Minna Sundberg

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Minna Sundberg (born 9 January 1990) is a Finnish illustrator and cartoonist born in Sweden. She is known for the webcomics A Redtail's Dream (aRTD), and Stand Still, Stay Silent (SS, SS).

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Biography

Minna Sundberg was born in Sweden in 1990 into a Finnish immigrant family which returned to Finland in 1997. [1] She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, Graphic Design department. At age 25, and as the first Finn, [2] she won a Reuben Award in the category Online Comics – Long Form. [3]

Career

During her first year in university, planning to make a career as a webcomic artist, she made several attempts to start a "practice comic", the last of which evolved into A Redtail's Dream (aRTD). [4] [5] A Redtail's Dream became a 556-page tale built around concepts from Finnish mythology. [6] Her following project was Stand Still, Stay Silent about an imaginary post-apocalyptic world set 90 years into the future. [7] [8] [9] The supplementary info page on "Language Families" from Stand Still, Stay Silent showing Indo-European and Uralic families was published as a poster and gained popularity [10] outside of comics fandom, earning praise [11] by linguists. Sundberg's work was cited as a representative example of the maturing genre of webcomics, while her style was called "perfectly assured" and "awe-inspiring". [12] She also worked as illustrator, including cover art, for several publications.

In March 2021, Sundberg released a short comic called Lovely People, about bunnies living in a social credit system, and revealed that she had converted to Christianity. [13] [14] On 28 March 2022 the last page of Stand Still, Stay Silent was released, ending the webcomic. On 31 October 2022 she published A Meandering Line, a short comic detailing her conversion to Christianity and beginning on 13 January 2023 Journey Upstream which she calls an overtly Christian comic, about a traveling group of animals.

Religion

In A Meandering Line, Sundberg writes that she is a Calvinist and was interested in monergistic churches (such as Reformed Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran) shortly after her conversion to Christianity. She ended up joining a Reformed Baptist church in Finland.

Selected works

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Sundberg, Minna. "A Meandering Line -a Christian testimony webcomic". www.hummingfluff.com. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  2. ↑ Kujala, Päivi (June 23, 2015). "Keuruu mukana palkitussa nettisarjakuvassa". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish). Archived from the original on July 1, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Reuben Awards Winners 2015". National Cartoonists Society. May 23, 2015. Archived from the original on June 15, 2019. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ McElmurry, Todd. "POTM Interview: Minna Sundberg Of Stand Still. Stay Silent". Webcomic Alliance. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ "A Redtail's Dream". Goodreads. 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
  6. ↑ Zapata, Jason (October 11, 2010). "The Art of Minna Sundberg". Jason Zapata. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Mello, Carolina (December 18, 2014). "Webcomic Review: Stand Still, Stay Silent". Women Write About Comics. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ Hand, Thomas (April 29, 2015). "Review: Stand Still. Stay Silent, Minna Sundberg". The Mountain Echo. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Nurmenniemi, Veera (July 30, 2015). "Keuruulaiset seikkailevat palkitussa sarjakuvassa" (in Finnish). Suur-Keuruu. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Young, Holly (January 23, 2015). "A language family tree - in pictures". The Guardian . Archived from the original on September 11, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ Tharoor, Ishaan (January 27, 2015). "This beautiful language tree shows how India is as linguistically diverse as Europe". The Washington Post . Archived from the original on May 11, 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ Lehoczky, Etelka (January 31, 2016). "A Sampler Of Web Comics To Keep You Clicking". NPR. Archived from the original on December 31, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  13. ↑ Sundberg, Minna (March 19, 2021). "Lovely People". Hummingfluff. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  14. ↑ Šokić, Ivan (29 July 2021). "Minna Sundberg: "I have been given a gift to convey information in a special way, and it's my duty to not waste it"". Nova24TV. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Hivemill, Stand Still Stay Silent Book 2". Hivemill. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  16. ↑ "The Journey So Far ..." The Zarkora chronicles. Archived from the original on June 15, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2015. Scroll down to find the information.
  17. ↑ Cavna, Michael (May 24, 2015). "2015 Reubens: Roz Chast's big award caps a winning event for women creators". The Washington Post . Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
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