The series debuts first-look stills ahead of its premiere at Helsinki Intl. Film Festival – Love & Anarchy Finnish artist JP Ahonen is ready to unleash the animated series “Belzebubs” onto the unsuspecting world. Based on his successful webcomic, it will premiere at Helsinki Intl.
Film Festival – Love & Anarchy. Banijay Kids & Family is handling distribution. Terhi Väänänen is producing for Pyjama Films, Samppa Kukkonen directs and Lassi Vierikko is responsible for the script.
The series debuts first-look stills with Variety. I was burnt out and going through depression,” Ahonen tells Variety. I wanted to be at home with our child, but I also needed to work.
It got to the point where I thought: ‘I need to pack up my pencils and change professions.’” The Inktober challenge, which encourages artists to create one ink drawing for each day in October, changed everything. I started thinking about this stay-at-home dad, Sløth, who wants to be a good husband and role model for his kids, but he also tries to fulfill his dream of making a living through music. It’s funny because in the black metal scene, it’s basically impossible to make it big.
If you do, they tear you down and call you a poser. So either way, Sløth is fucked,” he laughs. Ahonen ended up juxtaposing black metal and satanic imagery with family dynamic.
Sløth is married to Lucyfer, and they’re raising Lilith and Leviathan. It’s one of those don’t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover stories. On the one hand, you have God, abstinence and conservatism, and then you have Satanism, which is all about indulging in life,” he says.
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