What is the Finnish comic industry like? Is there a general common acceptance? I felt this sort of danger & appeal to that artistic style, and the art told a story before you even heard a note of the music. I remember as a kid passing record stores and almost being afraid of Eddie. If you think about Iron Maiden & stuff like that, it’s something that evokes story, especially hand in hand with comics. I just feel its logical that sort of music is so popular here.īritain also has a great metal history: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath… People usually refer to the long cold winters, but I think it’s a mix of that & our persona: We’re sort of timid & quiet, but there’s a lot of suppressed anger, and I think it’s a good way to vent things. Heavy metal & recording music was especially important at this time, and something we wanted to revisit in some way.Īt first we really didn’t know what the format of the project would be: It could have been strips, but since I’ve always wanted to do a graphic novel, we found a way for the story of Perkeros to work in that format.įinland has a long history with heavy metal: where do you think that originates?

Since high school, we’d worked on several different projects together: ranging from comics, composing music, making short films: all that stuff. Way back in 2006, we started playing around with the idea of making a book, based on our joint history of music & making music – I’ve known KP since 1 st grade, so we go a long way back. When did the idea for Sing No Evil first come about? I reached out to co-creator & illustrator of the book JP Ahonen to discover the origins of the book. Sing No Evil tells the tale of Aksel and his bandmates in Perkeros as they struggle against forces both everyday & extraordinary, whilst trying to make it in the local music scene, and demons both personal & literal!

Suffice it to say, I was not disappointed. Seeing the band on the cover, I had to pick it up. As I was pulling together resources for Cover Versions, I came across Sing No Evil on the shelves of Orbital Comics.

Perkeros by J.P. Ahonen