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Rastakundifetisisti since 2008! Kaivoin vanhat kuvapäivikseni esiin ja plokkasin sieltä revisionistisella hirmuvallallani parhaat ja taiteellisesti vähiten nolot palat. Tää eka nostalgiatrippi käsittää ilmeisesti lukion tokan ja abivuoden, eli 2008-2010. (Olin yhtä järjestelmällinen silloin kuin nytkin :D) Feat. Muura ja OC:t! Käväisin Limingassa muinoin fanipoikailemassa. Olin tietysti tyhmä enkä katsonut aiheelliseksi skannata kyseistä seikkailua tähän satsiin...

Pahoittelen parin viikon hiljaisuutta! Joululla on sellainen vaikutus ihmisiin. Ja vielä jotain jota piirsin Helsingissä ja matkalla sinne:

Happy 2014! My kind-of New Year's resolution is to become 100% vegan. / That's about all I know how to eat: soy and broccoli. Can't cook for shit and also I'm broke and lazy. / To do: Learn how to make seitan. Hoard shit from vegan wholesale webstore. ??? Profit! At the candy store: / Gelatin. Gelatin. Gelatin. Milk. Gelatin. Carmine. Gelatin. / Soybeans' carboin footprint! Farmers' working conditions! Also meat is delish. / Meat production uses like bajillion times more forage, crop area, and water than human vegetarian cultivation. Sit the fuck down. And there's no such thing as ethical food in capitalism. Fuckin' moo moo. But yeah I've been vegetarian for almost a year now, but now I am consciously striving to eliminate all kinds of 'invisible' animal products from my life. / Yes, honey as well. For sport's sake. // Wool - Suede. / These jackets are several years old. I'll cut myself some slack here. And I get cold easily. School lunches'll be fun... / Vegetarian lunch includes egg, or is otherwise inedible and non-nutritious. / I don't know why I drew myself as Jabba the Hutt. // I'd better make my own lunches from now on! / Which I'll probably manage to keep up for like two days...

And we're back! Nyt vuorossa ööh??? abivuosi ja sivarin alku, eli 2009-2010 vaihde. Oonkohan mää jättäny vanhoja kuvapäiviksiä kesken ja jatkanut vuosien päästä mille sivuille sattuu... No joo, tässä oli hieno kansi. Ite askartelin! Ylemmät saattaa olla entisistä blogeista tuttua kauraa, jos jotkut ovat niitä seuranneet. Alla henkkoht topsecret-merkintä, eli... (drumroll) ...Kaapistatulojuttujaaaaaaa! Olin kyl niin flaming homosex jo seiskaluokasta asti ettei se ulostulo enää ollut kuin yksi pikkuvarvas kynnyksen sisäpuolella. Moi olen vertauskuvien kuningas. Joku sarjisproggis joka ei koskaan tapahtunut. Hippikommuuniin sijoittui, olin hiukan kukkaispoika silloin. ...Hiukan kukkaispoika. Vierailevat tähdet! Kyllä, seurustelin oikean elävän Karhu-maskotin kanssa silloin joskus. Olin nuori ja hullu!

Onkohan meitsin uus sarjis transfobinen ja/tai transsukupuolisilla ratsastamista ja/tai silkkaa sontaa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZvOhHF85I I removed three four pages from the original comic. / I'll draw a single one to replace 'em. That makes 24 pages (including the covers) and not a single empty spread! / [trying to figure out the last page idk] I haven't slept for two whole nights and can't bring myself to fix my cycle with napping. / Of course I've skipped school the entire week. I can't possibly study when about to pass out like this. Fortunately I'm going with my boyfriend to Barcelona! #FirstPlaneTripEver #FirstAbroadTripEver #Summersummer666 #Yoloswåg

"Who needs hands? Not these fellas." So I figured out what to do for my photo reportage, schmoto schmeportage. / I'll photograph artists' hands! All coveres in paint and graphite and nail polish and shit and piss. / And as soon as I came to Liminka School Of Arts, I become really dorky and creative. Artschool equals home to me. Although it's here exactly where my anxiety crap began. I took up hypersexuality. I had panic attacks. I broke up from my boyfriend. Big stuff happened. But maybe that's exactly why this place is important to me. So much baggage. Here's where my current self began. Poor substitute beds and expensive breakfast is plenty a reason to finish my reportage by the end of the day.

Then I went to bed and decided not to edit out the boring comic bits BYEBYE En jaksa suomentaa

Nyt sitä saa! 30 kappaletta ilimaantuu Tampere Kupliin Pienlehtimarssiin 29.3. (enköhän mää siihen mennessä saa jostaki itkettyä pöytätilaa :'''D Ennakkoonki saa toki tilata, en mää nyt niin luottavaisin mielin sen pöydän kanssa oo... Saatikka myynnin! Mailailkaa nikopniva ät gmail jne jne jne, pari eurua kustantaa + postitus.

I put the "Ah!" in "Anxiety". // Yeah so let's talk serious! / A while ago I told that couple of years ago I started having anxiety and panic attacks. / I'm dizzy. I wanna cry. I can't breathe. I'm pissed off. // I'm a bit broken, I can't bring myself to have a relationship. Now I'm mostly scared of peeing myself all the time. At first I thought it was UTI, then STI. // And of course, nothing comes out. / Gotcha! Hee hee hee. // At home this doesn't happen, obviously. 'Cause it's a place of safety. Simply put: sometimes I ditch doing the groceries, going to school, or taking care of stuff downtown because I'm scared of my lower abdomen getting strained and feeling uncomfortable. I've learnt to manage my condition without therapy. In the summer I went to talk about this, and: / Everybody's anxious sometimes. / Perhaps your friends with mental health issues are making too big of a deal about it. / Come back in autumn. / Uh-huh. // Fine! I'll do breathing excercises... // mental image excercises... / If I pee my pants I'll just turn back. No big deal! / I'm already halfway there. Yes! / and I'm open about my condition! / Today I'm only sort of anxious! High five! / Woohoo. That's all! Be brave, be honest, be anxious! / I'll link two empowering tracks in Finnish below. Observe your mind, work your zen and mindfulness. Works for me. Ciao! Kuudes silmä: Happea Risto: Turvaluola

(Dragging sounds) / "Hi you got a fuckton of missed classes." / So I decided it's more important to update the blog first! / I also caught spring cold to celebrate my coming home. ETTÄ JOO BARCELONA-JUTTUJA TULEE JOSKUS JAHKA TOKENEN JA JAKSAN SKANNATA JA PUHTAAKSIPIIRTÄÄ, SORI ET KESTI

