When you read this, it’s probably 2024 already - so Happy Hew Year! I’m writing this in the last hours of 2023, in Amsterdam - time to look back on a year full of comics:
From left to right, top:
a picture from You’re going to die, the graphic novel I made with and about Nina Blom;
Mijntje - whose second album was successfully funded and will appear in the next weeks;
Lize Korpershoek - who wrote the foreword for Mijntje’s first album and about whom I drew an interview-in-comics-form for magazine Jump (okay, I’m smuggling here; that was in 2022)
middle:
Me, in a photo taken by Laura Cnossen
Me as my alter ego Dominee de Heer
bottom:
Me, in a yet undisclosed comic
Mo, Kiki’s friend, from my comic Casa Kiki in magazine Tina; this year saw the publication of their second album;
And this is just a selection. I chose to display only female characters I drew. Male comic characters also abounded, but that’s another image.
I also made a bunch of comics with other artists:
Top, left to right:
Fiona’s Bird Vlog, with Mars Gremmen for Tina magazine
Ryoko, with Juliette de Wit, for Tina magazine
Z-Man, with Yiri T. Kohl, for StripGlossy
Middle:
A one-off cross-over Tina/Jump comic with Jan Vriends (who succeeds me and Herman Roozen as the new Comic Artist Laureate of The Netherlands, starting tomorrow!)
me, from my crowdfunding video
Marrie & Merrie, with Dorith Graef, for Tina magazine
Kimmie and the Time Ring, with Kimberly Geelen and Geo Legito, for Tina magazine
De Tekenaar, with Jonathan van Engelenhoven, for Jump magazine (yet to be published)
Salto&Ubba&Mijntje collab with Wilbert van der Steen, in progress
Most of these comics will continue in one way or another in 2024, so I don’t have to make any particular resolutions - just stay the course and make comics!
Hope you’re all fine wherever you are and that you may find the New Year truly a new one, with fresh chances and perspectives!
Wonderful! Lets find out what 2024 sends our way
Happy new year!