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| April 26th.2008 |
| Kristian Huitula as a quest at the Stockholm comics festival during April 26th and 27th. Talking about manga/anime working experiences in Japan. (panel discussion with Edmund Baudoin and Åsa Ekström) |
| April 19th.2008 |
| At the Tampere comics festival during April 19th and 20th. |
| March 24th. 2008 |
| Kristian Huitula's Moomin illustrations published (Egmont). More about the publications here |
| March 2nd. 2008 |
| Kristian Huitula's newest design for a Japanese book publisher Bungeishobo (Tokyo). More about it here |
| September 29th. 2007 |
| Kristian Huitula is signing and drawing Moomins at the Moomin Valley (Tampere Main Library Metso) on Saturday 29th. from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. The event is part of the Tampere Day celebration. |
| September 15th. 2007 |
| Kristian Huitula at the Helsinki comics festival, September 15th.-16th. 2007. (Kulttuuriasema Gloria, Pieni Roobertinkatu 12) Fantacore Media also announces publication material from the upcoming sequel Oni Kudaki(2): The Nightless City. |
| March 31th. 2007 |
| Kristian Huitula at the 1st Tampere comics festival, 31st of March 2007. (Vanha kirjastotalo) |
| January 26th. 2007 |
| Kristian Huitula's original artwork displayed at the Lahti museum of art (Jan 26th.- April 22nd. 2007) |
| September 29th. 2006 |
| Kristian Huitula's new comic book, Oni Kudaki, will be published at the Turku book fair September 29th (Fantacore Media, booth A14). |
| September 9th. 2006 |
| Kristian Huitula's first Moomin illustrations published in the Moomin Magazine 9/2006. |
| June 26th. 2006 |
| Kristian Huitula's The Kalevala Graphic Novel (Fantacore Media) is now available for purchase also in Kanada, distributed by Aspasia Books in Toronto. |
| May 24th. 2006 |
| Kristian Huitula's designs for a Japanese book publisher Bungeishobo (Tokyo). More about it here |
| February 11th. 2006 |
| Kristian Huitula/ Fantacore Media at the Henki & Elämä bookfair in Siperia, Tampere ( booth 16 ), Huitula interviewed at 5:30 pm. by Timo Kokkila. |
| February 5th. 2006 |
| Karoliina Yläjoki, who also posed as one of the fairy models in Huitula's music video Presto, was voted as the 2nd runner up for Miss Suomi 2006 ( Miss Finland ). Best wishes to Karoliina! |
| December 23rd. 2005 |
| The English edition of the Kalevala comic book ( The Kalevala Graphic Novel ) now available. More information about the book in here |
| October 27th. 2005 |
| Huitula.com at Helsinki bookfair 27.-30.10. ( booth 6c6 ) Huitula.com is giving out free invitation tickets to the fair ( value 12 e ). Send your name and address before October 25th.2005 to: huitula(at)wlanmail.com, 10 tickets will be raffled and sent to the winners ( delivery within Finland only ). |
| October 7th. 2005 |
| Huitula.com at Turku bookfair 07.-09.10. ( booth A 14 ) |
| September 20th.2005 |
| Starting from September the 15th the comic book distribution of huitula.com is handed over to Fantacore Media (www.fantacore.com), which is also going to be the publisher and distributor of the upcoming English translation of the Kalevala comic book. More information on the company website at: www.fantacore.com |
| September 17th.2005 |
| Kristian Huitula's comic Kreivi Crapula was awarded in the national comics contest organized by Egmont publishing and Sarjakuvantekijät ry. |
| April 23rd.2005 |
| The PRESTO was a success, according to the YLE's statistics it doubled the average viewer ratings compared to the 14 previous programs broadcasted on the TV 1 'Uusi Kino' series. |
| March 20th.2005 |
| A contract has been signed for the Vivaldi's Presto -animation to be broadcasted on the national TV channel TV 1, on Sunday April 17th. 2005, 22:45. ( Uusi Kino ). Re-run on YLE Teema on Monday April 18th 22:00. Presto is an animated music video for Vivaldi's Four Seasons ( Summer ), arranged for electric guitar. Sample clips of the movie by clicking -here-. |
| February 25th. 2005 |
| Kristian Huitula's music video Vivaldi's Presto at the cinema theatre Niagara in Tampere March the 12th 12:45 pm. ( ANIMANSE 2005, free admission ) |
| December 06th. 2004 |
| Kristian Huitula as an invited guest at the Moscow book fair December 03rd-05th, and at a lunch at the Finnish Embassy of Moscow, invited by the cultural counsellor Kirsi Tykkyläinen. ( Organized by the Finnish Literature Information Centre FILI ). |
| October 28th. 2004 |
| Huitula.com and Sarjakuva-akatemia join their forces again at the Helsinki bookfair 28.-31. October 2004. You can also vote your favorit comic in -here-, and win signed comics ( Sorry, Finnish site only ). |
