Recent stuff

A pin up parlour, a pitch, some expressions, a cartoon, and a chapter on Thinking

Hi all! Here’s a round-up of recent stuff:

Wins!

If you follow me, you know I recently had a birthday - and on that same day there was an edition of the legendary Martin Draax Pin Up Parlour, a great irregular sketch-session in Amsterdam, at the wonderful location of De Nieuwe Anita:

The models this time were not pin ups but martial arts performers - and I won two prizes!

I also liked how the last three poses turned out, they told the story of a woman rebuffing a man’s advances:

Goodbye (for now) to Ryoko

On a less jollier note: fellow artist Juliette de Wit and I finished our very last episode of Ryoko for magazine Tina - the comic is discontinued, alas… We came together in Juliette’s studio to commiserate:

I love how Juliette drew this “easter egg” into the last episode: that’s us on screen, in a movie called ‘Maggie and Juul continued!’.

We really want to continue this comic, maybe there’s an international magazine/platform that will have us? Here’s our pitch:

Ryoko is a 14 year old who in a lighthearted way deals with stuff like prejudice, controversy and role reversals. Each 2-page episode has a situation that is turned upside down, like this one:

Is there anyone out there who will give Ryoko, her friends and her parents (I especially love her dad, the big guy with the many phobias) a new home…? Contact us!

Express yourself with Dee Fish

I love the work of Dee Fish, she’s also on Substack and I highly recommend you follow her excellent and funny work. Recently she posted this model sheet of her character:

I thought this was such a great idea that I did my own!

A Josh Lieb Cartoon

Josh Lieb can’t draw - but he sure knows how to think up jokes! On November 6th, this was his prompt:

Two men, on a scaffold, about to be hanged. One says to the other: “Now I’m kind of glad I never got my Ph.D.”

Because of certain goings on on that date, this was my interpretation of that joke:

Philosophy

Also on my birthday, I launched my Philosophy book here on Substack!

The whole of the first chapter is now online, dealing with the question: “What is Thinking?”. You can read it here in three episodes:

What is Thinking? - part 1 of 3

Li’l redheaded Me, the protagonist in my Philosophy book

Tomorrow starts a new chapter: “Who do we think we are?” - about the supposed differences between humans and animals. What is it that sets our human brains apart from those of animals?

Have a nice weekend, with lots of cool thoughts and funny pictures!