Sine Qua Non re-edition

Woohoo, a new edition of Sine Qua Non, by The Hoochie Coochie in France. The first edition (2005) had not been available for years. This was my first venture into emulating medieval art into my work, and the one without other books such as Inferno, 1348 and All Saints could not have existed. Very nice silkscreened cover and expanded preface and afterword. 

Thanks to the Dutch Literary Fund, La Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Centre National du Livre for their generous support.

 

Flying nuns over Rotterdam

And now for something different. This clip is from a while ago. It came up again in my feed. Outsider-ish, uncategorisable music from Rotterdam's Harry Merry. The clip was made by my friend Marianne van Maaren, whom i gave some of my flying nuns to play with.

Non plus ultra

This might be a new picturebook. I am assembling my unpublished medieval drawings. New ideas for this way of working are getting scarce, so it could be my last nunsploitation book.

Comestum Anates

A happy 2016 to my fellow ducks!

Pseudocannibalism

Work in progress.

Happy Easter 2015

Alle Heiligen - All Saints

Coming soon, in Dutch, Danish and English, my new book:

INFERNO exhibition @ Le Monte en l'Air,Paris

Some pics from the show/presentation of Inferno, published in french by The Hoochie Coochie, in the excellent bookstore Le Monte En l'Air, 2 Rue de la Mare, Paris.
The exhibition with original pages from the book, prints, illuminations by Alkbazz and more stuff will be open until 2nd of July.

Saint Sceptica

The first page of my story about the patron saint of critical thinkers. In full colour. A black & white version of it appeared in Stripburger, last year.

Twin saints

Working again on my book about medieval saints, because it's now possible to do it in full colour. The digital revolution has not been kind in many ways, but one of the nice side-effects is that the difference in price between black & white and full colour was greatly dimished.
This is a random page from a random chapter taken from the book, a six-pager about twin saints Ada and Oda. I am not trying to forge the use of colour in manuscripts, though. (If you want perfect forgeries, Alkbazz is the man to call) The art is just inspired by that particular use of colour contrast.

HORTUS I and X

One old (from 2008) and one new drawing along the 'medieval garden' theme, coloured in PS.

Let's corrupt some nuns

INFERNO en francais II

The doctored result from the test prints, to be used for the front cover of Inferno @ The Hoochie Coochie.
The typography still needs some adjusting. Plus the illo for the back cover.

INFERNO en francais

Working on a new cover for the french edition of my graphic novel Inferno, scheduled for May this year. It will be printed as a lino cut. This is a really crappy test print, but for some reason I'm without oil-based inks, so it will have to do. Pleased with the design however. No mistakes. I do have to add the title, still. Now that's a challenge.


The linoleum proved to be good to handle. Not crumbly or slippery.

(The initial sketch, lifted from one of the pages in the book.)

Suicide, Constipation and the Golden Fleece

Suicide, Constipation and the Golden Fleece. What you see is what you get, so why not have that for a title?

Saint Lydwine on the road

Saint Lydwine of Schiedam beats the path for a life as a humble hermit in the woods.

My post of two weeks ago is an excerpt from a comic for Zone 5300 magazine, which has been around since 1995. I have been involved since the start. Happy to do a cover design this time. The line art is in scraperboard, the colours were done in Photoshop and might change a little before it all goes to print.

Work In Progress

Work until death and then some more!

Doing a comic strip for the autumn issue of the Slovenian magazine Stripburger. Theme: work, rabot, delo, Arbeit!

I am going to add greys later. And yes, that's a tip of the hat to Hieronymus Bosch for his famous haywain.

In bed with Saint Lydwine

The Nun who cried Wolf

If a wolf sees a man before the man sees the wolf, the man will lose his voice. If the man sees the wolf first, the wolf can no longer be fierce. If a man loses his voice because the wolf saw him first, he should take off all his clothes and bang two rocks together, which will keep the wolf from attacking.

Party in my Mouth CMYK

The same as a few days ago, but with colours.