A short cartoon made from the Flapsticks – Explosion Land comics. These exploding cartoon/game characters were created in 1991.
More about the psychedelic Flapstick posts here.
Episode #1: That Sweet Anticipation (1:00) below:
Narcosis the Cat
Comic strips: Narcosis the Cat Meets Pixels and Rasters
Narcosis the Cat comic strips #54 (2010) and #86 (2010-17). Inspired by the modern day digital printing errors of various kind, 1980s computer games with their low-resolution pixel style, and classic comic strip rasters.
- See here for all the comics strips on the blog.
- More about wacky adventures of Narcosis the Cat and her comic strips on the blog here and at http://
www.jukkaeronen.com/ narkoosi-kissa - More about retro game pixel art here: http://www.jukkaeronen.com/web/fantasya/retro.html
Music: Avalkis – When It Is Raining from My Arms (2001)
Psychedelic song from the album World Lies in Leaves (2001).
- [download or play the mp3, if the player above doesn’t show up] (6:50)
Part 1: When Reality Comes Along
Part 2: Did It Come to You
Part 2: Did It Come to You
Comic: Narcosis the Cat
Narcosis the Cat cardboard cut-out (2010) painted on acrylics.
Narcosis the Cat is the main comic book character in the wacky adventures of Flapsticks. Check out more comic strips at http://
which are currently in Finnish, translations are coming. The blog will also feature English strips every now and then: here are all the strips currently available.
SUOMEKSI: Lue Narkoosi-kissa-sarjakuvast
Comic: Narcosis the Cat goes Sci-Fi – 2010
“Narcosis the Cat is 5 billion years old. She is already very old and tired…”
“Yet Narcosis the Cat always reincarnates again!”
A spoof on Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) which is my all-time favorite film in addition to f.ex. Tarkovsky‘s Stalker (1979). I love the scene in 2001 with the light white room and the stargate preceding it. It really feels like entering a whole new another world and universe.
Etching: A Stream of Mirages (2006)
Etching 24×12 cm (Kangastusten virta in Finnish). 6 made with varying colors (some are black and white). This scene is from an upcoming Narcosis the Cat Meets the Flapsticks comic book story Flapsticks in the Land of the Pyramids. It tells about the legend of a Horse of the Troika – three giant horses worshipped by the people of Ee-Gypt.
In this artwork the birds from top center gradually transform into mountains and finally as flying dragons. The labyrinth on top right symbolizes the sun. “Corner sun” is my favorite motif in naive works.
Labyrinths and dungeons are one of my favorite themes – both in real life. We like to find caves and tunnels and wander in them with my friend Kriku who also does f.ex. psychedelic art.