benjo is in the wild!

So, my little "grassroot comic" is out for the public to laugh at! I hung up about 20 of these around Malmö city centre, but most of them have been torn down already. I highly doubt anyone has seen them, which is probably just as good. But more are coming, Malmö, get ready!
(By the way, you can check it out here. It's in swedish, which I guess makes my public slightly smaller than it could be...)

the escapist webcomic contest

I recently took part in a contest launched by gaming website The Escapist. They were looking for a new webcomic to publish, offering a contract for two strips a week. So I did what I could and came up with this (warning: most of this won't make sense, much less seem funny, unless you are a bit of a videogame nerd):









Not the most inspired comedy, unfortunately, probably also because I had never even considered making a comic on this topic before. I encourage you to check out the honourable mentions, though, since these guys knew what they were doing (this one and this one are especially beautiful I think, and enjoyable by non-gamers too). I'm pleased with having managed to submit anyway, and I'm quite happy with the simple but (I think) nice and easily recognizable style. Now on to things that come from the heart instead.

like cats and dogs

Well, so much for the weekly updates!
During the past month and a half I attended the last few lessons of the illustration course, and only recently got around to completing (most of) the assignments that we started working on there. I have a full time job, and time is scarce...
This is the first of the last three assignments. We got tasked with making a storyboard and then a comic based on a few words that we unwittingly picked at random. They were: dog, cat, sun chair, Christmas tree, heat and ache (from training). This is what I came up with (click for a bigger version).



Yeah, not much dialogue. I wanted to go for a sort of black and white slapstick comedy feel. I even thought I'd draw it like an old '30s Mickey Mouse cartoon, but my hands got the best of me.
Pencil and china ink, took about 7 hours.