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Christmas is coming

It’s that time of year again! The twinkling lights, the frantic buying of gifts (why not purchase a few comics for under the Xmas tree? You’ll be the hit of the party!).

My alter ego Reverend De Heer is having a hard time with all the festive preparations…

(This comic was published in magazine Predikant & Samenleving in 2012)

And for those who are wondering“What is Christmas really all about?” here’s a page from my graphic novel Religion: a Discovery in Comics, with a very brief summary of t...

Drawing on Glass at The American Book Center

This weekend I got to draw on the huge glass window of The American Book Centerin the center of Amsterdam, the one that displays all my Discovery in Comics-books and especially Religion: a Discovery in Comics, which I will be in conversation aboutthis Thursday with Stijn Schenk of soon-to-be-launched graphic journalism site Drawing The Times.

I was quite nervous as I showed up at the store. I have never before drawn on glass and did not know what to expect. I am used to drawing while people a...

Window Shopping: a Discovery in Comics

In anticipation of next week’s event, The American Book Center in Amsterdam has dressed one of its windows with all the books in the “Discovery in Comics”-series! This is what it looks like:

I never dreamed that one day great graphic novels like Maus, Fun Home and Logicomix would be displayed in the margin of my own humble edu-comics… it is definitely not in the right proportions, but I’m going to enjoy it anyway.

This Saturday, from 1pm, I am going to claimthis window even more by making dr...

In between books

I have been a bit silent on this blog lately, and it’s because I didn’t know what to write. There’s enough going on, but that’s exactly the problem.

We flew back from New York end of October, after a successful launch of Religion: a Discovery in Comics. We had fun at SPX and the Brooklyn Book Festival, and the first positive reviews are emerging, such as these by readers on Goodreads:

“I LOVE this book! A concise, thoughtful, entertaining overview of five major religions, with a feminist cr...

Comics about the U.N.’s Global Goals

This weekend the UN officially announced the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development – goals which are aimed to be met by 2030 and which must be spread far and wide around the entire globe.

What better way to communicatethemthan through comics?Margreet de Heer is proud to have cooperated with Reading with Pictures and Comics Uniting Nations to produce these 20 comics pages. Together, they read like a comic book, but the individual pages can also be used to illuminate separate goals.

Feel...

Religion: a Discovery in Comics – the Launch

Today is the official debut of Religion: a Discovery in Comics, at the Small Press Expo in Washington!

Proud author and book

The book looks beautiful, it’s hardcover just like the other two in the series, Philosophy and Science, and has unique endsheets that the original Dutch version didn’t have. It’s a must-have! If you’re into the subject matter, of course.

The book describes the five major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. It gives information on their...

Religion: a Discovery in Comics – Win a Signed Copy!

If you would like a chance to win a FREE, SIGNED COPY of Religion: a Discovery in Comics, please enter the Goodreads Giveaway:

I already received my author copy from NBM – and it looks great! You can find out for yourself in a few days, when it will debut officially at the Small Press Expo and the Brooklyn Book Festival– I’ll be there to sign it.

Religion: a Discovery in Comics – Coming to America

Religion: a Discovery in Comics – What is God?

“God” is a word that gets thrown around a lot – but people mean a lot of different things by it.My personal opinion on the nature of god (or whatever you want to call it), as expressed in my upcoming graphic novel Religion: a Discovery in Comics, is this:

Whether you consider God to be an entity, energy or a concept, you would be limiting Him/It if you would consider him/it anything less than Everything. And that means it encompasses a lot of contradictory viewpoints, which I personally thin...

Religion: a Discovery in Comics – Drugs

Today I received a pack of postcards I designed forOPEN Foundation,an interdisciplinary organization that aims to stimulate research into all aspects of the psychedelic experience. I sat in at one of theirconferences in 2010, drawing cartoons on the spot, and recently they made some of those into postcards. It had been long enough to be pleasantly surprised by my own work:

Especially the lower postcard ties in nicely with my upcoming book Religion: a Discovery in Comics. Towards the end of t...