After years by the computer, I've fallen in love again
with the analogue work, offline and off screen. 

The craft of drawing with ink, brushes, nibs, tools that are the same as a hundred years ago.

 

COMICS

I've always loved comics, a perfect symbiosis of storytelling and art. Nothing beats the feeling of finishing a page, and having a little peek at it before going to bed. 


Buy my zines at www.jensk.no.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

I've done loads of illustrations for different clients and purposes throughout the years. Even though I focus more and more on personal projects, I still do commission work, book illustrations, magazines etc. I love working with clients across the world, so just try me.

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ART PRINTS

My little webshop has all my self-published comics and from time to time there are some limited edition art prints. My prints are also for sale on conventions, festivals and exhibitions.

Here's the story

My blog, what I do, how and sometimes also why.

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Dunce #1
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Dunce #1
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Much thanks to this successful Kickstarter-project, I will release the first English collection of Dunce-strips in March 2017. The Special Kickstarter Edition was limited to only 100 copies (signed and numbered), the traditional edition can still be ordered at www.jensk.no.

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Last Breath
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Last Breath
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Jens K Styve

I've been loving to do these the 15 minute art challenges lately, and I started to think it would be nice to collect them in a little art zine. I never tried Kickstarter, but have been wanting to for a long time. Therefore I put all this  together into my first Kickstarter-campaign, and it has had a wonderful start, 240% funding on the first couple of weeks! 

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Homs, a 24 hour comic
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Homs, a 24 hour comic
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Jens K Styve

In June 2016 I did my third ever 24 hour comic (24 pages in 24 hours). I did it as a part of the annual Oslo 24h Challenge. I wanted to do a new story about Death at work, that is: Death picking up some poor soul. I had been thinking for a while: can I make a story about Death collecting a child? How would that turn out? 

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Danse Macabre
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Danse Macabre
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Death summons representatives from all walks of life, tempting them to dance along to the grave. I've been thinking about this for a while: I want to do a comic book/zine that is non-linear, based most of all on the plain craft of drawing.

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Breaking Bad S01E01 minicomic
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Breaking Bad S01E01 minicomic
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I got this idea yesterday to do cute little minicomics based on pilots of great TV shows. Here’s the first!

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DUNCE is a comic about a guy not totally unlike myself, trying to make it far up north, in Tromsø (Norway).

 
 
“I found Jens on Twitter a while back via his diary comics and immediately fell in love with his art style — in which I see a little Ralph Steadman and a little Quentin Blake. His simplistic character designs are deceptive and brimming over with life and vitality in a way that is surprising and deeply human.”
— Robin William Scott, The Mini Comic Courier

My comic Dunce grew out an earlier project called JensK, where I did daily pages/strips for online publication. They were collected in five self-published magazines, JensK #1-5 (now all sold out unfortunately). The 100+ pages of JensK-strips gave me an assignment to draw for four months of daily strips in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet. This new "iteration" of the strip got the name Dunce.

The first Dunce collection, Dunce Number one, is available from mid March 2017, you can order it from my webshop, www.jensk.no.

Buy my self-published comics at www.jensk.no

 

 

My result from Oslo 24H Challenge, 2016

 
“In June 2016 I did my third ever 24 hour comic (24 pages in 24 hours). I did it as a part of the annual Oslo 24h Challenge. I wanted to do a new story about Death at work, that is: Death picking up some poor soul. I had been thinking for a while: can I make a story about Death collecting a child? How would that turn out?”

Buy Homs at www.jensk.no

 

A 28 page comic book about love, death and the ocean.

 
“(…) after buying Cabin Fever online on a whim, I have to admit wholeheartedly that not only is this dialogue free comic more than worth picking up, it’s one of the best things I have read all year!”
— Patrick Scattergood, Curiosity of a Social Misfit
“Cabin Fever is gorgeous. Really beautiful. Jens has a really organic line, he’s one of those who blends cartoony with DARK really well. It looks fun, but has a foreboding of … Doom.”
— Optic Blast, Podcast

That winter, an old punk song popped into my head and stayed for a while. I don’t know why, I hadn’t been listening to it for years. It was the song Cabin Fever by Nick Cave. Eventually, I searched it up, listened to the lyrics, and a story idea started to take shape. Later on, after reading a comic called Ink by Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, some visual ideas joined in with the story idea and it all turned into this comic. 

 

 
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My result from Oslo 24H Challenge, 2015

 
“(...) subtle watercolours perfectly enhancing the story of photographer commissioned to take a portrait of Death, hinting at the fading sepia-tones of old photographs throughout.

(...) For me, Jens marks himself here as an accomplished storyteller, not least because of the limitations of the 24-hour challenge and the fact he has created something so perfectly well formed within that time, but for the deft way he handles the humour of the book, something not easy to pull off, but served up so naturally here. I’ll be rooting out more Jens K Styve, and I highly recommend you do the same at the first available opportunity.””
— Robin W Scott, The Mini Comic Courier

Buy Camera Obscura at www.jensk.no

 
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Death summons representatives from all walks of life,
tempting them to dance along to the grave. 

I've been thinking about this for a while: I want to do a comic book/zine that is non-linear, based most of all on the plain craft of drawing. The result is this little project called Danse Macabre, a 28 pages comic book, where Death travels geographically, back/forth in time, and between different layers of society. It's a celebration of human vitality and also (as the traditional Danse Macabre) a reminder of the fragility of life. 

Read more in this blogpost or buy Danse Macabre at www.jensk.no