Sami Kivelä

Scribbles

2012-01-15T13:27:00.001+02:00

Got flu and scribbled from bed.

Monkey Business

2011-12-30T21:46:00.000+02:00

Happy Holidays

2011-12-24T00:00:00.004+02:00

My Current Project

2011-12-13T22:42:00.000+02:00

Colors by Paul John Little.

Sketching

2011-11-21T22:58:00.000+02:00

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-29T12:57:00.002+03:00

All Good Stories Must Come To an End

2011-10-25T16:19:00.000+03:00

35 weeks. 169 pages. Several cover sketches. A countless amount of energy drink…

The last Sons of Liberty – Join or Die pages delivered last week.

Heap Reviews

2011-09-24T20:40:00.000+03:00

Here are a couple of reviews I came across:

"The look and feel from the visuals here is simply beautiful and beyond anything I could have expected." Read the full review »

"Seriously, mad Nazi scientists, swamp beasts, talking ravens; what’s not to like?" Read the full review »

Helsinki Comics Festival

2011-09-21T21:27:00.000+03:00

The 26th Helsinki Comics Festival took place last weekend and I managed to stop by on Friday.

Gryfalcon

2011-09-14T22:26:00.000+03:00

I’m swamped but I wanted to share a Gryfalcon pin-up I did months ago when I bumped into that interesting character on Dino’s blog. As far as I know, the pin-up ended up as a variant cover for Sky Watcher # 1 published by Red Leaf Comics.

The Heap #1 is FINALLY out!

2011-08-17T22:27:00.005+03:00

You can get your copy for example at www.midtowncomics.com.

Cover by Mark Maddox.

Exclusive Look into SOL III

2011-08-16T22:56:00.001+03:00

This page (pencils and inks by me, colors by Oren Kramek) was shared in an interview with Alexander and Joseph Lagos. You can read the interview here.

Greetings from SDCC!

2011-08-12T20:09:00.001+03:00

Enjoy the Summer

2011-07-17T23:45:00.000+03:00

Layouts

2011-06-27T23:57:00.001+03:00

Thumbnails

2011-06-13T23:27:00.003+03:00

Thumbnails of pages I've been working on during the past few weeks.

Biri

2011-06-08T22:52:00.001+03:00

One of my favorite characters in SOL.

The Sons of Liberty

2011-05-22T20:46:00.001+03:00

Something from SOL III...

Sterile Procedures

2011-05-08T22:10:00.001+03:00

Here's a little sneak peek at something Dino and I put together at the beginning of the year.

Crow's Flight

2011-04-26T22:48:00.003+03:00

This is a CD cover illustration I did for a friend’s band last autumn. The album The Calm Before will be released in Finland on May 18th.

The Sons of Liberty Pencils and Inks

2011-04-13T23:00:00.007+03:00

A couple of panels from SOL III, page 6.

The Sons of Liberty

2011-03-30T23:45:00.005+03:00

I’m happy to share with you some character sketches of my new project The Sons of Liberty III – Join or Die, written by Alexander and Joseph Lagos and to be published by Random House.

These are my versions of Brody and Graham, the heroes of the graphic novel series.

Red Sonja

2011-02-25T21:53:00.006+02:00

My new interesting comic book project is keeping me quite busy but I decided to post something I did for fun at the beginning of the year. I was planning to color the piece but didn’t have time…

Moebius-Transe-Forme

2011-02-03T22:21:00.005+02:00

I had a chance to check out Jean Giraud’s exhibition “Moebius-Transe-Forme” in Paris some time ago. The exhibition was very impressive – I would have regretted if I hadn’t visited it!

Unfortunately it was forbidden to take photos inside the building…

Batwoman

2011-01-11T21:52:00.004+02:00

Just testing some inking pens...

The Heap in Color

2011-01-08T18:08:00.005+02:00

Check out www.previewsworld.com and Renato Guerra’s Flickr Gallery for some colored Heap pages.

Happy Holidays

2010-12-23T15:18:00.003+02:00

Vampirella

2010-12-17T20:59:00.007+02:00

A few days ago I became inspired by Dynamite Entertainment’s new Vampirella series and started to sketch up some pin-up ideas.

The Heap Is Coming

2010-12-12T23:20:00.004+02:00

Announced in Moonstone Books’ March 2011 solicits:

THE HEAP #1
Story: Charles Knauf
Art: Sami Kivela
Colors: Renato Guerra
Cover: Mark Maddox
32pgs, color, $3.99

Europe, 1940: The twilight of magic and the first steps of modern science as we know it. Hitler’s Nazi party sweeps across Europe as the last creatures of myth and magic feed off of mortal suffering. It is time for Midgard’s last defender to arise. What is it? Why is it doing this? When will it come for me? These are questions that the wicked will ask themselves. Questions that only can be answered by THE HEAP!

