In Heaven Everything Is Fine

At the wheel

Some of my art and the art of others: https://kapreles.tumblr.com/

Sweet dreams

Elegy V

Ratfink

OPA

Elegy III

Petite Joie

Cotoreich

Screenprinted cover

3 stapled booklets :

A4 risography: 20 pages
A5 risography : 8 pages
A6 roneography : 18 pages

Contact me to buy or trade a copy
10 euro

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.

Elegy

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.

EMOJIZONE

collage with emojis and some of my own art.

The Manipulator on Majesty

longtime running idea finally happened, "true" illumination on parchment made with classical pigments and materials. More or less A4 sized.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dungeon Degenerates incorporates tons of Goblinko themes that we've developed over the years & you will find yourself immersed in the life-changing weirdness that we've spent almost 20 years creating. Sausages, midgets, the occult, drugs, fungus, S&M, Euro-Strangeness, Shamanism, societal disfunction, cults & Goblins are just some of the things waiting you in Dungeon Degenerates.

We're just starting on this thing - check it out!

- Sean

L'Oeil du Cyclone