Language barrier!! In Finnish we know him as IKJ whereas in English he’s BFG. Well, it happens 🙂
I became a huge Roald Dahl fan in the age of 8 thanks to our teacher who read us Dahl at school. Thank you! For this listing I considered also Dad / Iskä from Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World, but since I knew I could never compete with Quentin Blake’s illustration of Dad, I finally chose IKJ and made my own interpretation of ”something terribly black and terribly thin”. Sweet dreams!

Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl

ps. If you aren’t familiar with the story, please don’t watch Spielberg’s movie but read the book! There’s so much more magic in there! And read Danny the Champion of the World!!!

Please welcome our guests! (Applause) Today they will discuss and share their thoughts about their relationship with demons:

Hauru from Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
Holly Short from Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Hellboy from Hellboy by Mike Mignola

I guess it’s going to be revealed during this Heroes-campaign anyway, but I’ll just say it here: I have a weak spot in my heart for animated films, where an unlikely hero saves the day by being just who they is! Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs -movies is a golden example of the type. Another dear nerd, the king of sarcasm but also the second cutest family man in the history of Irish youth literature, is of course Foaly. I don’t dare to think what would happen, if these two technical child prodigys could come up with if they ever met each other.
Featuring their monkey sidekicks. Sorry, a monkey and a prosimian.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

By the way, the cutest family man in the history of Irish youth literature is Declan Broekhart. Just so you know.

Dearest loveliest Elizabeth! I chose Elizabeth Bennett on my list to celebrate Jane Austen and her wondrous ability to capture in writing what goes on in a head of a young woman, regardless of the cultural differences, language barriers and time. Best chick-lit ever!

Pride and Prejudice originally by Jane Austen. The BEST tv-series adaptation of it by BBC.

Allons-y! The Doctor was one of those obvious choices on my list of heroes. I drew number 10 since D is for David too. <3<3
Below, I present to you: The Doctor Who Coat Index! It's based on the notion that the length of Doctor's coat is directly relational to the quality of the episodes. Its applies to the 2000's series and only works, if you share my perception of what good Doctor Who should be (e.g. not horror, not overcomplicated and especially not dark and cynical). However, the index was actually broken in Capaldi's first season, where his coat's length was quite ok but the episodes were terrible. Luckily the emergence of the electric guitar enhanced the situation on the next season. Looking forward to see what the future brings along!

Doctor Who by BBC

I tried to read Corto Maltese in high school and I didn’t get it at all. Fortunately I retried a couple of years ago and realized how great character he is! I guess it’s some sort of growing up thing, as with Citizen Cane, you need to be somehow mature to understand The Point. Though, I was also quite jealous to Hugo Pratt for mastering the genre so well that my own scribblings started to seem embarrasing… But in the end the stories were so good that I couldn’t hold crudge for very long. Good for me 🙂
The cat is there because of one of my ultimate favourite Corto moments, where he tells stories to Venetian stray cats :3

Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt

There’s more than meets the eye in here… (Tip: it’s the car!!)(Who’s not really a car!!)

Well it’s Bumblebee, obviously ;P I chose to draw him in car form, since the robot form wouldn’t have fit in the picture (e.g. I was lazy). I also applied Petri-the-comic-teacher’s golden advice to always draw old cars that have shapes instead of new cars that look like bread rolls. So I chose to draw him as -67 Chevy Camaro, though I don’t know if that’s really canon, I just saw the Michael Bay movies… Oops, there goes my credibility :”D But partly I wanted to choose an old car also because it suits better with John Blacksad! Blacksad was easier to depict because he 1) doesn’t transform and 2) always has the same coat.

Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido
Transformers by Hasbro

Tadaa! Vastaukseni MacKativerin H is for Hero-haasteeseen alkaa! Ideana on siis julkaista kerran päivässä aakkosjärjestyksessä fiktiivisten universumien siisteimmät ja rakkaimmat sankarit. Hahmot on aakkostettu pääosin (suomenkielisen) etunimen mukaan ja toteutettu puuväreillä tai vesivärikynillä. Ja koska säännöt oli tehty muokattaviksi, en vaivautunut kilpailuttamaan joka päivälle vain yhtä hahmoa, vaan valitsin reilusti kaksi tai useampia. Koska miten sä muka valitset esim. allaesiteltyjen sankarien välillä!? Tästä lähtee!
MacKativer’s H is for Hero challenge accepted! This month I’ll post my favourite fictious heroes in alphabetical order and since I often couldn’t pick just one per letter – I chose several! Here goes!

A

Oh yes Abe, you should! In Artemis’ reality an average Atlantian is about one meter tall and besides, that line is probably the closest thing to a compliment you can expect from young mister Fowl. Cherish it to the fullest!

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Abe Sapien originally by Mike Mignola

Abe onkin universumin hotikkain aprilli-silli! ;D
www.artemisfowldoesnothaveanimehair.com