| September 18th. 2004 |
| Kristian Huitula's comic Ellu ja ilmalaiva won the 4th prize in the national comics contest organized by Egmont publishing and Sarjakuvantekijät ry. |
| September 18th. 2004 |
| Huitula introduced in the book Kotimaisia sarjakuvantekijöitä, by Ville Hänninen, covering 40 Finnish comic book artists ( BTJ Kirjastopalvelu ). |
| June 20th. 2004 |
| Video sample clips of the Presto -music video now available to see by clicking -here-. Presto is an animated music video of the Vivaldi's Four Seasons ( Summer ), arranged for electric guitar. |
| May 16th. 2004 |
| Kristian Huitula as a guest at the Brussel-Ganshoren comics festival in Belgium. ( Organized by Gemeente Centrum de Zeyp and The Finnish Cultural Institute for Benelux ) |
| May 07th. 2004 |
| Perskeles! Sarjakuvia Tampereelta - comics exhibition opens at the media museum Rupriikki, Tampere. ( 08.05.-28.09.2004 ) |
| March 31st. 2004 |
| The comics contest organized by Egmont publishing and Sarjakuvantekijät ry (The Finnish Comics Professionals) has chosen Huitula's children comic concept Ellu ja ilmalaiva to the final. |
| March 25th. 2004 |
| Heikki Jokinen's new analytical book on comics, Sata sarjakuvaa (Tammi), introduces one hundred significant comics published in Finland. Huitula's Kalevala graphic novel is also included. |
| December 13th.2003 |
| Kristian Huitula's photographic series Go Dai - Variation of the Five Elements, at the 13X -group exhibition at Gallery Nykyaika, Tampere, December 12th.2003 - January 4th.2004. |
| October 31st. 2003 |
| The Kalevala Society -foundation (founded in 1919) granted Kristian Huitula the annual award of the young artist, for his visual interpretations of the national epic Kalevala. (Kalevala-society has distributed awards to distinguished experts of folk tradition and researchers of national sciences from the year 1965.) |
| October 27th. 2003 |
| A contract has been signed with The Finnish-North American Literature Society for the use of Eino Friberg's American-English translation in the Huitula's Kalevala Graphic Novel. More info about the publication of the English edition during 2004. |
| October 22nd. 2003 |
| Huitula.com at Helsinki bookfair 23.-26.10.,at the booth 6g28. Kristian Huitula interviewed by Heikki Jokinen on Sunday 26.10. ( 11:00-11:30 a.m.) You can also take part in a comic book ballot until 31st December and win signed comic books. ( Finnish site ) |
| August 4th. 2003 |
| The art poster of the painting The Time of Rebirth was published at the San Diego Comic-Con 2003, at San Diego Convention Center on the 17th of July. Get more info about the product from here. |
| June 15th. 2003 |
| Huitula.com is attending the San Diego Comic-Con 2003 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 17.-20th. 2003. For the first time the Finnish comic art is presenting itself at the largest comic fair in the U.S. Kristian Huitula on the spot at the Small Press Area (S-9). Check it out ! |
| June 4th. 2003 |
| To fulfill the public desire huitula.com is now proud to present a Fantasy gallery set of 4 different postcards, including the new 2003 title The Messenger of Hope. A 4-card series also available based on the fantasy epic comic Kalevala. |
| April 26th. 2003 |
| Take a look at the brand-new Russian edition of the Kalevala comic book in here. |
| February 8th. 2003 |
| Huitula.com at the Henki & elämEbook festival in Tampere (Finlayson/ Siperia). Kristian Huitula at the booth at 1:00 pm. and 5-7:00 pm. |
| December 20th. 2002 |
| The contract of the Russian translation of the Kalevala comic book has been signed on the week 51, and the book will be published in Russia by the end of March 2003. |
| November 26th. 2002 |
| The PUUNUKKE graphic novel published !!!. Take a climpse in here. |
| November 12th. 2002 |
| The PUUNUKKE graphic novel coming out on the 26th of November !!!. A 92-page thriller setting new standards to the European design comics, sponsored by the Pirkanmaa Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Pirkanmaa Arts Council. Take a climpse in here. |
| October 22nd. 2002 |
| Helsinki Book Fair 2002 ( October 24-27th ) at the Helsinki Fair Centre. Huitula.com at the booth 2f46. |
| October 13th. 2002 |
| Advance subscription now available for the Puunukke graphic novel coming out in November 2002! Find out the details from -here- and check out also the new sample pages! |
| August 31st. 2002 |
| Leikkimökin Sankarit -cartoon now published as a continuous b/W comic strip version in the Asuntolinja -tabloid newspaper, focused on dwelling and building. |
| August 24th. 2002 |
