No Way Out

You will never know any place as well as you know the stomping grounds of your youth. The back alleys, the shortcuts through and between gardens, allotments and yards, the sounds of your footsteps echoing off the walls as you walk home, alone, at night.

Award-winning graphic novelist and artist Kivi Larmola leads us through his Helsinki, and the strange times of depression and enterprise. A story from the heart of Generation X, before more letters of the alphabet were added to the eras. This is the story of the last generation left to their own devices, creating their own fun and a life in the cracks of society. This is the story of post-punk; disoriented, directionless, and wandering (before the advent of mobile phones and the internet) disconnected.
This is the story of Jack.

A graphic novel, in English, 60 pages, publisher: Manitou Oü (2024) The book is out in March / April 2024!
Published originally in Finnish as ”Timo”, by Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kumiorava, 2013.