tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66574632011-12-26T15:36:48.149-08:00It's all about us.StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.comBlogger861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1175912014174405052007-04-06T19:04:00.000-07:002007-04-06T19:13:34.186-07:00

Rene tells me this is really limited as far as readership is concerned, and I am fully aware of this, but I believe in spreading the word and all that "aware" shit. Also I am very fond of this cartoonist and hate to see a big corporate dickhole exploit that which is not his. So tell your friends.If you haven't heard of this already, here's the deal. Cartoonist Shmorky of Purple Pussy and

Bucketdropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1144363859953469782006-04-06T18:49:00.000-07:002006-04-06T15:51:00.000-07:00

Hey fellow probeerselers... I was wondering if anyone could give a fellow comic artist some advice in dealing with artist/writer's block. It's been months since I last worked on Milk, Sex, & Cookies and I just haven't been feeling the motivation or inspiration during all this time. I will admit I get ideas for other comics, but none relating to MS&C. What doesn't help either is I moved a

Snagglefroghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918427276885169520noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1140238172622844962006-02-17T20:42:00.000-08:002006-02-17T20:49:32.633-08:00

Several of Probeersel.com's comics have shown support for the notion that Freedom of Speech is vital to a democracy and should always allow any speech, including impopular opinion. This, of course, is in response to the matter of the Danish cartoons that set the world on fire. In case you missed them, or some of them, I've decided to line up the strips here.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1134676592395873862005-12-15T11:52:00.000-08:002005-12-15T11:56:32.406-08:00

Well, after months of weighing my options, the decision has been made, and I feel I won't regret this: I'm semi-resigning as president of the ClickBurg Foundation to free up time to work on my comics AND to work on Probeersel.com. I've been having ambitious plans with this site for longer than I care to remember and it's about damn time I revive this collective's look, feel and functionality.So

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1124113685767656572005-08-15T06:31:00.000-07:002005-08-15T08:42:43.170-07:00

We have 15 members now. FIFTEEN members ! And 34 comics. And over five hundred unique readers average per day. Wowsah.When I started this site four years ago, I figured we'd get a group of five or six or so artists together and perhaps a few comics. It's all grown so damn big, it's hard to believe.Which makes this very hard for me to write. Because I've always loved the whole Probeersel.com

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1116503934969780302005-05-19T04:51:00.000-07:002005-05-19T05:01:54.116-07:00

Stripfestijn Dordrecht is another big convention where Probeersel.com won't show up. Except for myself - I've gotten myself involved with a new comics magazine called De Lijn (the line), which will have a different theme (and title) for each issue and will feature the work of young and fairly unknown but promising artists. The zero-issue will be introduced at this convention, and I'm currently

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1114033145669339402005-04-20T14:35:00.000-07:002005-05-03T18:08:38.620-07:00

Well, we have an open invite by the organisation of the Small Press convention in Groningen, and I've asked the Probeersel artists who wants to go. Elizabeth, Gregory, Jon and Benjamin so far responded that they won't be able to make it. However, Marz has shown interest. If a few more of us are willing to go, I'll be coming along as well. So come on, guys, who wants to go up north ?Update: I

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1113067284511877022005-04-09T10:20:00.000-07:002005-04-09T10:21:24.513-07:00

er is weer eens een nieuw blad met tekeningen. dit blad heet de swasbeer, bevat zesendertig pagina’s retecoole prenten en wordt op één mei op clickburg offiesjeel gepresenteerd. de swasbeer bevat tekeningen van bandirah, linda van bruggen, laetitia zitman, kasperdekunstenaar, rogier veldstra, kultabar, polo ice, troy titane, matt joyce, donorbrain, rob van barneveld en zookie. de swasbeer is in

bandirahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250518956412641668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1111362758351916512005-03-20T15:48:00.000-08:002005-03-20T15:55:42.706-08:00

Welp, I'm back from the Web and Mini Comics Thing 2005 in London, which I was visiting (as announced in the Probeersel news).And as usual, I have spent countless hours that I *should* have spent drawing or coding, on making a nice photo report for you all to enjoy.Here's the English version.Here's the Dutch version.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1110187104157450282005-03-07T01:12:00.000-08:002005-03-07T05:31:46.946-08:00

