Minna Sundberg (born 9 January 1990) is a Finnish illustrator and cartoonist born in Sweden. She is known for the webcomics A Redtail's Dream (aRTD), and Stand Still, Stay Silent (SS, SS).
Minna Sundberg was born in Sweden in 1990 into a Finnish immigrant family which returned to Finland in 1997. [1] She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, Graphic Design department. At age 25, and as the first Finn, [2] she won a Reuben Award in the category Online Comics – Long Form. [3]
During her first year in university, planning to make a career as a webcomic artist, she made several attempts to start a "practice comic", the last of which evolved into A Redtail's Dream (aRTD). [4] [5] A Redtail's Dream became a 556-page tale built around concepts from Finnish mythology. [6] Her following project was Stand Still, Stay Silent about an imaginary post-apocalyptic world set 90 years into the future. [7] [8] [9] The supplementary info page on "Language Families" from Stand Still, Stay Silent showing Indo-European and Uralic families was published as a poster and gained popularity [10] outside of comics fandom, earning praise [11] by linguists. Sundberg's work was cited as a representative example of the maturing genre of webcomics, while her style was called "perfectly assured" and "awe-inspiring". [12] She also worked as illustrator, including cover art, for several publications.
In March 2021, Sundberg released a short comic called Lovely People, about bunnies living in a social credit system, and revealed that she had converted to Christianity. [13] [14] On 28 March 2022 the last page of Stand Still, Stay Silent was released, ending the webcomic. On 31 October 2022 she published A Meandering Line, a short comic detailing her conversion to Christianity and beginning on 13 January 2023 Journey Upstream which she calls an overtly Christian comic, about a traveling group of animals.
In A Meandering Line, Sundberg writes that she is a Calvinist and was interested in monergistic churches (such as Reformed Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran) shortly after her conversion to Christianity. She ended up joining a Reformed Baptist church in Finland.
Minna Sundberg (born 9 January 1990) is a Finnish illustrator and cartoonist born in Sweden. She is known for the webcomics A Redtail's Dream (aRTD), and Stand Still, Stay Silent (SS, SS).
Minna Sundberg was born in Sweden in 1990 into a Finnish immigrant family which returned to Finland in 1997. [1] She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, Graphic Design department. At age 25, and as the first Finn, [2] she won a Reuben Award in the category Online Comics – Long Form. [3]
During her first year in university, planning to make a career as a webcomic artist, she made several attempts to start a "practice comic", the last of which evolved into A Redtail's Dream (aRTD). [4] [5] A Redtail's Dream became a 556-page tale built around concepts from Finnish mythology. [6] Her following project was Stand Still, Stay Silent about an imaginary post-apocalyptic world set 90 years into the future. [7] [8] [9] The supplementary info page on "Language Families" from Stand Still, Stay Silent showing Indo-European and Uralic families was published as a poster and gained popularity [10] outside of comics fandom, earning praise [11] by linguists. Sundberg's work was cited as a representative example of the maturing genre of webcomics, while her style was called "perfectly assured" and "awe-inspiring". [12] She also worked as illustrator, including cover art, for several publications.
In March 2021, Sundberg released a short comic called Lovely People, about bunnies living in a social credit system, and revealed that she had converted to Christianity. [13] [14] On 28 March 2022 the last page of Stand Still, Stay Silent was released, ending the webcomic. On 31 October 2022 she published A Meandering Line, a short comic detailing her conversion to Christianity and beginning on 13 January 2023 Journey Upstream which she calls an overtly Christian comic, about a traveling group of animals.
In A Meandering Line, Sundberg writes that she is a Calvinist and was interested in monergistic churches (such as Reformed Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran) shortly after her conversion to Christianity. She ended up joining a Reformed Baptist church in Finland.