Mon 3/3. Woke up at 5AM for our flight via Oslo. // How could one sleep with a view like this! (Never flown before.) // Axu, look! It's the Maledives!* / Please let me sleep. (Has flown before.) // *I'm terrible at geography, and called the Pyrenees the Maledives the entire trip. So warm... / ¡Hola! Welcome to Barcelona! // (Rustling) / We stayed at an occupied house that was "founded" in December, home to a bit over ten people. In Spain, alcohol is as cheap as it gets. // Thus it is okay to just take what you want, pretty much. / If there was a bottle on the table, it was everybody's property and one could take a sip without asking. // Nixu. Leave the rest. /(The most common Finnish sentence used by the non-Finns.) // You should always buy at least one third more alcohol than you drink yourself, just to be sure. // Yeah, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. There was an assload of parrots at the dog park (and pretty much everywhere else). / Kaw! Kaw! / Fuck they're so annoying. / But it's nice to hear something else than pidgeon or jackdaw noises for a change. // Mä oon Axu ja tässon Nixu. // "Axu ja Nixu"? Ai, niinku Asterix ja Obelix! // Ja "Parhaat lempinimet ikinä" -palkinnon saa tämä mimmi tässä. Actually, cigarettes were easily the biggest expense during the trip. / 95% of the food was dumpster-dived (or "recycled", as they said in the squat.) // The ground floor of the squat had one water tap, where one also got their toilet water. / You got used to it, of course, but the culture shock was inevitable. // Tired, drunk, stressed, nervous,excited, bohemia, confusion, unsafeness, anxiety. / Then I was fine, yay. [Here happened quite little??!?] // Shit, that cop saw our beercans. / I hardly think they cared. //Are we even close to that punk pub? / Sometimes the locals tell the wrong directions on purpose. // Äh, vitut. // Thu 3/6: Fatso Day! // ("Roommate", a 50-ish year-old dude who didn't speak English.) / Let's go out for breakfast. / Hrrnngh. // Dry falafel, 4€. / Better than nothing. // Mamma mia, indoor plumbing! / (Shitting noises) Back in Badal/Casa Finlandia there was damn good potato dinner. / In elementary school no-one knew how to peel a potato. So we tried to get out of trouble by telling the teacher: "Did you not know, Sir/Ma'am, that the skin is the healthiest part of a potato?" / Where I come from, the potatoes were pre-peeled pieces of rubber. / (The dishes were washed in a semi-filthy children's bathtub.) // And stop being so mushy, for God's sake! // ... // Jealous. // In the evening, Pizza-Cine. A big-ass squat with a restaurant/bar and kickboxing training. / And a big movie screen, of course. Ja näin seinään loppuu osa 1! And this is how abruptly ends part 1! STAY TUNED!

Can't make it to Tampere Comics Festival due to illness, but you can still buy my comics from the Liminka School Of Arts small press table! BCN adventures'll continue SOMETIME EVENTUALLY soon as I stop being dead

HEY WOW SORRY I TOOK A WHILE. Fri 3.7. / (Los Golden Ceiling) / (Las Glass Cock) / (Les Miserables) // Finnish flea market heels end at size 39. Here it's 41. This is torture! / (Size 42, wannabe drag queen) // So I hoarded on nail polish instead. I wonder if there's anything cheap (and vegan) this close to centre. / Sure there is, I know a place right around that corner. / (Big fat lie, repeat at least 10 times.) / (The pig head window was an actual thing we saw.) // Eventually: JUICY JONES. / Vegan food and red wine! / These walls were not meant for hung-over eyes. // We don't fucking need any appetizers-- !? / ("Main dish": 4 tiny pieces of seitan. // Otetaan me sittenkin se alkupala... / Me ollaan anarkisteja, ei me välitetä mistään "oikeesta" järjestyksestä! At some Juan's place: / I haven't taken a shower for five days. Gracias! // (Puts on the same dirty clothes) // SIT MA LAKATA KYNSI. // Sat 3.8. #HoboJesus #PublicIntoxication2014 // It's hard to pee with harem pants. All my respect to people with vaginas. At night there was a punk gig at some place, and we had to CLIMB. LIKE. HELL. // No. Fuck no. I give up. / Giving up stopped being an option, like, yesterday. C'mon now. / Then, and only then, did I miss the flat lands of Oulu. Saturday was good practice though, because on Sunday we went to the anarchist bunkers! / Don't even think that we're even halfway there. / (Euphoric) // Back when I cut my hair into a mohawk and started wearing punk clothes when I was 14, my parents started calling me a fag. // I got sick of it, and... / Yeah I'm a fucking fag, now shut up! // Two years later: / (The entire world says:) / You're not gay?? / (First girlfriend) / No, idiots. I lied. Iskra appreciates my art. / En edelleenkään osaa piirtää koiria. Reisiraon päällä ei uinua voi! Tina käski piirtää rumasti mutten osaa! Voi ei oon ylipätevä. Behold. Mierda de artista. / (Munch: "The Scream": Pastissi materiaalilla paska. Pastiche with feces. Nixu 2014.) Mon 3.11. / Fuck what a flight! Couldn't sleep, no breakfast, plane full of screaming children... / Also the check-in on Barcelona Airport. Glad we're home now. // SNIFF! SNIFF! SNIFF! // Allright, follow me then. Okay so we don't give a single fuck about what drugs you've taken in Barcelona, as long as you don't bring anything to Finland. / Did someone put speed in my backpack? Will this show in my record? Will that guy dig into my anus? // Yeah you're clean, good luck to Oulu and stay out of drugs! // (Fear, relief, confusion.) I'm coughing up tar and cigarettes make me sick. #HoboJesus will detox for a week or two now, at least. Ave Maria! HUGS AND KISSES TO ALL YOU FILTHY FUCKING RATS! Kytät tyhjensi squatin pari päivää mun ja Axun kotiinpaluun jälkeen. / Cops emptied the squat two days after Axu and I returned home. R.I.P. Casa Badal, forever in our hearts!

Dear readers! I'm a student, and, not having free time, I'll write about what pops into my head in random order. // School's been all about spring hustle: / Internship - Media project - Optional courses - Summer courses. / I'm taking turns being manically diligent and apathetically locked up. // I've tried to shave some time from my schedule for comics-making, but I've fell asleep the second I've gotten back home. / That, or I just want to do other things than work 24/7. However, I've had time to: / Quit smoking (I nearly broke my body in BCN.) / Be ill (Ok maybe I did break my body after all.) / Watch a fuckton of RuPaul's Drag Race. / Be in drag myself. (Easter party.) Begin smoking again. / Quit smoking again. (Divine intervention.) / So yeah this is mostly me trying to continue updating my blog once a week, but I can't bother making my stuff narratively interesting ok bye! / Draw me! And us! (Competition comic and other important things.) / Lalala can't her you.

Juhuu! Oon kiireinen pikku opiskelija (jolla silti on aikaa päivittää blogiaan...), enkä olis muutenkaa keksiny mitään oikeeta asiaa, joten tässä toistaiseksi vihoviimeinen nostalgiatrippi! Näiden jälkeen aloitinkin tämän blogin tässä muodossaan. Ja kyllä, jälleen sensuroin itseäni täydellisen mielivaltaisesti. Plus on tässä muutaki tekemistä kuin kaivella arkistoja päivät pitkät :D Emt nauttikaa. Sivarileirillä piirrettyä. Sisältää myös The Alkuperäisen Helmiveneen, shout-out liminkalaisille! Muuan proto-blogista. Not gonna translate anything, gotta go get some shit done now.

Jiipu came to visit! // (Excited hockey noises) // Hulentka @Tuba. / That broken balloon looks like a hanged bride. // I had a four day long pre-May Day drinking spree. / Such a bad life decision. / (This way to job interview.) // If I weren't so worn out for drinking already, I'd allow myself to drink some more. What I drew on Jiipu's longboard! Check him out here , and Hulentka here . Now I'll do the thing. // Hi you got an internship in Kulttuuribingo :) // Squee yay wohoo. // Then I terminated my tenancy and will move to a three-room apartment with my friend in the summer <3 / (Sort of terrified to have a roommate after two years of solitude.) / (The best woman in the world <3) / So yeah it's a fuckload oh shit to do in the summer, with additional media project, music video course and Nordic Comic Contest. Wish me luck!!!

I called the rental broker and said I'm interested in Merikoskenkatu and Heinäpää three-room apartments. / Where's Heinäpää? / (Axu lives in Helsinki.) // It's the city region south of Oulu center. However, city plan doesn't recognize it as an individual region, but instead it consists of a couple of regions that are quite unified. // Since "Heinäpää" doesn't really exist, the laws of physics don't apply either. Residents teleport from one place to another, and the time continuum behaves in strange ways. / I got a new apartment from the 17th century. / Our toilet was renovated to become a black hole! // ...Read a bit less science fiction, will ya. // NEVER!

tumblrissa oli tämmönen omakuvahaaste et jengi keksi minkä franchisen hahmoina sitä ittesä piirtää ja määhän reippaana poikana piirsin! ekstrana vielä pari muumii, poikkis ja hyvä ystävä alla siis: juu-u ei mul muuta moIDO

(Blondi tuleva-kämppis on Roosa, uusi toistuvasti esiintyvä hahmo! Sanokaa moi :DD) Phew. Apartment showing #3. We'd better land this one, I'm too tired for this. // Three rooms, kitchen and balcony, 76m^2, 650€ per month. / Wow. / I know right! On top of that, we were the only ones checking out the apartment. I have a good feeling abo-- / HIIII sorry I'm late! // Nah it's cool, do come in! / (Fuck.) // But yeah we did land that mutha after all pffdshgjf. VAU OLIPA PANOSTETTU MERKINTÄ ANYWAY JEE MEILLON KÄMPPÄ JEE Ottakaa Tintti!Nixu hyvitykseksi harvinaisen paskasta entrystä.

