Karoline Stjernfelt

‘I Morgen Bliver Bedre’ (‘Tomorrow Will Be Better’) is a dramatic story about love, lust, power and an impossible quest for freedom, at the danish court in the 18th century.

The first book in the series, ‘Kongen’ (The King) was well received and won the Ping Award for Best Debut as well as the Claus Deleuran award in the same category in 2016, the Danish Council of Arts award for outstanding publication of 2015 and was shortlisted for the danish Bogforum award for best debut of the year 2015.

'I Morgen Bliver Bedre: Kongen' / 'Tomorrow Will Be Better: The King' is published 30th October, 2015, by danish publishing house Cobolt and is at 160 full-color pages and my debut as a published comic book artist.
The second volume in the trilogy, being 'The Queen' is set to be published 2019 and the third and final book in the series 'The Doctor' is planned for 2020. 

Dronning Caroline Mathilde sygner mere og mere hen efter at have opfyldt sin pligt som kongelig fødemaskine. Kong Christian 7. kæmper fortsat med sit skrøbelige sind og gør livet svært for alle omkring sig. Ikke mindst sine ministre. Derfor får Johann Friedrich Struensee til opgave at få styr på den uregerlige konge, men livlægen bringer mere med til det lille kongerige end bare sin viden om medicin. Måske bliver i morgen virkelig bedre?

Politiken: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

Et imponerende hovedværk i dansk tegneseriekunst

Anmelderne om I morgen bliver bedre 1: Kongen

Jyllands-Posten: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ En ny stjerne er født Fyens Stiftstidende: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Suveræn tegneseriedebut Politiken: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ Elegant og fornemt udført Berlingske: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Et brusende flot værk Ekstrabladet: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bragende flot debut … smuk og stemningsskabende Information: En imponerende debut Atlas Magasin: Årets bedste tegneseriedebut; en kongelig affære ligefrem.

En konge undsiger Gud og Himmerige, hvis blot han må beholde sit Gurre. En fuglefotograf sværger, at hun aldrig rørte den sælunge på stranden som barn. En krig forpurrer en spirende kemikers drømme og sender hendes liv i en helt anden retning. Et øde beliggende hus i en svensk skov og den største planet i solsystemet, Jupiter, har noget tilfælles. En blod-ed forsegler en hemmelighedsfuld handel mellem to gamle bekendte, og en mumie kan vende hjem.
Alle møder de skæbnen i den ene eller den anden form. Og skæbnen har følger … dens veje er uransagelige.

En samling af korte tegneserier.

A short story about ghosts, myths and a king of yore. Based on my middleschool history education, this story was made for the 2018 Helsinki comics festival workshop for riso-print fanzines, that collected short comics from young artists all over the north, under the shared theme ‘Folklore’. My thanks to the festival for arranging the workshop.

You either wanna be with me 
or be me

Print

2017

Get it here!

An homage comic done for the 50-year anniversary of Valerian, for the anniversary anthology for the series, published by Cobolt.  

2017

Fanart illustration of the manga series Hellsing by Kouta Hirano, done for the Manga Exhibition at Viborg Animation Festival 2017.

2017

Book cover for ‘Den Opdagelsesrejsende’ (The Explorer) by Katherine Rundell, published by danish publishing house Loxodonta.

2018

Illustration done for the swedish Oscar Olsson foundation's education prize Oscarspriset.

2016

A 6 page comic done for the danish literature magazine Texas Longhorn on the theme ‘det fabulerende’ (the imaginative).

2016 

Illustrations done for danish tv-channel DR.

2016

Short comic done for Norwegian comic magazine Nemi.
Showcased here are the first 3 pages of the total 6.

2018

Tidevand (Tides) is a short comic of two women's fatal meeting on a beach on a cold spring day. 
Here presented in english is the first 8 pages, the whole story can be read in danish in the anthology Kulkælderen 3.

The Inkventure Zone is a project started in 2018 by comicbook artist and illustrator My Murphy, which I joined soon after it’s beginning.
Both of us relisten to the entirety of the McElroy Brothers' Dungeons & Dragons podcast 'The Adventure Zone' and make a fanart drawing for each episode. 
Here is the collected drawings from my hand so far. 

2018-

Uledsaget (Unaccompanied) is a short comic based on interviews with a 15 year old boy, an unaccompanied Somali child refugee, who shall here remain nameless, situated in a refugee camp near Svendborg, Denmark. The interviews took place over a week in October 2016 and the following comic was published in the anthology by the same name for the comic festival Svendborg Comics in 2017.

Many thanks once again to the amazing teenage boy who chose to share his story with me and who let me interpret it in comic form for everyone to read.  

2016

Places Unseen is my contribution to the fanzine SPACE that was made for the exhibition of the same name by the comics collective Random Walk Comics

Here are some samples from it. 

2014/2015

'Dannelsesrejse' is my short comic for the Danish anthology Knivsæg, commemorating the liberation of Denmark after the occupation by Nazi Germany during WWII. Based on a true story, the story is about my grandmother, Mette Stjernfelt, who kindly let me rework this story from her youth, into comic form.

Here presented in danish is the first two pages, the rest can be read in Knivsæg along with 47 other danish comic book artist's contributions. 

2015

SPACE is a science-centered comic exhibition done in collaboration with finnish artist Mari Ahokoivu and norwegian artist Frøydis Sollid Simonson as the comics collective Random Walk Comics. 

It toured Norway, Finland and Sweden in the spring of 2015.

Here is my (almost) blank version of the cover, and some pictures from the exhibitions. 

2015

Ferrari is a short essay on the issue of rape and rape culture, made for danish newspaper Politiken, printed 18th September 2015.

Album cover done for the american rock-soul band Zac Wilkerson 
Their album can be bought here:
www.zacwilkersonmusic.com

2016

Cover done for the studio Kulkælderen's anthology 'Kulkælderen 3' 

2015

I'm a man, I'm a twisted fool
My hands are twisted too 

Postcard

2016

Crow on a traffic light, a bad omen
Sticker

2016

Illustration done for danish newspaper Weekendavisen 

2017

Mine hænder skreg af lys
(My hands screamed of light) 

Illustration based on the short story Majinski by Ursula Scavenius from the collection Fjer. The illustration was done as part of an event at the Central Library of Copenhagen.

2017

Small portrait done for various purposes.
If you’re interested in a similar portrait, please feel free to contact me.