Sketch - now on the cover of Stripschrift

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Box of books

My new book! Smells and feels good. It'll be in stores on April 24. De Aanslag (The Assault), based on a classic Dutch novel by Harry Mulisch.

Baardmos

Illustration for Schokkend Nieuws to accompany a little article on a short scifi film called Baardmos (Usnea) by Kim Kokosky Deforchaux.

Leatherface

 

Gouache for the cover of film magazine Schokkend Nieuws. I was aiming for the classic cover work of Basil Gogos (I admire him a lot).

We want you!

 

Do yourself a favor and subscribe to Holland's finest filmmagazine Schokkend Nieuws!

The assault #5

In two days my new book The Assault (De aanslag) wil be printed. Color corrections and print preparation proved to be a pretty big job for all it's 170 pages so now I'm in bed with a flu. I have to thank Geurt Naber, who does this production for Oog & Blik/De Bezige Bij, for all his efford and enthusiasm!

The assault #4

 

Mediterranean scene from my upcoming book De Aanslag (The assault). With a little salute to Franquin!

 

 



The Assault - De aanslag #3

Three weeks left to finish the last pages for my new book! I left a couple of detailed spreads for last. The book is to appear in May. Stay tuned!

Lichtwachter

The assault #2

Repulsion

Another track I found while cleaning up storage. I made this in I think 1999. The track is called Repulsion because the main guitar riff is from the Chico Hamilton soundtrack of Roman Polanski's movie. I think I lifted the guitar and vibe solo's from a library record by Hans Posegga called Music for effect. I also hear some Bollywood percussion breaks but can't remember from which records. The horns come from a Hungarian record by the group Bergendy.

The Assault

Busy doing the final inking and coloring for the next book, due in april 2015.

Animated advertisement

A little animated movie I made for a company that installs green roofs.

Cover art

Filmfestival Imagine

Anouncement for the 30st edition of Imagine, the Amsterdam based festival for
fantastic films.

Sketch

Sketch for an animation project I'm contemplating.

 

 

 

 

José Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe

Drawing announcing the screening of films by the weird, Brasilian horror icon in Brussels.

Stanislaw Lem



Portrait of the brilliant writer plus a short "guide" I wrote to his oeuvre for Zone 5300 magazine (in Dutch).

 



Spaceboy

 

 

Digging through old harddiscs, I found tracks I made at the beginning of the millenium. At that time I was an aspiring DJ, together with my friend Edo Bouman of Vintage Voudou and like so many we caught the exotica bug. I remember working in a videostore in the evening, rummaging for records and drawing comics during the day and edit music at night in a program called Acid. This track is the mellowest and is like a sweet layered (space) cake.  

Angouleme 2014

Libération published the posters we, the group of  La Bédé est dans la rue, silk screened and exhibited in the streets during the Angoulême comics festival.

Radley Metzger

The Quay Brothers

 



The Windmill Massacre

Painting accompanying an article in filmmagazine Schokkend Nieuws on the new Dutch slasher The Windmill Massacre.

Some stuff

 

Stille chaos

Short story about the time I was witness to the 2011 uprising in Egypt, nominated for the Jan Hanlo essay prize in 2011 (time flies). It was subsequently published in the graphic novel special of the Belgian literary magazine DW B.

Rede van Texel

A page done for the history website www.xwashier.nl. About the harbour of Texel.

Portret Saskia Noort

A portret of the Dutch thriller author Saskia Noort. Made for the
SBS6 television serie Villa Morero.

NRC Handelsblad - illustration

Illustration accompanying an article by Marc Chavannes about the brilliant chef of an excellent but sleepy restaurant in the south of France. Spread in the journal NRC Handelsblad.

Dostojevski

Illustration for an article in de Academische Boekengids (how modern academics reclaim Dostojevski's work as orthodox Christian legacy).

Stanley Kubrick and Patrick Mcgoohan for filmmagazine Schokkend Nieuws.

For an article in the Academische boekengids (Academic book review) about how the judicial system legitimized the invasion of Iraq as well as the methods of interrogation used in the "war on terror."

Exhibition

An impression of two walls of the gallery in Haarlem, Horizontaalvertikaal, where we showed panels from Stad van Klei, sketches and a lot of weird and wonderful items found in Cairo. There where many vintage film posters, film flyers, film clips and stills from classic to obscure Egyptian movies. Links were explained between them and Stad van Klei as there are a lot of references to be found in the book.

Ciudad de Barro

I just saw the Spanish edition of Stad van Klei, published by Sins Entido and with an introduction by Guillermo Altares, an editor for the newspaper El Pais.

It looks great thanks to Manuel Ponce Contreras (who took the above picture).

Exhibition during the comic festival in Haarlem on 2 & 3 June. Opening will be on friday the first, 7 PM. Hope to see you there!