(Kahen vuen ruokaroiskeet) / Vautsi joku semisti vihaa keittiöhommii huhhuh! Oh boy! I almost gave a fuck.

huomatkaa etten edes jaksanu skannata

Tuesday, June the 10th. / Didn't sleep for shit. / Shitty lunch. / Heavy camera. / Busted my bicycle. / Internship day at Kulttuuribingo #7! Yay! // What the Vice President said: / Too bad you didn't bring a laptop with! Why don't you do so tomorrow so we'll come up with things to do much easier.* / (*: It's kinda quiet at The Bingo.) // What it sounded like: / You lazy, un-initiating piece of shit! Don't you know anything? Make some coffee and get out of my sight! / Sorry. [Sadly eats frozen pizza] // Toss! // There's a festival on the weekend! Why don't you come and represent The Bingo etc? / And take photos 'n shit. / (Patron saint of work motivation!) // That dude looks exactly like my father! Or myself ca. 20 years from now. Theory! / Nixu from the future is a productive culture personality and/or just a swell lad, and he time-warped to save my anxious ass. / Yo. // Thanks for the time paradox, me from the future! Hopefully the time-space won't collapse because of us. / P.S. I've actually had a great time at The Bingo, coworkers are awesome and work assignments too, I was just a bit anxious that day okay bye http://kulttuuribingo.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kulttuuribingo http://www.tttf.fi/

Psst. / Guess what time it is. / Nixu's Cooking Club, part something! 1.) Boil off some soya chunks! // 2.) Use your brain! / If I squeeze out the excess water, the chunks'll be crispier when fried. // 3.) Use that brain some more! / (Strainer) (Roosa's spatula) (Frisk pressing force) // (SNAP!) (SPLAT!) // 5.) Atta boy! Good job. (hahahahahahaha I skipped a number)

/ / (In a park earlier this summer) // Look, I really can't bother talking politics this drunk. / I hear ya. Well, seen any good movies lately? // Uh, nothing much really. Ok, one part of that was me not wanting to "bring up the same subject again", but another part was me being embarrassed of being "that kind of gay." // Stereotypical. / Campy. / Weird. (Queer?) // God knows I'm not ashamed of showing my homosexuality to the world. It's exhausting to come out of the closet to every single person one by one. / ...Oh snap, my boyfriend has the same jacket!) / ( ...equal marriage law, SETA... [Finnish LGBT organization]) // But nobody's immune to a culture that discriminates, belittles and makes invisible so much people.

Last Monday happened: / Ring-a-ding-ding! It's your friend Jari here! Your room smells like loneliness! // God I missed your murder massage. / This will probably hurt way more tomorrow. // And thus happened: / I'm going home to eat an entire bag of muscle relaxants. / Aye. You can make up for today on Saturday. / Ok. // I told you so! / And that's why I couldn't attend Pride! Well, I hadn't really made any travel plans in the first place. / But that's all the more reason to feel bad for missing 20.000 people, black-pink bloc and comic blogger picnic. / Maybe next year, then! / But what the fuck ARE you going to do this summer? Other than work. // Well! As I was lying with my busted back, this happened: / Niko's got mail! / Eunnnngghgh. / It's tickets! / (Punk festival tickets) / Yay party. / See y'all there!

Hässäkkäpäivät July 4th & 5th, a punk festival in Oulu. // It rained on Friday. // At least I didn't have a hangober diarrhea next day! / (Sings Finnish schlager.) Why, this is moonshine! / (Fart smell) / Ew how fucking can you. / Hee hee hee booze diarrhea. // Hei pullopoika nää oot kuuma! / (I'm super inappropriate when drunk.) // Ew fuck that was some strong moonshine, I'm gonna poop through my mouth. / (I don't even know.) // No wait fuck Kakkahätä 77 starts soon, gotta gather myself and go back. / MINÄHÄN EN VITTU LUOVUTA. Dirty nympho / Pants still dry! / Busted leg / That's how the PuntalaRock training went! See y'all there

Where will your comic be again? / Nordic Comic Contest. 12-page short story of the theme "Polar night", deadline's quite close too. / What's yours about? // Uh, alcoholism. / ... / Like, the depression and the anxiety and the shame. / ... / Y'know, with a fresh twist? / ... It IS a cliché! Oh god what if I can't bring anything new to the subject matter? What if I'm being Kaurismäki-esque? What if I'm plain bad??? / I've tried to regain my motivation and self-esteem, to no avail. / (Unambitious, hasty, stressed out) / And the first few pages are so detailed and ink-washed with love! (Insert ink-washed with love, here.) / Boohoo I won't be able to stand behind this piece of work either. Of course I have to finish this anyway, and not be afraid of mediocrity. // The most important thing is get SOMETHING done in my life. / I might've become blind to the whole project. Proof-reading is scary though, going back to previous work stages etc. // (Can't commit to long projets) /I'm trash, I shall go to the trashcan. // Okay next week I will print my queerzine small press comic to the Helsinki Comic Festival. Perhaps I'm just not a drama comic artist!

Random Barcelona story I forgot to tell part uno! // So one night we climbed this fucking huge hill with a squatted bar and punk gigs on top. // There was a Swedish Magnus from Stockholm! And we talked Swedish the whole evening. / Please speak English so the rest of us will understand, too... But so did happen, with my light-weight ass, that before the gig even started... / Fucking cheap beer... / (Axu got tired from all the climbing and started sleeping in the middle of the club.) // (Incomprehensible whatever-language punk) // The high point of my career as a crust punk. // Repeat until you stop coughing up slime. // PYSYKÄÄ KANAVALLA NIIN SAATTE KUULLA LISÄÄ OKSETTAVIA PARSALOOTA JUDUI OLÉ

Pling! To Puntala-rock! / Puntala was quite a chaotic experience so here's an equally chaotis comic reportage. / #ToPuntalaByTaxi #NymphoPunx #HalfAnHourOfSleep Hi Nixu! It's your friend Anxiety here! I brought some hyperventilation and sensory overload for you! / You don't belong here and your vest doesn't fit. / You don't even like punk you scenester. / Thank you. Thank you very much. / Here's also over 30 degrees Celsius of heat, oh and everybody hates you you're fucking welcome. / Then I had a fight or something with Axu. Minna comforted me. / But now we're fine. SO YEAH I KINDA MISSED THE ENTIRE FESTIVAL. I did have some fun, too, though! / I saw the Barcelona fellows after a long while. / I hung out in cute clothes. / Peek-a-boo! I swam in natural water for the first time in years. / Peek-a-boo again! // Silly stuff with old friends. / How I wish I were a real wooooooden horse. / 2/5, would attend again if there were less heat and more sedative drugs.

