This is a remake of one unused sketch for the exhibition of musically inspired comics that I am part of at the moment. Posted here retroactively for completeness.
Day 2 of #30dayscomics
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Some of today’s work
Here’s a cover I whipped up for the next volume of C’est Bon Anthology. It’s dedicated to music in comics form, based on my own old project, Astoria, so it’s close to my heart in more ways than one. See, this anthology also marks my last term with C’est Bon Kultur, the collective I’ve been part of for close to three years now.
It’s been a lot of fun, we’ve traveled the world’s comics festivals together, and we published some really great comics in the anthology — but you gotta stop while you’re ahead. Not that I’m quitting comics, or art comics, or anything else you’d associate with C’est Bon. It’s just time to try my own wings. More about that in the future.
For now, working with the upcoming anthology, and the thematically related exhibition opening on October 28, has whetted my apetite for more work on Astoria. Those ideas will take some time to ferment as well, but you will hear it here first!
Update, October 2009
A quick note to let you know that the Astoria Sessions is still active, although hibernated during summer. There has been moving of workspaces, financial crises (oh, you noticed?), and general summertime laziness blocking productivity, but we’re getting back in the groove…
Setting records straight
There is understandable confusion about the nature of the Astoria project after the first two singles have come out:
Although both Resistansen and Black Sabbath (intro) are based on existing songs, the remaining eleven projected songs will be all original material. I hope this clears things up.
Next single out may be These Fjell Veins or Cerebration, depending on which is completed first. You’ll see it here first!
A beautiful failure ;)
The Astoria demos (and Mix Tape, too) have been reviewed by Derik Badman over on his Madinkbeard blog. He seems to like them a lot!
EDIT: To wet your apetites a bit more, here’s a few pull quotes from Derik’s piece:
“All in all [Astoria is] a hugely ambitious project, one that will either end in genius or brilliant failure.”
“Haverholm’s success with the watercolors in “Black Sabbath (intro)” and the pencils in “Resistansen” give me confidence that the other Astoria multimedia works will also prove visually evocative.”
Now scoot on over and peruse the analytical beauty that is Madinkbeard!
Tonight’s the night…
Ohh… Idiot!
Not you, me. In the fracas after MoCCA I completely forgot to announce the release party for the latest collection of 676-books from Aben Maler publishing.
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Out and home again
It’s been a fun few weeks, MoCCA coming and going, the whole NY experience and all.
I managed to have the Black Sabbath single done for the festival, plus a similar-format outline of the entire project. The latter may be up on the site as a PDF in a few days.
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Not Mike Royer :(
Here’s a few samples of today’s inking session on Engine City.
The vigil observer will notice that I’ve focused on the characters in most panels/spreads. True, I started with the fun part 
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Falling to pieces
It’s a week before I’m leaving for MoCCA’s Art Fest, and the material for the singles isn’t done yet by a long stretch. Head is literally spinning with stress.
Don’t worry though, the book(s) will be out. Printers work fast these days
No sleep ’til MoCCA
So starting today I have 12 days to finish three works in progress, prepare them for print, get them back from the printer, and drag them to New York for MoCCA’s Art Fest.
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