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From Finland to Angoulême. Train travel in Europe!

If you liked my previous post about traveling from Berlin to Italy, you will love this one about my train travel from Finland to France! The trip is way longer than in the last comic, plus in this one I’m going to a comics festival in Angoulême. I hope this comic can inspire others to try traveling by land, even if it is a bit slower than traveling by a plane.

I am going to say this in the comic too, but I must say it here as well. Traveling by land in a train where it’s okay to get up, move around and go to different sections of the train is so much better for my heath than sitting still on a plane. Movement is needed even for making comics and I don’t mind the extra time a train takes. What else would I be doing with that time, even if I wasn’t on a train, than making comics? Nothing! And I can definitely draw comics on a train too.

Here I am in Switzerland with my very heavy cart full of comics. The suitcase is Siiri’s.
Here I am in a train from Basel to Strasbourg and the beautiful content (views) go by as I draw comics.
Here you see me drawing the previous page! I have the InterRail app screenshot as a sketch layer, so I know where we have been and where are we going.
In this picture I am in the foreign rights tent in Angoulême in the Finnish booth finally taking apart the heavy boxes of comics! This was the happiest moment of my trip. Both me and the cart survived! Surprising!
Here I am pointing out two Finnish comics creators in the EU Webtoon exhibition: Sari Sariola and Tuomas Myllylä.
The toilet is for everyone, but one must venture into it alone… Except if you’re a pair of shepherds or a centaur with a sweet ass duck!

Who appeared in the comic?

Here’s links to everyone who appeared in the comic and that I know are artists or other creative professionals who might want to be mentioned.