...FOR YOU TO LIPSYNC! Fo'. yo. life. Että juu meikä teki työharjoitteluun kuuluvana taideprojektina mitäs muutakaan kuin sarjiksia! Pari kopiota jätin kustannuspaikkaan myyntiin, mutta sitä pääsee myös lukemaan ihan ilmaiseksi. Siis Kulttuuribingolle osoitteessa Mäkelininkatu 29 arkisin klo 12-18. Loput 46 kopiota myyn Helsingin sarjakuvafestivaaleilla 5.-7. syyskuuta. If you're around in Oulu, do go to Kulttuuribingo (Mäkelininkatu 29) and read and/or buy my comix zine, "LIPSYNC FOR YOUR LIFE." It's all 100% in English too! You can also wait until Helsinki Comic Festival, 5th to 7th of September. http://kulttuuribingo.wordpress.com/ http://www.sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi/

Monday forenoon. // Oh God, not again. What kind of fucking liturgy they're having again? / I'll Google it. // "The Fasting of Theotokos, 1st till 15th of August"? // Mary, sweetie! We know it sucks that you've gained some baby pounds! But you've got to eat something! // And then they played some noise music, the end.

Could you not leave the fan on? / Zzz. / Fuck it, I'm too tired to raise my own hand. // Cough. / ALRIGHT LET'S BUST THIS JOINT! But the worst life decision of all was this. // My hand slipped when trimming my moustache. / I look like a toilet brush. // But it's way easier to be ill like this, though! This time I'll try not to miss the comic festival because of some sinusitis bullshit! Ciao! // (New laptop; Dan Simmons: Fall Of Hyperion; Neglected summer studies somewhere over there.)

(Funny how many of my summer entries begin with a hangover and/or morning drowziness) / I feel terrible! Achey, coughy, chilly... There's only one explanation! Flu-- / Withdrawal symptoms! // Jesus?! What are you doing here? / I live right next door. Anyway, go and Google "quitting smoking." // Headache, cough, running nose, other cold-like symptoms... / It's all accurate! // But did I not quit smoking BECAUSE of the cold, not the other way around? / Well that's something you will never find out! Shalom! // fuck I suppose I have no choice but to nervously wait for Saturday... // Jiipu's comic release party in Tampere // THEN // Hanging out with Axu /Don't you dare get sick when I wanna cuddle! // THEN // Helsinki International Comic Festival // Nah I will definitely go this time, even if I had 666 degrees fever and sinusitis.

Hi I was supposed to make a huge, long reportage but oops I'm stressed and tired so nope. // Saturday Aug 30th / To Jiipu's comic release party in Tampere! / (Nicotine withdrawal & diarrhea) // (The queen) / (Smiths covers) / (Or one at least) Sunday Aug 31st / Hey, that's a nice zine! I'll take three! / One for me, too. / (Axu's pals) // Mon Sep 1st / I need a place to stay in Helsinki! / OH NO HELP / Clatter clatter // I'M TOO ANXIOUS FOR GOOD NARRATION Tue Sep 2nd / Guess which art exhibition. // Wed Sep 3rd / JEMMA minifestival of visual activism & Zsa Zsa Zine's zine workshop. (On Wednesday* I curated JEMMA festival in Akkuna, and on Thursday Axu and I went to Hercules the gay bar. Goddamn it's troublesome to draw right now. // Fri Sep 5th / (Shitty work contracts, nonexistent/lousy benefits, etc etc) / H&M (female) employees can't give interviews to journalists, but comic artists (who work like journalists) don't count. // (LGBT organisation panel) / With comics one can tell very complicated things in a very simple way, and is therefore inherently norm critical.** (*: Kuraroin torstaina, muistin väärin piirtäessä. / I curated on Thursday, I remembered wrong. **: Normikriittistä sikäli, että lukihäiriöiset, kehitysvammaiset ja vähemmän koulutetut pääsevät käsiksi helpommin sulatettavaan tietoon. / Norm critical in that dyslexic, mentally disabled and less educated people can get their hands on more accessible information.) Sat Sep 6th No wait I forgot that there was a end-of-summer punk gig in Kalasatama on Friday evening. / I took a bunch of your comics with me, and sold out in five minutes. / We'd like more of your stuff to an anarchist bookstore. / Do you have any zines left?? ( Miia Vistilä and her hat / Jiipubaby / Sleep deprived, hungover, hungry and over-caffeinated) // Axu and I got some foor from the grill stand on Thursday night and I left a plastic fork in my pocket. / Hahaha hohoho / (Calm as shit) / Stop immediately or I'll kill you. / / I have a hat. This reminds me of one Nixu. / Who are they? // Eeee he's adorable! // And that's how I found your blog and am not your biggest fan! / (Sorry about how I drew your face) / I'm so flattered I could die. / Look who's a scene queen. // Carolina! Pääsit Hesaan! / Sohvasurffasin. / THEN I DRANK SHITLOADS OF BEER. Sun Sep 7th Wait I forgot to tell something again. // We attended the Tom of Finland exhibition again with Anssi. / Anssi Vieruaho, president of Oulu Comics Asssociation. May we see TOF's original artwork? // Touko Laaksonen masturbated while working on this piece of paper. / Magical. / (Yes, he actually drew those kind of gaping assholes.) // Sun Sep 9th / I sold out on "Lipsync For Your Life"! / (Hungover again) / Didn't you have like 30 copies in the first place? / Hi, I heard there's queer feminist comics on sale in this table? KIITOS KAIKILLE PUSIPUSI NÄHÄÄN ENSI VUONNA, LIPSYNCCIÄ ON TULOSSA LISÄÄ PIAN THANKS GUYS, MORE COMICS WILL BE PRINTED SOON

Lately I have lived the life of Donald Duck. // Tough luck is always with me. // Always. / Oh my beak! You're missing nine student credits! // Always and forever. / Fuckin' hell. I haven't changed my outfit in days... / It smells like cat pee in here. / (I don't even own a cat.) // I've been drinking lots of "soda" and I can hardly keep my pants on! // Quack quack motherfucker.

Jos kerta Paloniemen Millakin muotibloggaa sarjisblogissaan niin mää kans! Moiiiiiiiiiiii!^^ Tässä meitsi tuli just instagrammaamasta mun kikkeliä. Katotaas mitä kaapista löytyy! juuh elikkäs housut: menkkahaukka, 20€ ja pari aasialaislapsen kyyneltä kengät: Raksilan Prisma, 5€ (sukat: eri paria, varastettu poikaystävältä) paita: varastettu panolta pari vuotta sitten huppari: "onks tää Nixu sun huppari? ai ei? no ei tää kyl mullekaan mahu, kenen vitun tää on" hanskat: "tämmösetki löyty, aika mauttomat. ota ota" huivi: Douglas dyykkasi Barcelonasta, toimii myös oksennusrättinä (Y) lippis: faijalta pöllitty pätsi: piraatti. Että semmosta! Tsihii! Stay fashionable!

Hi y'all! / Just thought I'd let you know how I've been doing. / School's keeping me busy, and at this very moment I ought to be doing the graphic design for the school radio. / (Drawing pad's lagging and scanner won't work [at home either]) / (Lol reportage. Lmao credit points. Rofl deadlines.) In early October I got my first smartphone! / At the same time I also attended the 24 Hour Comics Day, do read that shit rather than my starving graphic designer ramblings. Toodle-oo! 24H-sarjakuva luettavissa TÄÄLTÄ! (in Finnish only by now, sorry 'bout it) P.S. Osallistun myös Oulun sarjakuvafestivaalin sarjakuvablogipaneeliin, kolla ner: 8.11. 20:00-03:00 at Never Grow Old 20:15-20:45 Comics Blog Panel | Sarjakuvablogipaneeli Niko Niva - http://nniksu.sarjakuvablogit.com/ Aino Sutinen - http://aino.sarjakuvablogit.com/

Oh God, oh shit. // I haven't been home for over a year. Not that I don't speak to my parents, but I just don't feel like visiting. / On my Instagram I demonstrated just how eerily quiet and lifeless my home village can be. // Couple of days later: / I spoke ill of my childhood friends. I appeared ungrateful and arrogant. I hate the person I become when I visit home. // At least it's sunny in Oulu. / This is where my real home is. // Flea markets with Roosa! / I'd kill for a winter jacket. All the jackets are too light or too small. / Yeah, let's go ho-- Hold the fuck up. // (Seven fucking euros) / Those soles go on for miles! // I must have these! / Then take 'em. / Yes ma'am! I bought a couple pairs of mittens from the Pentecostal flea market... / Keeping your hands warm is the most important thing. // ...and matching roommate shirts! / Textile twins! Bam! Pow! // The very next day, snow fell in large quantities. // I made a tiny snowman on the balcony.

