DONE :D

I did it!! :D

Hello. My second batch of button badges - the first one that will actually be available for sale - has been ordered and paid for tonight. I can already anticipate the awesome pride I'll feel upon looking at those tiny little professional-looking items with my art over them. Squee. =D

I thought I'd show you all the final designs. There are some I like more or less, but I tried to make choose and make them accordingly to the results of the survey I conducted a while back.

	Closet logo - All orders will come with one included. (to be honest I'm still in love with it. The rock thrown and the lettering. <3)
	Bite me! - a favorite of mine. Commodore was quite high in the character popularity contest, and I like the joke XD (Japa in bonus.)
	Duck! - Another one of my favorites. Isn't IsoT just awfully cute and sad? Poor little super hero.
	The Axe - I'm still giggling over the comic. I'm also giggling over the lame wordplay. But that's just me XD It was also a popular demand =)
	Gaffaman! - This was a hard one to design. None of the actual drawings of Eicca as Gaffaman actually worked well in a button design. So you're getting a... rescued innocent instead =)
	Life - As much as I love that comic, using it in button design is much harder than it looks. (but you know life *is* short, even if he doesn't like that word)
	Sparkly - I could not have left that one out. Too bad I can't actually put glitter on those badges.
	sPINK & Spank - I think this one imposed itself mostly because I fell in love with the wordplay. Not thw pink part, just you know, the whole. I love words.
	Throwing UP - That picture was probably the easiest to use on a button design. And, to be honest, I like it very much XD You decide if it represents what downing alcohol so recklessly will lead to, or the actual downing itself XD
	Wilde Mime - I actually had a lot of demand for Jann Wilde. Weird, especially since I drew him what, 3 times? Finding the right image and right slogan was much of a hassle. v.v
	Rumors - I'm VERY happy with this one. This is a drawing I did for the occasion. Know the saying, "Rumor has it that [insert gossiping here]" ? Rumors is cool. Rumors is awesome. Rumors has IT. Period. (you can also see some double sense in the 'period' comment. is it what Rumors has? period? XD)
	Beerman - I had few demands for Bloodpit, but this drawing - Paavo as Beerman, another superhero - is just one of my favorite. A small number of these will be made =3
	Teddy - I think this one will be liked very much. =3 The drawing was made for the occasion =)

Time Passes, People Change...

Hello, Closeteers! 

I write to you all again.

I wish you had a very nice Zombie Jesus celebration. I'm sorry I - once again, as always with predictable events - missed the occasion to draw something funny and cute. Sorri. =3

A little update on my life at the moment, just because it has and will have an influence on the closet's updates in the future.

Well, first, I was accepted in a Finnish boarding school to learn the language and culture.

Yes, in Finland.

So I will be leaving at the beginning of August, the beloved province that is Quebec, for at least 9 months of hard studies.

I will be taking my dearest baby with me, meaning my laptop, but alas, the internet connection at the school is... miraculous. As in, hard to get and rare, meaning you do with what you get.

So I might have a lot of occasions to draw - but little occasion to post.

That might mean that I put more effort in colouring, shading, or even, who knows... backgrounds?

(this has NOTHING to do with the latter part of this post)

So. I will be leaving in less than 4 months now, and to be absolutely honest, this is scaring the fucking shit out of me. But. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. I believe this and will go to the end of my dream.

even if I'll just have enough money after that to try and find a way to stay, otherwise I'll have to come back here and I'd rather not

This also means that I have a shitload of paperwork to go through. Lots. Of. Fun.

I... still managed to complete this project I started a while ago. See, the absence of a location for my comics started to get on my nerves a while ago already. Sooooo. I worked on it.

And I give you... Closet Baari! =D

Please note the following:
- the curtain poles and decoration made with clothes hangers;
- the pictures on the walls from Closet Inc;
- the toilet signs;
- Jussi scurrying away on all fours;
- Masa's flushed look.

Also,
- Closet Bar only serves iced tea. Don't ask why.
- The bartender is PB (Phantom Bartender).
[yes, it's PK, but you know, he needed a part-time job, and he deals well with annoying customers]
- Rumors were made for that job.

