liv Strömquist pastiche, and smashing the patriarchy via turning the tables regarding the issue.

(Hanging noises) / (Oulu Art Museum pop-up exhibition) // Hi! / What a hot guy! Act cool! // Do I know you? / ("Suddenly" anime) // Well, no, but I read the article about you on Kaleva newspaper, and I'm following your comic blog. / Haha yeah please marry me. // There you go, hanging hooks! // Cockblocked! / Goddamn wench. We made the Finnish news! Starts at 18:00-ish, available outside of Finland if you don't mind them speaking Finnish only. And here's the link to the Kaleva news article, in case you've missed it. Again in Finnish.

"Are meat pies good? / Which member of the True Finns party would you shag if you had to? / Which vegetable would be the most uncomfortable when stuck up your nose?" I'm a vegetarian-going-vegan at the moment, but one can hardly call meat pies meat anyway. / They're no good, but I rarely eat anything for the taste anyway. Olli Immonen! / And you wouldn't even have to force me to tap that... Idk some super sharp, skinny and loamy carrot I guess. "Describe the prince of your dreams!" Dreadlocks - Piercings - Beard / Nice little squishy gut / Master chef - Tattoos - Tall - Strong (but not too buff) / Hairy as fuck.

"Your ultimate sexual fantasy?" "How should Lord Of The Rings have ended?" "How would you use pantyhose in a DIY kind of way?" // That's a surprisingly tough question! / All in all, I'm rather a vanilla type of guy. // Oh I get it now! Hahaha, funny. A fourth movie is added to the trilogy, in which people just fare each other well for three hours, just like in the ending scene (/scenes) in Return Of The King. // Seeya, we'll miss you guys! / Sob, bye. // Sob sob sob // Also a couple of impromptu non-white characters, and Tom fuckin' Bombadil. I'd probably use them to filter coffee, being too lazy to buy new fiter bags. / And if they were kinky-red fishnets I would pull them over my head and rob a bank.

Could it be that, with the queer scene of Oulu being quite microscopic, lots of people merely pretend to like each other just so that they wouldn't seem like douchebags in the eyes of the entire scene? / And that this dishonesty bitters already bitter people even more? And that the ones deliberately avoiding "The Scene" because of this are, in fact, contributing to this bitterness? / Is it like this everywhere in Finland? Cliques keep a-clique-ing, outsiders poison the air by dissing the air poisoned, queer community gets cut off, isolated, excluded even for itself , and everybody has to fight their battles alone? / I'm gonna need a lot more beer than this.

"What weird habits do you have?" Sleeping on the floor (is sleeping a habit?) / Drag (party-crossdressing) / And spontaneously speaking Swedish! // But what is weird? Lots of western people sleep without a bed frame. / A motor mouth is a motor mouth in every language they can speak, and I doubt that anyone (especially not me!) considers being talkative to be weird. / But I suppose wearing "women's" clothing is weird, unusual, freaky, for most people. And awesome things are often weird. (Drag = awesome, yo.) "Who would you choose to represent Finland in EurovisionSong Contest?" Mariska! [Finnish pop singer slash songwriter] / Shit just got real! Put on these old rap clothes of yours, and off to Denmark you go! [I have no fucking clue if this is a really bad trick question, or non sequitur.] "What would you do with Moominpappa, Sauli Niinistö, [current president of Finland] and Johanna Tukiainen? [Finnish cosmopolitan]"

January // I spilled my coffee. / Oh dear! // February // Gimme a kiss. / Smoochy smoochy. April // Gimme a ki-- / I'M DYING HRRGHHGH GO BUY PAINKILLERS // June the 12th, eleven days until trip to Helsinki // My throat's a bit sore. Correlation tells me that next up will be death! Seeing Axu: x=time; y=health

I haven't updated my blog in two weeks! Crap. / Ok. / Yay wohoo I'm a dog. // Mostly because I've been procrastinating with my reply on this question. / 'I am interested in seeing some sort of an introduction to your values. Perhaps these questions'll help with your reply: What are the things that guide your decisions? What does your set of values consist of? What do you find the most important in your life?' // You're too deep to me Jenni I'm sorry. / BUT I PROMISE I'LL TRY, it's me who's building up all these expectations of a quality reply. // P.S. Happy Pride everybody, I'll probably be kickin' neo-nazi and fundamentalist Christian ass with the Black Pink Bloc.

