Jeg jobber for tiden med to visuelle bokprosjekter. En tegneserie og en illustrert roman.
Det ene prosjektet har tittelen PERKY POLAROIDS, og er en tegneserie inspirert av blant annet Larsons gale verden. Jeg tegnet første stripe for to år siden. Per dags dato har jeg tegnet omlag 50 striper, og jeg har idéer til minst 100 til. Når det eventuelt blir bok av dette får vi se, og jeg selger tegneserien enn så lenge i små fanzineformat.
Det andre prosjektet er en illustrert roman med arbeidstittelen “Looking for Mira”. Her fikk jeg en idé om å kombinere malerier, linotrykk og tegninger fra de siste sju årene (enkelte er også en god del eldre) med nye illustrasjoner. Jeg bearbeider også gamle verk digitalt og lager nye versjoner. Plottet er enn så lenge under utarbeiding, og planen er at historien i stor grad skal fortelles i dagbokformat.
LOOKING FOR MIRA
A GRAPHIC NOVEL
Copyright Robert Botn 2025
A WORK IN PROGRESS
The graphic novel "Looking for Mira" is a work in progress, and it´s a story about 14 year old Isabell (Isa), an emo kid who loves fantasy, scifi, comics and metal.
She has given up on finding her twin sister, Mira, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances when they were 10.
But all of a sudden Mira´s weird notes and scribbles from when they were kids start making more sense. Could she still be out there? In this world - or another?
a comic by Robert Botn
A WORK IN PROGRESSS
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Batnanaman - Copyright © Robert Botn 2024
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The invisible hulk - Copyright © Robert Botn 2024
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"Why´s Wally?" - Copyright © Robert Botn 2024
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"The Death of Marelle" - Copyright @ Robert Botn 2024
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"It´s a tie" - Copyright © Robert Botn 2024
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"Eye of the tiger" - Copyright © Robert Botn 2024
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"Midlife Moody Tech Support Tortoises" - Copyright © Robert Botn 2024
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To pee, or not to pee - Copyright © Robert Botn
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Tripod Test Drive - Copyright © Robert Botn
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Alternate realities - Copyright © Robert Botn
Available mini fanzines
(Each fanzine consists of 7 PERKY single panels.)
PROCESS VIDEOS
A long time ago, in a country far, far away … I tried to write and draw my first comic. I was 13 at the time, and the result was - well, crap.
Severeal years later, I tried again. This time the result was a bit less crappy. But crap, all the same.
In the years that followed, I wrote tons of scripts for fantasy- and scifi novels. Most of these scripts were never finished, and only one got published. Which was fun. Offcourse. But writing novels takes an awfully long time - sometimes years. Phew …
Being the restless soul that I am, writing novels was, to be honest, nothing short of torture. I probably liked the idea of being a writer more than I actually enjoyed writing. My love for science fiction, fantasy and comics, and more importantly - puns, wordplay and jokes - never really left me, though.
In december of 2023, I was doing a 100 day sketching challenge, when an idea fell into my head, and I drew “Batnanaman”. My kids loved the joke, and I proceeded to drawing “The Invisible Hulk” and “Midlife Moody Tech Support Tortoises”, and the ball just kept rolling. I bought a Calvin & Hobbes Comic book (which I, for some mysterious reason, didn´t read when I was younger), which led to me seeing a documentary on Bill Watterson - which led to … manic, obsessive drawing, and 24/7 notewriting on my phone.
I was hooked …
The ideas just kept coming, and coming, and coming, and … well, you get the idea.
The result is a single-panel comic, that aims at being just cheeky enough to be considered `A big bowl of good laughs, with a side order of wacky takes on the human condition´.
I have always had a love for wordplay, puns, parody and satire. I am also a huge pop culture nerd, with an emphasis on 80s and 90s movies and comics. In my opinion, life is a much too serious business to be taken too seriously.
The comic strip PERKY POLAROIDS is inspired by the works of Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Terry Pratchett, Dan Piraro and David Shrigley - among others.
In PERKY POLAROIDS I get to play around with themes and characters I love, I get to cook up goofy wordplays, write short stories, sketch and draw - and at the same time say something significant about the human condition.
What could possibly be better?