Youth unemployment

Due to the financial crisis, youth will have to work harder to get a job. At least that's what today's article suggests in newspaper nrc.next. I made a cover- and a page 4-illustration to accompany that.

Maandagcartoon 119

I'll join the renewed spirit.

Maandagcartoon 107

My weekly cartoon in morningpaper nrc.next.
It says: f*ck everything! ('I'm shitting on everything' in Dutch)
and than: for sale: direction indicator lights, hardly ever used.

No-office-workers

An illustration accompaniing an article about young people who start to work without an office. With new technology like mobile phone, internet and laptop they can work anywhere. Avoiding bad coffee and traffic jams.

cover nrc.next geldspecial

I did some mixing with money & old comics.

Oh, happy days!

Cartoon for NRC.next, monday 10 december 2007

Fartbaby

Fartbaby, what a sweet gift for Sinterklaas (dutch Santaclaus)!
Push the POWERFART button and it will produce strong, bad smelling farts that will let you gasp for breath.

Brussel bureaucracy & chemical industry Mix

for a newspaper article about bureaucracy in the european union. While working on it I tried to mime some features of silkscreen printing. I used two layers of color, the overlap being the darkest color. (the dark & white smoke I put in later)

working without getting paid (in a normal way)

Illustration for an article about new ways of getting paid for freelance work. No normal invoices (factuur) anymore, the constituent decides what he thinks your work is worthed.
This may sound strange, but it gives the freelancer more freedom to come up with new ideas. And in the end the payment needn't to be less. In fact it is often better.

Modern Life

Real love

"But I sincerely want to be a bitch for you, darlin'."

cucumber time is over

"What are you looking at? You wanted HARD news from now on again, didn't you?

Those darn politicians!

Dutch politician Geert Wilders dominates de debate about the issue of muslim integration in the dutch society. He dominates it for example by comparing the Koran to Mein Kampf.

those damned russians!

That morning Russia seemed to have claimed whole new areas.

Be a customer!

Last week I did this coverillustration for a nrc.next article about helpdesks and customers and how to improve their relation.
I felt the deep urge to draw an angry person. RAAAH!

Energy!

Euthanasia-cover

A tricky subject to illustrate. But I like the big questions in life. There's immediat drama when you start drawing.
This will be my focus for the coming year, trying to pick the right subjects to make the illustrations better.

NRC cartoon on monday

"Herbert and Ine B. recently had their anusses surgically removed"
"People still dare to walk arround with'm"
"Hideous!"

Hi! I'm back from a two-week holiday. This cartoon popped in to my mind last thursday. Still don't know why.

Dutch inventions

It's a joy making a coverillustration, knowing it will be everywhere for a day. And will be forgotten tomorrow.
This one's about new Dutch Inventions. Check out my Windmillboat! The more front wind, the harder you will go.

Cartoons

The text for the second one: -sigh- He's so mysterious, so unGoogleable (I don't know if this is translated correctly)

Two cartoons I recently made for the newspaper. I always make them up while doing something else. When I sit down and try to think one up, it's almost always a failure. Maybe you think that these ones suck too. Maybe I'll think that one day, but for now I like 'm!