About - The Creators

The Broken Mirror Webcomic is written by Elanor Cooper and illustrated by JJ Nääs

JJ (Jarkko Juhani), was once the artist and writer for the webcomic Desert Rocks, which has been failing to update for most of the time since it's conception in autumn 2000. Nevertheless, to date it has miraculously grown to be more than two hundred pages long. He is also the fellan answerable for the creation of Between Two Worlds, the first of its kind in Finland when it began in 2004 as a potentially epic webcomic, originally intended to be a device to reduce the number of words JJ had to write for his thesis - an academic project that he forgot about altogether about two years ago whilst eating a fruits of the forest yoghurt. At last though, whilst the English version of the aforementioned continues, the Finnish story has now concluded. Meanwhile, as a mark of his ongoing update related disatisfaction, JJ has now progressed from not updating two comics and has resolved to not update three.

For the past several years, JJ has made a monthly contribution to the University of Lapland magazine, in the form of individual images and short comic stories for the Epilogi. He has also compiled and edited the 66°:25° comic anthology, in addition to having his artwork feature in this publication. He now spreads his time, in a rather disorganised manner, between illustration projects, storyboarding for movies and advertisements and creating pixel art for cellphone games. But really, he'd rather be playing La Pucelle Tactics or Oblivion.

If you would like to view more of JJ's artwork, a large collection can been found on his Deviant Art Page.

El meanwhile is not so good at drawing and has recently melted due to the adverse effects of global warming upon the Scandic countries. Prior to that she spent most of her time writing anything that wasn't an essay and very little time writing most of everything she has ever written: essays. She first met JJ in York in 2001 and has been bugging him ever since. She is the co-creator of Between Two Worlds and the mastermind behind its eventual conclusion, (it was never going to end otherwise,) and has spent the last three months making sure that the English story is relayed in a manner which is entirely grammatically correct, having studied English to degree level and consquently acquiring much envied skills, including the ability to discern between anaphoric and cataphoric referencing and deontic and boulomaic modality. She flatters herself that she is the inventor of the term 'language geek' - the traits accompanying which she has forcibly extended to her Swedish friend and fellow webcomic creator Ferio, in the form of lengthy 'edit' emails.

She has spent much time working on this, her futuristic, dystopian romance novel, The Broken Mirror, the idea for which first ambled into her imagination circa. 1998 when she was trying to eat a 400g bar of Dairy Milk. She has been writing books of every description since the age of six and particularly enjoys penning 'production line poetry' - which she consistently fails to upload to Deviant Art. Her most recent projects have included scripting and sketching storyboards for a B2W spin off comic, which will hopefully soon feature in Ilta Sanomat and penning a story for new comic anthology Fablewood. She likes eating chocolate, watching the new series of Doctor Who, listening to Scissor Sisters and spilling red wine on her keyboard. She dislikes encountering any approximation of a wasp in September and has fought in numerous battles as a result.