Letters for Lucardo is a four-part comic book series about a 61-year-old mortal, Ed, beginning a relationship with an immortal aristocrat, Lucardo. I started putting my own comics online in 2008 in the form of webcomics, and although my current projects are all going to print, webcomics still feel like my home turf.įor people who may not know, what is Letters for Lucardo? Since I was young I was reading comics from very different kinds of genres, which made me grow up with the idea that not only can I take comics seriously, but that there are so many different kinds of stories you can tell with them. In my late teens I got intensely into seinen and more serious, bloody titles, like Samura’s Blade of the Immortal and Takami’s & Taguchi’s Battle Royale. I’d grab copies of Dragonball and Sailor Moon where I could get them and be totally immersed in the new, different feeling world in them. I also got into manga during the same time, back when it wasn’t a thing in Finland but was starting to be in France and Germany. When I was in my teens, my family visited France, where I would sit in comic book shops and get my hands on Barbucci & Canepa’s Skydoll and Loisel’s Peter Pan, and honestly so many other amazing artists that I don’t know the names of, because I’d buy one volume in French and bring it home, or speed-flip through it at the shop, and have no way of accessing it again before Google was properly a thing.

I read it weekly as a kid, and once I found my grandparents’ archives of old issues of Asterix & Obelix and Lucky Luke, I consumed through all of them, too.

Donald Duck is very popular here, it sells around 500,000 copies weekly – and this is a country of 5.6 million people. I always like to start by asking people, how did you come to comics?įinnish kids get weaned up on comics.

Fortunate Beasts by Otava Heikkilä