ATTENTION NON-FINNISH-SPEAKING FOLLOWERS! In case you missed it, I uploaded the English translation of "HeteroseXual Animals" into my Julkaisut page. Read it directly, here. My classmates' web radio have a photo contest #Bachelor/BacheloretteOfTheYear. / The choice of clothing was obvious to me. The problem was the little identity crisis I had. / Will I be a #Bachelor or a #Bachelorette? Do I take on a feminine role with my makeup and my dress, or do I break the limits of masculinity itself? / Fuck it! I'm a cis guy in a gown! A performance princess! A gender terrorist! My masculinity isn't fragile enough to be shattered by mere lipstick. WWW.POIKAMIESRADIO.COM WWW.POIKAMIESRADIO.COM WWW.POIKAMIESRADIO.COM

Oulu Comics Festival happened. // I've had a long week of getting jack shit done. / Now, beer. // The above was on Thursday comics meeting, or launch party of sorts. / On Friday I glorified hangover, and evening I attended the official opening while glorifying alcohol culture. // A speech. / What magnificent quality in the Nordic Comic Competition! / (A collection of winning comics.) // But it's better to compete with a shitty submission than not compete at all. I guess. / Now home, I'm anxious. New septum hurts. / New ass hurts. (I tried Butt Bible.) / Soul hurts. // Comics Club & Blog Panel. / Hurp durp durp. / Then glorifying bar hopping. I'm tired, constantly craving beer, constantly feeling guilty about it, and pissed off 24/7. I guess my winter depression is kicking in. // - // Hey friend! I recall you wanted to buy a commission from me? Well, it's done now. / Excellent! Take my money immediately.

My mom came over for the weekend to see Hector (a Finnish schlager-folk-rock artist) in Ouluhalli. // The evening before Roosa and I cleaned the fuck out of out apartment. / A month's worth of shit rotting everywhere...! / Remember: Fruitflies are actually faeries. // Friday morning: / Seems that you didn't mop the floor. / You can sleep in the stairwell if you want... Nothing happened on Friday. // On Saturday we went shopping for pants. / Short-ass legs. / Legs that go on forever. / In the end, only mom found some decent jeans. // How nice of you to cut back on smoking! / Yeah, I'm feeling great! // Well my cab's here. Bye! // Vroom. // - When mom came back from the concert I, too, made my way into Saturday night. / Let's drink booze. // Did y'all like the gig? / Oh yes! / You should've seen her in person. // In Ouluhalli: / What a great second song! Right? // - // Oh, it's Marco Bjurström. (a Finnish corepgrapher/TV game host, and a huge deal in late 90's/early 2000's.) When you were born, I sang to you Hector's translated cover or "Child Of Mine." / That's cute.

Mullon ihan hirvee olo just nu ja blogikaan ei päivity kunniallisesti nyyh joten ottakaapa tästä ihan luokattoman hirvittävä jul kalender! hurråå! Ekana joulupäivänä mun beibe anto mulle… / Halapaa kalijaa ja vegejuustua!

kyllä se vaan meinaan jatkuu. anteeksi. tää on niinku tämmönen joka toinen päivä tuleva kalenteri että a) se noudattais alkuperäistä Partridge in a pear tree -veisua ja b) oon ihan oikeesti vitun laiska anteex haluun pitää joululoman Tokana päivänä mun beibe anto mulle… / Yskin verta ihan just. / 2 askia röökiä & halapaa kalijaa ja vegejuustua!

By the power of Greyskull! You should've arranged yourself a spring semester internship a long time ago! / You heard the man, we ain't got shit. Lololol. // You're also missing this class. / And late on this poster! / (Listen to a radio, a radio is cool.) // A WORTHLESS GRAPHIC DESIGNER. - // Hi! Wanna make shitloads of cash? Do this-and-that comic ok cool bye (said a friend of Axu's who's a comic artist.) / And we want waaay more of your Christmas cards! (said an anarchistbookstore.) // And that's why I prefer being an artist to being a graphic designer! / I'm willing to starve to death because of it.

hyvää lähiöst linnaan -päivää! jos ootte hesassa niin menkää insurrektionalistit vähän mellakoittemaan jos maistuu :) Kolmantena #CRUSTMAS päivänä mun beibe anto mulle.../ 3 Noituuden lättyä , 2 askia röökiä & halapaa kalijaa ja vegejuustua!

pylly. neljäntenä krustipäivänä mun beibe anto mulle… / 4 kangaspätsiä, 3 Noituuden lättyä, 2 askia röökiä & halapaa kalijaa ja vegejuustua!

Viidentenä krustipäivänä beibe anto mulle 5 kotikasvatettua chilipippuria, 4 pätsiä, 3 EP:tä, 2 röökiaskia & halapaa kalijaa ja vegejuustua! / Sattuu silti vähemmän kuin 40 röökiä per päivä.

KUUDENTENA krustipäivänä beibe anto mulle 6 zineä, 5 chiliä, 4 pätsiä, 3 EP:tä, 2 röökiaskia & halapaa kalijaa ja vegejuustua! (kyllä, taso laskee kuin lehmän häntä. sorry not sorry)

wake up rested. / at the therapy, deduce that your life is cool and alright. / what the hell is this / YOU ARE HAPPY YOU BIG SILLY HOMO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME PEACE OUT / that's nice.

hiiiiiii sory im late eli anteeksi että olen lauri, ottakaa hyvitykseksi *gasp* SKANNATTU KALENTERILUUKKU!!! omfg nixu tuu käymään / eiku mää runkkaan ny / juuh elikkäs // 7 queerpornoa, 6 zineä jne jne jne

Kaheksan pöllittyä nokkakoristetta.

yheksää eri väriä eläinkoevapaata huulipunaa, kaheksan pöllittyä nokkakoristetta, seittemää sorttia queerpornoa, kuus zineä, viis chiliä, nelijä pätsiä, kolome älppäriä, kaks röökiaskia ja sitä kalijaa ja juustua voi helevettiläinen tätäkin perkeleen kalenteri-ideaa mikä mua vaivaa

Nostalgia Masterpost 2014! / Yay. / In no particular order. // JANUARY / I turned 23 on the 16th. I celebrated by attending an AlfaKalle gig. / He filmed me twerking. // Then I licked his boot because I'm gross. Then I guess I mostly worked on my Nordic Comic Contest submission. It was garbage. // What now? / Hi it's your boyfriend here! Wanna go to Barcelona? // FEBRUARY / I dunno, it was quiet. Saving money for Barcelona. / I went to see my favourite band tho. / ??? The entire band plays acoustic guitars??? MARCH / I couldn't bother checking what shape Spain is. // Axu being chronically tired. / Check the rest from my travel reportage. // Then I got a huge killer germ and had to miss Tampere Comics Festival. / But boy was my tan gorgeous! // APRIL / Drag party. / Straight boys can't handle high heels. / That's all. MAY / Away went the matted hair... / Now you may bully other people about cultural appropriation and Rastafarianism! // ...and the old apartment. / Yay we're gonna be roommates! / Not mine - Mine - OURS JULY / Punk festivals! // AUGUST / I was supposed to make a music video for AlfaKalle but I didn't. / Sorry about it. // I quit smoking for six whole weeks! / Jesus approves. z SEPTEMBER / At Helsinki Comics Festival I sold lots od stuff and people were awesome. / Ecstatic, manic, hysterical 24/7. // Fans idols colleagues exhibitions contacts praises discoveries old friends // My cheeks and stomach hurt. // I also started seeing a psychologist for my stress and anxiety, yay. // OCTOBER / This machine from hell ruined my entire life. / I also drew gay ducks, quack quack. / And made media project at school the entire freakin' fall semester. // NOVEMBER / I only attended Oulu Comics Festival as a blog panel guest because I was tired or something. // DECEMBER / I dunno, couple of good gigs and digging stuff out of my belly button. // YAY THANKS FOR WATCHING, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015! AlfaKalle / THJKB / Barcelona 1/2 / Barcelona 2/2 / Kulttuuribingo

Kymmenen mediakohua! Voi noita tuhmeliini-anarkomarkoja!

