Tihku

Edited by Tommi Musturi, Hannele Richert, Heikki Rönkkö. Published by Living the Line.

Softcover, 104 pages, 2-Colour, 2023. 

In March 2024, a window opens to new vistas of comics unseen. Visions of Nordic introspectiveness, occult pocket watches, suburban drifting, untamed forests and butterfly appreciation all come together in a sticky weave of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling.

Tihku is a joint work by twelve artists and the first part in a series. Kutikuti is an association and collective of about sixty contemporary comic artists living in Finland.

Tihku - drizzle. Meteorologically, drizzle consists of small drops of precipitation about 1mm in diameter. Drizzle can be easily seen on your glasses but it doesn't make rings on puddles. Drizzle falls from banks of fog.

Though the contributors vary wildly in art style, the project is conceptually unified by the two-color printing and exquisite design work by Finnish design master Benjamin Bergman.

Featuring:
Terhi Adler
Terhi Ekebom
Esko Heikkilä
Jyrki Heikkinen
Ivanda Jansone
Joonas Järvi
Tiina Lehikoinen
Hanneriina Moisseinen
Lauri Mäkimurto
Jyrki Nissinen
Kati Rapia
Katja Ronkanen