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Whenever I have time. But recently it has been mostly writing: just making notes about hundred different ideas I would like to materialize some day. I hope there was a hyper reality, or some kind of Limbo with its own time continuum and passage way from our dimension, for extra art making.
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Well I'm still drawing Hatter. M. Vol. 4: there may be something like 20-30 pages to do still. That plus Deadworld: Infection which is coming out from IDW as part of their new anthology, starting this Fall. But those two books are keeping me busy so there are no other projects at the moment.
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Oh! people actually go to my myspace site?! I haven`t updated it for years... shame on me. It`s an old collaboration that never got green lighted. The story was good but the writer had some second thoughts of how it should go. It seemed that we will not get anywhere and at the same time I got some new projects. So we decided to leave the Beach. If you google the net you may find couple of similar forgotten projects of mine. Who knows, maybe something comes out of them one day.
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Well it used be on the net, but now that I tried to google it I couldn`t find it... Hmm... It`s in NO Formula and it was also published as additional story in Blue -graphic novel.
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It`s just an illustration I did for fun. Read a news article about a woman who didn`t notice his husbend had died while sleeping in their bed. She only found it out when the worms started come out of his back. And it`s all true! Merry Christmas!
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Haven`t been in United States conventions yet but sure: I will come if people keep telling me I should. There is only couple of "bigger" conventions in Finland and I felt the last one didn`t offer much anything so I didn`t even visit the area. Chose to draw instead.
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I only designed it. It is developed by Tuukka Semi, a friend of mine. I just said to him what things I wanted to be in this or that place and he did the encoding. I don`t know shit about that. Maybe you could try this one: http://wordpress.org/
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Hmm If I remember this correctly, Sam contacted me after he had read the "Yes, Mother" -a web comic by me and writer Elizabeth Genco. I haven`t thought about working to Split Lip a lot lately since all I do goes to printers and well, printed book is a book. It´s not like I don`t appreciate the web comics but I like the original printed medium more. Teaming up with Sam worked always great and I like his stories I did, especially "Look Carefully" so there is no reason I would not team up with him again if I have time for it some day.
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Very different artists have inspired me at different times: as you may know I have a degree in painting so there is many painters. From Picasso (of course) to Jackson Pollock. But if we are talking about drawing I think it was the very usual continuum of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and from their period to Bill Sienkiewicz and Kent Williams. But at the end of the day you end up taking influences from here and there, the things you see and like, so it is a mix of ...everything.
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Actually now that I think I do have one finished comic (55 pages), written and drawn by me, that has never been published. But that was drawn like 5 years ago. During the last summer I wrote a horror story that I think is so appealing that it will be published once I have time to finish the dialogue and actually draw it. I really think there is something in it you haven`t seen a lot on comics field. It would be a graphic novel or 6 issue mini. Something like that. But I am quite busy these days so let`s see when I have time for that. I sure hope it will be out there soon as possible.
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I have always loved comics and had drawn quite many pages before starting to work for american intustry. Originally I thought I would just contact finnish publishers but things started really moving forward when I sent my portfolio to Warren Ellis`s site "The Engine", to a section called "artists looking for writers". Sadly The Engine doesn`t run anymore. But yeah; after that several american / european writers contacted me and I started reading their scripts. There were lots of them but I chose to start working with Elizabeth Genco. She already had contacts among american publishers and we did the Blue -graphic novel which was published by Desperado. After that Joe Pruett (of Desperado) introduced me to Gary Reed and I started illustrating Deadworld Slaughterhouse.
Before comics I have studied arts in Finland and Estonia and have worked couple of shitty jobs not related to arts. -
I`ve been thinking it and I promise I`ll do it one day. Basically there is no GREAT differences between the working ways of his and mine. I think the biggest difference is that I don`t use pencils but go straight to inks. Takes too much time, and is boring, to draw images twice. My opinion! You may disagree. I have tried to work both ways and this certainly is better for me. After that it`s some painting (amount of it differs) and then photoshop. Simple as that. Anyway, it most certainly is true that every artist should struggle through these problems alone: when you keep searching the best methods for you, you always find something accidentally too. Just keep your eyes / mind open while working.
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No, it was requested by someone. But I will put photos of it to my site soon as I have them. If you want one designed by me for yourself, just send email and tell me about your idea. The prices are 150 USD for small one and so forth.
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Sami Makkonen’s Bio
An artist and evil witch now illustrating Eisner Award nominated Hatter M graphic novel series and Deadworld. Ask me anything related to my work.
