I’ve mentioned IJsbrand Oost before; his first book came out earlier this year, after pre-publication in the Eppo.
Update: forgot to mention IJsbrand’s blog. Even if you don’t know Dutch, you can at least look at the pretty pictures.
Archives for 2012
Sjef van Oekel sketch by Theo van den Boogaard
Another sketch gotten at the Haarlem Stripdagen, by Theo van den Boogaard, one of the founders of the Dutch underground. Below is him sketching it.
Jopo de Pojo sketch by Joost Swarte
As promised yesterday, here’s the sketch I got from Joost Swarte at the Haarlem Stripdagen. Neat, huh?
Guess who got a Joost Swarte sketch?
This guy.
So I went to the Haarlem Stripdagen today, the first time in twelve years I actually managed to go to a comics con. It was great, a nice sunny, got a lot of neat comics and the cherry on the cake was getting a sketch by Joost Swarte, who just has a nice retrospective collection of his work out. I didn’t know he was going to be there, so that was a happy surprise. I’ll see if I can scan it in tomorrow.
Punk Britannia
Back when the first wave of punk nostalgia hit, around the start of the War on Iraq, Sandra was immediately dismissive of it. Punk was all about not being like your parents, not being a self indulgant hippy wanker and here we are indulging in the same nostalgic shit. And now, in 2012, it’s another jubilee year and of course there must be another punk retrospective on BBCFour, Lizzie and the Sex Pistols still drawing top crowds. It’s all very and interesting and this time around and at least this time they’re not ignoring pub rock, but it is still painful to see the vanguard of this particular youf revolution as boring old middle aged farts, no different from their hippy and proggy counterparts.
Time flattens all those differences that seemed so important when you were young and in the end all this becomes just more fodder for music nerds, happily playing Yes followed by the Clash with a bit of an obscure delta blues chaser to finish.
But isn’t it time for a Wurzels cornrock revival yet?