Powned

Dutch "bully journalist" Rutger Castricum (well-known for chasing and utterly embarrassing people with his pink microphone) was psychologically dissected on tv by a bunch of experts. I wonder if he felt it was unfair to be alone against the crowd.

Unexpected

Cartoon came up a little less soon than promised. Last week, seven works of art were stolen from Rotterdam-based museum De Kunsthal. In the cartoon, Derek Ogilvie comes to lend a hand with his mock psychic powers, but is accidentally directed to Amsterdam by his ill-informed crew. Stedelijk Museum director Ann Goldstein is slightly surprised.

Two-faced Willem

 With a slight delay: this was Monday's cartoon. Quite a scandal arose over a television interview held with the Netherlands' best known kidnapper, who abducted a business magnate several years ago. The interviewer asked him what he thought about the fact some people would describe him as two-faced; the interviewee didn't quite recognise himself in that picture. In the cartoon, his answer is as follows: he kindly asks the interviewer not to believe everything he hears, and then specifies "or you might earn yourself a smack in the face".

Ladybird ladybird

Update: this was meant to be one long strip (which is why I'm leaving the image above on the page), but if it's too small for you to read, click on the two images below.

Gouden kalf

These are Holland's best-known farmers - they're participating in the hit dating show Boer zoekt vrouw. Here, they are a little indignant for not having been nominated for the Dutch film awards, even though the name of the awards ("Golden Calves") would suggest otherwise.

Synesthesia

Some people's senses blend: they see colours when reading letters, or can even taste music. This rare phenomenon, synesthesia, would be even cooler if people could actually taste colours. You could start a restaurant on tubes of paint and everybody would stay slim.