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.

 

floep

 

Rendezvous at Cafe Bibberkop

 

Sketchbook 88 coloured cover

Kind of a repost. I felt the rare impulse to use colour again.
 

Assimilated Pazuzu guys

 

Pola Reading & Franz Kafka

 Leisure time for Pola Kazoni and a semi-serious attempt at Franz Kafka. I came across a paragraph on how he tried to battle a burn-out by gardening in Florian Illies' 1913. A fun book.

Cafe Bibberkop

From my sketchbook. With Til Brugman and Hannah Höch in the background.

 

Cafe Autodafe

Cafe Autodafe, where car afficionados meet. Sketch.

 

Sketchbook 88

Like it says on the label. The cover of sketchbook 88. White and black ink and ditto markers  on black canvas
 

Family Viewing

Family viewing. Study of one of my character's family background. Hondsdag (his name means dog day, which is randomly chosen) comes from money, his mom divorced and he has been living off his wealthy dad's allowance. Then the business was nationalised after a sweetwater-communist takeover, which broke his dad. In his later days. Hondsdag took to taking care of him. Then Hondsdag's secret crush Pola got a doppelganger in the multiverse who went to live with him and who took to plastic surgery at the doctor's that his mom chose to live with.

The narrative is getting a bit complicated, but that is how I like it. Besides, books are becoming expensive so a graphic novel should be worth several readings. Especially now.

 

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.

 

Kids like to see blood

 

Coming soon: Observator

My new book. Only available in Dutch, but what are you gonna do.

 

ONTsnapt

 

Jezuzulem, Pazuzugonia

 

Sketch in grey

Rough pencil drawing with a flat grey layer. I like the general effect, but haven't decided yet whether I would use it.

 

More from sketchbook 87

 

From sketchbook 87

 More recent sketches from book #87. These are embryonic ideas. Some may get used, other will be frozen. Among the character studies is Pola Kazoni's daughter as teenager.

Puberty, after Edward Munch

 

Dancefloor cringe