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Sunday, June 13th, 2010CELEBRATING THE DUCK! (Norwegian style)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009This year Donald Duck turned 75, believe it or not. A group of Norwegian fans decided to celebrate the duck by arranging a festival and an exhibition in Oslo called Celebrating the Duck. They invited cartoonists from around the world to interpret Donald as the 75 year old man he is today. The response was so good that they decided to extend the exhibition into 2010 and invite more cartoonists to join. I was very honored to be one of those cartoonists. At the moment we’re around 50 cartoonists included in the exhibition, among them some of my heroes like Bud Grace and Freddy Milton. Below is my contribution. If you’re in Norway next year, keep an eye out for Celebrating the Duck (Norwegian style)!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND HAPPY NEW DECADE!
Dream Project: Children’s Book in Arabic
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
The last few weeks I’ve been doing illustration work for an Arabic children’s book, a project I’m getting pretty excited about. The script has existed for a while. It’s a beautiful text in Arabic verse, written by my dear friend Brahim El-Mansouri.
The story is about a boy who dreams at night about flying his ambulance plane rescuing those in need. Graphic designer and photographer for the book is another dear friend, Alfred Gunnarsson. The illustrations will eventually be collages of water colors (me) and photos (Alfred).
These pictures are for the dummy that we’ll take to the publishers. Cross your fingers for us. We’re gonna need it.
Studio Qassim 2009
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Illustratörcentrum (http://illustratorcentrum.se/) publishes annually a catalogue of its members. Each participant gets one page each to show off their work. I turned to my dear friend Alfred Gunnarsson (the hippest graphic designer in town: http://www.salmiakmedia.se/) to help me make a nice layout. Many thanks, Alfred! I posted my page to Illustratörcentrum today.
Looking at this little compilation makes me reflect on Studio Qassim. Where was I 1,5 year ago and where am I now? Actually, I don’t think I’m that far from where I want to be. Through Studio Qassim I’ve done comics, illustration and animation. I even managed to get some puppetry in there. The only thing missing would be games. So I guess I have to make a game then, just for the sake of it… 
Anyway, looking back at my first year as a company, regardless of the tough times (believe me, it’s been tough at times) I seem to be on the right track at least. I got around. I managed to pay my bills. I even managed to have some fun every now and then. What I need to do now is to grow, as an artist and as a business. Hey! I’m working on it…
The sky is the limit, folks! See ya around!
Pig-tures for Hans
Thursday, February 26th, 2009I have a German fan! His name is Hans. He’s a 59 year old chef. His wife Ulrike collects “pig-tures”, cartoon pigs made by comic artists from around the world. He sent me a long very kind and sweet e-mail asking me to draw a pig for his wife. This is so far out it could be someone pulling my leg (Jimmy, is this one of your practical jokes?). If so, it was so well done that I’m happy to fall for it.
Here’s an Elvis pig for Ulrike!
Regardless if Hans and Ulrike are for real, I’ve been wanting to find a technique suitable to make “luxury cartoons” if the occasion should arise. So I used this fine request to try some stuff out. Which one of the pigs do YOU prefer?