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BA #6/08

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The latest installment of Bamse features a story about an icehockey junior world championship in Quebec, Canada, and my second ever cover for the main magazine.

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© Rune Andréasson

Idea and layout: Joakim Gunnarsson
Pencils: Andreas Qassim
Ink: Bernt Hanson

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The antagonists of Susanne Adolfsson’s story are Bruno the grizzly, and Laban the racoon. The characters were designed by me.

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The story revolves around hockey games, i.e. I had to squeeze lots and lots of little hockey players into the panels. Being an old fan of WATCHING hockey, I enjoyed trying to fill the story with as much authentic hockey action and poses as possible.

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Where drawings are made…

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Just thought I’d show you where I draw and create nowadays. I moved into a comics studio at the end of December 2007, and I’ve been working here since 7 Jan. The studio houses 10 comic artists altogether.

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We’re situated in an old chocolate factory in Malmö called Mazetti-huset (“The Mazetti House”). Nowadays the buildning is devoted to culture, and in it you’ll find everything from film to music to comics and dance workshops, plus a restaurant and a club.

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Jimmy Wallin, the Head of Seriestudion (“The Comics Studio”) welcomes you to our place. Jimmy and me compete daily in who can drink the most coffee.

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The studio is like any crowded office space, but perhaps there are more cartoons and crazy projects going on here than what’s average. It’s very cosy. You should come and visit us!

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This is my own little corner of the studio. I started to feel at home immediately. Thanks to my window space I had somewhere to place my muppet figurines. Happy happy joy joy!

It feels much more like having “a real job” these days. Being able to go TO work, and more importantly LEAVING work, is a welcome change in daily routines.

Bamse in the future, BA #3/08

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The latest issue of Bamse features a definitive first for Bamse and friends: they travel to the future!

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© Rune Andréasson

Lille Skutt accidentally makes Skalman’s time machine take a quantum leap into the unknown, and suddenly the three friends find themselves back home, but twenty years ahead of their own time. Their beautiful valley has been destroyed by a mysterious toxic catastrophe. Horrified and heartbroken, the trio goes back to the present to try to stop the catastrophe from happening and save the valley.

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Mårten Melin and Susanne Adolfsson wrote this unusually scary and bold Bamse-story. I was delighted to be allowed to create both nightmarish scenes and exciting sneak-and-hide scenes in the chemical lab. Even the coloring artists seem to have picked up on the extraordinary qualities of the story, giving the toxic scenes dramatic skies and overlaying half-transparent veils of poisonous green.

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As always, having Kerstin Hamberg as inker is pure luxury. My drawings wouldn’t look half as good without her professional lines, as you can see on these above sketches. Note the periodic system on the wall of the lab. Sometimes the perfectionist devil in me makes me do horrible things…

 

BA #2/08

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The cover of the latest Bamse (should be out by now) is actually my first ever for the magazine, a great honour if you ask me. I’ve done other covers previously, but never for the main magazine “Bamse-Världens starkaste björn”. Funnily enough, I’m not getting any credit. Instead it says that Lars Bällsten, the usual cover illustrator is responsible for the cover. The editorial office has promised to correct this in next issue.

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© Rune Andréasson

Layout: Joakim Gunnarsson
Pencils: Andreas Qassim
Ink: Bernt Hanson

Keep an eye out for BA #6/08, which features my second ever cover. Hopefully they’ll get the credits right this time. 🙂

 

Bamse #16

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Tutelutterna are back! Written by Joakim Gunnarsson and Mårten Melin, and drawn by me and Kerstin Hamberg, “Tutelutternas Dal” features more Tutelutter than you’ve ever seen before!

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I had to work my way through hellish panels such as this one (I think I spent at least a day on it):

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Nice full cover by J. Gunnarsson, Lars Bällsten and Bernt Hanson. Note the ad. for the christmas album to which I drew the cover (should be out by now).

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They say Tutelutterna have become rather popular among Bamse’s readers. I’d love to hear some response from readers able to read these English entries!