Margreet de Heer's Blog, page 10
July 5, 2014
De Heer DeSigns
A few weeks ago I joined Spoonflower, a site where you can upload your own designs and order them as fabrics and wallpaper. Since then I’ve been having a lot of fun thinking about tiled patterns, color schemes and original themes. This is what my store on Spoonflower currently looks like:
I started out looking for illustrations in my archives that lend themselves for this kind of purpose, and came up with a Burlesque fabric – I drew these models in Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School which I blogged...
June 21, 2014
The Last Link
Since 2010 I got to make comics for student magazine H/Link, periodical of the The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Alas, the paper is folding now – the magazine will continue in cyberspace, but no longer with my comic.
So it’s time to look back at four years of student life and the woes and fortunes of Fenneke, Dave, Fatima, George and their teacher Johan.
This was the first comic, which appeared in the autumn of 2010:
Student Dave was the most carefree of the lot – he devoted most of his...
June 5, 2014
Dutch History part 2
In my earlier blog about the life of Dutch King William II showed my comic about his youth – now we skip to his adolescence. He had prettyrough teenage years, with war looming all around and a very indecisive and incompetent father who eventually fled the country. Here’s the comic I did about that memorable flight, by boat to England, on a cold wintery day in 1795.
This event has been portrayed in many contemporary drawings – here’s one of them:
The middle figure is William’s father, also calle...
May 27, 2014
Death of a Spaceman
Last week, Dutch astronaut and innovator Wubbo Ockels died at the age of 68. This came asa shock toeveryone of my generation who satglued to the TV screen as a child in 1985, when he went into space. The day after I heard the news, I made this comic:
These pages will be part of the new book I’m working on, World Domination: a Discovery in Comics.
May 18, 2014
Happy Birthday, Bertrand Russell!
Today is the 142nd birthday of famous philosopher/mathematician Bertrand Russell. He is the one who undermined the indisputability of logic by posing his famous Paradox, which I drew in my book Science: a Discovery in Comics as follows:
If you really want to get into Bertrand Russell though, you should read Logicomix, which is an excellent graphic novel about Russell’s life and work, as well as about the making of a graphic novel about logic.
Logicomix, by Christos Papadimitriou, Apostolos Doxi...
May 11, 2014
Dutch History part 1
This year and the next, The Netherlands celebrate their 200th anniversary as a Kingdom. Museum Meermanno asked me to make ten panels about the life of William I, first King of The Netherlands, responsible for the (first) constitution. Last week, these panels were officially revealed in the Public Library in The Hague, and after 2nd of June they will travel to different libraries all across the country.
The panels turned out great: they are big, 120 x 80 cm, and consist of my comic, Yiri’s colo...
April 29, 2014
Minnie is Out!
I’m very proud to announce that my longest running comic character, Mijntje or Minnie as I’ve called her in english, is out now as a digital comic – the first of a series, containing both old material dating back as far as 2004, and completely new never-seen-before adventures.
For people who know me solely from my educational graphic novels Philosophy: a Discovery in Comics and Science: a Discovery in Comics – my Minnie comic is something completely different: these are one-page gag comics wit...
April 13, 2014
History of the Earth in 5 1/2 minutes
Last year I made an animated timeline of the Middle Ages, from my book Science: a Discovery in Comics. Now I’ve gone a bit further and animated the entire History of the Earth!
Click on the picture and it will take you to the YouTube video:
I’m pretty proud of this. I used Sparkol Videoscribe to make it, a program that’s perfect for my kind of bring-your-comics-to-life animation.
The duration is just under five and a half minutes, which is an eternity on the internet – but I calculated that if I...
March 21, 2014
Science and Philosophy hit Korea
Foreign book publications always remain a bit imaginary and abstract to me – until the moment the book actually arrives and I can hold it physically in my hands. Today, a package from Korea arrived with not one but TWO of my titles: Philosophy: a Discovery in Comics and Science: a Discovery in Comics!
They look GREAT!
They have actual dust jackets, and underneath the cover is stylishly minimal:
The inside looks great, too! It’s very weird though, to see my drawings combined with a language I abs...
March 8, 2014
Women’s Day
It’s International Women’s Day and I’m working on my Super-feminine comic character Minnie, translating her early stories for an upcoming digital release later this year at Northwest Press.
