Name Minna Sundberg | Role Illustrator | |
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Stand Still Stay Silent - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Minna Sundberg (born January 9, 1990) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator and cartoonist born in Sweden. She is known for the webcomics A Redtail's Dream and Stand Still, Stay Silent.
Contents
- Stand Still Stay Silent Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Biography
- Career
- Selected works
- Awards
- References
Biography
Minna Sundberg was born in Sweden in 1990 into a family of Finnish Swedes which returned to Finland in 1997. 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, she won a Reuben Award in the category Online Comics – Long Form
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). A Redtail's Dream became a 556-page tale built around concepts from Finnish mythology. Her following project was Stand Still. Stay Silent about an imaginary post-apocalyptic world set 90 years into the future. 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 outside of comics fandom, earning praise by linguists. While living in Mora in 2013 and 2014, she ran two Indiegogo crowdfunding campaigns successfully to finance publishing her comics in print. Sundberg's work was cited as a representative example of the online comics' maturing genre, while her style was called "perfectly assured" and "awe-inspiring". She also worked as illustrator, including cover art, for several publications.