Links

It was pointed out to me that I gave the wrong web address to the Elsje home page in a post earler this week. The right one should be www.elsje.nl.
However this give me the excuse to show you a few samples from the strip. I hope Gerben and Eric don't mind. These are in English so you'll all be able to understand them. :) Enjoy!




It should also be noted that Disney artist Wanda Gattino has started his own blog. It can be found at:
http://wandagattinocomics.blogspot.com/ If you like Disney artwork in the Barks/Branca style you should check it out!
(There's an english version available. Look at the far right on the page.)

Great stuff!

Hedvig is on the town with a friend this afternoon, so I'm having a lazy saturday in my apartment. Listening to the radio and enjoying the latest packages from the US and Netherlands.

Got the "Giga-Havank" book I mentioned a while ago and it's just as stunning as I had expected. Besides lots of character studies etc it got the entire 44 page album in rough pencil form. And the colored album itself has been re-formatted so that the panels are large and close to the format they were originally drawn.
And I was happy to see this drawing when I opened the book!
Thanks Daan!

The same package also contained the latest Elsje book by Hercules and Valkema!
This is the third collection of this superbly crafted strip.
And, Oy!, there's a drawing in this book too! :)
Thanks Gerben!


And from the US came some other nice books.

Now, I'm off to the couch to relax and enjoy these for the rest of the afternoon. :)

Bamses äventyr #21

The new issue of "Bamses äventyr" is in the stores now.
And it's got a cover by Gerben Valkema!
Gerben is mostly known for his covers to the Dutch Donald Duck weekly and the comic strip Elsje.
I'm happy that he agreed to take a break in his busy schedule to do this cover for us! :)

/Joakim.