SHIT THAT STRAIGHT PEEPS SAY: // I'm not a racist/homophobe/transphobe/sexist, BUT... // You can't diss heterosexuals, that's OPPRESSION! You're too provocative. To my taste. Boohoo. You queer person. / I'm not a feminist because I don't hate men! Also can't we just call it equality-ism or something? FEMEN AKHBAR!!! /

Allright let's answer Jenni's big question now! / Imma start with a vague list... / This is what a red-green-black-pink queer-feminist vegetarian slut anarcho-antifascist genderfuck-humanist looks like! Vegetarian: I still eat egg and dairy, and all in all I'm not quite careful with this. / Oops, Moroccan oranges. Well, I can't just throw these away either. / And in a capitalist society there's no such thing as ethical food! (See: soy products.) // Queer-feminist: I am privileged. I'm a Caucasian, able-bodied cis-male in a bubble of Nordic social security. / Clink! (Shit.) / But I want to use my privilege for good things. Same rights for men, women, and others alike! (Also, I don't want to seem like I'm begging for cookies for being a decent human being.) Slut: Sex is nice and you can have as little or much as you like*. / Sex workers' rights need working on, too. / (*: I'm checking my privilege here, too; (gay) men are 'allowed' to be slutty...?) / I'm also pro poly, if not polyamorous myself! / Love, like sexuality and gender, is a spectrum! / One person can't always complete you 100%! And uhh. / Anarcho-punx of Oulu are real aggressive snobs, I've heard, but I'm probably more of a hippie punk. / System sucks but I can't explain how, wanna smoke some pot? / Relationship anarchy (see above) is a good start. Personal is political! / Too much text / Allright let's focus now. I think I'm rather typical an artistic person, as far as my values go. / With a dash of a twenty-something brat's tendency for ambivalence, laziness and urge to provoke and show off.

"In the year 2000, Eastern Tuira region of city of Oulu has been transported into the orbit in its entirety." "Light! Light comes from the pussy hole!"

Hi, last night I couldn't sleep because I'm an unproductive mediocre amateur artist manque! / And in the fall this feeling won't only nag at me during the night, fucking YEAH.

Oops I've been making ask-roll replies for, like, two months. / Let's take it up a notch!* / (* I reply to everything hastily with a panel or two.) "What's your perfect dinner like?" Free food Okay, well... / I think that's supposed to be... / Veggie patty - soya puree - halloum cheese - cashew nut salad stuff - with mild hot sauce and a pint of beer. / IDK I'm the worst at coming up with meals! / Which is why I'm so damn skinny. "Why do men have nipples?" / In the early development of the foetus, three months after conceiving... / Because guy nipples are the most erotic thing ever. // "Must there be wank-ness in life?" / Yes, see previous panel. / Also, it's fun, safe and educational! // "Why do people drink coffee?" / Some prefer heartburns and arrythmia! / And hey, at least it's not cocaine. (It's worse.) "Who inspire you, artistically or attitude-wise?" / Oh god, another big question... / I mean! Uhh. Let's try a couple of caricatures. // And idk: friends, life, and everything, oops it didn't become such a long list after all. "Your favourite hairy thing?" / Men would be too obvious an answer, but sloths fo' lyfe tho. / Although we're rather mainstream by now. // "Your favourite pet peeve?" / Misogyny! I follow tons of angry feminists on Tumblr, and seethe with rage and disgust. / Also homophobia, transphobia, racism and imperialism. // "Today's clothing meme?" / Morning: Zapatist coffee. / Forenoon: Wrap-around dress. / Midday: Cleaning day. "What would you do, should you get to have Timo Soini [leader of the right-wing populist party True Finns] as a sex slave for one day?" // "What would you do, should the world run out of coffee and tobacco?" // "If poop were delicious, would you eat it?" / If it's good enough for bunnies, it's good enough for me. // "Show us yourself making a 'fine supper.'" / ... / Can't reach. Fuck. PHEW NOW I'VE REPLIED TO EVERYTHING AND THE USB DOCK FOR MY MOUSE STARTED LAGGING AS WELL HEY Y'ALL

