Projects

Matilda Saari

This is a showcase for my current art projects; different comics and stories. 

The closest genre to my heart is definitely horror, both as a consumer and a creator; it is a topic that continuously inspires me. In my own work, horror is strongly connected to nature, ethereal beauty, and femininity, and in my writing I want to use horror as a method to present, symbolize and express bigger social themes. Appropriately, many of my current projects have something to do with horror, or at least darker subjects, yet I also like to sprinkle in some humour and heart-warming themes such as community, romance and self-exploration. I’m also planning to, of course, illustrate my stories myself!

Projects

Wannabe Villains

Wannabe Villains

My ongoing webcomic

Former mafia boss has been laying low during the last decade after her gang splitted up for more or less tragic reasons. Now she wants back the fame and glory of her past days, but the comeback needs to be striking. As her new partner-in-crime she enlists a witch, who has fled from her home country because of some very suspicious events, and in return wants to integrate into the new country. Naturally, chaos ensues when current, new and retired mafia members come together to form a dysfunctional found-family and tiptoe between the normal and the not-so-legal life. The past isn’t as dealt with as one might think either, and it comes back to haunt each one when old wounds are opened.
Pöllöviitta

Pöllöviitta

Wip story project – dark fantasy

Pöllöviitta is a human changeling who has been switched as a baby by väki, fae folk, and is now working as an high-ranking assassin for the väki Palace, using her human-specific skills to do their dirty work for them. Human changelings have never been wholly trusted though and when important members of the royal family start suddenly getting murdered, the fear of uprising begins to stir. Pöllöviitta gets dragged in the middle of the turmoil, but simultaneously starts herself questioning what has been taught to her, uncovering the truth about many things and wondering about her life before she was snatched. What happened to the väki changeling that took Pöllöviitta’s place in the human realm and what are the hazy memories she has of her childhood?
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Syntymätön Siiri

Wip story project – horror

Siiri lives with her family on the remote and suspiciously utopian island Limbus. One day, a mysterious man washes ashore, and Siiri’s mothers reluctantly take him into their home to recover. The man is equally suspicious of his hosts, but Siiri, who has lived her whole life on the island, is fascinated by the stranger. So, she and the man, Vasko, make a deal: Vasko will share his knowledge of the outside world with Siiri, while she will tell him about Limbus; How did the islanders end up there? Why does no one from the outside world know about the island? And most importantly: who, or what, is Mater Submersi, whose cave altar fills with water during the high tide, and who came from the sea and currently resides in the villa’s guest room, where no one is allowed to see her?
Traditional art

Valveuni

Wip short story collection – horror
Short folk-horror stories about the fine line between the lyrical beauty and the primitive horror of nature and whatever may be lurking there.

Se tuli paljain jaloin

Very much a wip story project – horror
Ursula moves to a town on the edge of the northern sea for seasonal work. The town was once one of the most significant mining towns in the north, but has since become nearly deserted and is now merely a trivial tourist destination. The town is surrounded only by the icy sea, the arctic wilderness, polar bears, and the great, coal-rich mountain, which has many grim tales associated with it. However, Ursula has not come there merely to work as a waitress in the town’s old and drafty hotel, but something seems to be driving her to the edge of the world, to the snow-blind wasteland, far away from ordinary, real, and mundane reality.

Paluu omenatarhaan

Possible story idea based on my seven heavenly virtues/deadly sins characters
The seven Maro siblings grew up under the care of their wealthy, yet strict parents. After their parents’ death, the now-adult and estranged siblings inherit not only a remarkable legacy, but also pain, bitterness, and uncertainty, which each sibling deals with in their own way. As the anniversary of their parents’ death approaches, long-suppressed emotions begin to surface.