I’m in a Bamse mood today. Believe me when I say I’m not always. As a freelancing artist for Bamse you get SO fed up from time to time. Why am I doing this, you think to yourself. But then you get a blog reply like Tob’s in the last post, and you’re reminded of why you’re in this business. Sometimes, it IS actually worth the effort.
Since christmas time is coming up, here’s my present to all you Bamse fans out there, a MEGA BAMSE BLOG POST!
BAMSE #16: SJÄLV-MÅL eller GLÄDJE-MÅL
Yet another Rune A-script, the follow-up to KICK-NICKE (Bamse #12). Kick-Nicke and Spark-Mark (another former professional football player) compete in training the junior football teams against each other. They are VERY serious about this, to the dismay of Bamse, Skalman and the others.
In spite of having remained in the archives for several years, this script is unfortunately still relevant. Sports get professional too early these days. I heard on the radio about English parents (mostly fathers of course) being a bit too serious about their children’s football, screaming and shouting from the sidelines, calling the referee names and so on. Is it really that important to win? Shouldn’t all children be allowed to participate and play just for fun? Skalman comes up with a plan how to deal with Spark-Mark and Kick-Nicke’s elitism. Classic Rune A material!
Page from Rune’s script.
My interpretation.
Kerstin Hamberg’s ink original.
Finished page.
BAMSE #17/18: BAMSE och det MAGISKA LJUSET
Most likely, DET MAGISKA LJUSET is the last Mårten Melin script pencilled by me you’ll ever see, since Mårten isn’t working with Bamse any longer. There is more than a little melancholy in this since I think Mårten is THE foremost Bamse script writer to have emerged after Rune. My first Melin script was BAMSE och HUSVAGNSFOLKET, and it was clear from the outset that this scriptwriter was something out of the ordinary. If you like Mårten’s stories, there are plenty of books out there that he wrote. Check them out when you’re up for some REAL literature. And check out Mårten’s blog while you’re at it!
Anyway, DET MAGISKA LJUSET is a comics adaption of an illustrated short story Mårten wrote for BAMSE’s ÄVENTYR. I like the occult elements of this story. Scary stuff. I like scary…
Sorry for the crappy quality of the sketches. I had no scanner at hand so I had to do with the iPhone and “natural lamp light”.
Cleaned up sketch of page 4.
Finished page. Ink by Kerstin Hamberg.
BO MICHANEK 50
Bo Michanek turned 50 this year. Bo was one of two artists drawing for Bamse during the eighties and early nineties (when Rune still wrote all of the the material for the magazine). I grew up reading Bamse, and some of my all time favorite Bamse stories were drawn by Bo, like DE TRE SVÄRDEN and VARGENS LIV.
Technically Bo Michanek is on a whole other level than the rest of us. He’s the perfectionist’s perfectionist. He used to draw Bamse with the precision of an architect. He was actually still with Bamse when I started, so my very first Bamse drawings were corrected by him. I was so nervous the first time I met him, since I respect him so much.
Simon Bülow and Oskar Forsgren, both Bamse artists, compiled a booklet paying tribute to Bo Michanek on his birthday. This was my contribution:
Bo Michanek is the youngster in the middle. I think you need to be a nerd like me to really appreciate these. 🙂
FRITIDSRESOR’S BAMSE SHOW
And like this wasn’t enough I will end this MEGA BAMSE BLOG POST by throwing in yet another clip from the animated backdrops to Fritidsresor’s Bamse show I worked on last year. I’ve been wanting to add more of these to the portfolio, but I’m planning a complete restructuring of the site, so until then you’ll have to do with these sporadic blog entries. Earlier this year there were talks about doing more shows, but then I guess the financial crisis happened. Rats! I had such a good time making these animations. If anyone out there is able to finance the production of A REALLY GOOD BAMSE GAME using this technique, please get in touch with me! 🙂
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
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Wow, a Mega BAMSE blog post! That´s a real christmas present right there Andreas!
I can really imagine you being piled up with work to do for BAMSE, now when the new year is approaching so quickly, my god we´re already in December! I just hope you get time to have a really nice Christmas and get loads of presents, Donald Duck on TV(haha, I still watch it because I´m so nostalgic) and of course, julgröt! 😀
Speaking of SJÄLV-MÅL eller GLÄDJE-MÅL, I really liked that chapter a lot. As you said it was classic Rune A material, I was really reminded of him in the story, in fact all of his scripts have that Rune A aura around them. You executed the story very well in your style! There are three BAMSE artists I almost immediately recognise in a comic by their way of drawing, and that´s you, Lars Bällsten and Bo Michanek. Three very unique different styles, but all as great!
What you say is very true though, sports do get very, very professional way too early. I have a few teams I´m a fan off, but seeing those other “hardcore” fans yelling and screaming and getting almost violent sometimes makes me wonder if I´m in old Rome watching some gladiator faceoff…
Also I loved the in-work pages you posted with this blog, I dont know really why, but seeing the in-progress images of a page in the very comic I hold in my hand is a very special feeling. All my life as a kid I wondered how they those pages got there, why do they look as they do? There cant be a person drawing them BY HAND right? That´s impossible, it must be some kind of magic or a superintelligent-computer. Haha yeah, that was my thoughts as a kid 🙂
It was very sad to hear that Mårten doesn´t work with BAMSE anymore. I remember BAMSE och HUSVAGNSFOLKET very well, I got so upset when Krösus attempted to get them away by stealing from himself and blame everything on them, it was one of my earlier anti-racist feelings I got as a kid.
And that BAMSE på 80-TALET was great, I laughed at the last panel, MIB HQ =P I really hope he had a great party when he turned 50, with cake, good friends and the company of some weak alcoholic beverages!
Lastly to end this horrible long post I´ve gotta say, man, great animation! I had no idea you did those, it runs very smoothly. Makes me miss those BAMSE movies back in the days, I had all of them on VHS until they got so worn out they refused to play anymore.
And a BAMSE GAME? I would so love to help you finance this production, but the saying I´m a student I think would be enough too explain my own financial situation haha =D But I will sure keep an eye out!
Merry Christmas yourself, and have a great weekend you!
Tack för de vänliga orden, Andreas! Det värmer gott. Och så ville jag bara säga att din BoM-tribute var finfin! Haha, Bosse (och Rune och de andra) som rymdvarelser. Riktigt roligt!
Tob, thanks for your MEGA REPLY! 🙂
Eftersom du läser Bamse antar jag att du talar svenska. Jag skriver på engelska mest för att jag har familj och vänner som inte gör det. Lite konstigt när det ofta handlar om en väldigt svensk nallebjörn, jag vet, men det fick liksom bli en liten kompromiss. Jag förtjänar inte att bli omnämnd i samma mening som Bo och Lars, men eftersom du ändå gjorde det tackar jag och bockar ödmjukast.
Mårten, det är välförtjänt smör, och helt sant dessutom. Har inte brett på någonstans… Även dina ord värmer. Lika gott som Dufvenskroks hjortronglögg!
Haha tack själv!
Jo jag talar svenska, man är ju östgöte!(Smålänning i blodet!)
Jag antog faktiskt att engelskan var på grund utav det du nämner, så att skriva till dig på svenska skulle kännas elakt mot dina icke-svenska läsare utav bloggen, man vill ju förstå 🙂
Och på tal om Dufvenskroks hjortronglögg, mhmmm!
Ha det! Du förtjänar allt smör ;D