Yksitoista antifasistista tarraa.

On the 12th day of #CRUSTMAS my true love gave to me 12 squatting comrades, 11 AFA stickers, 10 biased news feeds, 9 shades of lipstick, 8 stolen car blings, 7 types of queer porn, 6 zines about stuff, 5 self-grown chilis, 4 fabric patches, 3 Noituus EP's, 2 packs of Pall Mall & some cheap beer with vegan cheese.

I don't have much to say about the Charlie Hebdo attack. / "Being a sex slave is so much fun!" // Terrorism is a terrible phenomenon, and may the victims in Paris rest in peace. / "I have a big nose! Lol" // But je ne suis pas un shitty racist magazine full of offensive caricatures about oppressed minorities, silvous plait.

Hiiiii! Sorry I have been a lazy blogger once again! / Though the last few days have been some intense shit. // Last week, and week before that: / Fucking fuck! I've got to find an internship right now! Why won't anyone reply to my emails?! / (Type-a-type-a-type) "Oulu Game Lab"? I've never played shit, let alone given a single serious thought to game design, but... // Here goes nothing! // Then I got in. / What the fuck. // Anyway I've really enjoyed my stay and the people are awesome and the lectures are in English but that's not the point! // This is: / It's time to play my favourite game. // "How long will it take (without my sying it out loud) for a new social circle to realize I'm gay." On the other hand it's kinda liberating to be certain about not being "that token gay guy", and exciting to be some sort of a double agent among the straights. / But as time goes by, it's starting to feel like a closeted teenager all over again, although no-one here has implied anything close to homophobia. // Blah blah, favourite TV series, blah blah... / Here's my chance to almost casually come out! // Mää ja mun poikkis katotaan OINTB:iä ihan hulluna. // Aiku kiva. /Juu-u. / (Niin homo että näköä haittaa.) Well, I wish it had gone that smoothly... / My other favourite game is called "Spot The Hetero." // I'm gay. / Oh okay, cool! I've got nothing against gays! Although I'm straight myself. #GayMarriage2013! // Aiku söpöä! Elä ja anna toisten elää! / As a straight guy I'd say that... / My best friend's gay. / So is my second cousin! // I voted for the gay guy from Green Party in presidential elections! / I own two entire rainbow-themed items!! // Who's a good token homo? You're a good token homo! Omg my exaggeration and incrimination is TERRIBLE. / Heteronormativity plagues my self-esteem, behaviour and identity as a sexual and romantic creature. / All my thoughts of queer rebellion and everyday life are filtered through the heterosexual matrix! // Skriäää! / (*All events are over-dramatized because I fucking can.) Epilpogue: / How surprisingly fun and inspiring it is to study game design! Now I'm gonna... / (Email noises) // (Three invitations to internship interviews) // (Sad trombone)

moro aattelin ilahuttaa kansaa piirrrustus_dumpilla kun oon niin paljon ollu piirtämättä! soo soo tuhma minä

So! This excercise was sort of a miniature version of your Game Lab experience to come - four months of work stages, condensed into a few hours. // So what feelings did arise from your own work? Hellooo sorry I'm late! (I "was" hangover.) / *: I was still quite fucking hangover. // ...Blah blah... Your assignment is to... Bluh bluh... The customer will arrive at... Bloo bloo... // This is all very intriguing, however all my willpower is currently going into my trying not to puke. // THE CUSTOMER IS A MENOPAUSAL CRAZY TYRANT. // Omg now I'm gonna barf. In conclusion! / I am irresponsible, lazy, unable and unwilling to change plans, rude, etc. But if you can't handle me at my worst then that's too fucking bad because I don't have a best. So yeah glad to have made business with your sorry ass! Boop-boop-a-doop! Then some person called me and asked me for a beer with them "long time no see" or something and I can't remember for the life of me who this person is. / So apparently I am also wooden in the head, boo fucking hoo! // Also my tragus piercing hurts and I'm pissed off.

8-9 // Nikolai! Nikolai! Nikolai! // Zz-- // That's what you get when you read Pirkko Saisio before bed. // Then I made out with Detox, a drag queen. / Let's Have A Kai Kai. 9-10 // Nixu's wool jumper game! // Dress up Nixu in this wool jumper. // Mighty woolly. / It is a wool jumper. // Kuinka moni teistä on alkanut työstämään pelisuunnitteludokumenttiaan? // I don't recall ever raising my hand in Game Lab. / Yeah I was supposed to stop complaining, sue me. // Rye bread + oatmeal + two mugs of black coffee = Shitty feels, dizzy, nauseous, lol. 10-11 // Meitsi on nähny Debbie Harryn. / Kosketikkonää sen kaapua ja parannuit verenvuototaudista. // Entä kuka tietää Quantun Dreamsin? / Jou en tullu OGL:lään droppaamaan nimii, tulin skulaamaan pelii. Jou. // "iRacing." / Tajusitko? / Silimä rusina. // Rasisti pilivessä. / *feikkiä jamaika-aksenttia* // I've taken like 666 photos of lecture slides and I've never re-read any of them. 11-12 // Somebody's puking in the toilet. / (puking noises) / Monday, eh. // (dry barley shit) / (Nisse) // 12-14 // Intensiivinen duuni on intensiivistä. / (kässäristä puhe) / Sit se vois vahingossa iskee baarista tiitin. / Toi on oikeestaan vitun paska ja transfobinen läppä. / Ai ok. // Jumalan työtä teen 14-15 // Nosse is readinh HeteroseXual Animals. / Heh. / HÖHÖ! // 15-16 // Yhtäkkiä englantia! / Jep, vieläkin sorvin ääressä. Mahtoikin tulla tylsä tuntisarjis... // Vaan enpä oo tupakoinu koko päivänä! Hyvä minä. 16-17 // Groceries! / Student loan comes tomorrow. / Oon voimissain. / Fact: skinny people are always naked. // 17-18 // (a comic) / - / (weiner) / Fuck it, I'm making dinner. / (the dinner is instant noodles.) 18-19 // Art block! / Hey, I'm making chocolate ice cream. Let's play card when you're done drawing! / (clatter clatter clatter) // My Tumblr blog got 666 followers! 19-20 // My comic includes roasting of [***], and kittens. / Hi I'm racist! / And I'm the ugliest fucking kitten in the whole wide world! Goddamnit just kill me please. // I wonder why I felt the need to censor the person. I wonder if I'm cut out to be a satirist or an out-caller of shitty people. // 20-21 // Still comics. / Kittens! 21-22 // One more page and I can go make dinner! Jeez what a flow! / - / You're welcome. / (potato casserole and stuff) / 22-23 // DONE. / (scanner noises)

A cat doesn't care. / A cat doesn't care. / A cat doesnät care. / Guess if the cat cares. If for no other reason, it would be nice to be of normal weight so I could be for example 66,6kg. / *fucking brutal black metal plays* / What do normal-weight people even look like how does one draw them it would be weird as fuck to weigh more than 57kg which I have never exceeded in my life. Which way do the thigh things go I can't ass myself to check. / Minä olen ääretön keho.

vedin liian pitkät päikkärit ja elämässäni ei tapahtunut mitään kiintoisaa. you know what that means! skeeetch duuuuuuuuump !!!! tässä Courtney Love ja Laura Jane Grace, kaks vitun kovaa muiaa. kämppis antoi arkin tarrapaperia. tein pari, en tiedä käytänkö missään. kai sitä vois johki sarjisfestaritarkoituksiin näitäki väsätä josku... memes and feminism and memes and feminism and memes and feminism tästä ei ollut tarkoitus tulla minä mutta siitä tuli sellainen kuitenkin. piirsin tän lineartin jo syyskuun tienoilla, ja kun en kerta kerinnyt kyllästyä siihen niin sain lopulta väritettyäkin, mitenkuten. piirrän aniharvoin isompaa kuin A5, ja tämä on A3. hyvä minä! ei herra nuusku älkää Game Labissä oli luppoaikaa niin piirsin söpön ja lapsille sopivan yksisarvisen. hän nuuskuttelee kaikkea. sinuakin. super-duper mega-fag-a exclusive esimakua LIPSYNC #2-pienlehdestä!!!!!!!!! saatavilla, jos luoja suo, Tampere Kupliissa. jos ei siellä niin sit netissä ja/tai Helsingin festareilla, ellei kesällä oo jotaki tsembaloita. sanooko kukaan enää 'tsembaloita'?

there, now i can keep not updating for another two and a half weeks or more.

