Minna Sundberg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[citation needed] 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]It recently hit page 900 on May 10, 2018. 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. 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[]

  • Sundberg, Minna: A Redtail's Dream, s. 608. Author's Edition, 2014. ISBN 978-91-637-4627-7
  • Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Book 1, s. 324. Author's Edition, 2015. ISSN 2342-8880 (print) ISSN 2342-8899 (online).
  • Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Book 2, s. 260. Hiveworks Comics, 2018. ISBN 978-1-9466-9806-3[14]
  • Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Book 3, s. 304. Hiveworks Comics, 2020. ISSN 2342-8880 (printed book), ISSN 2342-8899 (online).
  • Sundberg, Minna: Un Réve de Renard, s. 600. Édition Akileos, 2019. ISBN 978-2-35574-455-6
  • Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Livre 1, s. 328. Édition Akileos, 2018. ISBN 978-2-35574-353-5
  • Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Livre 2, s. 260. Édition Akileos, 2019. ISBN 978-2-35574-363-4
  • Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Livre 3. s. 304. Édition Akileos, 2020. ISBN 978-2-35574-453-2
  • Sundberg, Minna: Lovely People, s. 80. Author's Edition, 2021. ISBN 978-952-94-4704-6
  • 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
  • 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.

External links[]

Retrieved from ""