PULPMAN

Hi there,

recently I did a story for Fred de Heij's brandnew magazine "PULPMAN" . Brought to you by "Uitgeverij Xtra" from Amsterdam the magazine's packed with high quality-stories and news. Fred edited the magazine and contributed most of the comics. He also did the beautiful cover art. My story is called "Het Danspaleis" and it's based on a song by "The Kinks". I hope you like it.
Check your local newspaperstand or bookstore for "PULPMAN",it's only 7,95 euro's!

financial crisis

Dear reader,

if this financial crisis continues for too long , people will start eating eachother!



...and this is not a joke! ( intro from 'Dawn of the Dead' 2004 )

Volkskrant

Hi,

a while ago I was asked to do a series of drawings for 'De Volkskrant', a major Dutch newspaper. They were preparing a special on the Northsea and we figured it would be nice to have a sort of comic running through the newspaper.
Both 'De Volkskrant' and me were very pleased with the result and I hope you will be too. The on-line version of the webspecial can be found by going here

Garage Sale

Hello,

everybody who's interested in buying a piece of original art should be in Rotterdam coming week-end. The 29th and the 30th of november the Zone 5300 agency will be organizing a Garage Sale where a lot of agency members will be selling their work. Originals , prints , T-shirts , books will be on sale at reasonable prizes and it is of course a great way to meet the artists behind the works you find in the magazine. So if you're in the Rotterdam area and have some time to kill please visit: Galerie Kunstwerk Spangen, Mathenesserweg 26 in Rotterdam. from 11.00 till 18.00 hrs.
I will be there too and will be selling some original pages from stories I did. See you there!!

Turbulent

Hi there,

A while ago I was asked to do a 'comic-workshop' on a festival in a little town to the south of Rotterdam. The festival was called 'Turbulent' and featured a lot of activities ( top acts in music, workshops ,games,fries...) . Since I don't have any experience whatsoever with these kind of events I was quite nervous.
But when I got there it turned out to be a lot of fun.
Together with my colleague Farhad Foroutanian I prepared a sort of "art-lesson" but in the end people just came to our little table in the corner to do a bit of drawing and talk about the festival ( which was very well organised by the way )and about eachother. The children seemed to have a good time and enjoy the "lessons" and so did we.
We put the drawings they did on the wall and they were very proud of it. As they should be because it was very nice to look at.
I had a great evening thanks to the children that visited our table and I am looking forward to the next workshop.
If you're interested in having a comic-workshop on your festival or event don't hesitate to contact the Zone5300-agency they can tell you all about it.







Thanks to Farhad for the pictures!

New book!

Hello there,
did you know that Rotterdam based comic artist and dear colleague Sandra de Haan released a collection of 40 new semi-autobiographical stories? Teevee Blablazee #5 is (yes, again)? about television, art, culture, city life, the filmfestival, love, everyday agonies, advertising, rabbits, writersblock and more.
Limited (only 50!) loose-leaf edition on heavy paper in handmade folder + ex libris. Full color! Only 18,50 euro's.
Please check the book out when visiting the shops mentioned in the picture: you won't regret it!

HAARLEM

Hello everybody,

again it has been a while but I just needed some time to recover from those hectic 'Haarlemse Stripdagen'.
As you know my new graphic novel: "Schroot" was released there and it was a great succes; thanks to the good people of 'Uitgeverij Xtra', I sold a lot of copies.
I think the book is very well executed and looks really good.
It was fun meeting all the people you normally seldom see because they live in remote parts of the country like Amsterdam.
Well, because of all this and because of the fact that the weather was very nice I spent most of my time drinking beer and talking to old friends on the squares of Haarlem.
I would like to say thanks to all the people that bought a copy of my book.
You can obtain your copy through the editor's website and as from now the book will also be available in bookshops across the country.
Check your local comic-retailer for a copy of "Schroot"; it's only 12,50 euro's