A summary of my current activities, participation in events, and publications
2024
April
15: From today until May 15th I'm Serieförmedlingen's cartoonist of the month, with my work exhibited on Rum för serie's window display in Malmö (link).
March
27: Amazing news! I'm delighted to say that I was awarded a two-year working grant by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee! Still can't quite believe my luck and I feel absolutely honoured to have my work recognised once again. This will allow me to focus on new comic projects and dedicate more time to my artistic practice. Thank you!!!
2023
October
10: This year, for the first time, I'm part of Illustratörcentrum's catalogue: Swedish Illustrators & Graphic Designers 2024. It's such an honour to be among so many amazing professionals, and hopefully it'll lead to more exciting commissions! (link).
7: I was back in Kaunas with Hands on Press for the Kaunas Art Book Fair. Together with Gabrielė Gudaitytė and Inga Navickaite, we had a talk marvellously moderated by Kotryna Lingienė. We discussed my residency during summer, the outcomes, and the future of small press in the face of increasingly commonised digital publishing. Thank you so much for the invitation!!! (link).
September
23: I'll be joining the VXO Zine Fest 2023 with new work freshly printed in Lithuania this summer (link).
2-3: I'm very excited to be part of this year's Malmö Seriefest, especially since the event hasn't happened in years! (link).
August
29: I made a comic for Malmö University Anniversary 2023, which was then animated by their amazing team (link).
19: I gave a radio interview about my art residency in Kaunas, my practice, and the influences in my work (in Lithuanian, link).
17: Today is my solo show opening at Hands on Press! The window gallery is open 24/7 and the exhibition will be available in Kaunas until the 17th of October (link).
June
19: My article about digital comics is live on the Cartoonist Cooperative website! Huge thanks to Ben Becker for making it happen (link).
18: From today I'll be in an art residency in Kaunas, Lithuania. I was invited to spend two months there and I'm super excited to make new work inspired by the city (link).
May
10: My comic "Tack Mamma!" is one of the winners of Serieteket's contest (Tävling teckna en serie till Kulturhusets entrésylt) and was displayed on Kulturhuset Stadsteatern's huuuuge digital billboard for the Stockholm International Comics Festival (link).
March
17-18: I sent my autobiographical comics about life in Sweden to be presented and sold at the Umeå Zine Fest, part of Littfest – Umeå International Literature Festival (link).
3-4: My Japanese risograph zine about life in the countryside of Sweden will be at Zine Day Taiwan vol. 5! The venue is Retro Insatsu Taiwan in Taipei (link).
February
4-26: The risograph zine I made last year for Zine Day Osaka will be part of the event Zine Gacha! Mini Zine Expo at the shop/gallery/publishing house Nachladen. in Hamburg, Germany (link).
January
21: I am one of the six artists participating in the show (Anti)racism, by Tusen Serier. The exhibition showcases comics looking at the phenomenon of racism from different angles, bringing personal experiences, theoretical reasoning, and visual interpretations. Until April 1 (link).
2022
December
I'll be a guest at Konstepidemin in the AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland program, offered by the Cultural Development Administration of Region Västra Götaland in Sweden (link).
Moreover, I've designed five certificates for this year's recipients of the cultural grants for Kronoberg county in Sweden. Huge congratulations and I hope they like it!
13: As part of Bra 10's program, I'll give a lecture about my work in comics and visual stories from 18:00 at Konstepidemin.
November
18-28: Art Byte Critique is celebrating 10 years as a community of artists connecting in the Tokyo Bay Area, and I'm proud to be one of its members. If you're around come to Launch Pad Gallery for ‘10’ as we exhibit artworks from our membership of both local and international artists (link).
October
29-30: I'll be one of the exhibitors of Zine Day Osaka vol. 8! There you'll find a risograph-printed version of "Living Nowhere" in two colours and translated to Japanese, with the new title of 「スウェーデンの田舎に住んでる私たち」(link).
21: I was commissioned three illustrations for the inauguration of the new professors at the Malmö University Annual Academic Ceremony 2022. This was an amazing collaboration, in which I had the opportunity to draw the professors' research (link).
September
24: I'll be joining the VXO Zine Fest 2022 with new comics, risograph zines and prints (link).
22-25: This year I won't be at the Gothenburg Book Fair, but if you're there you can find one of my illustrations on the new RisooPrint 2023 calendar, booth A01:27.
August
18: I won first place in the Draw Your Own Window Comic – Open Call by Drawing the Times!!! My comic title is "Outside my window in rural Sweden" and I am immensely honoured - and surprised! - that my comic was chosen as the winner (link).
