Buy PPS online.

Now you can buy your own copy of Places People Stories. Go to http://placespeoplestories.se/ and place your order.

Dagens Nyheter

We are very pleased to find a short text by Jonas Thente on Places People Stories in today's Dagens Nyheter.
"The comic sumarizes a few of the conference lectures in a playful way and provides an excellent introduction to academic thinking both contemporary and traditional."

We're done!

Finally, after many hours of last minute changes, re-drawing, re-coloring and proof reading we, Petter and I, are so pleased to announce that Places People Stories is at the printers.
We'll be able to check out the first copies this tuesday.
Waiting for those you can read the complete graphic novel on Issuu.

PPS Touch ups.

Me and Petter in Turkey.

PPS Finally...

Finally done with inks, maybe some minor details to adjust. Trying out some coloring and lettering. Font is Dave Gibbons Lower from Comicbookfonts.com.

Done! Well, almost anyway.

Last page done! Remains to do some touch up on page 1 - 5. Then color and lettering.

PPS, Berlin.

Museum Insel, Berlin, birds eyes view. Decided on the dove just when I thought I was done.

Neues Museum, Berlin

Drawing the Neues Museum for Places People Stories. Five pages left to draw.

PPS Kalmar Castle.

PPS Petra.

PPS And she Scores!

Frame from page 9.

PPS Tokyo.

A frame from page 6. Me and Petter in Shibuya, Moebius in the foreground.

Places, People, Stories

Drawing for PPS. Meanwhile Petter is finishing and editing the script. We're on schedule with one new page finished every day.

Scott McCloud

I just ordered another copy of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. This way we will have one copy each to refer to in the ongoing work with Places People Stories.

I read UC for the first time several years ago and I think it is an excellent work discussing not just comics an how to understand them but also referring to creating graphic art in general, including fine art painting. Check out for example McClouds' theory on abstraction in the Big Triangle. Outstanding!

New Project

Working on a new project. Places People Stories is a ongoing project aimed to result in a conference publication in comic book form for the conference with the same name. This conference investigates the relations between people and places, focusing on the role of stories in constructing meaning and affecting human emotions. The project is a collaboration between Petter Hanberger and I as a team and Linnaeus University, Kalmar. We have set out to produce an indepedent original work that is relevant to the main aims for the conference.

We can't work in the studio because its cluttered up with moulds and fiberglass for the concrete cast.

You realise this is pretty serious work: ).