Keeps Getting Petter And Petter

Hi I was supposed to make a huge, long reportage but oops I’m stressed and tired so nope. // Saturday Aug 30th / To Jiipu’s comic release party in Tampere! / (Nicotine withdrawal & diarrhea) // (The queen) / (Smiths covers) / (Or one at least)

Sunday Aug 31st / Hey, that’s a nice zine! I’ll take three! / One for me, too. / (Axu’s pals) // Mon Sep 1st / I need a place to stay in Helsinki! / OH NO HELP / Clatter clatter // I’M TOO ANXIOUS FOR GOOD NARRATION

Tue Sep 2nd / Guess which art exhibition. // Wed Sep 3rd / JEMMA minifestival of visual activism & Zsa Zsa Zine’s zine workshop.

(On Wednesday* I curated JEMMA festival in Akkuna, and on Thursday Axu and I went to Hercules the gay bar. Goddamn it’s troublesome to draw right now. // Fri Sep 5th / (Shitty work contracts, nonexistent/lousy benefits, etc etc) / H&M (female) employees can’t give interviews to journalists, but comic artists (who work like journalists) don’t count. // (LGBT organisation panel) / With comics one can tell very complicated things in a very simple way, and is therefore inherently norm critical.**

(*: Kuraroin torstaina, muistin väärin piirtäessä. / I curated on Thursday, I remembered wrong.

**: Normikriittistä sikäli, että lukihäiriöiset, kehitysvammaiset ja vähemmän koulutetut pääsevät käsiksi helpommin sulatettavaan tietoon. / Norm critical in that dyslexic, mentally disabled and less educated people can get their hands on more accessible information.)

Sat Sep 6th No wait I forgot that there was a end-of-summer punk gig in Kalasatama on Friday evening. / I took a bunch of your comics with me, and sold out in five minutes. / We’d like more of your stuff to an anarchist bookstore. / Do you have any zines left??

(Miia Vistilä and her hat / Jiipubaby / Sleep deprived, hungover, hungry and over-caffeinated) // Axu and I got some foor from the grill stand on Thursday night and I left a plastic fork in my pocket. / Hahaha hohoho / (Calm as shit) / Stop immediately or I’ll kill you. / <Screams internally> / I have a hat.

This reminds me of one Nixu. / Who are they? // Eeee he’s adorable! // And that’s how I found your blog and am not your biggest fan! / (Sorry about how I drew your face) / I’m so flattered I could die. / Look who’s a scene queen. // Carolina! Pääsit Hesaan! / Sohvasurffasin. / THEN I DRANK SHITLOADS OF BEER.

Sun Sep 7th Wait I forgot to tell something again. // We attended the Tom of Finland exhibition again with Anssi. / Anssi Vieruaho, president of Oulu Comics Asssociation. May we see TOF’s original artwork? // Touko Laaksonen masturbated while working on this piece of paper. / Magical. / (Yes, he actually drew those kind of gaping assholes.) // Sun Sep 9th / I sold out on ”Lipsync For Your Life”! / (Hungover again) / Didn’t you have like 30 copies in the first place? / Hi, I heard there’s queer feminist comics on sale in this table?

KIITOS KAIKILLE PUSIPUSI NÄHÄÄN ENSI VUONNA, LIPSYNCCIÄ ON TULOSSA LISÄÄ PIAN

THANKS GUYS, MORE COMICS WILL BE PRINTED SOON

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(Funny how many of my summer entries begin with a hangover and/or morning drowziness) / I feel terrible! Achey, coughy, chilly… There’s only one explanation!

Flu– / Withdrawal symptoms! // Jesus?! What are you doing here? / I live right next door. Anyway, go and Google ”quitting smoking.” // Headache, cough, running nose, other cold-like symptoms… / It’s all accurate! // But did I not quit smoking BECAUSE of the cold, not the other way around? / Well that’s something you will never find out! Shalom! // fuck

I suppose I have no choice but to nervously wait for Saturday… // Jiipu’s comic release party in Tampere // THEN // Hanging out with Axu /Don’t you dare get sick when I wanna cuddle! // THEN // Helsinki International Comic Festival // Nah I will definitely go this time, even if I had 666 degrees fever and sinusitis.

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Could you not leave the fan on? / Zzz. / Fuck it, I’m too tired to raise my own hand. // Cough. / ALRIGHT LET’S BUST THIS JOINT!

But the worst life decision of all was this. // My hand slipped when trimming my moustache. / I look like a toilet brush. // But it’s way easier to be ill like this, though!

This time I’ll try not to miss the comic festival because of some sinusitis bullshit! Ciao! // (New laptop; Dan Simmons: Fall Of Hyperion; Neglected summer studies somewhere over there.)

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Monday forenoon. // Oh God, not again.

What kind of fucking liturgy they’re having again? / I’ll Google it. // ”The Fasting of Theotokos, 1st till 15th of August”? // Mary, sweetie! We know it sucks that you’ve gained some baby pounds! But you’ve got to eat something! // And then they played some noise music, the end.

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Pling! To Puntala-rock! / Puntala was quite a chaotic experience so here’s an equally chaotis comic reportage. / #ToPuntalaByTaxi #NymphoPunx #HalfAnHourOfSleep

Hi Nixu! It’s your friend Anxiety here! I brought some hyperventilation and sensory overload for you! / You don’t belong here and your vest doesn’t fit. / You don’t even like punk you scenester. / Thank you. Thank you very much. / Here’s also over 30 degrees Celsius of heat, oh and everybody hates you you’re fucking welcome. / Then I had a fight or something with Axu. Minna comforted me. / But now we’re fine. SO YEAH I KINDA MISSED THE ENTIRE FESTIVAL.

I did have some fun, too, though! / I saw the Barcelona fellows after a long while. / I hung out in cute clothes. / Peek-a-boo!

I swam in natural water for the first time in years. / Peek-a-boo again! // Silly stuff with old friends. / How I wish I were a real wooooooden horse. / 2/5, would attend again if there were less heat and more sedative drugs.

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