By the way, I’ve designed the monstrous logo as well.

Farewell To The Phantom

2010-12-08T17:41:00.006+02:00

The Finnish Egmont stopped publishing the Phantom, one of my childhood favorites. I guess a picture is worth a thousand words..

Doodles

2010-11-20T23:45:00.005+02:00

Zeroids - The Return

2010-11-12T17:23:00.006+02:00

Zeroids #2, which I have illustrated fifty-fifty with Roberto Castro, is finally out! For a reason or another I’m not on the artist list on the web pages (damn!) but take a close look at the cover at www.midtowncomics.com. There I am!

10.10.10

2010-11-11T22:33:00.003+02:00

The autumn so far has been busy for many (positive) reasons. Marrying the love of my life after ten years on 10.10.10 was one of them :)

The Heap

2010-09-03T22:31:00.002+03:00

A sneak peek at The Heap #2.

Last Summer Breeze

2010-08-22T21:29:00.000+03:00

A panel from an old project that never saw the light of day.

Spidey

2010-08-14T10:40:00.001+03:00

Started doing a Spider-Man sample a while ago but had no time to finish it. Maybe someday.

Zeroids in Color

2010-07-28T23:35:00.004+03:00

Aaron Shaps talks about the Zeroids at www.firstcomicsnews.com. The interview includes two of my pages. Actually this is the first time I’ve seen them in color.

New Avengers Sample

2010-07-22T22:36:00.006+03:00

The script is from Brian Michael Bendis' website.

Outcast

2010-07-07T23:29:00.003+03:00

Here's a sneak peek at a project that Dino Caruso and I have been working on.

The colors by Paul John Little and the lettering by Ed Brisson.

Hopefully there will be more to tell soon!

Princess Allura

2010-06-24T19:01:00.004+03:00

Here’s a detail of a pin-up I was asked to draw for the Voltron coffee table art book.

Sketching and Scribbling

2010-06-14T22:11:00.003+03:00

I sat hours on train last weekend...

Eiffel, Louvre, Notre Dame… and Frank Cho

2010-06-01T22:11:00.007+03:00

We spent last week in Paris and had a lot of fun!

In the middle of the sightseeing I also enjoyed the comic book stores of the city. I found, for example, Wizard’s Jim Lee Millennium Edition, which I’ve been hunting for for a long time.

On Thursday we attended the grand opening of Frank Cho’s art exhibition.

I was very excited about the art (that’s me checking the details on the background).

Next day Frank was sketching and autographing in a local comic book store. A real once in a lifetime opportunity!

Guess which one is mine and which one Karoliina’s :)

Warsaw Rising

2010-05-23T12:56:00.004+03:00

Last year Warsaw Rising Museum (Poland) organized the third graphic story competition on the events of the Warsaw Rising during World War II. I took part and got my story in the collection entitled "Rising ’44 in graphic story" which was published this spring by the museum and Egmont Polska.

The Return of The Heap

2010-05-16T12:25:00.005+03:00

I'm currently illustrating The Heap for Moonstone Books. The muck-monster story is written by Charles Knauf (Iron Man, Eternals).

Redesign by Charles and me, pencils and inks by me.

Hellgirl - The Pick of the Month

2010-05-04T21:32:00.009+03:00

Just happened to notice that my old Hellgirl pin-up was "The Pick of the Month" in the original art store of The Finnish Comics Society.

Chimera

2010-05-01T16:01:00.010+03:00

Hollow Victory, an awesome horror story written by Dino Caruso and illustrated by me, appeared in 2012 Final Prayer Anthology last autumn. This way I also got to know Arno Hurter, a writer from South Africa. He had a couple of stories accepted into Omega Chapters Anthology of Catatomic Comics and I had the pleasure of illustrating one of them, Chimera. Here's a sneak peek at it.

The Shot Heard 'Round The Worlds

2010-04-24T14:56:00.005+03:00

I've been working on a couple of projects with a talented Canadian writer, Dino Caruso, since spring 2009. One of our projects, The Shot Heard 'Round The Worlds, was published a while ago in Ape Entertainment's UFO Anthology. The story was colored by Jessie Lam and Ed Brisson took care of the lettering.

The pages (without word balloons) are on display on my online portfolio but check www.apecmx.com to read the brilliant texts, as well.

I’m always interested in the process of creating a comic page. So here’s the page #2 from pencils to colors for “process junkies” like me!

Welcome to my blog!

2010-04-12T20:56:00.003+03:00

I've finally decided to be part of the blogging world... My art blog will be about anything you can expect from a guy who draws and loves comics!

Stay tuned - and in the meanwhile, feel free to take a look at my newly updated online portfolio.

Rock On!