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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 (aRTD), and Stand Still, Stay Silent (SS, SS).

Biography

Minna Sundberg was born in Sweden in 1990 into a family of Swedish-speaking Finns^{[citation needed]} 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,[1] she won a Reuben Award in the category Online Comics – Long Form[2]

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).[3][4] A Redtail's Dream became a 556-page tale built around concepts from Finnish mythology.[5] Her following project was Stand Still, Stay Silent about an imaginary post-apocalyptic world set 90 years into the future.[6][7][8] 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[9] outside of comics fandom, earning praise[10] by linguists. While living in Mora in 2013 and 2014, she ran two Indiegogo crowdfunding campaigns successfully [11][12] to finance publishing her comics in print. 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".[13] 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.[14][15] On March 28, 2022, the last page of Stand Still, Stay Silent was released, ending the webcomic.

Selected works

• Sundberg, Minna: A Redtail's Dream, s. 608. Author's Edition, 2014. ISBN 978-91-637-4627-7
• Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Book 1, s. 324. Author's Edition, 2015. ISSN 2342-8880 (print) ISSN 2342-8899 (online).
• Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Book 2, s. 260. Hiveworks Comics, 2018. ISBN 978-1-9466-9806-3[16]
• Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Book 3, s. 304. Hiveworks Comics, 2020. ISSN 2342-8880 (printed book), ISSN 2342-8899 (online).
• Sundberg, Minna: Un Réve de Renard, s. 600. Édition Akileos, 2019. ISBN 978-2-35574-455-6
• Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Livre 1, s. 328. Édition Akileos, 2018. ISBN 978-2-35574-353-5
• Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Livre 2, s. 260. Édition Akileos, 2019. ISBN 978-2-35574-363-4
• Sundberg, Minna: Stand Still Stay Silent Livre 3. s. 304. Édition Akileos, 2020. ISBN 978-2-35574-453-2
• Sundberg, Minna: Lovely People, s. 80. Author's Edition, 2021. ISBN 978-952-94-4704-6
• Illustrations for Dragon Art. Inspiration, Impact & Technique in Fantasy Art (2009) ISBN 978-1-4351-1771-6
• Cover art for Foxhunt (2009) ISBN 978-0-578-02605-3
• Cover art for Syvyyksien valtias Original title Storlax The power of the deep (2010) ISBN 978-952-230-106-2
• Cover art for Crossed Genres Quarterly 4 (2011) ISBN 978-0-615-57863-7
• CD cover art for music band The Winter Tree (2011)
• Cover art for Legazy (2013) ISBN 978-1-908600-22-6
• Cover art for Australian series of children fantasy Zarkora books. (2015)[17]

Awards

• 2015 Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society in the category of 'Online Comics – Long Form' for Stand Still. Stay Silent.[18]

References

External links

• Official website "Webcomics by Minna Sundberg"

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