So this is pretty much my least favourite comic I have ever done! Let me explain:

I suddenly decided to participate in a children's comic contest, I marathoned this in one day, (they're A5-pages so it's allright) finished the last pages while being badly sleep-deprived, and I chose the character-designs from a pile of characters I designed when I was about 13 or 14 and which I had left to their own devices until I had a use for them, but I noticed that they hadn't aged well and I probably would hate these two if it wasn't for ~imunchtee drawing me loads of nice fanart of them.

Also; I really can't relate to stories for children. xD I ended up censoring myself a lot, because I wasn't sure what would be appropriate, and ended up with a terrible fake-cutesy story about morals! Terrible! When I was a kid I enjoyed more mature entertainment and cartoons that nowadays wouldn't be acceptable for children, so I immediately started thinking of terrible things to make comics of, when I'm supposed to think they're for children. My original idea had plague doctors, domestic violence, living in the streets, and cannibalism. I was told it was not a good idea. rofl

but since I ranked along the best nine comics and got this printed in a book, (and translated into swedish!) it's allright. I'll shove this here just for the effort I used on it. i guess it has a "cute"-factor too or something haha. but yeah I atleast learned something from this if nothing else. yaay. I'm most embarrased that this if the first long comic ever that I have done which is also in colours, urgh..

"Veli" means "brother" in finnish and it's both a word for "brother" and a given name. "Buglings" are originally "ötökeiju" which is basically a "bugfairy", but that doesn't sound too goods so.

And yeah Veli really looks like Viktor haha. He's older than Viktor so I can't really help that!!

Finns can read the original finnish version here: [link]

Veli and Pumpernickel are my characters!