The first of the stories will take us back no less than 4500 years: It is the month of January and we meet a small hunting family. We are on the north side of Devon Island in the Arctic region of Canada on one of the good hunting grounds out on the sea ice.

The hunt has developed into a competition between the head of the family, his uncle and his little brother. The competition simply involves catching the greatest number of seals. The tensions between the three make up the essence of the story and lead the family into an eternal nomadic existence in its quest to find new hunting grounds in the unknown land on Ellesmere Island and north around Greenland.

The first immigrants
In other words, the story is set during the period in which the first migrations to Greenland took place from the rest of North America, which Nuka Godtfredsen is in the process of interpreting and writing in close collaboration with some of the world's most knowledgeable and experienced researchers in the area.



Here he gives a status report on the project about Greenland's history in cartoon form:

- The cartoon depicting Greenland's history is going really well. I've now drawn the first third of the 63 pages in all. I'm making the story for the first album in collaboration with an archaeologist, Bjarne Grønnow, and post doc. Mikkel Sørensen, in order to get as many accurate details as possible, says 37-year-old Nuka Godtfredsen to greenland.com.

Nuka is thus drawing and painting, as well as writing the dialogue that is to be used for the speech bubbles. However, this is taking place in close collaboration with expert knowledge so that the situations described, the behaviour of the prey, dwellings, clothes, tools, perceptions, etc, are as realistic as possible.

The idea behind drawing Greenland's history in this way is first and foremost to reach out to a broad audience in Greenland, and the stories will therefore be appearing in Greenlandic in the Sermitsiaq newspaper. However, the plan is for the stories to be published in album form in Danish and English.

Read more here at the website www.andala.dk.