I want to make feminist comics, / but I do not want to be preachy. / Can feminist comics be funny? // Can one pull jokes from structural violence without violating its victims - or making the perpetrators seem like harmless goofies? / "Oh you guys! Hyuk hyuk!" / "Patriarchy is magic!" The comic Pepperi , which I've been creating for Northern Finnish SETA s' magazine Pulssi , has become increasingly feminist... / In a sense that I'm trying to include other oppressed groups in it, other than white gay men. / (At which point I forgot the funny-part, oops.) // Damn how paranoid I am! / All-inclusive comic is way more sanctimonious hypocrisy than a comic sticking to a social issue or two would be 'white-washed' or 'sexist!' // "That sure took embarrassingly long to realize." / "Leaving the bar setting would already give substance to this chaos of a comic." (Also there aren't even ten full Pepperi strips in existence holy shit Nixu breathe) / Anyway! I'm hoping to receive answers to all of my questions about feminist comics at Helsinki Comics Festival at Sep 6.-8. / (There'll be feminist stuff there in case you didn't catch that OKAY SEE YA THERE BYE) https://www.facebook.com/pepperisarjis : Pepperi the comic, in Finnish only. http://www.rovaniemenseta.fi/pulssi-lehti/ : Pulssi magazine as PDF files, in Finnish only. http://sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi/ - Helsinki Comics Festival homepage. Somehow I felt the need to add this link, too, who needs Google anyway, also who the fuck is Helsinki.

At least now I've got a reason to learn how to draw bikes. I also bought a (cheap shitty) lock. / (Random geezer who picked on me -->) / You won't survive a day with that thing. / I know. // You a student? / Yeah... // Here, have some money for a new lock!

This turned out a little animu but graphic designers dig that for some reason, shitshitfuck can I just punch a thing. / Better. // This little sloth went to bed early on a Saturday night. / This little sloth committed to repaying summer study allowances. / This little sloth did a little bit of rummaging and vacuuming. "DO YOU GUYS EVER LIKE" Arrrgh I'm such a fraud , some people have real problems with anxiety, and they're unemployable and messed up and I'm here like / Yeah I'm looking forward to school and the comics festival and at times I was a bit anxious at summer job but other than that I'm completely fit for work and I do have a support network but yeah sure I'll take that psychiatrist's appointment. / NO. SHUT UP. YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING HERE. "No"

Sigh. / There. / Now I'm ready to tell about Helsinki Comics Festival! Eeeuhhhmm first there was a feminist low-threshold comic workshop, a week before the festival. / Solidarity - Sexism - Queer - Safety - Otherness - Gender roles - Home / Time Warp! - A gay dude visits his home village and thinks back to his childhood. / I sold five copies. Then I mostly hung around until the festival. / And folded comic packs for the comic-o-matic for the Comics Centre. Festival weekend! // What I said to Mia Vistilä: [the author of Dear Sisters the comic] / Look at this awesome shirt! // What it probably came out like: / I want social justice chocolate cookies! / No Nixu that's bad allyhood! / Beer. This was so worth skipping school for an entire week. Now home by midnight! / Ca. 50€ worth of comics and stuff. // Ring-a-ling, we can't find the driver, just a sec. / What. // Ring-a-ling, the train's out of order and we'll be stuck for two fucking hours. // At 3:30 AM I got home. The next schoolday was quite painful! / Sorry I took a while, please don't look at me or talk to me. / I had a blast. Doin' it again next year! (The theme then will be Germany and LGBTQ-comics.)

Culture class orienteering party! / (I was a checkpoint host) // Then to Haapavesi, hungover as fuck. / Where the fuck is my tax card. / What the fuck am I gonna teach 'em. / What the fuck's that smell. // I'm teaching comics in Haapavesi Academy for two days. This should be fun. I thought you were a new student. / What, Niko's teaching here?? // Boiled-to-death vegetables for lunch. // Then I couldn't sleep! / You're not making progress in college! You're lazy and talentless! Comics won't make ends meet! My boobs are growing out of my neck.

Walking on the street. / Walking on the street while singing "Crazy In Love" by Beyoncé. https://myspace.com/tuomashenrikki I attended a bitchin' music gig instead of Zombie Walk. // The next morning: / I'm so hungover that my eye hurts. // But the pain didn't go away! / Zombie infection! Well it certainly isn't a piece of solid material in there. I'll prescribe eye drops. / Okay. // I hope they're one of those pupil-dilating drops.

