Another issue of Pegasus is coming up! This time the topic is music, and the mag contains various articles on the subject in relation to all of the nerdy activities we love so much.
There will be a release party at Subscene, Oslo, on the 10th of September with free concerts with such chiptunes-artists as Binärpilot and Year6581!!!!!!

Link to the facebook-event here.

This is an illustration I did for the upcoming issue of Pegasus. It’s an illustration of the short story «Saxman» by Wayne Faust. The original version in english can be read here.

This editorial illustration is made for Universitas – Norway’s biggest student newspaper. The illustration will however not be published, as it was part of a job application. The article can be read here (in Norwegian) – the author argues that the title of university is too easily accessible in Norway, and that we currently have too many universities that don’t really qualify for the title.

My contribution is called “The Great Boyg”, and is taken from the famous Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt”. The Boyg is a creature from Norwegian folklore, and usually takes the shape of a giant serpent blocking a traveler’s way. In “Peer Gynt” the boyg has as a ghostly, shape-shifting nature, and represents more of a psychological hindrance to the protagonist.

Ibsen spent many years in Italy, and wrote his best work there. In 1867 “Peer Gynt” was first released. This is also the year that Ibsen left Rome and Italy, at least partly because of the rumors that Guiseppe Garibaldi (a man Ibsen supported) was marching towards the city. Rome was not part of Italy at that time, it was controlled by the French. Although Garibaldi’s campaign against Rome didn’t work out as planned (he was stopped along the way), he is regarded as one of the most important individuals of the unification of Italy, and liberated many parts of the country.

In my comic the two events of Ibsen writing “Peer Gynt” and Garibaldi marching to Rome, clash into one story.

There are of course many ways of interpreting “the last match”, I took it quite literally…

My comic “Nano” has been nominated by the jury in this years Visuelt-competition, arranged by Grafill. It was nominated in illustration, open category.
Here’s the link for the jury’s comments (in Norwegian): Visuelt

All the winners and nominees are exhibited at Doga, Oslo, until the 16th of May.

I will post a travel report from Luzern when I return.

Kunstboken “ARKIV” fikk diplom i kategorien “dikt og poesi – bokomslag” i konkurransen Årets vakreste bøker – 2010, arrangert av Grafill. Se http://www.grafill.no for liste over årets vinnere.