The Comics Smuggler - page 40

Cairo Calling #2

A mix I did with music from Egyptian 45s combining latin, jazz and arabic melodies. Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/milansound/cairocalling2

Splash panel - The Diver

Our hero has taken a beating and retreats to his cabin.Here's how I took it from sketch to ink:

Underwater scene

And another for the next book

New page for a new book

Jesus - fact and fiction

Cover and feature illustration for the NRC cultural section. The article deals with uncertainties about the historical figure of Jesus.

Awarded!

This sunday my book De Aanslag was awarded in the category 'best graphic novel of 2015.' Quite an honour; its a major prize for comics in The Netherlands.


http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/02/28/de-aanslag-wint-stripprijs-voor-album-van-het-jaar




My colleague Mars Gremmen won the prize for best children's comic and Maaike Hartjes was awarded the special prize for her entire works.

Benno Hulsing

I can't resist it, I'll go brag about my son Benno. This year he started to make one drawing a day and posts them on Instagram. He's 11 years old, quite cool. The drawings are accompanied by pretty weird and beautiful texts. That Black and white one is a portrait he did of an uncombed, unshaven me on a way too early saturday morning.

Some more astrobiology

De Triffids komen

NRC Handelsblad - illustrations

Illustration for a review of Harry Mulisch' posthumously published book De ontdekking van Moskou (The discovery of Moscow), dealing with a writer hiding in a ruin writing about a writer who writes about a writer - ad infinitum.

Arrived on my doorstep the same day - Oeverloos - a newspaper in comic form about the North of Amsterdam, where I spend all of my childhood so I could make this comic as an expert.

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