RONNIE SUNDIN

There is a new comic in town... called Very Friendly and it is a creation of yours truly, Ronnie Sundin. The idea for this comic came about in late 2002 (when i was  sketching out ideas for a planned large scale art project called The History Of Electronic Music which was centered around the idea of making portraits of friends, colleagues and historical figures who were electronic music makers) - and it happened in the shape of a quick sketch on the idea of a comic on the life and works of Pierre Schaeffer. 

Shortly afterwords the project ended up in hibernation but in 2004 i made an exhibiton at Cirkulationscentralen in Malmö  (Sweden) featuring 50 ink drawings that later on were collected with additional material in the book The History Of Electronic Music (that was published by art book publishing house noCube in collaboration with record label Häpna in 2007. ) which also turned out to be a bit more realistic realisation of the large scale project inlcuding life size sculptures, paintings and projections that i had in mind at first...

Early in 2008, however, i had a meeting with Maximilian Moulettes who is the head of the record label Komplott here in Malmö and he approached me with an offer to produce a comic magazine for his label which puzzled me at first but after a while i realised that this was an opportunity to bring the old Pierre comic idea into life. Shortly after that it also dawned upon me that i wanted to expand the story on all the characteres that were in the above mentioned book in the shape of a comic and there you have the basic plan for Very Friendly! Back in 2002 i had also made some sketches for a autobiographical comic on my first visit to Trondheim to meet the , ahem... legendary Lasse Marhaug which in it's finished form will be included in the first issue.

In 2003 i made an autobiographical chapter on a trip to Los Angeles and the people i met there in 1999.  Due to the fact that part of the text is in Swedish and features some language miscomprehensions that is kinda hard to translate we decided to publish this chapter on it's own as as sort of a teaser of things to come.

Ronnie Sundin / August 2008