Sunday, January 28, 2018
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Petite Joie
Cotoreich
Screenprinted coverA4 risography: 20 pages
A5 risography : 8 pages
A6 roneography : 18 pages
Contact me to buy or trade a copy
10 euro
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Pola
Last few months i have been working on a sequel to The 9th Island. Pola, the plucky granddaughter of the protagonists of that book, has grown up and goes into the world, looking for love. Things don't go as planned. In fact, the story has as many weird twists and turns as i could think of. For instance, she will discover the mainland, where the clock has been put back to the year 1913.
For a long time, i have been thinking of doing a story that takes place in that world - men with curly mustaches and bowler hats - but was hesitant to do so, as Jacques Tardi has put so much of his mark on that era that anything you'd do, looks like a knock-off. I guess i am no longer affraid.
Also, Pola's adventure will serve as a sequel to my adaptation of Dante's Inferno.
Labels:
comic,
Marcel Ruijters,
Pola,
The 9th Island
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
Monday, January 01, 2018
Family Viewing
Yet an other oldie, redone in duotone for riso print. It's interesting what happens with the adding and erasing of colour this way. The title probably refers for the film by Atom Egoyan of the same name (1987), but it is a bit long ago. Originally used for my self-produced anthology Thank god it's Ugly, issue 3, when i was really into experimenting with warped moire effects.
Labels:
duotone,
Marcel Ruijters,
Thank god it's ugly
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
The Manipulator on Majesty
longtime running idea finally happened, "true" illumination on parchment made with classical pigments and materials. More or less A4 sized.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Cabbage Heads Bingo
Cabbage Heads Bingo. Ink on paper, 48 x 65 cm. Gwen and I were at it again. Last drawing for this year.
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
A forgery
A fake cover in honour of one of my main influences in the 1980s. You won't know it if you are not a Dutch comics nerd, so i included the original with and without its striking plastic sleeve.
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Fountain
'Fountain of Devolution' (65 x 48 cm), the latest collaboration between Gwen Stok and me. The fountain of youth by Lucas Cranach the Elder was the basis for this composition.
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Waterzooi
"Waterzooi" 65 x 96 cm, ink on paper. The result of a drawing session between Gwen Stok, Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk a.k.a. Cirque de Pepin and me. The concept was Noach's ark after the flood with unruly animals in the 16th century mannerist style. The title literally means "watery mess" but also refers to the self-depreciating name of a Belgian soup dish (which is actually quite good) for which no English translation exists.
Labels:
Cirque de Pepin,
Gwen Stok,
Marcel Ruijters
Friday, November 17, 2017
MY GOTT! DUNGEON DEGENERATES IS HERE!
Dungeon Degenerates - Hand of Doom is the biggest project Goblinko has created to date & it arrived in Portland on Halloween, 2017. We've spent the last two weeks getting a thousand kickstarter backed copies out to our backers & now we're gearing up for our big Christmas Sale. What started out as a combat card game that we asked our friend Eric Radey to write rules for has grown into a monstrous board game with an enormous world to explore - full of intrigue, weirdness, terror & lowlife elements. We put our full 100% into this game & it really shows.
I did an absurd amount of art for this game. Every card has unique art - every monster & every loot is a new piece of art. The Rules & The Missions books are heavily illustrated as well. Game Designer Eric Radey went the extra mile as well - the rules are smooth & effective & the thing drips with background information. It is an intense, immersive & new fantasy world that is both familiar & surprising at the same time.
- Sean
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
L'Oeil du Cyclone
Labels:
90's,
canal+,
devil,
distorsion,
eye,
fire,
hypnose,
illustration,
infernal,
Inferno,
l'oeil du cyclone,
skull,
télé,
tv,
waves
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Friday, October 06, 2017
perder es ganar
October, November, December will see the release of 3 new Maldoracca publications, one each month.
Each is 10 euros, separately. Get all three for 27, to be delivered mid-November.
Paypal through link to blog:
The Art of Losing
a portfolio of drawings by
Muriel Bellini & I.R.I.
"mujeres, paisajes y recuerdos"
16 pgs,b/w, loose-leafed & folded to DIN A5
II
2 discursive texts by Amelia Ishmael
visually interpreted by I.R.I.
ca. 32 pgs, b/w & red, DIN A4, stapled, untrimmed
The Night Is Ours
a portfolio of drawings of nocturnal urban vistas, real or imagined
by I.R.I.
16 pgs, b/w on fluorescent yellow, loose-leafed & folded to DIN A4
Maldoracca MMXVII
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Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Bilderberg Chick Tracts
About ten days ago we had the third installment of our Bilderberg Konferenz underground comixfest here in Berlin, and it certainly was great fun indeed. Like every year we produced a "conference publication", a comix zine which every visitor got for the (very small) admission fee. This year's theme was "A Tribute to Jack T. Chick" and instead of only one zine we actually made a set of 8 different little pamphlets very similar in appearance to Chick's own tracts. They contain comix by 25 different artists and seven of them have flip covers.
Here's what they look like:
It's interesting that, like with our Garfield zine from last year, several people told us that they couldn't participate - even though they wanted to- because they didn't agree with the theme. Garfield put some people off for aesthetic reasons, and Chick did the same for ideological reasons.
Anyway, I edited and layouted the whole thing and while I made some small mistakes (mainly mispelling some of the contributors' names) I am still quite pleased with how they turned out.
This is my own contribution:
Here's what they look like:
It's interesting that, like with our Garfield zine from last year, several people told us that they couldn't participate - even though they wanted to- because they didn't agree with the theme. Garfield put some people off for aesthetic reasons, and Chick did the same for ideological reasons.
Anyway, I edited and layouted the whole thing and while I made some small mistakes (mainly mispelling some of the contributors' names) I am still quite pleased with how they turned out.
This is my own contribution:
Labels:
Bilderberg,
Fufu Frauenwahl,
human mollusk,
Jack T. Chick,
religion
Monday, October 02, 2017
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