Ville Ranta remembers his friend in his own way, by drawing.
Cartoonist, caricaturist Ville Ranta was a writer who died this week Miki Liukkonen close friend. The men implemented a joint book project in 2022, but they had already met in 2011.
Miki Liukkonen and Ville Ranta were close friends. Pasi Liesimaa
Ranta has published a picture on his Instagram that his pen drew immediately after Liukkonen’s death.
– Sometimes (always?) it’s worth drawing something right away, without understanding it. I sat down with no intention of drawing this, but I did anyway! Typos and some confusion included, both in memory of a dear friend, at this point…, Ranta writes on the side of the picture.
If the Instagram embed is not visible, you can access it from this link.
The beach from the blog you can also read the broader thought related to the image.
– In this way, the clouds stay stuck on the top of the mountain for days and that’s why it almost never rains in Menton. Mickey is dead.
– I told her on the phone not to do anything to herself while I’m in France, which in itself was an absurd suggestion, because of course everything would be the same even after I came back. Either it would come to us to seek refuge or it wouldn’t come because it didn’t want to, because it wanted to die more, and that’s all, Ranta writes.
In his blog, Ranta has also drawn a cartoon about how Liukkonen destroys his manuscript.
– This breaking of my manuscript was probably the last time we were together, but I’m not sure, Ranta writes.
Ranta remembered Liukko to Iltalehte on Wednesday.
– Literature and art were more important to him than life, Ranta stated, among other things.
– His enormous creativity and sensory intensity have remained in my mind. Miki saw words and letters as colors, colors as words and the surrounding world as music. Linguistically, he could do anything. He was talented, a downright genius, in writing, pictorially, musically and aesthetically, Ranta also praised his late friend.