Spring cleaning

Het moet niet gekker worden

Trust me: this is quite unusual.

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.

Balance

Dutch weather gone insane Part II

(Can't quite remember part one? I can't blame you, it's been over a year. Click here for the previous strip about crazy weather changes.)

Curb your enthusiasm

In charge

Be a sport

My cartoons for VARA are supposed to be based on recent tv fragments.
As summer approaches, I am starting to notice an inconvenient thing about this: all regular tv shows go on summer break and basically, the only thing left on tv for the next two months or so will be sports. And more sports. And other sorts of sports.

Maybe I should do eight cartoons about sports.

Haute cuisine

Time management

Purple haze

The Rainbow Carrot strikes again!

Purple carrot + yellow shirt = yellow shirt with purple polka dots.

A carrot is a carrot is a carrot

Purple carrot + yellow carrot = yellow carrot turned orange.

Crash boom bang

There is no chair

Living in the fast lane

Oh yeah. I've been so efficient lately.

Falling leaves, failing brains

Though October saw no updates, some pretty Anita Aktueelish stuff happened. Here's an example.

Sinternational

Another oldskool Sinterklaas drawing: 2002, Sinterklaas with another Dutch friend and my Italian housemates.
Fun fact: pepernoten are cookies of about 1 cm in diameter that nobody ever bothers to bake themselves. You can't buy them in Italy, though... so we spent a few hours on them.

Ten years after

In the category "Weird Dutch Traditions": tomorrow, 5 December, Dutch people celebrate Sinterklaas. In 2001, I celebrated it in Florence with my Dutch friend Casper and two Americans. The drawing above refers to that occasion and was taken from a ten-year-old Anita Aktueel (still issued on good old analog paper at that time).

Fun fact nr. 1: ideally, each present given for Sinterklaas is accompanied by a poem. Ideally, they're less cheesy than "cats say meow, cows say boo, this is from me to you".
Fun fact nr. 2: Dutch people never say "Happy Sinterklaas" - but the Americans were at a loss and thought you had to say something.

Rome revisited

Just like last year, I went on a school trip to Rome. And just like last year, everyone survived... sort of.

Shock and awe

New school year, new school, new school outfit. I'm not sure if it's an improvement.

Dinnertime

This is roughly what happens at the start of a new school year. I WILL get things on track soon. Which will result in more drawings. Or so I hope.