Minna Sundberg

Minna Sundberg (born January 9, 1990) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator and cartoonist born in Sweden. She is known for the webcomics A Redtail's Dream (aRTD), and Stand Still, Stay Silent (SS, SS).

Biography

Minna Sundberg was born in Sweden in 1990 into a family of Swedish speaking finns which returned to Finland in 1997. She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, Graphic Design department. At age 25, and as the first Finn,[1] she won a Reuben Award in the category Online Comics – Long Form[2]

Career

During her first year in university, planning to make a career as a webcomic artist, she made several attempts to start a "practice comic", the last of which evolved into A Redtail's Dream (aRTD).[3][4] A Redtail's Dream became a 556-page tale built around concepts from Finnish mythology.[5] Her following project was Stand Still. Stay Silent about an imaginary post-apocalyptic world set 90 years into the future.[6][7][8] The supplementary info page on "Language Families" from Stand Still. Stay Silent showing Indo-European and Uralic families was published as a poster and gained popularity[9] outside of comics fandom, earning praise[10] by linguists. It recently hit page 900 on May 10, 2018. While living in Mora in 2013 and 2014, she ran two Indiegogo crowdfunding campaigns successfully [11][12] to finance publishing her comics in print. Sundberg's work was cited as a representative example of the online comics' maturing genre, while her style was called "perfectly assured" and "awe-inspiring".[13] She also worked as illustrator, including cover art, for several publications.

Selected works
  • Illustrations for Dragon Art. Inspiration, Impact & Technique in Fantasy Art (2009) ISBN 978-1-4351-1771-6
  • Cover art for Foxhunt (2009) ISBN 978-0-578-02605-3
  • Cover art for Syvyyksien valtias Original title Storlax The power of the deep (2010) ISBN 978-952-230-106-2
  • Cover art for Crossed Genres Quarterly 4 (2011) ISBN 978-0-615-57863-7
  • CD cover art for music band The Winter Tree (2011)
  • Cover art for Legazy (2013) ISBN 978-1-908600-22-6
  • Stand Still Stay Silent. Book 1 (2015) ISSN 2342-8880 (Printed book) ISSN 2342-8899 (E-book)
  • Stand Still Stay Silent. Book 2 (2018) ISBN 978-1-9466-9806-3[14]
  • A Redtail's Dream (2014) ISBN 978-91-637-4627-7
  • Cover art for Australian series of children fantasy Zarkora books. (2015)[15]

Awards

References
  1. Kujala, Päivi (June 23, 2015). "Keuruu mukana palkitussa nettisarjakuvassa". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish).
  2. "Reuben Awards Winners 2015". National Cartoonists Society. May 23, 2015.
  3. McElmurry, Todd. "POTM Interview: Minna Sundberg Of Stand Still. Stay Silent". Webcomic Alliance. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  4. "A Redtail's Dream". Goodreads. 2014.
  5. Zapata, Jason (October 11, 2010). "The Art of Minna Sundberg". Jason Zapata.
  6. Mello, Carolina (December 18, 2014). "Webcomic Review: Stand Still, Stay Silent". Women Write About Comics.
  7. Hand, Thomas (April 29, 2015). "Review: Stand Still. Stay Silent, Minna Sundberg". The Mountain Echo.
  8. Nurmenniemi, Veera (July 30, 2015). "Keuruulaiset seikkailevat palkitussa sarjakuvassa" (in Finnish). Suur-Keuruu.
  9. Young, Holly (January 23, 2015). "A language family tree - in pictures". The Guardian.
  10. Tharoor, Ishaan (January 27, 2015). "This beautiful language tree shows how India is as linguistically diverse as Europe". The Washington Post.
  11. "A Redtail's Dream - hardcover print drive". Indiegogo. September 30, 2013.
  12. "Stand Still, Stay Silent - Book 1". Indiegogo. October 21, 2014.
  13. Lehoczky, Etelka (January 31, 2016). "A Sampler Of Web Comics To Keep You Clicking". NPR.
  14. "Hivemill, Stand Still Stay Silent Book 2". Hivemill. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  15. "The Journey So Far ..." The Zarkora chronicles. Retrieved June 16, 2015. Scroll down to find the information.
  16. Cavna, Michael (May 24, 2015). "2015 Reubens: Roz Chast's big award caps a winning event for women creators". The Washington Post.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.