Line Høj Høstrup Portfolio

Line Høj Høstrup Cartoonist, Illustrator and Storyteller [email protected]

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My graphic novel “The Matter We’re made of” will be published this autumn by Centrala and Forlaget Forlæns. 

The Story Ellen is a young, ambitious woman who is just about to fulfil her dream of building her own house, when she is diagnosed with a paralytic terminal illness. As she desperately tries to keep her dream alive, house, dream and disease slowly blends together and draws Ellen into an enticing fantasy. But can a dream give you the things life denies you? Ellen needs to find out what makes life worth living.

Trough quirky, colourful artwork, and touching upon subjects such as mortality, family, and heritage, the story takes the reader on an emotional ride of highs and lows to explore the essence of human life and the matter we’re made of.

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Did a little advertisement for myself and my business. 

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Did the annual report for Central Denmark Eu Office in the form of a Belgian comic. 

Read the whole thing in Danish here:

https://issuu.com/cdeu2014/docs/cdeu_a_rsberetning_2017_enkeltsidet

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Illustration for a children’s audio adventure.

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Did this illustration for danish comic page nummer9.dk to celebrate Jack Kirby’s 100 year birthday 

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Super cool poster job for Forsvarets Ejendomsstyrelse to celebrate Latvia joining the Nordic Baltic Defence Estate. 

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I was commisioned by Viborg Animation Festival to illustrate their flyer for this year.  They have a Japan theme so I went with all the pretty chlichés I could come up with.  Dupondi Studio is responsible for the beautiful layout.

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In august-december 2016 I was a Illustration Intern at the Danish newspaper Information in their graphic department Ibureauet. It was an amazing internship where I learnt to draw fast and juggle with simultanous assignments and short deadlines.

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Sofie Louise Dam and I made a bunch of applied comics for “Animated Learning Lab“ as a school project. It was really cool to work together with Sofie and our client and try to communicate their amazing project. I’m quite happy with the result. This is the  six pages out of twelve that I have translated. 

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The Adventures of Lady Sinbad

This the first tryout for a bigger project I am working on.

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Hansel and Gretel

A far out interpretation of the classic fairytale Hansel and Gretel

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The Origin of Wonder Woman

A one page, silent interpretation of the origin of the amazing Wonder Woman

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Skabertrang (The Urge to Create)

Mixing childhood memories and fiction

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The Matter We’re Made of

“Life falls apart for the hard-working, ambitious young journalist Ellen as she starts showing signs of hereditary sclerosis, a disease that only offer a few years left to live. She has to give up the career and the future she has fought so hard for. As reality becomes harder to bear, Ellen creates and escapes into a fictional world, where she can control in her chaotic life. But slowly she also loses control of her inner universe... “

This is the pitch and the first 10 pages of a graphic novel that I had to produce for a school assignment. The goal was to produce a “pitch package“ and practice selling the project to a publisher.

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The Comet

Inspired from a research on Halley’s Comet and the fact that the world is a horribly violent place to live

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Small infographic project on the Syrian Civil War

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The Goldcrest and The Bird King

A children’s fairytale