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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Letter #7 — What survives when the studio is gone. On two stories with the same DNA, a self-portrait of a man never seen before, and The Waves as reality TV. #Writing #Reading #Art #Music #Comics jansandstorm.com/37-newslette...

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Letter #7 — Jan Sandstorm

Letter #7 - What survives when the studio is gone. On two stories with the same DNA, a self-portrait of a man never seen before, and The Waves as reality TV.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A comic finished in a month — and what that revealed: constraint as method, the handlettering question, and why each creative discipline feels less like a variation and more like a different species entirely. jansandstorm.com/36-newslette... #amwriting #indiecomics #mastoart

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Letter #6 — Jan Sandstorm

From doubt to finished comic in a month. On constraint as method, the handlettering question, and why each discipline feels like a different species

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A second comic: The Seed of Light. Eight black and white pages. A journalist, a vanished researcher, and a diamond with a void at its core. jansandstorm.com/35-The_Seed_... #indiecomics #mastoart #comics

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The Seed of Light — Comic by Jan Sandstrom

An 8-page black-and-white literary comic. A journalist, a vanished researcher, and a diamond with a void at its core. By Jan Sandström

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Before Little Eagle Down: Comic storyboarding and planning phase — building the scene structure before a single finished page was drawn. jansandstorm.com/20-Comics_pr... #indiecomics #comics

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Comics pre-production assignment

Comics pre-production assignment — storyboarding and planning Little Eagle Down.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Three months after leaving a long career, I wrote this first newsletter. A camper van, two university courses, a studio built, and a first attempt at a website no algorithm will ever find. jansandstorm.com/3-newsletter... #amwriting #indieweb

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Jan Sandstorm — Newsletter #1, September 2024

Newsletter. September 2024. Three months after leaving a long career: a camper van, two university courses, a studio built, and the first attempt at a blog no algorithm will ever find.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

On building a personal site outside algorithmic platforms — and discovering there's already a name and a community for it. jansandstorm.com/28-Am_I_part... #indieweb #amwriting

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Am I part of the Indieweb now?

On building a personal site outside algorithmic platforms — and discovering the IndieWeb.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Little Eagle Down is online — a black and white comic about a wildlife photography couple lost in the wilderness. My first finished comic. jansandstorm.com/34-Little_Ea... #indiecomics #comics

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Little Eagle Down — Comic by Jan Sandstrom

Little Eagle Down — a black and white comic by Jan Sandstrom. A wildlife photography couple trapped in the wilderness. Published 2025.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Hergé needed about a year for a 60-page Tintin album. Glyn Dillon took four years for the 200 pages of The Nao of Brown. Almost a week per page for both, across different eras and styles. jansandstorm.com/22-newsletter-3.html #comics #amwriting

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Jan Sandstorm — Newsletter #3, June 2025

Newsletter #3. June 2025. On how long Hergé and Glyn Dillon actually spent per page — and what that means for anyone who thinks they'll make a comic in a few weeks.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Finishing a first comic taught me that writing comics and making a comic are two different disciplines. The gap between them is where most projects quietly die. jansandstorm.com/27-Newslette...

A comic front page with the text "Little eagle down" together with an eagle. A man in black vest, a man in white track pants and a dog, standing before green trees with a quad vehicle.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Two years after leaving a long career, the feet have touched ground. Newsletter #5: on productivity without to-do lists, a finished comic, music from paper to recording, and a manuscript waiting for a decision. jansandstorm.com/33-Newsletter-5.html #indiecomics #writing

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JanSandstorm.com Newsletter #5

The feet have touched ground after a long transition. On productivity habits, completed projects, music coming to life, and a comic manuscript waiting for a decision.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm Jan — writer, painter, comic maker, musician. Literary fiction in Swedish, everything else in English. I document the practice at jansandstorm.com If you make things without agenda, we'll probably get along.

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Jan Sandstorm — Writer, Artist, Musician

Jan Sandstorm — Swedish writer, artist, and musician. Literary fiction, comics, painting, music

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A artist described his process: put some color on the canvas and explore what the painting wants to become. At that point I dismissed it as almost cheating. It took M. Duras, H. Murakami and S. King saying essentially the same thing before I started listening. jansandstorm.com/31-what_the_...

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WHAT THE PAINTING WANTS TO BECOME

On discovering that defining the outcome in advance is the thing most likely to prevent it

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Painting Matisse’s ”Woman In Hat”.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Comic art panel: Working on finishing my first ever #comic as part of a course I am taking. (Making comics is a lot more work than I thought🥴)

Black and white comics panel showing a couple looking at their car engine at night.

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A section from a recent acrylic painting, based on a photo I took in a bar in Reykjavík. I think the background turned out best this time. I share more about the process behind it in my newsletter/website, welcome to subscribe!

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Jan @jansandstorm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Close up of a dried artichoke in a recent acrylic painting. The full painting didn’t quite come together they way I wished, but if you’re into slow art journeys and imperfect learning curves, you’re welcome to my newsletter/website to see more. #acrylicpainting #artistjourney #lifelonglearning

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