As you know, in 2024 I published a short sci fi story called Probability Drive (in Swedish, from CBK in 2025, as Sannolikhetsdrift).
What you may not know is that it’s connected to a project I did with Ruokangas Guitars, where I made a painting on a guitar body for their Art Infused guitar collection. They then added some details and built the actual guitar.
The comic actually came from the painting rather than the other way around, in combination with an old idea I had about a spaceship going faster than light using the probability energy of a Schrödinger box with a cat that’s either dead or alive. It’s a complete distortion of the concept of course, and has nothing to do with any real quantum mechanics, but that’s what sci fi and comics are for, right? To play around with ideas and see where they lead you.
The story was also inspired by Sven Linqvist‘s Utrota Varenda Jävel (Exterminate All the Brutes) and Ursula K LeGuin‘s The Word for World is Forest in that it deals with colonialism, but in space. Read the book (mine or theirs) to find out what that means…
Anyway, I must say that the guitar ended up fucking awesome and I would want it for myself except I’d much more prefer if it ended up with someone who can acually play it 🙂
(some of the photos were taken by me during the painting process, the rest are from the Ruokangas website where you can see them in better quality)
cool!!!