The Sketchblog of Irma Kniivila

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good bad advice / bad good advice

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Some dog-related inktobers!

We adopted Thrasos in February, and he is super damn loved, but it’s been a journey. I wish those “this dog is so grateful for being rescued” videos on buzzfeed also included the follow-up “This human is tearing their hair out dealing with this dog’s weird sudden night terrors”.

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Did a quick tone on Inktober 6

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Inktober continues!

The Sunken Garden has been updating, by the way! If you want to keep reading you can catch it over at Line Webtoon.

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Dog does not understand

[cpt-tightpants]

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS RULES

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A selection of inktobers from the last few days

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It’s Everyday Hero Machine Boy! Created by Tri Vuong and I, his first story is available in the RAID.ONE Anthology. Currently shipping in North America, with international shipping to come!

https://www.raid.world/product/raid-one/

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small angry dog 2: the reckoning

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Dog does not understand

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This mushroom has made a huge mistake.

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Dear Penthouse: I can't believe it really happened to me.

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Are you going to be hitting up your local comic book shop on Free Comic Book Day this Saturday? You could snag one of our anthology primers! See list for shops that will have copies on hand.

I’ve got an 8 page short (see: spooky preview) and it features great shorts by some of my fellow RAID studiomates. All of this is preparation for our full length anthology coming this fall, featuring short comics from all RAID studio members!

Hope some of you are able to pick up a copy, and enjoy! I’d love to hear from any of you who manage to find one :)

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Stress-doodlin’

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I know I’ve been spamming a little bit today, it being the release date to Joyride 12 as well as the trade to Volume 2, but this series means a lot to me as it’s my first attempt at a creator owned, my ideas, my look. For good or bad this was me. With all the ups and downs of making your own book, compromises with publishers and creators, timing and scheduling, from working on 2 books a month to make sure I can still pay bills to staying away from reviews out of self preservation it was my life this past year. 

I want to thank Jackson and Collin for being such great friends and collaborators. Thank you Boom! studios and my editors Dafna and Cameron for giving us a platform. Thank you Irma Kniivila for your patience and amazing work on making the images come alive with your colours. Thank you Jim Campbell for your work giving life to the words. Thank you RAID studio for putting up with all my complaining, studio therapy gets me through the day and inspires me to be more. Thank you Cassi Burrell for all the understanding and dealing with me through all the late nights working. And thank you to all of you for coming along for the ride.

I have a lot of thoughts that I still that want to write but I will try to compose it with some art and insight on how everything came together, as well as some thoughts on what went right and what went wrong in the creation of each issue. (Bear with me, I’m trying to learn to write down my thoughts better and I figure this is a good little project)

This is the end of this story but there will be much more to come from myself, and the rest of of team Joyride.

See you next time Space cowboy ;)

-To

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Cheers and beers to the entire Joyride team as we say goodbye to the series with Issue 12! The culmination of a year painting stars and alien planets and Marcus’ gorgeous artwork.

If you’ve been following along, thank you for reading! And if not, the final issue and second volume trade just came out yesterday! We’d love it if you checked out what we’ve been working on for the past year.

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This mushroom has a guilt complex.

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This mushroom is entering a brave new future.