The nightmare of Geert Wilders

One of my daily cartoons for the Dutch news website Nu.nl, regarding the growing islamphobia in the Netherlands, specifically the xenophobia of the Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders.

A leaflet illustration. It must be all over Holland now. It's part of a promotion for a book which bundels all books you're suppose to learn to graduate. Why didn't I buy just this one book in my final year at highschool?

And of course I''l introduce myself in my next blog.

Carnival hit parade machine

Today I finished yet another small -but completely insane- animation project as made for Donald Duck.nl (it will be online this Friday.) It's almost Carnival in a big part of the lowlands and we thought it would be nice to have an interactive clip during that time on the site, so kids can play with it...

Ruff sketch by colleague Maarten Janssens

It was created using Flash and will be my third so-called "funny" machine. Here you can see them in action:

1. Gyro Gearloose joke robot
2. Digital Party Piggy
3. Carnival hit parade machine NEW!

...The interactivity on the last two I did together with a colleague of mine, named Bas Schuddeboom. Maarten Janssens did the music.

Meat & Potatoes

As a free-lance illustrator I do a lot of work like this, for all kinds of sponsored magazines and such. in fact, it is my meat and potatoes. A lot of this work never makes it to my portfolio, not because it's bad, but because the subject matter is ofttimes a bit bland (to put it mildly) The briefings for these illustrations are usually very tight and don't leave a lot of room for interpretation. I like doing it though, it really makes me draw stuff I wouldn't normally draw. Oh yeah, and did I mention it pays well?

One of those days...

Ever had one of them? I have 'em all the time...

Cartoon of the week

My day job includes working for several dutch Disney magazines. The so-called reader’s page of one of those magazines -simply called Donald Duck- places a "letter of the week" for which I make the cartoons on a regular basis...

"Roughly translated"

Okay! the one who
hits the other one knock-out
may read this weeks
Bucky Bug first!

THUISZORG

Roel's first blogbaby

I made this illustration for nrc.next, a dutch newspaper. The article tells about what can happen when two friends start their own company together. And which problems arise (money mainly).

In my next blog I'll introduce myself. At this moment I'm very busy making, drawing, plotting, illustrating and designing 'Taptoe Zomerspeurboek 2007'; a kids album for the summer holiday.

aju! Roel

Seamour Sheep - Fate

The twenty-eighth episode of Seamour Sheep, a comic strip series about a silly Scottish sheep, his wiseacre sidekick Marty Mole and some guest stars.

You're invited for a visit to the official Seamour Sheep website for more comics, wallpapers, e-cards, the Sheep Shop and more.

Cheers,

Sevensheaven

Naughty

During the making of a short animated film by Animation Works I tried to fool the director (Arjan Wilschut) with my pencil tests in making him believe all was good, but alas! he wasn’t... Can you belief that? normally this subliminal trick would work like a charm!

Welcome to myself

Hi folks! My name is Viktor (with a "K") and NO I haven’t got any Russian ancestry to my knowledge. My parents just liked it this way... funny people!
I was born at there home in a small room on the first floor the very same day our royal highness took on the job her mom did before her... Being the queen of the Netherlands! (plus some colonies.) And since this day became a national and public holiday (not because of me, but because of her) I almost never ever had a birthday the way nature intended it... f*ck all those parasitical party pooping asses.

I will be posting (somewhat semi regular) my thoughts and work right here on Clogwork, but you can also find some of it on Vector’s Thingies, Donald Duck.nl and Animation Works...

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This here above is the "magical" stuff I use daily! and who are my truest, closest best friends in the whole wide world...

Sorry folks! gotta keep this post short... I’m still at work and my boss is coming at me with that big stick he uses on us slaves... “NO BOSS... WHO? NO, NOTHING... JUST LOOKING AT GOOGLE... SORRY, BOSS... WHATTA YOU DO? AUWWW, STOP... PLEASE STOP... I'M SORRY... GOING BACK TO WORK... OEF, AUWWW, PLEASE NO... NO, NOT THE HANDS, NOT THE HANDS!!!”

Dracula

A page in a "Graphic Classics" edition of lesser known stories by Bram Stoker, of Dracula fame. Tom Pomplun, the editor, gave me carte blanche, so I really enjoyed myself.

