Live music in The Golden Glove

Page from my upcoming book. I could not resist the reference to The Golden Glove by Fatih Akin. (If you haven't seen it, it's about the grimiest bar in post-war West-Germany)

 

From sketchbook 89

 

After Tardi, after Frémiet

Emmanuel Frémiet was a sculptor from the 19th century who did work often depicting wild animals. Gorillas were only discovered in 1901. He did one piece which was most likely the direct inspiration for King Kong. Jacques Tardi used it as reference and now I do the same.

 

Doodles | October 23rd / 24th

 

Tintina remix

Page 4 (out of 4) of my contribution to Tintina and the Bilderberg Shitbox, remixed for a different purpose. It's kind of fun to 'remix' your work like that, as if to leave it to readers to figure out what was the real story and what the fake news. Musicians do it. And painters in the premodern age did it. (causing a major headache for art historians) It is also a theme: often, my characters clash over their worldviews. No-one knows the complete truth. They fall for myths and half-truths. It makes them more human (as bizar they might look). A hero who knows everything and does everything right, is boring anyway.

 

Tintina

Page 1 (out of 4) of my contribution to Tintina and the Bilderberg Shitbox.

 

Spooky Sheet for Inktober

 

Morning Doodles

 

Behold the daughters of the firmament

From my latest sketchbook. Found a chest with Ecoline watercolours again that was gethering dust in a corner. I used to use those in the past. They're too bright to my current taste, but in a sketchbook you don't set any rules for yourself and I kind of like the purple sky that came out of this.

 

Creatures and Other Oddities

 

Sketchbook 89

The front of sketchbook 89. White ink on black paper.
 

More Doodles

 

Unknown Threat

Two Days into Inktober

 Tryin to keep up with the holidays. Happy October to you all. 

Funshopping

My heroine Pola Kazoni having reached middle age by now, goes funshopping, but how much fun is that really? Background based on a photo of pre-war Rotterdam.

 

Getting Around

 

Dying Breath

 

Everything is Fine.

I’ve been gone for a bit, but everything is fine. Going through really old doodles from my sketchbook and remaking them. 

Totem animal

One of the ideas I am working on for a story is how characters should find their totem animal. The earlier on the evolutionary scale, the better. It seems logical for teenagers to have an amphibious totem animal, like frogs or salamanders.
Pola has a leatherback seaturtle as a helper, as shown in this flashback scene that takes place right after book numer 2 POLA ends. The turtle pops up when she is coming of age, so an aquatic reptile makes sense.
In theory, it would be posibble to have a human for a totem animal - but then you are a real idiot. (in the literal sense the ancient Greeks meant it) Well, it is a bit dificult humour so I will have it in the background only.

 

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