Well, our new Belgian member apparently never received the invitation email I sent to him, so I had to resend it. I hope that we'll see him and his work on the site soon. Another new member (an American !) who will be joining soon was delayed due to some confusion in the audition process. Due to being too busy I haven't been able to get our new members their business cards yet. And to top all

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1108684003895895282005-02-17T15:39:00.000-08:002005-02-17T15:46:43.896-08:00

Well, all the publicity we're getting from the ClickBurg initiative is, and isn't, paying off. Is, because we have three new members joining sometime soon (as soon as they send their information in) who all seem to be doing interesting, and diverse, work. Yes, you heard me: there will be three new members joining ! Two Dutchmen and one Belgian.The publicity *isn't* paying off, because, well,

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1108309385703945932005-02-13T07:40:00.000-08:002005-02-13T07:43:05.706-08:00

By the by, René van Densen was interviewed as well (also in Dutch), by Brabants Dagblad, which resulted in an article about the ClickBurg convention, his work, and of course, Probeersel.com ! Read a scanned version of that article here.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1107507747827612302005-02-04T01:00:00.000-08:002005-02-04T01:02:27.826-08:00

Don't Miss The Bandirah Interview! Reminder for next week: Jeroen Mirck's online LIVE interview with the upcoming comic artist Bandirah. There are three sessions, on februari 8, 9 and 10, from 11:00 till 12:00 pm. You can follow everything LIVE at The ClickBurg Forum.

bandirahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250518956412641668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1105131704102251592005-01-07T22:03:00.000-08:002005-01-07T13:01:44.103-08:00

from now on, translations in english of my cartoons will be published on my weblog (bandirah.blogspot.com)

bandirahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250518956412641668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1104168134793625972004-12-27T09:21:00.000-08:002004-12-27T09:22:14.793-08:00

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1103671669792657982004-12-21T15:15:00.000-08:002004-12-21T15:27:49.793-08:00

Satan seems to have worked his way into a short storyline within Macadamia where Rudy seems to have died and is now getting a good talking to from a female God. Now... this means that he has died, he's talking with god, who happens to be female. However, we know the guy well enough by now to expect this to turn out really original. Isn't this also sort of in the line of Dickens' spirits of

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1102726060440338402004-12-10T16:39:00.000-08:002004-12-10T16:48:24.040-08:00

Finally, a December posting. It's not like we haven't been busy and have nothing to report, folks, it's just - and I'm speaking for myself here, if any of the other artists have something to say they should say it, since they all have access to this blog.. - the things we're working on are long-term things so to say anything about it now would be premature. But don't worry, plenty of more news to

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1101080817007205602004-11-21T15:33:00.000-08:002004-12-10T16:54:23.963-08:00

November 21st, 2004: Eric-Jan van Gorkum and Anton Dautzenberg (aka Troy Titane) had the presentation for their book "Doodspraak" in bar Cul de Sac, Tilburg (see also our news article about it). As could be expected, we're giving you a photo report of the evening - however, I found out at home that my camera was on close-up setting so everything on the stage came out blurry.. I apologise for this

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1100204193521823632004-11-11T13:07:00.000-08:002004-11-11T12:16:33.520-08:00

Protagonist.nl, the company that hosts Probeersel.com, has upgraded all their clients' accounts for free, I just found out. Which is awfully lucky, because we were nearing the 200 MB storage limit, as well as the bandwidth limit, and the former has now become 300 MB and the latter has nearly tripled ! With no extra cost whatsoever ! I must admit, with occasional trouble we've had with Protagonist

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1100076136970794842004-11-10T01:37:00.000-08:002004-11-10T00:42:16.970-08:00

Well, God.inc's returning. Tomorrow, the 11th of November, the first new episode gets public. I've done new ones for the next 5 days as well. I don't really know whether the return will be permanent or for the time being...that pretty much dependson how long I decide to go on with it.

