Turn cold

Early morning drawing.

2008-05-09T02:43:00.001-07:00

SELDON PLAN.

2008-05-09T02:01:00.000-07:00

We made "Seldon Plan". The burger drawing on the second page also had the pleasure of being exhibited on the "Monster" show in Houston, together with one of my other "artworks".

FANZINE: look inside "I can`t do this by myself".

2008-05-09T01:30:00.000-07:00

2008-03-28T08:36:00.000-07:00

Enjoy the moment it could be your last.

2008-03-26T08:21:00.001-07:00

LINNETTE, by Hans.

2008-03-25T08:14:00.000-07:00

I have a boy that takes photographs.

Death to all

2008-03-25T07:35:00.000-07:00

Dear James

2008-03-25T07:25:00.000-07:00

Some really old sketches I made, inspired by the comic artist Chester Brown.

The fanzine year 2007: Obituary

2008-03-25T07:06:00.000-07:00

Martin and me.

Marshtin and I started making fanzines together in December 2006. It started out rather coincidentally; we were both rapid drawers, and we discovered that we liked drawing together after shearing the same sketchbook. Our stuff just floated and fitted so nicely together. Marshtin was the one who suggested we should make a zine out of our stuff, inspired by the self-publishing tradition from, mainly, underground comicartists in USA. So we zeroxed it up for free using the zeroxer at my workplace. The first zine was a small purple thingy that we stapled and cut by hand. Phew! That's hard work! It was simply called "Martin and Linnette". The second one became titled "I can't do this by myself". The title popped up from something Sophie Nuveu said in "The DaVinchi Code". We often draw on impulse and often while watching movies. We didn't know it at the time, but "I can't di this by myself" was to become a trilogy. We just couldn't stop making zines together! Marshtin and I even broke up and got back together again, but NEVER stopped drawing together, even when things were mildly put, complicated. So after doing "I can't do this by myself" #1 we decided that we had put ourselves through enough staple and cut for a lifetime, and with the second "ICDTBM" we sent it to a copy center. It was magical! We delivered the finished zine on a disc, and one week later, we got them in a box, neatly stacked and perfectly cut. I cannot describe the thrill. So since then I haven't been anywhere near a zeroxer, and the guy at Copy CO recognises us when we come by.

Martin and I broke up after the summer had ended in 2007. Our newest fanzine, "Seldon Plan", was then almost finished. We did manage, in our own magical way, to get it copied and ready by november, even though I had moved out of the apartment we shared. I lived on my best friends couch and he pasted the whole thing together from our old home, where he still lives today. We had our release for "Seldon Plan" at Sound of Mu 27th of december.

End of story.

Or?

A deadly obsession.

2008-03-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

Think I care? Hardly alive in the cold of the north.

2008-03-24T15:57:00.000-07:00

Originally published in "I can't do this by myself" #3.

I drew the squared pattern from a stiching in a pillow at Spasibar (an artsy fartsy hangout here in Oslo).

Living in devil town: About Linnette

2008-03-24T08:39:00.000-07:00

I'm a 26 year old girl from Oslo, Norway. I have been drawing since the summer of '88. In 2006 I did some handy self publishing with my co-op Martin Ernstsen, we did 4 fanzines under the title "I can't do this by myself" + "Seldon Plan". I have made some unpublished comics that will never see the light of day. They are listed here under "The gay guys." For the time being I consider them dead.

As a young girl growing up in Rælingen I had a swirling crush on the late actor James Dean. I have houndreds of diary entries dedicated to him. And it was a very time-consuming crush, it lasted for almost two years, and I became some sort of an expert on him, reading everything that had ever been published, and hanging every picture ever taken of him on my wall.

"To James february 22, 1996

If I could give my life, and that would make you happy

I would."

The documentation is endless. The memories are faded by now, but from the evidence hidden from that time the feelings must have been massive. I found a note where it said: "The green and white striped bracelet will be worn by me untill the birthday of James Dean, date 8th of february. Linn Barkley, 3rd of december, 1995." There was something ritual about my love for him, and I have never loved anybody like that again. I still have my books and sometimes I open an old drawer at my partents house and a picture of him stares at me. But I don't love him anymore. Can you really love a dead person? Of course you can.

Concerning this blog I have combined the things that fascinate me the most: My endless love for drawing, and my need to share it with others. And my once very strong love for James Dean, that has turned into somewhat of a curiosity. And third, my obsession with the "massive feelings", the emotional whirlpool of man, and the anger within. Don't forget to love!

Linnette Five minutes til midnight, march 24th 2008

My massive feelings, they bury me.

2008-03-24T07:53:00.000-07:00

Dead and buried: The gay guys.

2008-03-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

I like it when you die.

2008-03-24T07:28:00.000-07:00