April fools month, part deux or bloody something

Been sick. Not fun. I Sound like Darth Vader's apprentice, the one with severe throat cancer. The dieselpunk is advancing nicely, as it should and even as my brain is filled to the brim with apparently sharks made of cottonwool it is still moving ever onwards. As in : new stories. right. I have(once more) 10-20 stories unfinished and there's a new one. Dear reader(s)...ever heard of the town of Roanoke? Blood will flow....

And now for some defreshments

I am cranking scripts left and right and coming up with new ones. And even as statistics are on my side, I mean once one does enough(as in hell of a lot) scripts there is bound to be some that actually are worth a damn. But then I do what all comicwriters do: I hope the artist saves my butt. So far the artists have a heck of a track record in that. So instead of talking stuff I intend to do here is some coming out within a week or so. First a preview from a piece of sentimentalism and warmth that shows that yes men have feelings too: sakkearts is pretty talented guy whose DApage ought to be viewed more. In the same issue there is also a silent story about a feral boy raised by ravens and hooded crows. And a girl. Art by Julia Riitijoki. so the cranky hermit get's something done too every once in a while. There are some awesome tasters to add but let's leave that for later. See? It is amazing what good artists can do. Now back to dieselpunk with a vengeance. edit. those experiencing problems with pics, why yes I am a luddite whose computer skills are limited to temper and use of hammer. How did you guess?

Shoutout

As it is comicrelated too: go see preview art of Finncon Animecon 2011. see more of android beauty at sarisariola.blogspot.com you wont regret it.

Mightier than sword

actually doing background research can be harmful. Sort of anyways. See the biggest problem isn't it's arduousness, no I am not sweating my brow and spending sleepless nights due to lack of information. Ideas are very virulent. And unlike many other diseases you don't develope an immunity once you have had one. No. It gets worse. Progressively worse. I was indulging myself to land of enginegrease and zeppelins for dieselpunk and went through writers friends, characters in public domain. "Oh the hack can't cut it himself? Can't think of your own characters then?" Nope, I just don't need to invent the wheel if I want to design a car. And also so I know to scrap the idea if my new idea for a carmodel that I have named Ford isn't really all that new of an idea. But the point was I came across Dave Sim's Cerebus. You must know it. It is Conan the barbarian but in it Conan is an aardvark. It's pretty good and get this: Dave Sim has said that once he dies, Cerebus is public domain. The character is usable to any story, no copyright infringement none what-so-ever. No 70 years waiting period after his death. While Cerebus isn't Spiderman or TMNT (My son loved the Turtles few years back, I think he stil does and through his eyes, so do I nowadays) it is still cult/underground hit. And while it ran for 300 issues 1977-2004 by Dave Sim for 6 000 pages there might be still a stories to tell with the aardvark. So was my bright idea to tell a Cerebus tale? Clone a Conan clone? No. My idea was about an artist who has stories to tell about Cerebus. You know the type. He has the drive, feels how this story these visions of his would be his way to comicbook superstardom. All he needs is to use Cerebus as character, he has the pages drawn, the storyarcs plotted written and even might have a publisher for it too. But Dave Sim is alive. So he needs a hitman. Someone to kill Dave Sim so the rights for Cerebus go to public domain. Yeah. I read a piece of info, an artists gesture to fans of his creations, and subsequently went straight into vicious crimestory terrain with it. At some point I got to do it. Write the story, not assasinate Dave Sim. Because that plan is going to hell.

The most dangerous thing in the world.

Yeah an idea.




A library is a wondrous thing. The plethora of knownledge and inspiration comes to my rescue once more.

Found so many new interesting things that practically write themselves.
Now I am leaning more in vein of Dieselpunk.


Back to good old pulp.

Wait...what?

Sweet Cthulhu on a tricycle...what did I say in the previous message? A whole new story? in one month? Just another fine mess I got myself into.... see us writers get asked "where do you get your ideas?". Not very often though. Usually everyone assumes falsely that everything just springs out of the artist's quill/pencil and writers are somewhat glorified letterers, with way worse handwriting. But to the question. Harlan Ellison famously answered that his ideas came from a post office box in Schenenactady, if you send in two dollars and a selfaddressed stamped envelope they send an idea back to you. Well, that's great you say. It would be if did not live in Finland where the national post office is the last refuge of utter and total bureaucratic ineptitude. I made them sound bad when they actually are quite efficient: letters and packages they can't destroy beyond rescue they lose. Therefore, back to square one. (in all honesty, the Finnish post might have send me more than a few of mr.Ellison's ideas by mistake) Now I need to think. That is some dangerous business. Ok, off to library.

What I love

um... well... yes.
I love women and comics and lately I have written about them. There have been actual jobs to do instead, some which to my shame are still hanging for so long they can have birthdays(and no, not in dogyears), but I have tried to come get my game on.

With comics. Yeah with comics that's ALL I meant.(yes, my beloved reads this occasionally and even though she knows me: better safe than sorry).

I have a theory.
The best work comes out when you take things you love, things you are interested in and do that.
Screw esteem or what others think.
Yes there are themes and points that would sell better.
And since I am more than prone to severe bouts of depression it has actually helped me be happier person.

I have succumbed to the fact that oh, yes world needs even more superheroes like Sotanorsu(Warelephant)

here pencilled & inked to flesh by talented Rami Rautkorpi.

Sure that Rautkorpi can draw (he really truly can) but why yet another spandex boy?
Because there wasn't one like him before and I wanted to read a story like that.
Same applies to all creations in genre, I write the kind of stories I would pick up.

And I don't like just superheroes.
I watch and read endless amounts of horror, crime and scifi. No, not forgetting fantasy(the barbarian medieval with dragons kind, not the one with...yeah you get the picture).

but I never liked JRR Tolkiens LoTR as basis. Why not wars of Vietnam or Afganistan as basis for fantasy? Wait I wrote short story like that once...with lizardman helping kings troops..oh right. The point I was making.

So as it is as I know what I like in many varying genres but far too seldom have any luck finding something living up to my expectations: it's better to do it myself.
(yeah, well the writing part as I am not known for my skills in artdept.)

but wait there is more( I promise read the manic rambling to the end, there might be a point to it[well there is a chance for that too...] but I'll post a pic at least. One I have not drawn)
I have a pencahnt of making everything massive and convoluted. It is because I love research. It is a blast to find out stuff of how the world works, how species became extinct, the male german officers who thought they were pregnant or details of forensics etc.

but that's just half of the fun. Ok so I have at the moment I think 8 reviews to be done, 3 horror stories, an alieninvasion tale, drugwar and some others in the making.
Oh and one postapocalypse science fiction piece.

But here is the thing. I try to write, during april, here a story. That's right. a full comic script most likely from 10-20 pages worth of comic.
On basis that it's something I would read but so far it either doesn't exist, or at least I have never heard of it.

And of course find someone to draw it.

So that's the plan.
thankfully I have a backup plan:


It's going to be interesting.