Hildringstimen er en tegneserie jeg lager fast for Bokvennen litteraturmagasin. Etter å ha ergret meg grønn over denne saken lot jeg herrene i Hildringstimen ta for seg situasjonen på Tullinløkka. At Tronsmo bokhandel har en usikker framtid hengende over seg er mer en ille nok, men minst like ille er det at gården er kjøpt opp av Entra eiendom som foreslår noe så spinnvillt som det arkitektskissene viser. Forhåpentligvis blir det med skrekken ...

I forbindelse med saken utalte jeg meg til NRK Østlandsendingen; http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/ostlandssendingen/1.8125276

Every year Grafill arranges the Visuelt days, consisting of lectures about graphic design/illustration/animation. The whole thing culiminates in a grand party and award ceremony, where I was present and had the great pleasure of receiving a gold award for the "funny papers" I made for the government; http://www.grafill.no/visuelt/illustrasjon/undervisning-fakta-og-informasjonsillustrasjon

Watch the jury's statement on the gold piece

In addition to this I got 4 nominations; http://www.grafill.no/visuelt/illustrasjon/

:-)

Sammen med den fabelaktige forfatteren Ingvild H. Rishøi vant jeg i år Kulturdepartementets billedbokpris for Pling i Bollen!!! Les mer her.

Starting the 25th of january, I'm going to the huge comic festival in Angouleme/France with good colleagues from No Comprendo Press. We'll bring a give away magazine with norwegian comics translated to french, called BLEKK! Supported by the norwegian consulate in france. Visit our table in the indie tent to get a copy!

From France I'm heading to RIO where I'll hook up with long time cousin and collaborator Daniel Herskedal! Frying on the beaches of Copacabana, I'll be working like crazy on my next book untill the 19th of february.

The 28th of february I'm heading over to Bologna where I'll put up an exhibition at gallery RAM HOTEL as part of the Bilbolbul festival!

The 28th of march I'll go to Bastia to hang another exhibition for this festival, together with many eminent norwegian comic artists.

In the end of april I'll go to New York for the MoCCA festival as well as doing som hard work with Sindre Goksøyr!

CHEERS!

Read more about it at Smalltown Supersound and Pitchfork!

Det Andre Teatret is a new place in Oslo for improvised theatre and I make many of their posters. This time they wanted an XXXXL poster for the billboard outside the theatre at Lilleborg! If you're ever at Bjølsen/Thorsov make sure to stare!

Earlier this year I made a racket in Dagbladet with my comic strip experiment Bånn. This christmas I'm back with a different story, a one pager about a daddy and a daughter. Sorry it's not in english!

Lately I've been illustration for The New Yorker more or less every other week. Last week I got do a Shouts & Murmurs for the first time.

Saatchi & Saatchi hired a bunch of illustrators for the new Toyota Yaris campaign and I was one of them. The piece above is my contribution. After having Yaris as a converstationpiece in many of my earlier comics, it felt sort of right to make a illustration for them for real.