Publishing time!

Last week I received a lot of papers about me:

So proud, my drawings in newspaper NRC Handelsblad and even on the cover!

This was the special edition with only illustrations because of the 100th birthday

of Marten Toonder. I turned an article about consumer problems into a comic.

This is an oldie, I made these illustrations a few years ago but a magazine wanted

to reprint them for an article about different kinds of parents. It was published in

magazine PIP 66.

And this is not a drawing but my name was on the cover of magazine Esta anyway!

This is for a series of interviews with the partners of well known people, and apparently

they believed I'm famous enough to interview my boyfriend Mark Hendriks about our

relationship!

Happy Easter!

Hope you have lots of sunshine, flowers and eggs in this year of the rabbit!

And something else:

The day before Easter I went for a quick trip to Antwerp for an interview at the World Literature Day
event, organised by Stichting Lezen, Cobra.be and the VRT. I was interviewed by Friedl' Lesage.
I had planned to talk about my way of working and my visits to Asia, but ended up only talking about
the comicbook I made of Hong Kong ('Hong Kong dagboek').
The interview was live streamed on cobra.be and you can still watch it here.
I hope I didn't say silly things, my hair looks stupid and I was a bit nervous.... aargh!

Potato overdose

Right now I'm working on another commercial assignment; a logo and a series of
illustrations for potato recipes.

It's actually a lot of fun, but after painting this baked potato with bacon three times
I start to feel a bit.... strange?

Meanwhile a lot has happened:

I got elected as chairlady of the BNS, Beroepsvereniging Nederlandse Stripmakers
(Union of Dutch Comicartists). I'll hold that position together with Hanco Kolk.

Then I just found out that my style got ripped by a company. I'm not amused.
(But more about that later.)

And I got interviewed for both the IKON radio and newspaper het Parool.
(the Parool interview will be published -edit- later this week)

Oh yeah, and then of course my new book 'Gruwelijk!' has been released, and I'll
be signing it at comic festival De Stripdagen in Gorinchem, on March the 12th and 13th.

The BNS also organizes a comic auction on the 12th at 16:00 and I've donated two original
comic pages. Starting bid is €100 for both, and all the money from this auction will be used
to finance the 2nd edition of the free BNS comic newspaper.
Read more about it here!

These are both A4 size, and although they might look like prints, I swear they're original
drawings. I just don't sketch much.

My new book will also be part of an exhibition called 'de Stripverwachting' (the Comic 'Expectation'')
of new, and soon-to-be-released-comicbooks from BNS members, also shown on de Stripdagen.

But for the next days I'll just be busy with potatoes!