Welcome to my website. Just click around and have a look the various examples of my artwork. Most of them are representative of my current output, but included are some examples from the beginning of my career. In future, I'll be adding news to the site, and re-publishing, maybe pre-publish, some of my daily strips if I can.
05.30.10 | Haarlem
There will be a special edition of the western comic-series "Ronson inc." available at the Haarlem-comic convention during the weekend of June 5th and 6th. "Behind the scenes of Ronson inc." shows pencils,
sketches, characterdesigns, preview-pages and documentation and research for the comic-series. It will be a limited edition, US-comic format. Of course I'll attend the show during both days at the Eppo/DLC-booth to sign
books and I will carry the "The Unknown Minck"-sketchbook, The Unknown #1 HC, art prints and a lot of original art done for the newspaper comics and the Euro and US-comics with me.
05.22.10 | Frank Frazetta homage
On Monday May 10th 2010 one of the greatest and most influential fantasy-illustrators passed away at the age of 82:
Frank Frazetta. His influence on my art was huge. I don't think the daily newspaper-comic
Zodiak, which I did draw for more than 8 years would have looked the same
without him. Maybe it even wouldn't have existed. When several comic-websites all over the world called for a Frazetta tribute I
decided to do a Frazetta homage as well. Particularly wanted to do my interpretation of a John Carter/ princess of Mars-scene, inspired by Frazetta.
Of course it will be shown on my website and it will get pride of place right here in the US-comic section.
04.09.10 | The Unknown nominated
THE UNKNOWN- volume 1, written by Mark Waid and with interior art by me, has been nominated for the American Library Association's YALSA "Great Graphic Novels for Teens" award. This
tells you more about the American Library Association.
02.20.10 | Ronson Inc. 1: The Reckoning
As mentioned before the first "Ronson inc." comic book collecting the first story, prepublished in Eppo comic-magazine,
last year, will be out at the Breda comic convention during the weekend of march the 6th and 7th. story title: De afrekening... the reckoning in English.
A look at the cover from back to front:
Some pages of this story can be found in the Ronson Inc.-section of this website.
by this time, writer Willem Ritstier and me started working on the second story which also will be prepublished in "Eppo" comic-magazine, this time with more pages in every issue. A first page preview:
02.09.10 | Sketchbook
During the Breda-convention at March 6th and 7th a small sketchbook
titled "The Unknown Minck" will be released. It will show a small collection of pencils, thumbs, roughs and character
designs of several comics I've done through the years. The publication will be limited to 111 copies and can be set
aside for those who will visit the convention by using the contact-form on this site which can be found by clicking "contact" in the right menu.
I'll also carry a small stock of the "The Unknown"-hardcover with me which can be reserved the same way as the Sketchbook. (as long as the stock lasts)
Publisher the Don Lawrence Collection will release the first book of the Ronson inc-comic.
01.28.10 | The Unknknown: The devil made flesh #4
Yesterday the fourth issue of "The Unknown: The devil made flesh" came out. A preview can be found here.
With this issue the second "The Unknown-miniseries" comes to an end. In March the story as a whole will be out in hardcover.
01.02.10 | What to expect in 2010...
New year, new possibilities. Old work needs to be finished, new plans in development.
Eppo comicmagazine / DLC: "Ronson inc."
The new western-comic "Ronson inc." turned out to be a disappointment for me. Although we worked together on several comics for a long time writer Willem Ritstier and I where clearly not on the same level this time, and, as usually happens when I'm working with a script that doesn't suit me, the quality of the art dropped to "really not good enough". No need to argue about who is to blame... it just didn't work out right. Still, after a long talk with the publisher, we are going to give it a second try. There will be a second Ronson-inc. story somewhere at the second half of this year.
The album of the first story will be out around the beginning of march and available during the Breda-convention.
"Storm"
37 pages of a Don Lawrence's Storm-story have been pencilled by me. The script has been fully written. But up till now we weren't able to find the right colorist/painter to finnish the pages. There is some development. Two candidates showed some progress in their art and are being tested further on. we have to wait to be sure if one of them will be ready for the big thing.
"Red Knight"
The second story (and the next sequels) won't be made. Writer Ronald Grossey and I decided to concentrate on another project, withe the help of the original Red Knight-artist Marvano/ Mark van Oppen, possibly for a French language-publisher.
The American Adventure / "The Unknown"
After the two miniseries "The Unknown" an "The Unknown: The devil made flesh" the adventures of Cat Alligham and her assistant Doyle, published by BOOM!-studios in Los angeles will be on hold for now. This doesn't mean my American adventure and surely not my collaboration with writer Mark Waid will come to an end. Several plans for 2010 are being made.
the second hardcover of "the Unknown" telling the full story of "The devil made flesh" will be out at the beginning of this year.
More
Several new art prints (amongst them a new Vixen for Valkyrie), a sketchbook, a contribution for the Jakari-photobook and more to come...
