Here’s a big hug for the fantastic Rikke Bakman who has been a good friend and ever-generous support while I’ve been at Malmö’s Comic School.

She currently works on an autobiographic comic, focusing a whole childhood’s peaks of embarassment into a single summer day.

It’s an electrifying read from what I’ve gleaned over her shoulder, and sadly one that she’s taking her time finishing

The box in the foreground contains a year’s worth of graphite and colored pencil shavings, the skin shed from her tools while working on the piece.