Alice Samoilova Biography

Published on May 24, 4 min. For example, once Alice fell under the inexplicable influence of Moscow. Songs and films about the capital, artifacts and souvenirs from Moscow pursued her daily, although she never visited there. The provincial heroine firmly decided to figure out why this city attracts everyone and what he wants from her. A girl who has never been to Moscow in Moscow, although she really wanted it.

And she constantly met the “Eastern ones”, referring to Moscow, even in the most unexpected places. I watched films about Moscow. Inquired about Moscow of her friends. And in the end I thought about whether this city exists in general? Was this really? Is this your comic about the thoughts of Moscow - the fruit of fantasy or your autobiography? It is completely autobiographical.

How else? I think that in order to come up with such a story not to himself, a person needs to have great life experience and freedom than I had at that time. Are you really at the time of its creation have never been in Moscow? And did you really dream about it? Yes, I really did not happen then in Moscow as well as St. Petersburg, and even more so abroad, and I was very worried about this.

I was born in Nizhny Tagil, studied and worked in Chelyabinsk, and I was not left the feeling that I was accidentally brought there and it was time to somehow steer with my location. But the prospects were not planned to move quickly. On the contrary, there were more and more difficulties. The comic describes in detail the ideas and guesses about Moscow with a very small world. Actually, what I thought about her then, you can learn from the book.

Has the dream come true?

I flew to Moscow thanks to the publication of the comic book. In the spring, I finished drawing Moscow history, in the summer I was waiting for a decision to enter the book, and in the fall my publisher invited me to the Comicon festival, to which they brought a fresh circulation. I spent two days at the festival, then I stayed with my friends at the cot, found a job and have been living in Moscow since then.

It was an adventurous event. How did you come up with it? There were a lot of experiences that had to be children somewhere. It is like love, in which I really want to admit that it becomes easier. The recognition was formulated for a long time? The idea of ​​this comic book was carried out for two years. The work itself took about a month. It seems to be a little.

But when drawing, I faced an unexpected difficulty: this is a comic-reflection in which there is no familiar action as such. No one goes anywhere, does not fight, the problems are not resolved, while on several dozen pages you need to portray something. Well, let's say ... Since childhood, I trained girls on a white background, made manga and comics about my friends, loved pictures and wanted to study at the illustrator.

But in Nizhny Tagil it was not easy to plan it. For six or seven years I studied in the artist walked a lot, four years in college and three more years at the institute for a designer of Wednesdays. This is something between the architect and the landscape designer. At the institute, I almost did not draw for myself - probably for two years, because I am very focused. I said to myself: I study at the institute - and that’s it!

She painted only her classmates. And after the diploma, I was released. I made it almost around the clock, and when I got out and got a job, it turned out that after a working day I owe nothing. And I quickly realized that through office work I could not do everything that I want to bring into this world. So I will draw at night. I was somehow bored and sad that life would take place in the office, and first I sketched my discontent.

So I began to more or less regularly draw pencil comics from 1 to 10 pages more in the post of VK. Then I happened to work as a huckster, to be unemployed, the SSMMMARY and still become a graphic designer. Participate in a heap of contests, and at the same time visit festivals, arrange a market, make a measure, assemble a portfolio and open a comic publishing house that does nothing.

But recently she stopped trying to deceive everyone and officially became an illustrator, which is very happy. Unlike your heroine, you got to Moscow. Maybe, still, buy her a ticket to the capital and draw a continuation of the story? My present life is the continuation. And his literal sketching ... No, I think it is not yet necessary. Now I am making a big comic about a Devilis-Devilis girl.

There is paradise and hell, politics and religion, bagels and cuckling. This will be the first in the universe my comic not about me, with a normal storyline and immediately planned as a book. Then I will draw about an alcoholic mermaid, but this is a muddy topic.