Fever's rising. Can't miss the Tampere Comic Festival again, though. // Troublemakers in the train. / Hrrgh I've been in fucking prison for manslaughter, give me that fucking vodka bottle. / Nope, not gonna tell 'em to keep it down. // Cops took them eventually. / Can't sleep, train's in Tampere in two hours. // No time to be sick, my life is too cosmopolitan. And my marker's fucking dying on me. The number you've tried to reach is unavailable etc etc. / Fuuuck. / Juho is totally one of those people who turn off their phone at nighttime. How weird is that! // Good thing we're living in a scrutinized world, so: / (A Facebook status update where Juho tells a part of his address.) // Found the right building at first try! // (Aggressively rings the doorbell.) Forenoon: / It's raining. Good thing I'm smart as fuck and brought an umbrella! // (Busted soles.) // Can't afford even zines. Why are comic festivals so consumerist to me? / Today's panels were boring and irrelevant. / Bought two zines by friends. Sunday morning (=1PM) / Shit, Charlie panel's starting soon. // CHOMP! / (Hanging around on the table for two days.) // (Aggressively suffers mild food poisoning.) / In the evening I was fine again, then train back home and now I'm at home and yeah. See you next year with better luck and better markers and better everything

Not actually sorry about my taste in men at all. "A Typical Artsy Sketchbook/Comic Diary Debut ('Fuck, I Hope This Isn't Some Kind Of A Rebound Thing')", ink on paper, 2015. I've drunk too much and watched Steven Universe. / Square Mom says: / Remember to drink water. / And you do have a right to crave affection. // I haven't smoked for a month. // At the end of March there was a party and you smoked at least five cigarettes, prolonging your sickness for at least a week! / Fucking hips, why won't you lie! Now that I have new pens, I can do a buttload of comics at all times! Yup, juuust comics. All day, every day. No other urgencies breathing in my neck currently. (Other than summerjob and graduation and stuff.)

tuosta ihan läheltä paloi hieno puolilaho autiotalo joka on ehkä saatettu joskus olla valtaavinaan. mutta se siis tosiaan paloi. vutum

Old laptop finally melted. / The new one won't accept any installs. (I'm also a complete noob.) / I drew this entry on Game Lab computer. My comic artist career is in trouble due to lack of supplies. I've been thinking about my bachelor's thesis but I don't want to taint my blog with school and work-related shit. / HxA #2 is coming out in schedule! / Lipsync #2 is missing two pages, kinda stuck there. / Yea I don't have much to tell this time...

A bank account app: "Good morning!" / - / (Student allowance, can't ass myself to recall the exact amount) / - / (Student allowance, minus two internet bills, minus apartment rent, minus laptop part exchange, equals 63€ for the rest of May unless one extracts student loan.) / - / GOOD MORNING! ...Ja vesi on märkää ja karhut paskantaa mettään. Kas kun sainkin aikaiseksi asentaa skannerin ajurit uuteen koneeseen puolen vuoden jälkeen, sen kunniaksi ihan aikainen merkintä oho!

HEISSAN! mää täsä taitan uusia pienlehtiä, teen sarjakuvia pariin muuhun yhteyteen joista puhun sitku ajankohtaisuudet on ajankohtaisia, odotan palkkaa Sadankomitean antologiasta jolla sit maksan vuokran lol vitsivitsi, painatan niitä sarjiksia ja juon ehkä sihijuomaa. eli kiirettä pukkaa etten sanois hulihei mikä kevät hei tyypit !!!!!! kattokaa sillä välin tätä hienoa sisällysluetteloa LIPSYNC #2:een: eli joo en jaksa enkä viitti enkä ehi enkä kehtaa piirtää kuulumisia tällä kertaa, valmiiksikin perse painehaavoilla ja käsi soijarouheena kaikesta tästä taiteilusta, ihanku GameLab ei olis tarpeeksi. SHALOM ENSI VIIKKOON jou

en vieläkään ole saamassa aikaiseksi kunnon päiväkirjamerkintöjä niin ottakaa tästä vuoden vanha netissä julkaisematon kuvitustyö. Pulssi-lehden fanitus ja idolit -numeroon suppea kertomus meikäläisen matkasta seksuaalivähemmistön edustajana.

rakas taivaan isä jos kuulet minua niin asenna mulle photari ja win7 ja kalibroi mun piirtopöytä en osaa päättää ketä haastaisin joten en haasta ketään. sen sijaan kysyn teiltä kaikilta että mitä kuuluu ja haluutteko turpaan (ei oo pakko vastata kumpaankaan) JA HEI HUOMENNA HAEN PAINOSTA LIPSYNC #1:N JA #2:N SAA OSTAA KAHELLA EUROLLA KPL

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I have decided to stop sleeping. / That, or higher powers decided that in my stead. So! Game Lab and Minecraft have completely devoured my life. Yet I have managed to get involved into lots of things. / Such as getting an article of myself in Voima magazine! / So if you found my blog via that: 1) Welcome! 2) Buy my stuff. 3) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? But! Now that I've declared it in a nation-wide magazine... / I'll have to do my bachelor's thesis! My production will be a printed and/or online comic about LGBTQ alcohol culture, and the thesis itsels will study differences between printed and online comics. So uhh?? Wish me luck! / It's quite scary to commit to big decisions. / Game Lab is almost complete for the semester, and I'll send my zines all around the country and the world. / I might or might not interview you and your friends about coming out, identity, substance abuse, gay nightclubs, sex drugs etc regarding LGBTQ and/or alcohol culture. / See you at Helsinki Pride if I manage to get travelmoney!

When travelling, I slip into this weird non-time that doesn't exist, while real life only continues when I'm home again. / This must be one of the most important reasons why long distance relationship didn't work for us. / Long distance friendship , however, works just perfect. Friday night fever had me going to Hercules. / You're my first ever drag icon. / How nice to hear that! You have drag in Finland? / In Helsinki, yes, but not in Oulu where I come from... // Then you should establish the tradition! Saturday, Pride parade day! / We've been standing here for an hour. What gives? / (I'm hot, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I need to pee.) / The parade has started already. But there's no fast way to put 25.000 people in one line. / Gay propaganda! Solidarity! Continuous struggle! Revolution! Hi Mom, you had called? We were in the Pride parade with Axu. / Oh? You're back together?? // ...MOTHER NO. / ...Uh-huh. / (You're still friends with Dad as well, stupid.) // I, THE GREAT WILD GOOSE, HAVE SHAT EVERYWHERE. / I sold all your comics. I told you you should've brought more! / Black-pink money. Later in the evening we went to the beach... with style. / Fuckin' homos! / Thanks. / Beep beep!!! // THEN WE DANCED TILL SUNRISE! / Ok well I mostly sat around drunk. I HAD A BLAST HUGS AND KISSES <3

NIIN ETTÄ SIIS HMM Feast On Art on uuden uutukainen taidefestareita järkkäävä lafka, ja meikämandoliino on osa festivaaliohjelmaa. (en järkkää omia avajaisia.) tapahtumapaikka on Rajatila-Galleria osoitteessa Hämeenpuisto 10 TAMMERFORS , eli niin lähellä keskustaa että ei ole mitään mieltä saivarrella että oikeastihan se on jo Amurin kaupunginosan puolella öyh vöyh anyway kattokaa mun sarjisoriginaaleja ja ostakaa mun pienlehtiä ja silirimpsis tättärää!!!!!!!

