Colourful and perhaps slightly disturbing comic book covers
An ad on the back of the latest Zone 5300 brought together these colourful and perhaps slightly disturbing comic book covers by Dutch and Flemish artists (click for a larger version):
From left to right:
- I Heart Paris by Maarten vande Wiele and Erika Raven;
- De Maagd en de Neger 2 (The Virgin and the Negro, part 2) by Judith Vanistendael;
- Rood Gras – Ik ben een bos en er lopen mensen door mij by Rob van Barneveld (Red Grass – I Am a Forest and People are Walking Through Me);
- Als Vader Abraham van huis is (When Vader Abraham is Away from Home) by Argibald; and
- Zachte Dwang (Gentle Coercion) by Kim Duchateau.
They almost make me want to not buy the books, so that I can fantasize about what is in them.
Between the covers of issue 85 of Zone 5300 are stories by Tanxxx and by Wittek & Sven Tauke, excerpts from Typex’ sketch book, a two-pager by Zone editor Sandra de Haan, and also a two-pager by Maaike Hartjes, in which the author goes introspective, but in a funny way.
Zone 5300 also points out that the ultra-Dutch comic Sjef van Oekel is being rereleased in French (where the title character is called Leon-La-Terreur), but not in Dutch. “What’s up with that?” the mag demands to know of the artist, Theo van den Boogaard. “The co-operation between publishers De Bezige Bij and Oog & Blik is still young, but there is a good chance they will publish the Dutch reprint. Wim [Wim T. Schippers] and I always wanted to be published by De Bezige Bij, so this development makes us very happy.”
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