The real Comic Art School

This week I've been guest teacher at the Comic Art School in Malmö (Serieskolan i Malmö).

Very nostalgic.

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Since I teachings skills are not my most prominent talents they all got a killer-assignement of 20 pages in a week; cooperating together by forming japanese style (hierarchy) comic studios.

But so many talented artists this year! Or as my former teacher Gunnar explained it: "Åsa, if you attempted to get into the first year with the entries you sent us 2003, you would not have been accepted". Well.

Since the school's moving to new facilities this autumn draw-on-the-walls anarchy was ever present.

New classrom will be all well and good, but how can one leave the cafeteria behind?

I will miss it so (or would if. Not that I will be here).

Fika! ^^ (I'm thinking this blog should have a permanent rule newer to show an enty without at least one photo of a cake).

Last years books - the school publishes a selection of the students works at the end of spring term.

My entry was cursed with moiré (what does one call it in English? Evil patterns from hell hunting your screentones?). Die moiré die! From me to you, from my heart.

This is the lovely Fanny M. Bystedt; I'm her second year mentor (one of them - the absent one).

Fanny is one very talented and ambitios drawer and casually sketches 11 pages in a day. (11!!)

Fanny at large! She does draw pretty much anyting she sets her mind to do, but I'm particularly fond of her semi-self biographical manga. Her images and pacing gives the comics an almost hypnotical quality that really draws the reader in; it's quite amazing.

Fannys work decorating her wall! Also got to saw her in the Swedish Comic Sin anthology(www.swedishcomicsin.blogspot.com) and saw her latest fanzine Silver Pearl. Sample pages from her manga along with illustrations and such can be found on http://www.fannymbystedt.se/

That's all for now. Enjoy feet!

Love,

Åsa