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Here comes Thoughtbubble

Allan Haverholm — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:53:15 +0000

My girlfriend, Karoliina, is now blogging about her everyday tribulations, which within the next few days will include me, as she relocates from northern Finland to spend the summer in Malmö.
Go, read! She’s an excellent writer, and cute as hell, too!

The Nutrition of a Varied Diet

Allan Haverholm — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:42:27 +0000

The eleventh volume of the Anthology That Is Good has been compiled, edited, and sent to print. Preliminary date of publication is June 15th.

All content is one or another form of variation on comics that have previously published in C’est Bon Anthology by C’est Bon Kultur members:

Oskar Aspman went and remixed Niklas Asker’s story Second Thoughts, originally published in CBA vol. 7.
Mattias Elftorp has reinterpreted an illustration by Daniel Novakovic, originally published in Publikation(34)C’est Bon.
Sofia Falkenhem took Martin Flink’s story The Troll for a spin, originally published in CBA vol. 7.
Martin Flink contributes a variation of Jamil Mani’s story Passage, originally published in CBA vol. 4.
Susanne Johanssons has made a photocollage of Johan Jergner-Ekervik’s story H2O, originally published in CBA vol. 6
Jamil Mani redid Sofia Falkenhem’s story Dawn, originally published in CBA vol. 8
My own contributions to this volume of CBA is SEX (after Mattias Elftorp’s story Violence, originally published in CBA vol. 3) and the cover (above), a tribute to Nathan Fox’ cover for CBA vol. 2.

Wertham’s Razor

Allan Haverholm — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:37 +0000

Since I was gloating months ago on Twitter about this bright new idea of mine, I thought I might as well expand a bit on it here. Also, I’ve been terrible at updating the blog, so everything counts, I guess!
The outline below came to me after this year’s Angoulême festival. My girlfriend and I spent a few days in Paris before going home, when she got a phone call from her sister, saying that one of the sister’s two hamsters had died.

She and her then-boyfriend had found it belly-up in the sawdust when they woke up, its abdomen showing clear bitemarks. All the while the other hamster was pounding the treadmill with oblivious glee. How can you pass up a scene like that?

So, here’s what I came up with:

Two hamsters, Fluffy and Wertham, live in a cage. The treadmill is their only entertainment, not least their internal bickering over it.

One morning Fluffy is lying dead in the sawdust, mutilated. Whodunit?

A new hamster, Tantor, is put into the cage, and Wertham begins investigating the circumstances of Fluffy’s death, with Tantor as the chief suspect.

That’s it. Oh, I know how it’s going to end, but I’m not letting on

As I said, this was right after Angoulême, and I was obviously inspired by Cali & Pianina’s “10 petits Insects” to try my hand with a whodunit, but that’s the only similarity.

“10 petits Insects” is a great piece of work, btw, as testified by its inclusion to the Sélection Officiale of Angoulême BD 2010. Highly recommended while you wait for me to finish “Wertham’s Razor”

Fronkonsteen

Allan Haverholm — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:09:23 +0000

I found to my pleasure that blogging again after an embarrassing hiatus doesn’t hurt at all! So I’ll treat you to a link about an exhibition I’m part of in the near future: C’est Bon Panorama II
That’s it. That didn’t hurt either. I should do this more

I live, but quietly

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:50:35 +0000

I now work at Malmö’s pittoresque Seriecenter, along with my buddies from C’est Bon Kultur, and will be posting frequently about our new anthology issues!
On a bummer note, I lost my steady paying gig with publisher Faraos Cigarer, but will continue to work with them on a freelance basis.
There will also be a few new comic projects announced here in the near future, so stay tuned!

Mix Tape review

Allan Haverholm — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:30:12 +0000

Mix Tape, and the currently avaliable Astoria singles Black Sabbath (intro) and Resistansen, are reviewed over on Derik A. Badman’s terrific Madinkbeard site!

A keen observer, Derik notes: “Like the songs on a well-crafted mix tape, the images have their own separate identity, yet, by placing in juxtaposition, the reader (listener) attributes some meaning to the choices and ordering.”

I have been following Derik’s blog for a year or two now, and finding him on Twitter, I was delighted that he showed some interest in the Astoria Project in time for MoCCA.

Meeting him there, we had a short chat and I abrasively pushed my entire catalog on him. It turns out, judging from the review, he didn’t mind too much

I’m looking very much forward to what he might have to say about future publications!

Cabin comics (1)

Allan Haverholm — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:11:46 +0000

“How I spent my summer vacation” by Allan Haverholm, age 33

There is something else about the reading -ahem- materials one finds in cabins and summerhouses. Generally speaking, it is the kind of trash you wouldn’t want to be caught reading anywhere else.

Crime, sci-fi, speculative science, romance, and the lowest of brows in humor are regular features those places; sometimes in comic form, even. Shudder!

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be blogging about some of the stuff I’ve read while holed up in a Norwegian cabin.

Keep your eyes peeled for Modesty Blaise! Rip Kirby! All sorts of Wild West crap!

676 Release

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:03:10 +0000

Busy busy busy

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:25:30 +0000

Did I say that I like to keep things moving? I just had a lunch meeting with a prospect new partner on the Kranium Uranium project, who has a lot of things going for him that Januz and I have needed to take the series to the next level.

Don’t speculate on any big names, the only reason I’m not giving his name is that we’re only talking right now, and we’ll see what comes of it.

Still, I’m excited to see where the project is heading now, even of the actual work may be a year in the future

Gearing up for MoCCA

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:08:07 +0000

Work on Astoria singles progressing at a steady pace, even though I have dropped everything else to prepare singles in time for MoCCA Art Fest June 6th-7th.

Scaling down from 12″ to 7″ square pagesize freshens up the work, as does the tight schedule. It’s both exciting and counter-productive to work against the clock like this but I often find it a great way of getting stuff out.

Besides, I have spent way too long thinking and planning the project, which doesn’t exactly characterise the 2-3-go rock’n'roll I usually favor.

Better to just bang some great comics out, even if the planned singles are played sort of safe — Black Sabbath and Engine City being riffs on other people’s work (Sabbath and Jack Kirby, respectively).

The B-side to each single will give pointers to some of the other directions I am taking Astoria. Thankyou’s to my Danish editor Torben Hansen of Fwd Pub for reminding me there should *be* B-sides to complete the concept