The exhibtion was a lot of work, a great succes, and really a lot of fun

I'm really happy with the result, wich had never come to such a succes without; Bart Cuppens, Douwe Halbertsma, Rop de Graaf, Jasper Droogers, and of course Gert-Jan "the shepherd" Pos for organizing the whole adventure in the first place

THANKS!

(I will post some more pictures soon)

I made a design for the exhibitions IK/YO and Dick Matena. organised by Gert-Jan Pos / Fonds BKVB...

... and with the greatest help of Bart Cuppens, Jasper Droogers, Douwe Halbertsma and Rop de Graaf we made the whole thing.

4 dutch comic artist and 4 comic artists from Spain will exhibit their auto-bio comics in the IK/YO exhibition, Marco Bakker will show his portraits of these artist and Dick Matena will exhibit his book "het Dwaallicht". All of this on the Ficomic fair in Barcelona from may 6 till may 9.

so if you're in the neighbourhood come and check it out 
(and if you have the urge, please do dress up as your favorite comic hero)

Friday april 9
Riffling Through My Drawers
8 pm
WEI  / Mathildelaan 3 / Eindhoven

So, of course you're all invited.
It's a show of 6 artist who will present new drawings, so enough good stuff to see from :

click for more information here over there ......................here

I will present a new poster there, so come take a sniff at that

.....here's a little sneak preview:

see you there, or not, you choose...

Saturday november 7, a comics/art fair in the Janskerk, Utrecht. about 80 cartoonist in a church...... well, hope god can appreciate a good joke
now you can buy all the stuff you always wanted to buy, like the Humans poster, crapbook and With Drawn.
from 10 am till 5 pm.

Friday = payday, so no excuses, bring cash.

more info HERE

Crapbook has some nice reviews, check out this Canadian radio show Inkstuds; '5 cartoonist you should be reading stuff by', thanks Robin! It's a great radio show, lots of interviews with heroes like Tony Millionaire, Gary Panter, Spain, Kim Deitch and loads of others. Great stuff! hours and hours of education

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Also there's a nice review by Printed Matter in New York, nice small press artist bookstore, a great place to spend your time and money. Search for Crapbook on their site

WITH DRAWN #0

A new newspaper with and about cartoons and comics 

with the following artists:

Kito
Daan Botlek
Ivo van Leeuwen
Jan Huijben
Peter van Genderen
Joost Halbertsma
S. Lloyd Trumpstein
Marijn van Kreij
Martijn van Santen
Fleur van Heest

Presentation will be october 1st in the "search in progress" exhibition, Lcc, voorhaven 57, Rotterdam, from 19:00 p.m.

So... come and get some!

CRAPBOOK will be on Art Basel

"the 2009 special show highlights ‘comic books‘ by artists"

(who the hell else?...... farmers? plumbers?) 

many thanks to Printed Matter (nyc, usa), for bringing me there

SO! Art Basel, the special artist book show, 10-14 june 2009, in Basel, Switzerland.

don't forget your fancy pants!

If you are to be in Brooklyn NY, be sure to check out Desert Island

A very fine selection of books and prints and stuff (also happens to have the Humans-poster and Crapbook)

So.. please spend all your money at desert island

A hilarious, but also deeply touching portrait of artists trying to make it, not giving up the dream, a must-see for every struggling artist out there

now showing in NY and other places in the US and canada, and I hope, soon worldwide

please check out, ANVIL -the story of anvil

SUNDAY march 29

16:00 at JansenKooy gallery in Warnsveld

"MEANWHILE"

with:
Jurgen Chill
Douwe Halbertsma
Joost Halbertsma
Camille Meeussen
Michiel Reesink
Freerk Wieringa

It's at the beautiful farmhouse / galery JansenKooy, So come and breath some fresh air and see some fine works of art.
not to far away from the middle of nowhere, but if you got a car; it's going to be worth a nice drive.

see jansenkooy for more information

and...

+++ HUMANS poster+++offset print/ full color/ 59,4 x 84cm/+++

so...

invest your money wise; email me for more information

a fine thing to visit on your lazy sunday afternoon. There will be food and drinks and a live program.

special location:

Kantine Steinweg, opposite Deliplein in Katendrecht, veerlaan 9-11 (see map here)

books for sale... ask your parents for more money this weekend

all your friends will be there....

more info: www.deplayer.nl