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\nGoing back home to my parents always means an opportunity to look at the secondhand bookstore there (singular, as there can be only one). This weekend was a good one. I found a nice stack of comics, as well as some other neat books.\n<\/p>\n
\nWhat I found were fifteen or so Douwe Dabbert<\/cite> strips, an old serio-comic adventure series written by Donald Duck<\/cite> editor Thom Roep and drawn by Piet Wijn, one of the old grand masters of Marten Toonder’s animation and comic studio. These stories were serialised in the Donald Duck<\/cite> weekly magazine, which always included a non-Disney strip like this, aimed at slightly older readers, in its back pages.\n<\/p>\n \nOn top of those is a January Jones<\/cite> album, barely visible under the big Goscinny\/Uderzo Oumpah-pah<\/cite> omnibus. The latter is sort of a prequel strip to Asterix<\/cite> only set amongst “Red Indians” in French North America. January Jones<\/cite> on the other hand is a retro-adventure ligne claire<\/cite> strip that ran in Sjors en Sjimmie<\/cite> in the early nineties, drawn by Eric Heuvel<\/a> and written by Martin Lodewijk, one of the Netherlands best scenario writers, who also worked on the Don Lawrence <\/cite>Storm<\/cite> series, the last issues I still needed to get I also found this weekend.\n<\/p>\n \nFinally, on top of those there’s a Gerrit de Jager cartoon collection of the strips he did for a newspaper about the economic recession and some normal books: Jane Jacobs The Economy of Cities<\/cite>, David Pearce’s Occupied City<\/cite> and Foch: Man of Orleans<\/cite> by B. H. Liddel Hart.\n<\/p>\n \nThe box behind all this is a short comics box filled with a mere fraction of the collection of floppies I still have stashed at my parents. I spent an hour on Friday digging through my longboxed and taking out some favourite series and sequences, things I knew I wanted to keep. One of these days all of them need to be moved here, or gotten rid off. The dillemma of every aging comics collector: what do I want to keep, what can I live without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going back home to my parents always means an opportunity to look at the secondhand bookstore there (singular, as there can be only one). This weekend was a good one. I found a nice stack of comics, as well as some other neat books. What I found were fifteen or so Douwe Dabbert strips, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-comix","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}