Normal Services Will Resume

Saturday Apology Day.

I have not posted for a long time, because I am working on a new book here in Holland. It's about the Dutch comics magazine Eppo and if has strips like this one by my friend Peter de Wit. If you want to follow what I am doing, you can try the Facebook page De Jaren Eppo. I have to do a lot ofscanning for that book, which is why the scanning for this blog is lagging behind. And especially the cleaning up. I have so many more raw scans waiting to be prepared...

Crazy Eppo

Saturday Leftover Day.

As promised, here is a selection of covers of the Dutch magazine Eppo, about which I am currently writing a book. Most Dutch bouys (and some girls) have read this weekly magazine, which was changed into the bi-weekly Sjors en Sjimmie Stripblad in 1998 and Sjosji in 1994. The book will cover the whole period from 19975 to 1999 and the recent version, which has run as a bi-weekly from 2009.

Dutch Courage

Friday Comic Book Day.

Today I was happy to announce my new project, a Dutch language book about the Dutch comics magazine Eppo, that was published between 1975 and 1999. My previous and similar book about Pep (1962-1975) was a big succes, so this is a logical (and highly anticipated) next step. The covre was made by Martin Lodewijk, one of the major artists/writers here in Holland and despite the fact that he is well into his seventies he can come up with and execute a cover design like no one I know.

The Rise And Fall Of A Tremendous Empire

Friday Comic Book Day.

I am working on a new book for the Dutch audience, a history of the Dutch comics weekly Eppo, which ran (under various titles) from 1975 to 1999. Like the famous French-Belgian magazines Spirou, Tintin and Pilote, it mostly ran short installments of various serialized series which were later collected in 44 page albums. De Jaren Eppo is a continuation of De Jaren Pep, a similar book I wrote three years ago about Eppo's predecessor Pep. That was well received and I am hoping for a similar (and possibly better) reaction.

For the book I am deep into all sorts of European strips, most of which I can't share because of the language barrier. But here is one that ran in Eppo (and in Sjors before that, for those of you keeping track) which you can read; the famous british series about the Trigan Empire, illustrated by none other than Don Lawrence. He left Trigan because he was asked to work on a similar but less kryptofascistic strip called Storm for Eppo.