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1099513064504626242004-11-03T13:09:00.000-08:002004-11-04T04:14:03.576-08:00

I'm pleased to announce there are two new members (most likely) coming up in the next few months. However, both members.. are Dutch ! Which makes the balance shift to 7 Dutch members and 6 non-Dutch members ! We can't have that - people will start thinking Probeersel's exclusively for Dutch members, when we all know that's not true. So if any webcomics artists out there, not of the 'Dutch

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1099080670452743882004-10-29T13:02:00.000-07:002004-10-29T13:11:10.453-07:00

Unfortunately, despite testing and bugfixing before putting the new engine into production, there are some bugs remaining. Tom and I are doing our best to figure them out, but he's of course busy with his study and can only put in occasional bits of spare time, and I'm no hero with the new database, nor with the new code he put in, so we're getting there little step by little step. The bugs

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1098654028055208322004-10-24T14:30:00.000-07:002004-10-24T15:13:46.013-07:00

It's currently Sunday night and my back and feet are sore from walking around endlessly on the Str!pdagen convention. I guess I should at least tell you all a little bit about it - I'm going to keep it brief because a bigger article should appear later this week on the site. With hopefully several pictures of myself and Bandirah in the crowd. I'm waiting for other people to put their pictures

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1098216513404977052004-10-19T13:58:00.000-07:002004-10-19T13:08:33.406-07:00

It took several weekends and evenings of my time, but now it's almost finished: I've rewritten a large part of the site's engine, replacing the file-based data storage with a MySQL database. The result is that the number of lines of code is more than halved (and the number of bytes has been reduced by 44,3% (yes, I also spend my time sometimes with useless stuff, such as this calculation)).

Probatomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948130672055977478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1097534942712774792004-10-11T15:41:00.000-07:002004-10-14T08:03:41.900-07:00

The booklet is being printed this week. This means that seven of our ten artist members will be appearing in print, most for the first time. Sure, it's just a small promo booklet, and it's in black and white, but still, there's 1500 of them being printed and as mentioned before, they'll be distributed in the Striptas on the Str!pdagen. I have the test print lying around in the house right now,

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1097364024952222452004-10-09T16:08:00.000-07:002004-10-09T16:22:20.330-07:00

Just to let all of you know, there is a site called ComicAlert out there. This nifty site checks for you wether or not your favourite webcomics have updated recently and lets you know through an automated XML-file that is specifically yours and where you can add all your favourite comics to (provided they're in their extensive list already). Given all the controversy on the web as of late about

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1096459579291664582004-09-29T14:08:00.000-07:002004-09-29T05:08:30.826-07:00

Haven't been able to go online since last friday due to the installation of my new cablemodem and the slooooowness of my Internetprovider. Anyways - I've started working on the final version of 'The New Comic' (and it isn't called 'The Wall' as some of you might've assumed already). I've made some sneakwallpapers of it including a few wallpapers for RCH, which you'll be seeing as soon as my

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1095427230627413432004-09-17T05:30:00.000-07:002004-09-17T06:26:58.916-07:00

Here's a little round of 'Us in the media' only about sites that have recently linked to us. I appreciate every link to our little initiative, especially if just out of appreciation for all the hard work we put in. So I'm taking this bit of time (during my short vacation, so feel special !) to put in a special mention for those sites who have honored us recently. It's also a small 'fuck you' to

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1095364946194835262004-09-16T13:45:00.000-07:002004-10-06T15:54:52.576-07:00

There's a new comics convention coming up in the Netherlands, the annual Str!pdagen in the Archeon, Alphen aan de Rijn. It will be on the 23rd and 24th of October, and Probeersel.com will be there ! Well - we're not there with a stand or anything, and we're not on the guest list - as with previous conventions, I will be there merely as a visitor, and who knows, perhaps some of the other artists

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1094809655760210212004-09-10T02:23:00.000-07:002004-09-10T02:49:02.746-07:00

Comic artist Dirk Arend is being interviewed here about his very informative weblog. It's in Dutch (both the interview and the weblog are) but it's worth checking out. He also mentions our blog ! But that's not what I wanted to think out loud about here. I got thinking about Doug TenNapel's comics earlier this week, and the shows Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. What is the link between both

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1094546223050147402004-09-07T01:33:00.000-07:002004-09-07T01:37:03.050-07:00

Well, the alcohol has worn off by now: another new headline at ComicBase.nl has dropped our booze fest off the front page. Still, our statistics have shown AND are showing promising growth currently, but the referrers are a bit unclear if you want to figure out where these visitors are coming from (URL-wise). A lot of people visit our site from this blog, which makes me wish Blogger had

