Two years after completing BSandL, I'm excited to share my new work with you: In Suitable Conditions (or Suotuisissa oloissa in Finnish). You can now read Chapter 1 here on Tapas!
After dropping out of university, Lissa is becoming a shut-in until her roommate makes her find a job. Cleaning a kindergarten is not exactly what Lissa imagined herself doing, but fortunately she doesn’t have to talk to anyone!
Right... Not only does she have to get more involved in her working environment than she’d like to, a teacher there thinks he can just “pull her out of her shell”. With his help, will she become a social virtuoso? Does she want to? What does she want, really?
Hello everyone! I'll be publishing my new comic short story, Boys Can Wear Nailpolish Too, in a few weeks. Do you want a free sample of it? Just subscribe to my email newsletter on my website nilukka.com by Monday 22 June ! :)
I’ll be at Helsinki Comics Festival / Zine Fest this weekend!
I’ll also participate in a panel about romance in comics:
“What if an alien from another planet would move in with you? What if your ex lover was a mouth attached to the side of your face? What if your boyfriend, who’s a ghost, was married to a demon, who’s also your girlfriend, and they have a gay son and a pet dinosaur? What if you’re from Seinäjoki? Sounds unlikely, but all of these comics fall into the romance genre. Join our four panelists in discussing how they use romance in their comics and what tropes they want to avoid.
Moderated by Estonian cartoonist and teacher Anni Hõ.
Panelists: Eelis Torvinen (BSandL/Summertime), Sajan Rai, H-P Lehkonen (Life Outside the Circle), Eve Kajander.”
Jello you all! Tomorrow, I’m going to a comics festival (I’ll be a speaker at a panel, too, aaaahhh) and I’ll document my day on Patreon Lens!
Lens is a new feature on the Patreon mobile app that’s exactly like Snapchat’s MyStory or Instagram Story - videos and photos that last for 24 hours. To see my Lens posts, you’ll need the app and probably a Patreon account (both are free). Most of my posts will be Patron-only, but I’ll make lots of public posts as well!
So if that sounds like something you’d like to join, head over to my Patreon (username Nilukka)! I’ll start tomorrow around 9-10 AM East European time.