Hmm, “beard hickeys” should actually be called “stubble hickeys”, because once stubble has grown long enough, it doesn’t scratch up your partner’s chin anymore.  It can depend a bit on technique and intensity, too … :3

After a little hiatus, I am now in shturmovschina mode! I’ll have to finish this chapter until the end of the month. (Seriously, I never thought it would be this long!) Hopefully the undisrupted flow will compensate for the rushed inking that this short time frame will surely require … In any case, you can look forward to timely updates for several weeks to come.  V`(oo)´V

But that is not the only good news today! I received this wonderful fanart from Li Österberg, one of my very favourite Swedish comics artists.

It’s so nice how the way Li draws Samona makes it even more obvious how much Samona looks like Ainur than the way I myself usually draw her. :o)

When my family moved back to Sweden in the late 1990’s, “badly drawn” autobiographical comics were in full vogue there (they still are, but the scene has diversified a lot since then, thank goodness). One artist whose autobiographical comics nevertheless stuck out from the rest was Li Österberg, perhaps because on one hand they weren’t badly drawn, and on the other hand I could relate more to Österberg’s comics about alienation, autism and growing up with (too?) many siblings, compared to, for example, Mats Jonsson’s “sexual angst in Stockholm” comics.

Over the years, Li Österberg has also been drawing many fictional comics. One of the most recent is A god apart from gods, where the main character is the Greek god Hades. It’s hard for me to write anything coherent about this comic, since I have a bit of a crush on Hades :3, but you can read it yourself at Li’s deviantArt!

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Oh, and Ainur’s comic Goldenbird is online again, at long last! Now I can get my Mochi fix again even when I don’t have the printed Goldenbird zines anywhere near me. Phew!