The blog of Jusufsson

The blog of Jusufsson.

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Croatian comics fanzine Endem is having a Moebius themed issue. I did his Tintin in space, John Difool from The Inkal.

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The 99th Independence Day of Finland was celebrated in Croatia the other day. We were asked to make an illustration of a Finnish motif.

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Submitted again to a comics festival competition. Now in colour!

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Comic submitted to Stripburger. Didn’t work out.

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Scanner is down, but i did get a Captain Fawcett’s moustache comb from a friend. Length 117 mm. (Unfolded.)

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Something from a not so recent job.

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Detail from a page I did for the Vekovnici project. More here: http://vekovnici.blogspot.com/

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A page from a 4-page comic I finished yesterday as a submission for a magazine.

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Erin is a poet by topic, give her any topic and she will write you a poem about it. The price of the poem is based on how much you like your poem. I asked Erin what the weirdest topic she ever wrote about. She answered something about puppies and Fabric patterns. I requested a poem about the Humans of Amsterdam. Humans of Amsterdam I worry for the humans—the everywhere humans, wading slowly through their pain, pleasure and suffering swimming through them freely, the eyes struggling to stay afloat. But the Amsterdam humans are strong swimmers. They are equipped against their losses. They have left behind the old mistakes, the glossy skins of newborns, the heavy rocks of the gaudy rich. A kind of ethereal wisdom. Gliding in wheels. Ready for a crisp wind. Catlike in a sharp sun. With spaciousness. Silvery and almost vegetable, like trees. But where is the dirtiness, where is the bleeding heart? I think they miss it, feel it’s lack. Hungry for tragedy. Aching to open up time, those deep jaws, and dive into its red belly, behind beaded curtains, in a room of torn wall-paper, a piano with a few teeth missing. They have lost loss itself. Not a going-somewhere people. A been somewhere people instead. Their eyes look backwards, into their minds. Wide distances. Mountains. Great heights to ponder. Now they ponder them - Erin Lierl August, 2013 Amsterdam.

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I met Erin in Lisbon, where she wrote a wonderful poem I ordered. Does anybody know where she is now?

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Eddy

Great Croatian artist Edvin Biukovic - Eddy died 15 years ago, at the age of 30. Several artist paid respect by drawing a tribute to the man who was a great inspiration to those who knew him and those who read his work.

Be sure to look for Grendel Tales, Human Target, Star Wars or anything with his name on it. He was the real artists’ artist.

Here is my illustration, but check out the other work in the FACEBOOK GALLERY.

And then draw your own tribute.

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The book I was illustrating is out.

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I was a the 4th Croatian 24 hour comic book drawing, and this is what happened. The topic was Day and Night (with death somewhere in the comic). Click on the page for the full story. Unfortunately, it's in Croatian, so you can just look at the pictures :/

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An illustration for a book I'm doing.