Filed under: — Allan Haverholm @ 11:34 pm

Doing my DARKTHRONE impression! Personal

I am Allan Haverholm (b. 1976), a Danish graphic novelist and comic artist. Living and working in Malmö, Sweden.

Work

My first major (published) work was the 2006 book ‘Sortmund’ (meaning ‘Blackmouth’), a lengthy speculation in comic form on the whole religion fallacy – but tied up in a nice little, doomy crime mystery. The book was very well shorter comics for magazines and anthologies, first and foremost Danish monthly ‘Free Comics’, to which I return time and again for more creative fulfillment and crushing deadlines.

Presently, I am hard at work on my next large project, the ‘Astoria’ rock album. When I’m not busy behind my table at Gimle Studio, I buckle down for a meager penny as a graphic designer at Danish comic shop-cum-publisher Faraos Cigarer. Hey, how many people get to work with the oeuvres of Hugo Pratt, Alan Moore, Jacques Tardi, and Moebius?

Also, I occasionally write about comics, mainly in the local comic digest ‘STRIP!’ and ‘Free Comics’; I teach comics once a year at Kunsthøjskolen Holbæk; I run a tiny graphic shop, producing fonts for … well, comics; and I manage to get in a couple hours of sleep every now and then. And dream of comics.

Education

Once or twice a day when I google myself, I read that I have a degree from the School of Design in Kolding (‘Designskolen Kolding’). Sorry, but it just isn’t true – and whatever success I may have or get, I will not let a single unit of it pass on to that sorry substitute for proper education. Mind you, that’s the illustration and interactive design departments I’m referring to; I don’t have any personal experience from the rest of the school.

Yes, I went to school there, and out of the fellow students I met there I still count some of my very good friends, and my wife. Did I graduate? No. Did I learn anything worth repeating? Two things – “It’s the sales pitch that counts, not the actual work you put in,” and “You’re on your own, pal”. Good riddance!

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