Året var 1993 (dinosauriernas tid). Jag var 16 år och drömde om att bli professionell serietecknare. Försökte få min serie FAMILJEN BOXER publicerad i Svenska Serier. Jag misslyckades. Här återges serien i sin helhet för första gången. 10 sidor, en sida om dagen. Sida 2/10:
Året var 1993 (dinosauriernas tid). Jag var 16 år och drömde om att bli professionell serietecknare. Skickade in en serie till den utmärkta blaskan Svenska Serier. Jag hade ritat serier tidigare, men aldrig tuschat med stålstift på elfenbens-kartong (hade läst att det var så de riktiga serieskaparna gjorde). Ritade inte in några pratbubblor utan skickade med manus och överlät textning till redaktionen. Serien blev refuserad och därmed heller aldrig presenterad i sin helhet.
20 år senare tyckte jag det var dags att gräva fram den ur skambyrån. På med bubblor och text. Äntligen! Svenska Serier må ha haft goda skäl till sin refusering, men Studio Qassim-bloggen ställer inte lika höga krav. 10 sidor allt som allt, en sida om dan. Jag ger er FAMILJEN BOXER!
Bamse Nr 8 2013 is out. Wehey! In it is yet another post mortem Rune A script penciled by me and inked by Kerstin Hamberg. It’s a pleasure illustrating Rune’s scripts. There’s always nice flow to his storytelling, and I love the fact that he writes directly in panels, balloons and boxes. This story is about ghosts. Here’s how page 5 evolved from script to print.
Rune’s simple and wonderful character design.
Rune’s script.
My interpretation of Rune’s script.
Clean up for inker.
Printed page. Beautiful ink work by Kerstin Hamberg. Unfortunately I don’t know who colored. I like the way he or she colored the last panel, to express how the character feels.
All images in this post are © Rune Andréasson
Haven’t posted anything for a while. I’m not dead, and I haven’t quit drawing. So there.
I’m currently working for Sluggerfilm in Malmö on Bamse och Tjuvstaden (Bamse and the City of Thieves), the first Bamse feature film! I don’t know how much I’m allowed to blog about this, but I think I can say that it’s going to be good. Really good!
Among the artists involved in the production are Thomas Holm (who’s also art director for the film), Lars Bällsten, Adam Blomgren and Ola Larsson. I’m proud to be part of such a great team! I worked with Thomas on the pilot a year ago. You can see some clips from it at the Tre Vänner website.
Speaking about the bear, Bamse the comic #12 just came out. Another PM-story with my drawings is in it! “Kärr-Trollet” was written by Rune Andréasson, pencilled by me and inked by Kerstin Hamberg.
Rune Andréasson’s character design.
Rune Andréasson’s script.
My interpretation of Rune’s script.
The printed page. Ink by the one and only Kerstin Hamberg.
The troll is huge compared to Nalle-Maja and the others. This is emphasized by Rune’s creative layouts throughout the story. I tried to make as much out of it as possible. The troll itself was fun to play with, expression-wise. Thanks to the editors for letting me have a go at yet another of Rune’s few remaining scripts!
All images in this post are ⓒ Rune Andréasson
Found these in my archives.
About a year ago I posted some Muppet art work at Boom Studios Artists Gallery. Boom used to have a series of pretty neat Muppet titles, starting with Roger Langridge’s awesome Muppet Show Comic Books. I thought it would be cool to draw the Muppets. For real you know?
I was more than a little surprised when I got an e-mail from a Boom editor asking me if I wanted to make some sample drawings for Darkwing Duck. It’s funny in two ways. 1) I hardly know Darkwing at all. And I’m not really into the Disney style. I’m much more attracted to highly stylized stuff, like you’d find on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network in the 90s. Maybe it’s not that visible in my body of work so far, but just wait and see… And 2) Nobody ASKS you if you want to draw a Disney comic. The way it normally works is you headbutt the editors’ locked doors for years and years before they even let you try.
Anyway, I was busy with another project at that moment and had no choice but to say thanks but no thanks. Some months later I e-mailed the editor asking if he was still interested in me having ago. Sure, he said and sent me some model sheets. So I made these character studies of Darkwing, Gosalyn, Launchpad (in spite of my unfamiliarity with Darkwing, I always liked Launchpad!) and Scrooge.
So what did the editor think? I don’t know. He never replied. Was it because my drawings sucked? Was it because I stuck too close to the original model sheets? That’s how I learned new styles in the past. First you copy, getting to know the construction of the characters, then you make your own poses and expressions. Maybe the editor expected something else? Or was it simply because Boom lost their rights to the Disney titles, and my timing was unfortunate? I guess I’ll never know. Anyway, it was fun to try something different.