Babies! / (One notices whom I drew last.) The clock is 11AM. Now you may start your thinking process. / I'm thinking of turning my short film script into a comic script! / Remember to hydrate! / Else you'll die immediately. In my comic there's a trans individual as a character, slash plot device. / I'd better check my cis privilege upon publishing. / Although I'm super satisfied with the story itself. It's 4AM and my comic is finished! / And I'm not even tired. / (A single bottle of energy drink, versus umpteen liters of water. / Bitch u better hydrate. / Then I stayed up till noon waiting for the bus home and then slept forever. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3-4 ] [ 5-6 ] [ 7-8 ] [ 9-10 ] [ 11-12 ] [ 13-14 ] [ 15-16 ] [ 17-18 ] [ 19-20 ] [ 21-22 ] [ 23-24 ] Saatavana ältsän päheenä paranneltuna painotuotteena sit joskus. / Available as a rad-as-hell pimped-up print eventually maybe.

How to summon a Nixu. I can't sleep anymore. / (*Didn't sleep at all.) // (Sigh.) // Shot some short film as extra assignment for school yesterday. Then a local pub happened. // So today I'll shoot the last bit. Thank God. // If I've ever dissed Indian ink, I take it back now. / Paper factory seen from my part of town. // To Tampere on Saturday morning. / Where the fuck do I sleep? - What fucking money will I live with? - Who the fuck cares? / Oops can't focus on school, more coffee now. (Account: 100€) / Here's hoping. / (Dam bridge.) // Feels funny to go opposite to people returning from the bar. There's another drunk wobbling by. // Hi! / (A singer from a local super-awesome rock band.) // I'm so in the scene. Here again. // Hi! Wanna buy vegan chocolate? // This'll be an awesome trip. Then I walked three kilometres to a gay bar and drank like a sponge! // You look just like Jack Sparrow! Kiss me! / People I apparently look like with my moustache: // Oops. Well, I'll cope. / Bus tickets - Vegan food - The friend I'm staying at is an omnivore. / K I did drink beer, too. Sorry mom! // Then Pispala happened. / (Rrrumble) / Look what the train brought! / Whimper whimper. Idk then everything started falling apart. // It's gonna work out, let's party the woes away, I'm on a vacation I gotta party, I've been hungry before, think of those young people who are actually starving and outcast in this city. // I don't wanna cuddle, I wanna be alone. // Phew. / That's all, folks!

So in Tampere I ran a bit out of money. / Hi, uhh could you and Dad transfer me like twenty, thirty, forty euros, for food and train tickets? / Hmmyeah... We're a bit broke this time of month, too. // The phone call was a tad bit humiliating, considering that half the first hundred euros I had were spent on partying. / (Sigh.) Humiliation was increased by the fact that the new money transfer got wasted on partying as well, or otherwise irresponsible economy. // Beer Bingo! //Why of course I'll buy a drink to my babe! // Tampere makes me feel anxious, I'll delete tomorrow's ticket and leave immediately tonight. // I'm starving. Gotta eat before the train comes! // Oops I'm running out of cigs, too. At home there was a pile of bills to pay, of course, and dreary dry-foods. / One has coped with oatmeal before. / I decided to be strict to myself. // I received money from the folks on... Wednesday. Now it's Sunday; just a couple more days and maybe I can ask for more. / (Rumble, squeeze.) Today, on Monday, I gave up. / Easy does it, I'm zoning out like hell. / I'll just smoke half a cig, otherwise I'll run our of oxygen. // Say what! You could've come to our place for dinner!That's what friends are for! / Half kidding - Full hysterical. // I'll text them, I'm too ashamed to call. / Hi, send me a twenty, ran out of food. If I were Alison Bechdel or Hanna Koljonen, I'd interpret the whole shabang through some purgatorial imagery. // I'm feeling sick... Bad air conditioning and too much beer? - Karma is a bitch! // Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... // Halloween party in two days. Not gonna buy a single beer though! / (But I accept freebies, wink wink.) // I'll ditch sweets, too! Processed sugar is living Hell! / (I just finished reading a comic book about sugar addiction.) Half the sixty euros I received was spent on all kinds of (supermarket) vegan foods. / Daddy's little princess has grown to a queen! / So much for channeling Koljonen. I did wear Bechdel-esque stripes today, though.