Finnish artist Sami Makkonen is probably best known of his work for the Hatter M. (APP) and Deadworld (IDW) graphic novel series. Other works include Ryse: Sword of Damocles (Microsoft/IDW) and covers for Clive Barker`s Hellraiser: The Dark Watch -series (Boom Studios). Makkonen has received the Sarjis award for best fantasy comic and the comics he has illustrated have won numerous awards in the United States. He has been nominated in Ghastly Awards for his work on Deadworld. His latest work is a stunning comic adaptation of the Finnish national epic Kalevala, which was published in two parts (Otava 2019 and Like 2020).
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...my attempt to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullerva in the Finnish Kalevala. It remains a major matter in the legends of the First age...
– J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 257, 1964
You come one fine day upon the Kalevala, the land of heroes. Then you are indeed in a quite new world and can revel in an amazing new excitement...
– J.R.R. Tolkien
The colours, the deeds, the marvels, the figures of the heroes are all splashed onto a clean bare canvas by sudden hand; even the legends concerning the origin of the most ancient things in the world seem to come fresh from the singer's hot imagination of the moment.
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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