The Antboy film - the mad scientist

I was lucky to be allowed to attend how Antboy film becomes two occasions: a fight in a backyard where Pelle has his first action as Antboy where he stops a thief, and the scene where Pelle has just been bitten by the genetically modified ant, collapses and with blurry eyes see a figure coming towards him ... and then he passes out. 

The figure is the mad scientist who is super villain Flea played by Nicolas Bro .... in this scene I am his standin, and thus the last Pelle sees with his blurry eyes before he faints.  
There is approx. 30 kg difference in weight and 2 numbers in shoe size between Nicolas and me .... but it is as I said Pelle seen through blurred eyes.

 
Here is how the scientist appears in the book, where he is part older and leaner than in the movie.

Antboy vs. the Flea

in the Antboy film the super villain "the Flea" is played by Nicolas Bro .... the costume looks a lot cooler than the outfit I made him wear in the book version .... and the mad scientist who is inside the dress, is a lot older in the books. I look forward to the movie and how the fights between Antboy and the Flea will look like .... probably a lot cooler than in the book. But anyway here is the illustration from book 3, where Antboy and the Flea fights in the cellar of his house.

The house of the supervillain - in the film and in the book

The Terror Twins - book version and film version

Antboy - the book version and the film version

Antboy in the books have created his outfit, his superhero suit, by himself, using bits and pieces from his old Halloween costumes: his musketeer dress, his ninja dress, his wizard (Merlin) outfit, his alien monster suit and two tea strainers .... being a skilled and talented tailor he sew all the pieces together for his superhero costume - 10 year old boys can not afford to buy expensive drugs or get the suit made ​​by a professional, which could also ruin the whole idea about having a secret identity.

In the film Antboy has gotten the cool costume he probably would have dreamed of getting in the books. It is Denmark's history most expensive film costume ... and probably the coolest heroes clothes if you ask me ...

The film premieres in the fall of 2013

 

Antboy - the logo from the books is being used in the film

I designed the Antboy logo back in 2007. Besides being on the front of the book the logo is placed og the chest of his superhero outfit. I did a bunch of different sketches before I ended up with the right design. Some of the sketches I drew at a napkin at a party where I sat next to the Antboy author Kenneth Bøgh Andersen ... so his comments and feedback played an important role in coming up with the logo. The Antboy letterhead was designed by graphic designer Leo Scherfig.

Sankt Stefan/Saint Stephen illustration

I was recently asked if I wanted to illustrate a text from the Bible. A text that is being read the second Christmas Day in the priest's sermon. The text is about the Saint Stephen ....  and the short version of the story is that, in the year 35 ac. the new movement of Jesus-followers in Jerusalem had an accomplished preacher in Stephen. He was so good at preaching, that he had to be killed by those who were againt Christianity. Therefore, he is regarded as Christianity's first martyr.

In the time after Jesus' death and resurrection Saint Stephen went around and preached the gospel in the streets of Jerusalem. Stefan was a very strong rhetoric and his opponents found it difficult to win on pure reasoning and even staged a trial and accused him of blasphemy, but they couldn't beat him by pure arguments and therefore he was shut up in a different way = stoned to death.

One of the spectators was the young Saul. Watching the stooning made him convert to Christianity and he later became known as the evangelist Paul.

The moral is that you can kill the messenger killed but not the message.

You can read more about the saint here