Johnossi Comics by Johnossi, Fabian Göranson, Kim W. Andersson, Loka Kanarp
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Overview: Hey folks – today sees the launch of Johnossi Comics – a collaboration with cartoon artist Kim W Andersson who made the artwork for Mavericks. Kim and fellow cartoon artist Fabian Göransson have been hard at work putting together stories inspired by music from "Mavericks" and an actual cartoon magazine will be out in November. If you live in Sweden and use Spotify, starting today you can follow the first cartoon called "Mavericks" , a story about professional surfer Ana Rosario who takes part in the dangerous surfer competition at Mavericks Point outside of San Francisco. Every few days a new episode will come out. The good news is you’ll be able to follow the story here on johnossi.com as well! There is also a competition where you can be drawn into the actual cartoon – (competition is now over).
Johnossi Comics
- Johnossi story
Fabian Göranson art, editor, write
Kim W. Andersson art, cover, write
Loka Kanarp art, write
Published by Kolik Publishing, 64 pages. 2011.
- Swedish duo Johnossi have been an ever-present on the Spotify office playlists this past year. As you can see, the artwork for their latest album ‘Mavericks‘ was designed by the very talented Kim W Andersson. Kim and the band recently had the wonderful idea of joining forces with fellow cartoonist Fabian Göransson to work on a series of unique comic book series, Johnossi Comics.
The series tells the story of Ana Rosario, a professional surfer who is competing at the annual Mavericks Point competition who runs into her arch enemy – the evil Jessica Ford. Along the way she meets our heroes John and Ossi and a big white German Shepherd called “Maverick”.
Johnossi Comics, published by Fabian, hits shelves in November but Spotify users can follow the first story from today. We loved this idea so much that we asked the band for a very special favour: that one of our users be featured as a fully-fledged animated character in the next edition of the comic, “Dead End” out later this year. And guess what – they agreed!!
— By Jim Butcher, September 10, 2010, 13:54.- Johnossi Comics, Posted by Fredrik Stromberg on December 26th, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Johnossi Comics is a strange hybrid, and even stranger seeing as it was made in Sweden. Johnossi is a successful Swedish band, an energetic live-playing rock duo that has also had some success abroad. They have teamed up with the comics publisher Kolik, and more specifically with three of their artists, Kim W. Andersson, Fabian Göranson and Loka Kanarp, to produce Johnossi Comics, a comic book in the traditional, American format. That there are more inspirations from across the Atlantic is made obvious by the cover, which sports Kim W. Andersson’s modern version of a classical EC cover.
The comic book contains three comics, one each by the three artists
Kim has written and drawn a story based on the song Dead End from the new Johnossi album Mavericks. Andersson had already drawn comics for the booklet in said album, and Johnossi Comics can be said to have grown out of the productive artistic meeting of musicians and comics artist. Dead End is a fast-paced story, set in a dystopian near future, drawn in Andersson’s slick, American-inspired style. Listening to the album Mavericks, I can see why Johnossi chose to contact Andersson, as his graphic style and the band’s sound seem to be a perfect match.
The comic Mavericks, by Fabian Göranson, is directly inspired by a song with the same title from the album (with the same title…). Göranson has a radically different style from Andersson (no, not everyone in Sweden has a family name ending in -son, meaning “son of”, but many of us do), with a cultural “heritage” that could be said rather to be from Europe and the French-Belgian tradition. Göranson has taken the story of the actual Mavericks, a famous surfers beach in California, and deliberately told a dark horror story in the otherwise sunny and happy setting of sun, beach and surf.
Johnossi Comics may be anomaly in the publishing of Swedish comics, but seeing that it showcases the art of three of the brightest shining stars of the younger generation of Swedish comics artists, and being in English, I wholeheartedly recommend it as a sampler for those of you interested in what’s going on right now on the Swedish comics scene.
As an after-thought, this being the ever-moving Internet, I couldn’t help but include another strange hybrid, a video combining the comic book and the music of Johnossi. Enjoy!
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Johnossi Comics — http://oron.com/7jk3d19u55ao
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- Johnossi Comics — http://www.wupload.com/file/2583594952