Drumsticks

Nice change, this time it's not one of the league chasing them!
The idea came from Uniklubi's Kaikki Mitä Mä Annoin video, in which we see Teemu sitting in front of Antti's drums, and said-drummer coming to get his drumsticks back. Then I saw a video of Christus playing drums during an evening at the Amadeus bar in Tampere, and it all made sense!
It was funny, but it needed something more, and Mikko holding on to his dear cello, running from Eicca, was perfect.
And a good chasing needed the sexy shoes.

By the way, please welcome Antti (Matikainen, from Uniklubi) and Jay in the closet. ^_^

How To Be A Rock Star, part 1,2,3&4

Lost Phone

"Teemu lost his phone and was standing on the table in Amadeus yelling at everyone to shut up so Janne could ring him and see if we could all hear it, was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, especially as Janne was too pissed to dial the right number."
(written by ~DIA~ on the Eurobands forum here)

I think this is self-explanatory. Just a little note: Amadeus is a crowded bar in Tampere. So yeah. Lol.

Don't forget to check everyday for the Closet Advent Calendar here!

New Old Comics!

Confusing title...Well, it's quite simple. I mentionned that I'd be redrawing some of the old comics I published, well, I actually more like "rearranged" them. Rescanned them, cleaned them and colored them with photoshop - Gods and Godesses bless photoshop. So here are the first 3 I did - in 2 days.

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"Lash me with your whip..."

This one was inspired by the For My Pain... song "Dear Carniwhore", sang by Juha Kylmänen (who is also singer for Reflexion). In said song, the chorus is as follows:
"Licking your bloody lipsSmiling and sucking your fingertipsLash me with your whipI'm your slaveMy dear Carniwhore"
So yeah. I took it litteraly. Singers, be aware of what you're singing. Lol.

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...lerppu?

Ok, I may be shooting my own foot by displaying this one here. Featuring: Teemu Rajamäki, bassist for Uniklubi. The joke: in French (my first language), the pronounciation of his name is exactly like "T'es mou", contracted form of "Tu es mou", which means "You are soft", more in a "You are not hard" way. Finns will have understood the joke at this point, I think. "Lerppu" is in Finnish, and it's how we planned to explain it to Teemu. I just pictured his reaction to it, and drew it there. *chuckles* We wanted to tell him ourselves, but my comics are getting broadcasted out of my control, so I guess we can forget about that.

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Selocest

Again, featuring members from Uniklubi, Jussi and Janne Selo, respectively singer and guitarist/back vocalist. In their first video, Rakkauta Ja Piikkilankaa, Janne has his head against Jussi's shoulder and chest, and apparently has his mouth opened (see it at 3:55 in the video, but it's quick, so keep a sharp eye). So we joked around that, also considering that we got a picture of them kissing. The important fact in all of this: they are brothers. (Janne is the older one)
So it's ~incest~, but it's the Selo brothers, so it's Selocest.

(You think that this idea is sick? You should read a couple of the many fanfictions that take it much further than that... lol)

So yeah, that's it. More to come. I'm not gonna arrange them all, cause some of them are just doodle, not proper to be redrawn or not worth the time. If you got a request, send me a message specifying which comic you'd like to be redrawn. Until then...

Turtle, duuude.

Situation: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY RAIN!
This comic has been requested by: Tina.
See, Antti Anatomy (bassist for Negative) owns a TURTLE.
TURTLE are cool, duuude. (Finding Nemo anyone?)
Rain likes Antti much. So here's Antti and his turtle.
(And Teemu, but that's just for me.)

Ref:

(Antti and said Finnish TURTLE)

Teemu is back in black!

Remember that the Closet has moved to a new address also! http://closet.inc.sseksi.googlepages.com

Situation: Huuuuh. Maybe I should have gone softer on him. ^_^; Anyway.
Teemu is back to black! He dyed his hair, let us celebrate! Plus it grew a bit, so life is beautiful once again! :-D
(And no, in the first panel, my hand is not in a weird place. It's really just your imagination.)

Ref:

(Tee and his beloved "Let's F*ck" Negative T-shirt)

"Pelästyn."

("Pelästyn." (I'm scared.))

A derogation to my ever-funny comics...