{"id":5250,"date":"2014-06-06T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2014-06-06T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:52:17","slug":"haarlem-comics-con-02-matt-baaij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/06\/06\/haarlem-comics-con-02-matt-baaij\/","title":{"rendered":"Haarlem comics con 02: Mattt Baaij"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/mattt-baaij-sketching.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"494\" alt=\"Mattt Baaij sketching at Haarlem Stripdagen 2014\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMattt Baaij is another up and coming Dutch cartoonist who had a stand at the Haarlem Stripdagen. He&#8217;s been doing comics for some time now, his main character Bunbun <small>(<a href=\"http:\/\/sluggy.com\/\">not this one<\/a>)<\/small> celebrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illumatie.nl\/bunbuns\/19may2014.html\">his tenth birthday<\/a> on May 19th. That&#8217;s him in the sketch at the bottom of this post having painful things done to his todger. All my fault I&#8217;m afraid; I asked for Mattt to draw something sleazy and vulgair and that&#8217;s what he came up with.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.illumatie.nl\/bunbuns\/viewer.php\">Bunbun was originally a webcomic<\/a>, but has also been collected into two books so far, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syndikaat.nl\/webwinkel\/2\/bunbun\/5\">available from the Syndikaat website<\/a>. I got the first collection, which looks rather nice, eighty pages in full colour, roughly US floppy sized. The Bunbun strips are pure gag comics, mostly done in a half page six panel format, with occasionally a full page strip. Mattt&#8217;s artstyle is functional and sparse, Bunbun especially pared down to the minimum necessary needed to show he&#8217;s a rabbit: two long ears and coloured white and that&#8217;s it.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illumatie.nl\/bunbuns\/viewer.php?nr=17\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/bunbun01.jpg\" width=\"552\" height=341\" alt=\"Bunbun the suicide bomber\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhat I especially like about the Bunbun strips is the way Mattt has several series of gags that keep coming back. One series for example has the rabbit as a suicide bomber, completed with belt of dynamite attempting to get on a bus to blow it up and getting thwarted every time. Another has him as a knight failing to rescue his girlfriend from a castle guarded by a dragon. On their own these gags barely raise a smile, but the repetition makes them hilarious. If you like this sort of humour of course.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illumatie.nl\/bunbuns\/viewer.php?nr=282\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/bunbun02.jpg\" width=\"552\" height=341\" alt=\"Bunbun goes meta\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a very Dutch sort of humour, high on sex and violence as funny in itself, somewhat corny too at times. None of this is really meant to be shocking, it&#8217;s just that there&#8217;s a long tradition of this sort of jokes in Dutch comics, something that could seem a bit crass or even naff to foreigners. Fortunately Mattt also has a sense of whimsy to leaven things a bit. It&#8217;s not all dick jokes.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/mattt-baaij-sketch.jpg\" width=\"479\" height=\"687\" alt=\"Mattt Baaij sketching at Haarlem Stripdagen 2014\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n(Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattt Baaij is another up and coming Dutch cartoonist who had a stand at the Haarlem Stripdagen. He&#8217;s been doing comics for some time now, his main character Bunbun (not this one) celebrated his tenth birthday on May 19th. 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