July
18-31: I was selected as one of the participants of Laboratório de Zines (Zine Laboratory) by Faísca Lab in my hometown Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In this online project each participant produced a 16-page zine printed in two colours in risograph, so I decided to translate my comic "Living Nowhere", which received the new title of "Na roça da Suécia", in Portuguese. All zines will be available at Faísca Lab's web shop (link).
June
09-23: My comic "We Want to Move to Another Country" will be part of CBK's exhibition UNCOMICS & [PLACEHOLDER] in Malmö, Sweden. You can even buy a page spread as a print! Opening on the 9th from 19:00 at FISH TANK, Panora Folkets Bio (link).
May
21-22: This year I will not have a table at the Stockholm International Comics Festival but my work will be present as one of the contributors of C’est Bon Anthology (CBA) at tables YF108 and YF109.
April
07: I have great news! This month I not only finished my Swedish language courses but also was awarded a one-year working grant by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee! This will allow me to take "Living Nowhere" to the next level and develop it into a graphic novel! Looking forward to dedicating myself to this project and sharing it with everyone.
March
09: Christine Heebs wrote an article for Withitgirl about moving to Sweden and VXO Zine Fest in 2021, and she was kind enough to include some of my work in it (link).
2021
December
I have a short comic called "We Want to Move to Another Country" published in CBA vol 53 Placeholder (link). This month I also finished the Digital Comics course offered by Malmö University in which I developed "Living Nowhere", a comic about my life in the countryside of Sweden (link).
October
02: I made my first ever picture book and it will be released in Brazil! Dona Nenê e o Ipê-amarelo (Ms. Nenê and the Golden Trumpet Tree) tells the story of an old lady who loves nature and does some guerrilla gardening in her neighbourhood.
September
18: I'll be part of the VXO Zine Fest 2021. I'll bring comics, risograph zines and prints. It'll be my first in person event since the beginning of 2020! (link)
From this month I'll start taking a semester long Digital Comics course at the Malmö University, which I'm really looking forward to.
August
28: My zine 3 Seconds of Happiness (first published in Japanese in the book A Day in The Life) will be part of the event #CIB21 Satellit: Lockdown-Zines / 30 Jahre Renate Bibliothek in Berlin (link).
Moreover I'm working on a watercolour comic which I've been meaning to do since 2017 and crossing my fingers it'll work out!
July
17: I was featured in the Swedish newspaper Smålandsposten in a series about culture grant recipients and their work. Many thanks to Linna Fogelberg for the interview (link).
11: I am honoured to announce that I was chosen as one of the recipients of the 2021 scholarship from Kronoberg county's cultural committee in Sweden! (link).
June
01: I illustrated the lead feature of The Believer Magazine summer 2021 issue (136). It's a piece by Tessa Love about oral histories from the California wildfires called "Objects of Fire" (link).
May
26: Release of CBA's BURNOUT comics anthology online exhibition. Read the first page of my contribution "The Pomodoro Technique" and a preview of many other stories. Printed book also available (link).
07: Release of the comics exhibition The New Frontier, by Swedish collectives Tusen Serier and Hybriden in collaboration with Open Art Week. The exhibition showcases seven new posters-adventures of eight international artists. I made a comic with Felipe Kolb Bernardes reflecting on how easy it is to criticize refugees and asylum seekers when one is in a very comfortable position (link).
01: Release of the comics anthology A Day in the Life 7都市・7人の作家が描く新型コロナウイルス・パンデミック下での、いつもの街の物語. My story "3 Seconds of Happiness" (一瞬の幸せ) depicts my pandemic experience living in an art residency in Sweden, which used to be an epidemic diseases hospital. Edited by Yuki Inoue, the book comprises stories from seven artists living in different cities around the world (link).
During the month of May I had the honour to be one of Julia Breckenreid's mentees in a program sponsored by Koyama Press Provides (link).
April
I'm working on a short comic about constantly moving and then getting stuck, to be published in an anthology later this year.
March
10: Last year I had the pleasure to collaborate with the charity Open Past, in a project that provides free colouring sheets around the theme "what makes us human – caring for and helping others". I illustrated a nursing home for elderly with severe dementia and an ancient configuration of a Sami reindeer village, which you can download for free (link).
09: Toco - The Tokyo Collective was featured in the March 2021 issue of Connect magazine. Thanks a lot to Jessica Craven for the article (link).
February
02: Release of ToCo - The Tokyo Collective's 4th anthology matsuri. I edited it with Erica Ward and also contributed to this issue with a comic about my experience regarding yukata and festivals in Japan (link).