š! #10 Sea Stories is out!

Ahoi! The Sea is huge and deep, holding uncountable stories for you... we have gathered a few on 148 pages by 29 international artists and want to share them with you! Here are some foggy impressions from š! #10 "Sea Stories"!
 

Cover by Maciej Sieńczyk (Poland).  
Artists:  Ābols (Latvia), Akvilė Misevičiūtė (Lithuania), Andrea Bruno (Italy), Anete Lielpētere (Latvia), Anete Matvejeva (Latvia), Anna Vaivare (Latvia), Ansis Puriņš (USA), Box Brown (USA), Dace Sietiņa (Latvia), Éndrjü (Latvia), KJ Martinet (USA), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), Laila Milevski (USA), Lars Sjunnesson (Sweden), Laura Ķeniņa (Canada), Luka Va (Lithuania), Maciej Sieńczyk (Poland), Maré Odomo (USA), Martha Verschaffel (Belgium), Martiņš Zutis (Latvia), Max Baitinger (Germany), Mikus Duncis (Latvia), Noah Van Sciver (USA), Oskars Veilands-Kustikovs (Latvia), Patryk Mogilnicki (Poland), Richard Short (England), Rūta Briede (Latvia), Simon H (Austria), Tetsu Kayama (Japan).

š! #10 'sea stories' artists

After a few days š! #10 'sea stories' will be out. 148 pages of comics and illustrations in full color by 29 international contributors. Now we would like to introduce you already to them. Visit their websites, say "Ahoy!" and don't forget to pre-order your own copy.

 Ābols (Latvia)

Behind the Comics V - Rūta Briede

Finally Rūta Briede reveals her secret technique of how she creates comics. First, we shortly introduce her and then you can read what she has to say about her contribution for the upcoming š! #10 "sea stories".

Rūta Briede has an MA in stage design from the Art Academy of Latvia. Together with her husband she works as a designer for Rabit!! and creates the most beautiful notebooks. Besides  kuš! and š! her comics have appeared in the anthologies Crachoir, FinEst, Naturegraffix and exhibited in "L'Europe se dessine" at the Angouleme comics festival. 

Now we let her do the explaining:

I can't work without two things - a "free" table and my pencil case filled with my drawing tools. For sketching I use black thin-lined pen + Muji classic 6 color pen. 

Behind The Comics IV - Maré Odomo

We continue looking 'Behind The Comics' of the upcoming š! #10 'sea stories'.

Maré Odomo was born in San Mateo, California and has been living in Seattle since 2006. He’s got a BFA in Visual Communication from Cornish College of the Arts in 2010. He makes things that are small and honest and is best known for his Pokémon fancomic Letters To An Absent Father. His name can be translated to sea, so it is a no-brainer, that we had to invite him for the upcoming sea issue (especially after Ryan Sands suggested him to us).

So Maré told us the following about creating his comic 'Okinawa':

This is my work desk. I keep changing my setup (that's not usually where I put my computer) but I've been using a standing desk for a little while now. I'm trying to use fewer art supplies, or at least move them out of the way. But then I forget about them. I don't know what's worse.  

Please take note of the banana in a jar.

Behind The Comics III - Martha Verschaffel

Today we take a look behind the comics Martha Verschaffel made for š! #10 'Sea Stories'

Martha Verschaffel graduated as an illustrator and master of fine arts at St-Lucas institute in Ghent, Belgium. She is self-publishing her own zines and her short comics appear in several international magazines. Her story 'Braids' will be in the next š! and now she tells a bit about her creation process:

 

I have a small atelier of my own, but I work as well at my kitchen table or on the floor. 

Behind The Comics II - Simon H

After Lars Sjunnesson recently gave us an insight behind the making of his comics for the upcoming š! #10 'sea stories' we now snoop around Simon H's comics.

Simon H has been working in various crafts from signmaking to screenprinting and in 2005 made the official change to full-time drawing. Landing in the very active comic scene of Eastern Austria, has granted him with shows and work in groups like Tonto or Kabinett, as well as the opportunity to work on his own drawing and comics - luckily for us also a sea story for š!, of which he now tells us how he created it:

When I can, I work on toned papers I find, or ones that come as wrapping of other stuff. The grey or beige tones make up for some nice contrasts and structure.

"sorry, I am so busy"

Simon Häußle just has to be one of the lovliest artists ever! He sent us this beautiful drawing because his submission for the upcoming š! #10 "sea stories" was three days late.

We have no idea how he found the time to make this drawing. But we love it! However the scheduling of the issue should not be severely impacted and it should be out by the end of February.

Preorder š! # 10 'sea stories' from our webshop.

Behind The Comics I - Lars Sjunnesson

In theater to get to know more you look behind the curtains and in films you look behind the scenes - we thought it would be interesting to have a glimpse behind the comics created for kuš! and herewith we start this new series "Behind The Comics" in which kuš artists will give you an insight into their work.

 

The series starts off with Berlin-based artist Lars Sjunnesson from Sweden. He currently doesn't have a website, but to get to know him better you can check Comicstills.com or Sanatorium.se. 

Lars was guarding Marcos Farrajota’s cats at the Chilicomcarne headquarter in Lisbon. There he discovered some issues of š! and decided to make his own comics contribution for us. Strange ways how artists discover us... Now Lars has finished the story "Strange Shit At Sea" for our next issue (š! #10 'sea stories'), he sent us some pictures and tells us the following:

I like to combine stuff that doesn't work together, like crayons or felt pens on acrylic color and then work it over with scalpel-blades or something.