Of Cats and Women

They say (the ever so mysterious "they") that one should write on what you know.
That sounds logical.
And nowadays I am writing more and more on subjects I know jackshit about.
Mainly, cats and women.

I was asked on a panel in Helsinki Comic festival that was named: THERE IS A HOLE IN POWERGIRLS SHIRT a.k.a superhero affiacanados speak about subject they know nothing about , Women (but only imaginary ones)

For those unfamiliar with the esteemed Powergirl:


yeah, so the panel went well, in my opinion, after all I am once divorced guy that has had his share of relationships and still gets confused by females (other than usual the straight man getting confused by feminine charm).

So apparently I was the right guy to speak about bondage in-built in Wonder woman.
But me being me I also talked about Final girls, you know girls like Laurie Strode in Halloween movies.
The innocent female who is the only one capable of defeating the unstoppable slasher.
The women in Horror fiction are truly empowered but still most assume the role of women in horror is solely that of a victims abused.
Not so.

But cursory glance to the imagery of horror and comics might give that impression, I ' ll grant you that.
Searching a picture of any superheroine leads to pictures of bound and submissed primarily sexual objects in fan art.

no, I wont post those.

But this panel strenghtened my view that world needs more superheroines and final girls.
I personally dig strong women, women with their own heads and plenty of spunk.


Cassie Hack (above) is one of those.

And I think that there needs to be more of them.
And if no one else is going to do it...well at least I can write them.

As I have already written part one of Tuuli Noidantytär, a superhero witch (basicly my excuse for having it all: Horror, Fantasy and Superheroes all under one roof)

and to up the ante I have thought of a couple more female heroes.
few to other books and one on Tuuli's book.

(yes the cover is by Sari Sariola. and seen much better in her blog:
http://sarisariola.blogspot.com/ )
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The cats are mainly because I live in flat with five cats(mainly because the cats came along with the woman....)
And those interested: I am a dogperson.
But like They say (before they come to take you away, haha!) : write what you know

Something new, much old and not a lot of blue

It's been hectic past couple of months.
Been writing like a small animal. It's hard to type with paws you know.

No actually been starting up new projects (easy way to fool yourself when there is about 16 000 ongoing projects unfinished) mostly superheroics but some horror too.

For the Helsinki Comic festival MKKentertainment did Rautasarjat (Ironseries or Iron tales) that featured some of my short form work with quite good artists


the cover by ever so talented Katja Louhio features Ukko, a character originally created by Veli Loponen, in the story Law of the Streets written by yours truly.
A gentle and kind tale...or maybe not.
As my significant other said "like Watchmen's Rohrschach with serial number filed off"
which I naturally took as a compliment.

Will return on the short stories, "House that Death built", "Employment office" and "The endless marshland" later on.

for next issue there will be Koneballerina (Machine Ballerina) a female superhero in tale called Vampires and kitty litter art by Katja Louhio
a blog of it in finnish here:
http://vampkis.blogspot.com/