I mentioned some time back that I had been laid off from work (as a keyboard chimp and graphics go-to guy at Danish comics publisher Faraos Cigarer).
Although I’ve never been bothered much by reality or rationality, I did realise the arrested cashflow might become a problem… Fortunately, I hooked up for lunch with an old acquaintance from the Copenhagen comics scene.
Thomas Schroeder was one of the people who started the CPH festival Komiks.dk, he’s a longtime writer and editor for the Egmont corporation’s Disney line – and he just so happened to be out of a job at the same time.
We discussed the possibility of starting our own publishing company for a couple of weeks, realised that we could base a steady income on our own output (him writing, me drawing and laying out seemed natural), and maybe run a few con amore-sideshows for fun as well.
And here we are: Forlaget Afart, teaching kids to read Danish. I didn’t see that one coming a year ago! Oh, and when you’re done snickering at the name, ‘afart’ means ‘variant’ in Danish