Don kenn

John Kenn Mortensen leads a double life. By day, he is a mild-mannered Danish children’s television director and a busy father of twins, but when night falls, he is the sole creator of a dark…

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ink and pen on paper 15X15.5 cm

Welcome to John Kenn

Don Kenn

Don’t look at the window

“Clowning Around” Illustrator John Kenn Mortensen calls his dark illustrations done on “sticky notes” of child-eating monsters, vampires, spiders and ghouls a “salute to the misfits of the world.” “I’ll Be Traveling with a Goat,” an illustration done on a sticky note by John Kenn Mortensen Mortensen, who has also created televison programs for kids, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. In an interview from 2014 he categorized himself as a “misfit” of sorts who didn’t “fit into” the “code…

Original Comic Art titled John Kenn Mortensen - Face Off, located in Tom's Mortensen, John Kenn Comic Art Gallery (1608112)

Donn Kenn

I love hearing about the weird stuff that people were afraid of as kids. For me it was the kimono-wearing faceless mannequins in the window of a dry cleaner’s at the Arbutus Mall. I would hide every time we drove past it in the parking lot, begging my mom to drive faster, because I just […]