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1094429417872377632004-09-05T17:04:00.000-07:002004-09-05T17:10:17.873-07:00

The third RCH episode is nearing completion now. The storyline's done as is the inking, all that needs work is filling in the characters, scanning it and aligning it all in PSP. 'The new comic' is taking shape now. It's going to be the most ambitious comic I've made so far because it'll involve some hardcore drawing action (yeah baby!). Maybe I'll squeeze out a teaser wallpaper in the coming

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1094316503328372032004-09-04T09:44:00.000-07:002004-09-04T09:53:30.996-07:00

For those of you who don't know yet: I have made a bet with René. I've said that if Bush gets a second term, God.inc will make a comeback. I'm just putting it down here so people can remind me of it in 2 months :) That is, íf Bushy the Pubic Prezzy gets another 4 years in the White House. We'll see...heeeheee.

Gregnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1093693554142355732004-08-28T04:43:00.000-07:002004-08-28T04:46:02.420-07:00

Got back from the UK last night and while I was on the ferry going from Dover to Dunkirk I found time to start a new episode of RCH. It's called 'Spear' and you'll be seeing it in the next couple of weeks.

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1093259559311229232004-08-23T04:02:00.000-07:002004-08-30T06:18:37.860-07:00

Over the upcoming week I'll be paying more attention to any recent mentionings of our site on other sites, message boards, news articles etc. - simply because I feel like it. I'm especially curious to see how far our P-day report travels. In any case: Getting journalists drunk helps ! Jeroen Mirck has put up a little news article on ComicBase.nl about the booze binging we did. Meanwhile, one

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1093189725214936792004-08-22T08:45:00.000-07:002004-08-22T11:57:54.783-07:00

To celebrate Probeersel.com's three year existence and its success, and also to just get together and have fun, we organised a day out in Tilburg for the Probeersel.com peeps. It turned out to be a rather nice day, even weather-wise (although rain did fall earlier that day) and we had all agreed to get together at bar Cul de Sac in Tilburg. The people who were present: Bandirah, Troy Titane,

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1093030856027410522004-08-20T12:29:00.000-07:002004-08-20T12:42:35.170-07:00

As festivals go, the Netherlands are on a roll this summer. Plenty of events and even if you subtract the events that comic artists WON'T be attending, there are STILL plenty of events this summer. Bal du Rat Mort, Haarlem, Valkenswaard, etc. etc. - and Lowlands. Yes, the music festival Lowlands is, and has been for a few years, also a comic artists event. There's a special cage - yes, seriously

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1092817051020214612004-08-18T01:11:00.000-07:002004-08-18T01:17:31.020-07:00

Well, we're nearing the day of the first big 'Probeersel Gathering' which I'm labelling P-Day here. So get your bladders in gear because there's likely to be a lot of drinking involved ! My camera still seems to be in good working condition so expect to see pictures of the big event coming up afterwards. Again, I'm not saying where it will be or when because we want to keep it sort of informal

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1091841050042030302004-08-06T18:05:00.000-07:002004-08-06T18:10:50.043-07:00

I was at the Bal du Rat Mort event in Arnhem (Netherlands) today (Friday) to check it out and had a fun day under a bright sun. I went there semi-anonymous to check it out and take a break from everything for a day, but it's such an interesting and informal gathering of artists and public that I think I might go there tomorrow (Saturday) again. If I do go, I'll be handing out Probeersel.com

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1091609001572057732004-08-04T01:35:00.000-07:002004-08-04T01:43:21.573-07:00

For those of you who didn't know this, Probeersel.com organised a small 24 Hour Comics event on February 29th this year. We received nearly immediate competition from Nat Gertler who started announcing that there was also an 'official' 24 Hour Comic Day coming up. After defending our right to have our own event ", damnit", and by the way reasonably successfully doing so, I did follow the official

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1091604056131414492004-08-04T00:16:00.000-07:002004-08-04T01:01:42.366-07:00

I recently re-read some of my first postings on the Stripliefhebbers forum, of the end of January this year. In any case, I there proudly claim Probeersel.com has a whoppin' total of FIVE members ! I read that now and chuckle. Because you know what ? We have TEN ! That's right, folks - our tenth member is official and you will be seeing his face and info, and hopefully soon also comics (since his

