Margreet de Heer's Blog, page 8
April 5, 2015
New webcomic!
Exactly ten years ago onEaster Monday I started my first webcomic – it was black&white and I vowed not to spend more time on it than one hour a day, including scanning and putting it online, so that I would learn to be fast and productive and not to second-guess myself too much. This comic ran for almost two years – although calling it a “daily” proved far too optimistic.
Here are some of the comics I made then:
I had a different life back then: I had stepchildren, four cats, blond hair and...
March 18, 2015
Voting
Today, we vote in The Netherlands. These are my feelings at the moment:
From my upcoming book World Domination: a Discovery in Comics.
March 8, 2015
Remarkable Women: Jo Ader-Appels
It’s International Women’s Day, and here’s a comic I made a few years ago for an exhibition about Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader – I chose to highlight the story of his mother, Jo Ader-Appels, who showed remarkable strengththrough many hardships, including the murder of her husband and the disappearance of her son.
(click on the comic to read the big version)
(click on the comic to read the big version)
February 19, 2015
100,000 views!
My animated timeline of the Middle Ages from my book Science: a Discovery in Comics has justhit 100,000 views on Youtube!
I guess I should prepare for e-fame now! 
Fortunately, animators Jaltoid made this handy survival guide – watch it, it’s hilarious!
February 12, 2015
Friday the Thirteenth
This comic about Friday the Thirteenth was made in 2007 for children’s magazine Jippo. I wrote the script, and Belgian colleagueFloris De Smedt made the drawings – and added so much fun to it by coming up with all kinds of things happening in the background!
January 31, 2015
Groundhog Day
It’s Groundhog Day! We’re celebrating either six more weeks of winter or not; and I’m celebrating that my Groundhog Design for the Spoonflower contest came in sixth place, securing a place in the coveted Top Ten Bundle!
This is the drawing I made:
And this is what it looks like on fabric:
In July, I blogged about my first exploits on awesome fabric-design-site Spoonflower, and by now my shop has grown to this (and this is not even all of it yet):
Most of these designs were made for the weekly con...
January 25, 2015
In memoriam Peter Pontiac
Een strip voor en over Peter Pontiac – a comic for and about Peter Pontiac.
English version below.
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January 13, 2015
On Speechlessness and Fundamentalism
I was about to proudly announce that my graphic novel Religion: a Discovery in Comics will be published this year by NBM – when the attack on Charlie Hebdo happened and left me speechless.
This might not be the best time to promote a work that puts pictures and religious thought together. Or maybe it is the best of times, now that there’s this enormous graphic surge of cartoons that cry out for freedom of speech.
I don’t know. But here are two pages of my upcoming book that have some bearing on...
January 2, 2015
Happy New Year!
Here’s the New Year’s card Yiri and I made:
Yes, it’s a direct tribute to this famous Calvin & Hobbes strip by Bill Watterson:
What are we dancing about in the New Year? Well, for the pending publication of Religion: a Discovery in Comics, for starters. It will be out at NBM in Fall, and this is the cover:
