

Trip Down Comic Memory Lane
Back in the Stone Age, uh, the very early 1960s, when I was just a tiny kid, I’d noticed that everybody in my family loved reading, which fascinated me a lot. Unfortunately, whenever I looked into those books, there were only meaningless scribbles, which at 4 years of age, I couldn’t read yet… However, there were also books and magazines with pictures, lots of them, and those were much more interesting. Despite the scribbles, those images were fascinating, and I could more or


Ladies from Hell and Krazy Kats
Let’s travel back in time, to 1966, late February, location: Nieuw Loosdrecht, Netherlands. I’m 7 years old and eagerly awaiting the delivery of the local newspaper: De Gooi en Eemlander . Not because I’m interested in the news, but because of the comics which include my favorite heroes, Suske & Wiske . In the English speaking part of the world these two are known as follows: UK: " Bob & Bobette " or " Spike and Suzy ", but in the US as " Willy and Wanda " A new adventure has