Kraspoppetje

Ik voel me hier helemaal niet op mijn plaats met m'n lollige kraspoppetjes! Bovendien zuigt mijn Engels! Boehoe!
Translation: Boohoo!

Dissipation

Daily cartoon for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, regarding an article about a sum of 12 billion dollar that the United States turned out to have spent quite carelessly during the first year of the war in Iraq.

Wilbert shows his face

Who is he?
I was abducted in 1995 by Warner Bros Feature Animation and live in Los Angeles ever since. During the past years I worked for most major studio's and did visual designs, storyart and gag ideas for a bunch of feature films, including Ice Age and Ice Age 2 - the meltdown and the "Robots" DVD, for 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky, Shrek II and Over the Hedge (Dreamworks), Curious George (Universal) , Osmosis Jones, Quest for Camelot, (Warner Bros) and Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius .

In 2004 I became a member of Walt Disney's Animation Studio in Burbank and am currently working with directors John Musker and Ron Clements ( Little Mermaid, Alladin) on "The Frog Princess", the revival of Disney's 2D feature animation.

What is he doing on Clogwork?
Not a lot probably. The art and ideas I create during the day job are owned by Disney and super secret. ( At least until the movie comes out), so there's not a lot I can share. However, sometimes I try to take on an outside illustration for fun or to flex some unused creative muscles and braincells. Like the one above, which was an illustration (through Comic House) for an article about Data mining in relation to terrorist profiling. I forgot which magazine. All done in Photoshop.

CHARACTER...

...for The KLM Flight Academy.

Ah what the heck...

Here's another picture I've made this week, a CD sleeve for a DJ from Germany. Not my cup of tea music-wise, but hey, if some dude pays me to draw him a robot, I ain't the one to complain...

It's the Creekster!

Hi y'all. Let's see If I'll remember to contribute some news to this blog once in while. This picture is a flyer for an upcoming exhibition I'm curating. it's going to be held in the ABC treehouse gallery in Amsterdam, this coming april.
Cheers for now.

Mynga and Ramzy go Gothic

Hi, this is Evert Geradts.
I used to draw with pens or brushes until I touched my first computer.
For years now it's my Mac, Illustrator and a mouse. (Any mouse).
At the moment I do "Mynga & Ramzy" for Dutch publishing house Malmberg.
This is the first of a two page Gothic episode, to be published in the "Hello You!" magazine.

Love is in the air

Cartoon for the Dutch news website Nu.nl, regarding an article about a strongly increased mating drive among wild boars.

One broken heart too many

A work from my Série Noir. I love creating imagery in this dark style as an alternation from my usual bright 'n' shiny stuff.

Cheers,

Sevensheaven

Mars Gremmen

Mars Gremmen was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1969. He started his comics career in the 1990s, publishing 'Meneer Foutjes' in Sjors & Sjimmie Stripblad. This series ran from 1994 until 1997. During this period, he also wrote scripts for the 'Sjors en Sjimmie' comic. From 1995 to 1999, he drew 'Trix' for Sjosji. He also collaborated with Peter de Wit on 'De Familie Fortuin' and made 'Popi de Clown' for Striparazzi. For magazine Hello You! Gremmen makes 'The Girl is Mine', a comic that has been published in album by Silvester in 2004. For the Astmafonds, he created 'Max & Manfred', for National Geographic Junior he created 'De Ontdekkers' and for the computer magazine Macfan, he has created 'Mac & Maggie'. The comics magazine Myx publishes his hilarious comics diary 'Stripdagboek'. Besides this comics work, Mars Gremmen also wrote scenarios, did advertising work and drew storyboards for a number of films, including Dick Maas' 'Down' and Esmé Lammers' 'Tom & Thomas'. He also does caricatures for the animation series 'Café de Wereld' and for Veronica Magazine.

Mars Gremmen website
Mars Gremmen blog
The Girl Is Mine

cARToony is in da house!!!

The baptism of Clogwork

Welcome to Clogwork, an online showcase of cartoons, comics and illustrations from several Dutch and Belgian artists.

We hope you enjoy it, and if you do, then we'd appreciate it if you spread the word. Thanks in advance.

Best regards from the Lowlands,

Sevensheaven