Meneerke Peeters (continued)
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
We continue our presentation of Meneerke Peeters strips. For more info, see yesterday’s post.
(All artwork © the estate of Joë Meulepas)
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Meneerke Peeters
Friday, July 4th, 2008
On January 7, 1957, a new strip was published in the Flemish newspaper De Standaard. It featured a somewhat strange little guy, blessed with an enormous, bolbous nose and wearing a white labcoat. Meneerke Peeters, as he was called, was the creation of Flemisch cartoonist Joë Meulepas (or Pil, as he liked to sign his work).
Even though Meneerke Peeters was an everyman in many ways, Pil tended to steer his hero into situations that were fairly bizarre, absurd and quite often macabre. Still, he never aimed at shocking his readers, the newspaper being aimed at the cultivated, well-to-do (even bourgeois) strata of the Flemish population, and he steered clear of many hot topics. In his political cartoons, though, he would tackle all of them with a venom that did not leave much to the imagination.
Meneerke Peeters would run in De Standaard until Pil’s retirement in 1983, after a total run of more than 7000 strips, or stop-comics, as they were known at the time. In 2007, Pil passed away in Brussels, at the age of 92.
After the break, we present a first series of Meneerke Peeters strips. We selected the (more or less) silent ones, since these were more likely to be appreciated by an international audience as well. They were taken from the Meneerke Peeters collection that was published by Heideland-Orbis in 1972, in the Vlaamse Pockets series. We hope you like them.
(All artwork © the estate of Joë Meulepas)
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Tracy Pup ?
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Jeremy Eaton’s new Cartoon Character Jumbles are quite a delight. As are his other cartoons for that matter (I especially like the ones with the Alice theme in the Drawn Perspective series)
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Raw Materials
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Larry Gonick, of The Cartoon History of the Universe fame, has started a new comic strip for the Discovery Channel website. It’s called Raw Materials and it explains difficult terms like self-preservation algorhythms or nanotechnology to children.
So far, it seems to be looking for its own tone of voice, but I guess it will only take a little time before it shines.
(Thanks to Darko Macan for the tip)
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Meat the Beetles
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
As far as I’m concerned, this is the best Mutts storyline so far. It’s got everything : dead pan logic, Beatles, wordplay, and, of course, Earl and Mooch. Patrick McDonnell rules the comics !
(Mutts © Patrick McDonnell )
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The Cosmic Cube
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Much as I like references to comics in general, I’m afraid that I don’t know enough about the current Funky Winkerbean storyline (except that it’s something to do with a pizza venture) to fully appreciate last weekend’s episode. Still, it’s kinda cool, and at least it pointed me towards an earlier, quite haunting landmines storyline on creator Tom Batiuk’s website
(Funky Winkerbean © Batom, inc, with thanks to the Man Who Knows)
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Garkov
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
It would seem there’s no end to the ways Jim Davis’s Garfield can be put to creative use.
Josh Millard recently launced Garkov which applies the Markov model (which is completely beyond me) to Garfield strips. I’m not sure about the theoretical backgrournd, but it seems that this generates new strips based on existing ones, which at least look and feel like genuine strips, but on closer look lack all coherence and plot typical for a human narrative.
Needless to say, this kind of thing tickles our interest. Josh also was so kind as to provide a full list of other Garfield experiments.
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Keep your readers reading
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
And if anybody dares to congratulate me with my promotion by saying “pleasantly surprised”…
While browsing through Vacature (see earlier) this morning, it struck me that its publishers had used an age-old solution to the problem of how to keep your readers interested, and keep them from simply skipping this huge wad of paper full of, well, quite similar ads for jobs.
At certain intervals, Vacature inserts pages with editorial content and background. A fixed feature of these pages are short strips by Flemish cartoonist Ilah (blogged about earlier). These strips always have a subject related to the workplace and employment, and more often than not feature that typical Ilah strain of humor, which is not exactly biting but not too gentle either.
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Non Sequitur salutes Al Jaffee
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur strip for today salutes Mad Magazine Fold-in genius Al Jaffee. Jaffee’s back in town, it would seem.
(click to the website for a full view of the cartoon - Non Sequitur © 2008 Wiley)
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Ikea Instructions
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Who says there’s no comics in mainstream media ? This short “humor piece” by Mike Sacks and Julian Sancton (from Esquire Magazine - check out Mike’s site for a full-sized version) has got what it takes : art in sequence, a good storyline and a damn poignant message.
(thanks to Scott Gilbert for the link)
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