Ole Comoll Christensen

llustrations for magazine articles

"Snip Snap Snude" is a children's tv-show in 10 episodes from Danmarks Radio channel one. 10 different children tell a story, aided by Ole Comoll's drawings, sound effects by Fuzzy and animations by Andreas Bødker, Fabulab. Below are drawings from each story, drawn live and colourized afterwards. Click on the thumbnails for full drawings.

I like to work with comics in different forms: Shorter stories in various "alternative" styles, collected in the books Excreta, Cake and The Cartoonist's Arm; more traditional albums (The Dimensional Detective); an interactive comic on cdrom (The Angel); and comic strips for magazines and commercial products. I've also been assisting Peter Snejbjerg on various DC Comics titles. Presently I'm working on a comic book called Earthling Andy.

Non-Danish editions:
Excreta (English)
De Arm Van De Tekenaar (Dutch)
Dimension Detective 1 (German, Norwegian)
Dimension Detective 2 (Norwegian)

Interview in German: Panel.

I've been a full-time illustrator since 1997, but I've been drawing comics, children's books and working with animation for more than 30 years. I draw storyboards, koncept art, presentations, logos, posters, illustrations for magazines, books and educational material. I've also been a tv-artist in the childrens's tv show "Snip Snap Snude".
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	Magazine art	Storyboards	Caricature

Here are a few links:

The Dimension Detective is published by Carlsen og Cobolt. Collections of my short stories have been published by Fahrenheit and Arboris and BeeDee and have been printed individually in Stripburger (Slovenia), C'est Bon (Sweden), Zone 5300 (Netherlands), Panel (Germany), Bries (Belgium), Aben Maler (Denmark) etc. Author of the interactive CDROM comic "The Angel" is Michael Valeur.

I work at 'Gimle', the oldest and largest comic studio in Denmark. Among my colleagues are Palle Scmidt, who has a blog; Anders Brønserud, who draws the pantomime series 'Otto'; and Peter Snejbjerg, who I have assisted on several DC titles.

Ole Comoll Christensen

Tegnestuen Gimle

Nørrebrogade 55A, 2

2200 København N

Denmark

Telefon: +45 35 35 69 68

olecomoll@hotmail.com

The Dimension Detective		Storyboards
	Comic strips

Panel debate on The Dimension Detective 4 (video clip)	Comoll vs. Villadsen in "Tegn eller Dø"	Work in progress: Earthling Andy

"It's Copenhagen, but not as we know it." The comic book series "The Dimension Detective" features private investigator Clement Skunk-Petersen and his faithful assistant Pippi who solve crimes and battle villains in various parallel universes, where history has taken different paths.
The series received the Ping-award in 1991. The first two albums have been published in Norway and Germany and can be read online in English (see below). The fourth album in the series was published in 2010.


Read MAYDAY MYSTERY in English.	Read MERMAID MYSTERY in English

Storyboards Clients: Adtomic Advance BBDO Bergsøe 4 Brandhouse Co+Høgh Contac Den Danske Filmskole GlaxoSK Kunde&Co Lego Media Ludvigsen&Co Manipulation Projektgruppen Public Robert Boysen LM Saatchi&Saatchi Scanad Sigma TBWA Wagawaga Wasabi Zikadias

In the fourth part of the series kitsch meets communism. Clement and Pippi find themselves in a Copenhagen where bad taste rules, but also meet old aquaintances from "Mayday Mystery": Communist colonel Adrian Kold, surviving tachyon scientist-Clement and Nadia, femme fatale and ex-wife of Clement.

The book is published by Cobolt april 2010.

"THE ANGEL" (CROSSTOWN #2) is an interactive comic on CDROM. The script is written by Michael Valeur and the game directed by Simon Løvind. In the game the player follows and controls two characters through a spherical city,"Crosstown". Fred, a male nurse, and Norman, an autistic patient, are on their way to a clinic in the other end of town, but things don't go as planned.

"Earthling Andy" is the working title of a new comic I'm working on. The story desribes how two aliens from space spend a lively and eventful evening in the small town of Tuchola. The story is drawn in "hard" black and white and is unlike any of my previous stories.

Page 5 from the story. Click for large view.

"The Cartoonist's Arm and Other Stories" is available in Dutch from BeeDee.
(2006)

"Cake and Other Stories" is only available in Danish. 80 pages.
(2006)

The 24-page main story is accompanied by four shorter stories, previously published in various magazines: "It's A Long Way", "Picture This", "Shot in the Dark" and "The Slide". Review 1 and review 2 in Dutch.

The 40-page main story is accompanied by six shorter stories: "Henry", "Get it out!", "Interview", "The Umbrella", "Easter Island Blues" and "Genesis".

EXCRETA is a collection of 7 stories, each dealing with a bodily fluid, all drawn with ink and worn-out brush. Each story is in a different genre (a fairytale, a revolutionary story, a private eye story, etc.) and each connected to a classic pop song (No Milk Today, Fernando, Love Me Love My Dog, Happiness is a Warm Gun, osv.) The collection is published by Slab-O-Concrete. One of the stories, "Liberty, Fernando" that lends its title from an ABBA song has been published in colour as a "Missive Device", a minicomic that can be mailed as a postcard.
		*The press wrote:* "... a set of darkly humorous episodes concerning various bodily secretions (...) It's rude but not obscene, dirty but not unhealthy, and will give the strong of stomach plenty of belly laughs." Comics International "Smartly written comic strips each dealing with a different bodily fluid ... eeugh!" AK Press & Distribution

Caricatures from the book "Ismer i det 21. Århundrede"

Comic strip example. Strip for MUM magazine. (in Danish only)
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