Simon Bukhave (DK, b. 1978)

“In 1999 I moved to Copenhagen from Thy on the northwest coast of Denmark where I grew up. In Copenhagen I joined the comics and illustration workshop Fort Kox, where I met other comic book artists and illustrators and started working on my first comic book Ghost.

Rui Tenreiro (NO b. 1979, Mozambique)

“For a few years I have been trying to find a language that suits my needs for telling a story. This search has led me to explore writing as much as illustration and, as such, the longer Graphic Novel fits my storytelling needs better than any other format.

Martin Ernstsen (NO, b. 1982) is a Norwegian comic artist currently living in Berlin. He has published four comic albums with Norwegian publisher Jippi, and he has also self published several mini-comics.

Kolbeinn Karlsson ( SWE, b. 1982) makes comics about forests and fun. His comics have been published in Swedish, Finnish and English, and has been seen in magazines and anthologies like Galago, Glömp, Strapazin, Kush, and Bile Noir.

Kalle Johansson (SWE born 1979 ) has worked with both strip comics and documentary comics. While documentary comics require a lot of planning and research, his comics trips gives him a chance to cut loose with small, spontaneous ideas.

Kaisa Leka (FIN b. 1978) is a cartoonist from Porvoo, Finland. She has studied comics and graphic design in the Lahti University of Applied Sciences, and her comics have been published in several Finnish magazines as well as on her popular sketchbook blog www.kaisaleka.blogspot.com.

Joanna Hellgren (SWE b. 1981) “I’m from a suburb of Stockholm. Everybody there lived in nice houses and if someone’s parents divorced, they moved away. No hard reality knocked on the door.

Emelie Östergren (SWE b.1982) took her B.A at Konstfack in Stockholm 2007. Emelies pictures has been published in magazine such as Arena, Bang and Kuti Kuti.  Her debutbook “Evil Dress” came out in 2009, publiced by Sanatorium.

Christian Skovgaard (DK) lives in Copenhagen, where he supports his stab at becoming a graphic novelist by holding down a job as an architectural model builder. He uses the comic medium to document things and places in his immediate environment to uncover their embedded stories about our society and culture.