On the train to Denmark, I noticed that there had been hung extended instructive pictograms showing how to break the windows in case of an emergency.
Always on the lookout for practical appliances of comics in public spaces, I couldn’t resist taking a snapshot of the image. It’s a pretty example of clear, communicative information graphics, showing three easily legible steps to gain exit.
Below is the infotoon pictured beside the red safety hammer shown breaking the window in pictogram 1.
Okay, I put this in the Events category, but it’s nothing to do with me, really. Not other than I lent a hand hanging the exhibition in question, comics and prints by the esteemed Anke Feuchtenberger.
The show is held by Malmoe-based comic activists C’est Bon Kultur, at an abandoned wharf building called Stappelbadden (if you pardon my lousy Swedish), which serves as a run-down, industrial setting for the event.
On show is a comic called Balsaal (Ballroom), a montage representation of the artist’s book The Whore W, a film (which I don’t have any info on) and seven large, original prints.
The following pics are taken at the point in any hanging where you think you’re almost there but in reality have three hours ahead of you.
My older sister is just returned from South Africa, and along with loads of pictures of the wildlife, she brought home an unusual souvenir that vaguely fits this blog.
Pictured below is a bag made out of two vinyl records and some material inn between. Not exactly how I’d treat discarded records, but it’s a nice bag!
Photo courtesy of the happy owner, my brother’s little sister (as they say on Facebook, “it’s complicated”) Lykke.
Sorry, still no shots of my tools ( I *mean* drawing equipment, thank you!).
I’m breaking my wrist to get the Resistansen demo ready for publication, which is good except for the wrist-breaking part. Because it’s going to be a kickass little book, but alas, it also means not so much casual posting this week.
Next week begins my teaching stint at Holbak Art School, which means I might be blogging like crazy while 20+ students are approaching wrist breakage 
If there’s time in between, I’ll have some pics from Resistansen up soon. Maybe, I hope.
This iPhone thing is really changing the way I work. Usually, I’d jot down notes in my sketchbook, and hope that I’d someday get around to collecting them in a text document or something.
Now I jot ideas down in Evernote instead, which is a step back for me, in a way. I’d abandoned Evernote in favor of Google Docs because of the latter’s sharing functions, but seeing how there are no free Google apps for iPhone, I switched right back again. Did I mention Evernote isn’t caught in eternal beta, either?
Since MTV Cribs aren’t likely to drop by anytime soon (and I’m not sure the show is even aired anymore) here’s a couple of pictures from my workspace at the comic school in Malmo.
I share the room and a lighttable with Tomas Enquist, whose work is published in Swedish strip monthly Hjälp, a.o.
Through my little window on the wall I can look in on Asa Ekstrom’s daunting progress on her Sayonara September manga — but I only too rarely find the time.
Next time: my tools!
It was 46 years ago today that Danish comic artist Peter Snejbjerg was dragged kicking and screaming into the world. Congratulations!
Bohemian Snejbjerg kicks off his shoes and lounges about in SoHo, NY
Inspired by the Lars von Trier movie, Malmoe Central has established new smoking areas on the platforms. The white painted lines will absorb and contain the nuisances caused by smokers, I assume.
… why I love it here.
It’s way overdue that I start working on my fan art for Kim WAndersson’s Love Hurts website (book out in April!), and it seems something hatched in my head during today’s lunch break.
The hook ‘Love Hurts, but who’s crying’ has been sitting in the back of my head more or less since day one, but I didn’t really make the right connection until now.
Given my inclination to all things heavy and/or metal, it was obvious that the piece should pay tribute to Megadeth’s classic “Peace sells, but who’s buying?” cover, in picture as well as wording.
Preliminary sketches below. In the first I was just jotting the general setting down from memory, while the second is done after digging out the actual album for reference.
