Visueel dagboek van Michael Minneboo.
Thursday I shot two videos for the VARA. One about 15 years of ‘Zembla‘, the journalistic television programme of which Kees Driehuis is the editor-in-chief. I interviewed him about it, while my colleague Ilse was behind the camera. An hour later I shot an interview with television presenter Astrid Joosten. While waiting for Joosten I was just hanging out in the hallway, looked down and shot this picture.
I love this time of year, because of all the different colours nature presents us. When the sun went down this Wednesday, the sky was painted in a typical autumn fashion. Loved it.
Monday afternoon the new Suske & Wiske comic book was presented. In the new story the duo goes back in time and meets Eduard Douwes Dekker. Together they save the manuscript of the book Max Havelaar. Because actor Peter Faber played Max Havelaar in the film by the same title, he gave a lively speech. The room was filled with kids from the Multatuli elementary school by the way. Scary stuff.
Read more about the creation of this comic book on my other blog.
Sunday 10:00 am. Only an hour left of 24 Hour Comics Day, artists Jeroen Funke and Matt Baay carry on their work, trying to finish in time.
Artists Maarten Janssens and Viktor Venema exchange notes during 24 Hour Comics Day.
24 Hour Comics Day started in comic book store Lambiek at 11:00 am. On this picture artists Menno Kooistra and Floris Oudshoorn are having a coffee just after the event started. So basically they started the marathon session with a coffee break, yelling “Fuck, Scott McCloud!” in the process, mocking the rules McCloud set out for this event. Which in Menno’s case turned out to be prophetic. In the end, he only finished one page before he quit the event hours later. Poor chap. I am not sure how far Floris got, though.
This weekend it was 24 Hour Comics Day. On a lot of locations throughout the world, comic book artists gathered for 24 hours to each draw a comic book. So, that means everyone had to make a page an hour. In Amsterdam the event was held in comic book store Lambiek. This year was the sixth time for Lambiek. Big mastermind of the event is a comic book artist named Scott McCloud. He explains the origin of the idea here.
Check out Lambiek’s site with the finished efforts. And check out the session that took place at Serge Baeken’s home in Belgium.
While working on a video about the KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival I stumbled upon this frame. I thought it was kind of nice. Reminds me of good times.
Amsterdam center, 5:30 pm
I took these shots from the tram while heading home this afternoon. Usually I like to read while being public transported, but it was a long day and I just wanted to relax some. But I got bored so started to take some pictures.
Comic book convention De Stripdagen Houten, 2:00 pm
This is the hand of comic book artist Fred de Heij who is making an illustration for one of his regular customers. One who had very specific demands regarding what he wanted to see in the drawing. Fred and I just made a short story together for his magazine ‘Pulpman‘. I wrote the story, he made the fabulous artwork for it.
Comic book convention De Stripdagen Houten, 1:15 pm
Comic book artist Argibald takes a sip of his soda before he continues signing his new cartoon book on the Xtra publishing stand.
Comic book convention De Stripdagen Houten, 1:00 pm
My friend and comic book artist Hallie Lama is posing in a scouting uniform. Yesterday at the comic book convention De Stripdagen, he presented his cartoons about scouting. 100 years of scouting was the main theme of the convention this year. In Holland they really know how to make conventions hip by choosing great themes that appeal to the youthful comic book readers. (Yeah, I am being ironic.) It’s great that Hallie say the humour in it.