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1091057525417796622004-07-28T16:25:00.000-07:002004-07-28T16:32:05.416-07:00

As the talk with Reinder seems to be slowly winding down to an end (I could be wrong though) here's another two bits of exciting news. Right now we're trying to organise a get-together for the Probeersel members. Initially we were even considering a comics jam but I'd really have to pull in some favors to get it arranged on this short a notice (place to host it, advertising to make sure there'll

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1090362751179745472004-07-20T15:25:00.000-07:002004-07-20T15:32:31.180-07:00

Readers of Reinder Dijkhuis' blog know it, visitors of the Stripliefhebbers Forum probably noticed it, and I guess I should report it here as well: Reinder and I are chatting on storyline structures, webcomics, and our own comics (Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan and The Grim DotCom) here. No idea how long our chat will last, but right now I get the impression it's going well - I like Reinder's take on

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1090349249806846112004-07-20T11:43:00.000-07:002004-07-20T11:47:29.806-07:00

I reported earlier that Nozzman was trying to find out if there were enough artists interested to join in a live comics jam on the Atlantis festival. Unfortunately, not enough artists showed interest, so the whole thing's off. Bummer. Maybe better luck next year. Any interest in perhaps organising a live event just for the Probeersel peeps ? I know the Cul de Sac would be interested in hosting it

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1089636545828654612004-07-12T05:41:00.000-07:002004-07-12T05:49:05.826-07:00

Can be nice. I don't know how this stuff is generally implemented, but if the streams go trhough the probeersel.com server, it might take too much bandwidth. But let's not worry too much about this now, there are more important things, such as a new site engine and RSS feeds. Btw, hi out there, I'm a non-artist member of Probeersel.com, helping out with the technical parts :)

Probatomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06948130672055977478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1089414899841771562004-07-09T16:10:00.000-07:002004-07-09T16:14:59.840-07:00

Here's a thought for future functionality on the site that I thought I'd post. I'm noticing more and more web comics sites have webcams sections. Could be cool - webcams of our artists if they like, or even the possibility of our fans to add their cams as well ? What do you guys think ?

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1088635878724185842004-06-30T15:39:00.000-07:002004-06-30T15:51:18.723-07:00

According to the "What's so special about today?" section on Probeersel, it's been three years since I launched the short story "Chalk" and started the The Artificial Real story collection. Since then, I've only added "Rock". I guess it's high time I free my hands and at least launch another chapter (I've got several of them semi-written down) to at least make it appear like there's some

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1088517411814408382004-06-29T06:47:00.000-07:002004-06-29T06:56:51.813-07:00

Satan has resurfaced again ! And he claims to have four new episodes of Macadamia ready to upload, so we should expect to see new material appearing soon - then again, he's popped up several times the past year, so if anyone wants to start a little wager wether or not Macadamia will continue anytime soon yes or no, might be interesting. I'm hoping he will get round to uploading new stuff soon,

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1088502399945167942004-06-29T02:40:00.000-07:002004-06-29T02:46:39.946-07:00

Reasons Why We Rule has returned to the web. Their site shows the reason it went offline (including in the new episode) but the short version is that a link to the large mpeg of Matt dancing to the Mortal Kombat theme was posted on a major forum so everyone started downloading it. So they exceeded their bandwidth as mentioned, which turns out to be a whole lot sweeter than ours: they have a

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1088268365402932042004-06-26T09:35:00.000-07:002004-06-26T09:51:54.296-07:00

For those who have been paying attention to Probeersel.com's activities, or even more specifically my own, you may have noticed that we like Reasons Why We Rule. Unfortunately, for over a week now, their site is down because they've exceeded the hosting limits from their hosting provider. So all week there's been a "Site bandwidth exceeded" page on there instead. A real pity, because Matt puts up

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1087995013570775072004-06-23T05:30:00.000-07:002004-06-23T05:52:54.590-07:00

The Saiso girls noticed the review I wrote for their site on our links page and they copied it proudly onto their weblog. I've noticed some other people doing the same, like Mr. Satanism, and even Marq van Broekhoven, although in his case he proudly displayed the fact that I don't care too much for his Plintkabouter comics. I must, however, admit that I like some of his other work a whole lot