Eli on jälleen aika perinteisen (?) luonnospläjäyksen! Huomenna yöjunalla Tampereen kautta Puntala-rockiin , I'll see you there! Bring a sweater.

Olli Immonen is an idiotic nazi. / I've sat in the train station for five hours. And five hours more do I have to sit and wait for the festival bus. // Axu the Ex to the rescue! / Internet! Nixu the Ex needs a ride to Puntala-rock, pronto! / Aye aye! / Hocus pocus internet magix punx. // Hehe, festival taxi again. / Olli Immonen is a war-inciting nazi. The tent area was sheer mud chaos, as expected. / Olli Immonen is a gross nazi. // I was all about that punx fagz fashion! // I tried to hit on at least two guys but they were both hets. (Not related to my comic, HeteroseXual Animals.) // One of them gave me a kiss to retaliate. / Olli Immonen is literally a nazi. I went to bed quite early on both days and barely went to any mosh pits. / My shoes did change color in any case. // Jiipu and Axu were who I hung out with most of the time. They're the best tho! Unlike Olli Immonen who is a fear-mongering paranoid bullshit nazi. Waiting for my train home: / Boy do I feel like a festival animal. And the train station falafel gave me the worst stomach ache. Crust punk as hell... / Hey! // I've got a suggestion for you. // Go fuck yourself. / Ya dig. / Go fu / I wonder if he was a nazi, just like True Finn member of parliament, chairman of a nationalist organization Suomen Sisu, Olli Immonen?

Esitin Näkkiä kavereiden Supernatural-parodiassa. Taiteilin Everwhat-galleriassa, ja taiteilen vielä kuun loppuun saakka. Pakkahuoneenkadulla, look it up. Turun sarjakuvakauppa avasi toimipisteen Oulun sarjakuvakeskukseen, Kulttuuritalo Valve, Hallituskatu ??????? kvg myös. Salaperäinen paita Kööpenhaminasta(?)! Kuka tunnustaa lähettäneensä mulle fanipostia?

Translated for my possible new foreign readers' convenience! I translate my blog entries quite seldom nowadays because I'm a piece of shit like that. Helsinki International Comic Festival 2015! // I took far too many zines with me. / The fuck are we supposed to fit all that into my trunk. / No idea, lol. // 270-ish zines to be exact? Less than a half would've been plenty enough. / OH WELL. // Pasta and red wine at friend's house. / The liberal bubble of Kallio, Helsinki. Nothing much on Friday. / It's impossible to enjoy the show in the main tent. / (Murmuring and incomprehensible noises from main stage) // Happy hour it is! // Later in Karhupuisto park: / Feels weird to have friends from different social classes and (sub)cultures. / (Classical music and Madonna, screenwriter of a famous Finnish soap opera) / (Punk rock, watches the soap opera) / Please tell me spoilers, will ya? / No fucking way. Ismo will stay, though. / As if I should somehow be embarrassed for either one of them. Stupid brain! Some sort of caveman atavisms or something. SMALL fucking PRESS fucking HEAVEN for fuck's sake! // People loved HeteroseXual Animals #2. // Comic blogger meeting was crowded! Couldn't ask for self portraits because my sketchbook was full. / I'm your super-fan! You drew me horribly! My first album just got published!* // 6,90€ for a fucking beer!? (*: Viivi Rintanen - Mielisairaalan kesätyttö [Suuri Kurpitsa]) Official afterparty at Dubrovnik was expensive as shit so us bloggers and Namifetsi the queer-feminist zine participants went to Karhupuisto. / (Discussion about sex, drugs, gender, racism and pee-pee and poo-poo.) On Sunday we had to leave quite early, so I left 60 zines for Jiipu to sell. They sold 21! And will sell more at their invite-only comic release party in Tampere. // Hey Anssi, we'll come to your car a few minutes late. / K. OLI IHANAT KEKKERIT ENSI VUONNA LISÄÄ NAMIA FETSIN TÄYDELTÄ NAMINAMI UH AH

TIPS TO A NEWBIE ZINE AUTHOR! // 1. No skill level requirements! / The whole idea of zines is that everyone is allowed, capable AND has a right to make comics. / If you got something to say, say it! / But what if I DON'T have anything to say? (Or not enough material.) / Well, there are no length requirements to a zine either. HOWEVER... // 2. Team work rules okay! / Make a double-cover split with a buddy! When you brainstorm together, even small ideas can become big - even big "enough" for a "full-length" zine. / Come up with a mutual theme, share tasks on a single story (script, [sketch], drawing...), go nuts on an energydrink-soaked all-nighter... ANYTHING GOES! What if my zine stinks after an hour or a year? / Let me tell you a story. // THIS is my first zine. Highschool copy machine, circa 2009. / It had high-brow humor about the human condition, as well as vulnerable personal stories about self-loathing and cynicism. // A year later, I DESTROYED every single copy. / Jesus Christ what EMBARASSING teenage angst garbage!!! // But I'll tell you this! On that exact day in 2008 or 2009 or whatever, I was so damn PROUD of my VERY FIRST zine. / It was ham-fisted, it was inconsistent, it was, well, a zine made by a teenage boy. BUT THE WORST WAS OVER. NOW I HAD THE KNOW-HOW. THE EXPERIENCE. TO DO MORE, AND BETTER. TODAY, my threshold to come up with, plan out and finish a zine is ZERO. / And just like I dislike my old work simply because I have grown as an artist, there will always be some asshole who dislikes your work, NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE. // (Friend's conservative father reads "HeteroseXual Animals." / A-hem!! // And just as certainly, in ten or twenty years, I will read my current zines amused, embarrassed and most of all PROUD that I started my journey SOMEWHERE, instead of waiting for the "right moment." The "right moment" will never come, because EVERY moment is the right moment! / SO GET TO IT! YES YOU CAN!

(Mom:) You ought to call your grandma, she's starting to fade. Memory issues etc. // God, I'm not ready to confront a close relative's death. / Such pressure! As if she'll die any second now, and my phonecall will be a race against time! // Hi grandma, how's it going? Niko her-- / Hey! Long time no talk! Blah blah blah / ...Yes, right! // One may notice which parent I got my pessimism and paranoia from.

Alla sarjakuvapiirtäjän suudelmia, eli tervehdyspiirustuksia Pari objektia täs näi. "Linja-automasturbaattorin muistelmat" oli siis 24h:ni nimi, mutta nimellä ei ole oikeastaan paskankaan väliä koska missään tekemässäni ei ollut päätä eikä häntää :D Screencap oktaedri-videostani, kattokaa Instagramista :'''D @laiskiaisprinsessa pusipusi seurakkaa En siis valitettavasti pakannut Linja-automasturbaattorin muistelmia mukaani, koska se oli käytännössä mahdotonta. Sori! Lisää kuvia tulisi jos olisi. Tyydyin kirjoittamaan analyysia/post mortemia yritelmästäni, niin että oli tää yritelmä hyödyllinen edes jollekin ja jotenkin - eli sille että saatan valmistua tämän vuosituhannen puolella :D

Rauhan tiellä-antologiaa voi ostaa Sadankomitean nettikaupasta tai suoraan meikämöllikän myyntipöydästä Oulun sarjisfestareilta 5.-8.11.! Haastattelen myös sarjakuvamöllikkä Elina Lahdenperää lauantaina Valve-näyttämöllä.