Ever since I got back from the Ullapool Guitar Festival about two weeks ago, I really wanted to revisit this (very) old piece of mine called The Clive Carroll Guitar Machine. It was something I thought up in preparation for a Clive Carroll workshop. Clive is basically the best acoustic fingerstyle guitar player in the …
This comic book battle thing is starting to wear me out a little bit. Only three days left, so bear with me. You can still vote for me: 1. Go to www.stripglossy.nl/hugo-seriese 2. Vote by leaving a comment: ‘I vote Hugo’* 3. I will draw you in the largest comic book panel I’ve ever drawn! …
Comicsperimenter Music Month Today I am travelling to the Ullapool Guitar Festival over in… Ullapool. That’s all the way up in Scotland. It’s an amazing festival for Fingerstyle Guitarists. The entire town is practically taken over by players or audience members for four days and it’s like a magic little community in and of itself. …
I hope you have a nice cup of coffee or tea (or something more spicy, depending on the time of day you decided to read this) at hand. And that you are ready for some COMICS! Because here I am with the monthly digest of this month: September! Here is this month’s rundown of comicerimenter …
*UPDATE: We’re currently a little over 200 votes which is amazing. I’ll keep you posted right here! Today marks the first day of the comicsperimenter campaign. Before October 15th I’ll be trying to gather 900 votes! (yikes) And I thought of a very special way to reward everyone who votes for me Each. And. Every. …
You might not have noticed, but the last nine (!) months or so I’ve been in the middle of a fierce competition with two other comic book artists. A very nice (Dutch) magazine called StripGlossy published three of my comic in its previous three editions and each edition people could vote for their favorite comic. …
In the middle of making comics about comicsperiments about comicsperiments, I like to relax by making short cartoons. This one was inspired by the season. Don’t you just love autumn?
Here I finally explain what a comicsperiment is. [click on the images of a lager view] It’s a medium, not a genre! Since I’ve been making comics as a ‘comicsperimenter’ for some time now, I thought it would be good to explain it a little. And what would be a better way to do so, …
Never trust a person in a trenchcoat… This is actually something that popped into my mind when my oldest daugther said: “Daddy, you’re a snake!” She has such weird ideas of animal traits.
My latest comic is all about an unhealthy obsession. Over ink, that is. [click on the image or here to read it] Obsessive artist One of the most dangerous aspects of being an artist is getting obsessed for things that other people couldn’t care less about. I realized this once again when talking to a …