Tag Archive | "Netherlands"

Getting the Funke out

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Over on Craft Heroes the one and only Ellen Lindner (late of this parish, now taken herself overseas) spotlights the Netherlands’ Jeroen Funke and his work, which combines comics work with some totally fab looking fabric and papercraft work: “Ellen: When did it become clear that it was something you could integrate into your comics [...]

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From our continental correspondent – September is comic month in Amsterdam

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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If you’re a comic buff and you were planning on a weekend in Amsterdam, September might be a good time to do so. The city which always has been associated with illustrators and cartoonists (and which since 1968 has been the home to one of the best comic stores in the entire world, Lambiek) has [...]

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Comical protest

Monday, July 18, 2011

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This may be quite old news, but with the current financial climate and its effect on government spending (or increasing lack thereof) across pretty much every Western country on things that are deemed to be unnecessary, such as art or health care, it may be a source of inspiration. On July 4th, the creators of [...]

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If you don’t know where to go…

Friday, September 10, 2010

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After the summer holidays, it would seem that a new comics festival season is in full effect all over Europe.  Here is a selection of some of the comics/bande dessinee fairs and festivals that will vie for your attention over the next few weeks in Europe: Brussels celebrates its ninth Comics Festival on the weekend [...]

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From our continental correspondent – stripping the Occupation

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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Dutch publisher Matrijs, which specialises in historical studies and materials, recently published a quite interesting and special book about the last year of the German occupation of Holland, called “Bezetting in Beeld” (The Occupation in Images).  From April, 1944 up and until the Liberation in May, 1945 (now exactly 65 years ago), Frans Brouwer, a [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Wasco cuts in Amsterdam

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Dutch illustrator and cartoonist Henk Spoel (better known as Wasco) has traded his pencils for a pair of scissors and created a series of paper cuttings that remind us of similar shadow portraits from the 19th century, but also seem to refer to the illustrations that Blexbolex is doing these days in his Imagier Des [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Netherlands to be the guest country at Ficomic Barcelona

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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From May 6th to May 9th this year, the 28th edition of Ficomic, the Salón Internacional del Comic will take place in the Feria de Barcelona.  Not a lot is known as yet about the programme: a recent press release only revealed that among the confirmed guests were Gilbert Shelton, Jeff Smith, Liberatore, Lewis Trondheim, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Comics Research Haarlem 2010 focuses on Eastern Europe

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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In June, 2010 the Haarlem Comics Festival will take place for the tenth time in a row.  That, and the fact that the Stichting Beeldverhaal Nederland will celeberate its 20th anniversary, calls for something special.  Next to the obligatory reminiscing on previous editions, this has turned out to be a quite ambitious project which aims [...]

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The cartoon resistance

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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Kellie Strøm, a much-admired artist around these parts, discusses the work of cartoonist Fritz Behrendt which is currently on exhibition in the Netherlands in the Dutch Resistance Museum, which celebrates his anti-Nazi work (he was arrested by the SS in 1945, a terrifying prospect). Kellie also discusses Behrendt’s later career, not just work for various [...]

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