| The 17th annual Helsinki Comics Convention, huitula.com also present at the comic book market. |
| April 26th. 2002 |
| Cover illustration for the Golden Week issue of Tokyo Notice Board. |
| April 3rd. 2002 |
| Finally, a sneak preview of the upcoming graphic novel. Take a glimpse in here. |
| December 17th. 2001 |
| The National Council for Design has granted 3.000 euros (2.800 $) for the Russian translation of the Kalevala comic book ( Grant for Crafts and Design production ). |
| November 30th. 2001 |
| The Pirkanmaa Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation has granted 8.000 euros (7.400 $) for the upcoming graphic novel project. |
| October 25th. 2001 |
| The first illustration for the Police-TV -program on air, on the Finnish national television channel (TV2). On these humorous "live" TV-cartoons I will be illustrating six different incidents actually happened in real crime-fighting situations. |
| September 26th. 2001 |
| In Tokyo preparing a couple of different projects. More about it later. |
| September 12th. 2001 |
| Giving a lecture about comics as a means of expression at the Tampere Polytechnic. |
| September 08-09th. 2001 |
| The 16th Helsinki Comic Book Convention, huitula.com also presented at the comic book market. |
| June 2001 |
| For the first time I meet Mr Armas Mishin who has translated the Kalevala in Russia. He is on a trip to Finland for lecturing, so we have a good chance to meet and discuss about the Russian translation of the Kalevala comic book. |
| May 2001 |
| The Pirkanmaa- exhibition at The Museum Center Vapriikki opens. Presented are my illustrations for two differenet parts of the exhibition, one dealing about iron processing in Tampere in the end of the 19th century, and the other about the taxing procedure in Finland in the 16th century. |
| January 2001 |
| Media scriptwriting course at the Tampere polytechnic begins. You can never emphasise enough the meaning of a good script, so I decide to go back to TAMK to learn more about the structure and techniques of storytelling. |
| October 2000 |
| The second and final part of the Kalevala comic book being released at the Turku book fair. At the same day my website at www.huitula.com is opened. Naturally the date is Friday the 13th, and the moon is full. |
| June 2000 |
| Right after graduating I move to Tokyo for the summer, to work on the second part of the Kalevala comic book. The schedule is extremely hectic since it should be ready and released at the Turku book fair in October. |
| May 2000 |
| Graduation at the Tampere Polytechnic (Medianomi AMK/ BA in Media). The subject of my final thesis is "Comic book's relation to sound and multimedia" (4/5). |
| March 2000 |
| Heading to Tokyo again, where I'll be spending a couple of weeks to get into the post-production and sound design at the company called Omnibus Promotion Inc. |
| June 1999 |
| My first trip to Tokyo. I'll be spending three months at the animation production company called Production I.G, which is propably the most well known around the world for the animation movies Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor. |
| October 1998 |
| The first part of the Kalevala comic book is finally finished and getting good publicity in the media all around Finland. |
| June 1997 |
| I get a call from Germany again and I'm being asked if I've got some time to go to meet Kai Hansen and discuss about the cover-art concept for their upcoming CD-release. At the Hansen studios a hectic mixing process is in progress since "Somewhere out in Space" is going to be released soon. I make a sketch of the booklet cover in Hamburg and return back Finland to work on the final painting. |
| March 1997 |
| I get a phone call from Noise Records, Berlin and I'm being asked if I'm interested to design the booklet cover for Gamma Ray's upcoming single "Valley of the Kings". Kai Hansen, the living legend of German metal, I obviously already know from his Helloween years, so I don't have to be asked twice... |
| January 1997 |
| My first internationally published comic book, an 8-page CD-promo is being released with a special edition of "Sky Hook", by the band Hundred Years. The CD is the band's third release for the German Noise Records- label and produced by Timo Tolkki of Stratovarius. |
| October 1996 |
| 2nd prize in the "100 Years Anniversary of Comic Book"- competition, organized by the Finnish Comic Book Assosiation and publishing house LIKE. |
| October 1989 |
| 3rd prize in the "Artist of the Year on Bird- Theme"- competition. At the award ceremony was also presented the Japanese sponsor company of the competition, Kowa. |
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