Today my first strip of Marten Toonders is published in NRC.
Sometimes I get very kind reactions on my stories and books. Mostly on comic-festivals, sometimes by email. Yesterday I received one from a French fan that Id like to share with you, because it fills...
This year its 100 years ago that Marten Toonder was born. There will be a lot of events all around the year. Last wednesday his Bommel story Bovenbazen started again in NRC newspaper. 100 s...
On the Forbidden Planets blog a very nice review on Soldaat van Oranje, that I made for the Filmfanfare project. You can read it here.
Jeux de mémoire is nominated for the Prix BD 2012. The prize is initiated by LInstitut Français in Spain and meant to promote French comics in Spain. Jeux de mémoire is nominated together with comics...
Now available as a Piezography: Memory of Holland, my visual translation of the famous Dutch poem by Hendrik Marsman. A limited edition of 35 signed copies, size: 40 x 50 cm. The price is 50,- euros....
Finally Filmfanfare was presented yesterday. The first copy was presented to the famous Dutch actress Willeke van Ammelrooy. Now I can show you my contribution to the book. I have made a movie poster...
As I mentioned before, on the 31th of march, during the Comic Art Fair in Utrecht, Filmfanfare will be presented. The book contains tributes to 50 Dutch movies by f.i. Joost Swarte, Hank Kolk, Guido ...
On saturday the 31th of march I will attend the Comic Art Fair in the the St. Jans church in Utrecht. I will bring all kind of different stuff. Also the book Filmfanfare (including my contributi...
After doing some different project Ive been working on the sequel to Scherven for the last months.Ive done the line artwork of more than 50 pages till now. Here are some.
On the French comic-website Actua BD you can find an interview made by Didier Pasamonik when I was in Nerac last october. You can find it here. (Hope you speak French...).
Last week I attended the presentation of the Filmfanfare pages. A lot of comic creators made their presence as did some movie directors and -producers. I showed my Soldaat van Oranje page and poster ...
On the nice website Stripster you can find an interview I did recently. Click here and you can find it under articles.
On saturday the 10th of december I will attend Stripfestival Turnhout. A very sympathetic festival in Belgium at which the UK is this years country of honour. Of course I will be there to sign my boo...
As I made a portfolio with Memories-illustrations, Ive also made one of Scherven. It also consists of 13 signed pieces. You can see here which ones. If youre interested in nit, please send an email t...
A series of 13 illustrations belonging to Scherven
Muis to Le Jeune Albert: "I still miss him everyday too".
The scenic NéracLast weekend I was in Nérac (France) on the Rencontres Chaland festival together with other artists and Yves Chaland and Klare Lijn fans. Heres a short verbal and visual diary.Friday....
Zep, worldfamous in France with his character Titeuf, is this years guest of honor at Rencontres Chaland. This is my tribute to him.
A while ago some of my fans asked me if I could make them a portfolio with prints of illustrations Ive made. It seemed interesting to me so I made one by hand that consists 13 signed pieces related t...
After pencilling the first fifty pages of the sequel on Scherven, Ive just done the line-art of the first page!
Im very proud that I can tell you that Im invited to attend Rencontres Chaland at Nerac, France.This festival is a tribute to my big inspirator Yves Chaland, who sadly died in 1990. Nerac is his plac...
Coming saturday I will attend The Comic-artfair Breda (at the Designmuseum). I will bring all kind of different stuff: my books, which I will sign personally for you. All kind of signed prints, frame...
I discovered Yves Chaland through his detective-story Bob Fish. A good looking guy dressed like a real P.I. Also two of his other characters: Le Jeune Albert, a sometimes mean little boy from Brussel...
On saturday 10th of september I will participate at the Comic-Art Fair at the Design museum Breda. The Art Fair is part of the Breda-Stripdagen and artists will sell and sign their work.I will bring ...
My great example and inspirator as a comic-artist has always been Yves Chaland. When I saw his drawings for the first time I thought: "thats how comics have to be drawn". I have collected all...
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Together with 19 other contributions Memory of Holland -based on the poem of H. Marsman- is selected to be exhibited on this years Beijing Bookfair. The project Mooi is dat will travel to Asia and 20...
You can find an interesting special about Graphic Novels in this weeks magazine Vrij Nederland with an interview with Joe Sacco and a lot of book reviews. Also Scherven is reviewed and gets 3*** out ...
Finally I can show you the comic I have made for the X was hier project of the National History Museum. The website is ready and you can take a look at all contributions.The one I have done is about ...
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