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1087154474979893012004-06-13T12:20:00.000-07:002004-06-14T00:19:40.030-07:00

Alright - with the help of Sionnain for figuring out which code to put into the template, and with the help of Blogger Help pages, we switched on the comments. Personally I think that if you want to be able to post something that people can respond to publically and you can then reply and they can reply etc. you should really just get a forum and not publish a blog, but hey, people like

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1086735747002818882004-06-08T16:01:00.000-07:002004-06-08T16:02:27.003-07:00

Reinder has another point, and I guess I've got some work cut out for me now. I'll look into it, folks. As soon as I have time.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1085873979794295752004-05-29T16:37:00.000-07:002004-05-30T04:37:20.576-07:00

I finished the second episode of RCH tonight. It's a tad bigger than 'Ball' (12 pages), it's called 'Door' and you'll be seeing it on the site either tomorrow or monday, along with two wallpapers of the series. Hopefully you'll enjoy 'reading' it and if you've got any thoughts on what it'd be about, send me an Email and we might arrange a T-shirt for you if you got it right (and no, 'Door' is

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1085348388531617612004-05-23T14:30:00.000-07:002004-05-23T14:39:48.530-07:00

Perhaps you all remember my regret about my initial response to the webcomics selection in the new Dutch Stripmuseum. Well, as I explained, this was based merely on the pictures I saw of the pillars, which gave a bad idea of what I could really find there. Then, shortly after, I decided to take back the expression of regret because, after all, I'm entitled to a nuance-free opinion in the light of

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1085133064365686132004-05-21T02:42:00.000-07:002004-05-21T02:51:04.366-07:00

RCH (pronounced 'Arch', not Ahrr-See-Eych) premiered yesterday. The comic is fairly basic and one episode fits on one piece of paper. The first episode revolves around the concept of keeping your friends close to you. That you never should try to abuse any one of them. You could say that the black figure in 'Ball' represents the US, but I'll leave that to the reader's imagination. I might just

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1085006546596289142004-05-19T15:33:00.000-07:002004-05-19T15:42:26.596-07:00

I don't think I've laughed so damn hard in quite a while as I did yesterday ! Jean-Paul Arends, comic artist behind daily comic 'Scribbly' from the Dutch 'Metro' newspaper, has admitted before that he's a semi-fan of the comic that Joep and I are doing for one year (and we're wayyyy over halfway), Worst Case Scenario. To make a long story short, he spammed the Stripster forum by posting the

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1084746821818755402004-05-16T15:14:00.000-07:002004-05-16T15:43:41.260-07:00

Out of the blue, we receive email from Satan letting us know he's alive and intends to resume the Macadamia strips ! Woooo ! I'm excited, seriously. The comic was off to a good start and I really like his work and sense of humour. So I hope he does get to resume the comic :) We're also approached by a new applicant. I'm not going into details yet because the entire staff's not quite sure wether

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1084582596992316952004-05-14T17:49:00.000-07:002004-05-14T17:56:36.993-07:00

I just realised something earlier today while posting on the Stripliefhebbersforum. There's a reporter who posts there a lot called Peter Breedveld, and I cracked this little joke about him calling my comics crap which he responded quite seriously to. I realised that it's comic artist's job to vent straight, uncensored, unnuanced opinions and remarks, and it's journalists' job to actually nuance

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1084288558019191652004-05-11T07:59:00.000-07:002004-05-11T08:15:58.020-07:00

Amazing - whereas my experience so far was that not a controversial (or non-controversial) thing I said or wrote made even a dent on anything because our community (and yours truly, as well) is constantly being (deliberately or not) overlooked, we seem to have been raising a few eyebrows lately here and there. Good news - although I'd just as well have us continue being ignored so I can continue

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1084060055346887582004-05-08T16:47:00.000-07:002004-05-13T15:34:46.563-07:00

We have another aspiring community member - his name is Bandirah and he's going to send us some audition material. I have a feeling - just from his email - that he'll be doing something very interesting, but we'll just see. If his stuff IS interesting enough, we'll have a ninth member on board, which brings me to a little betting pool I want to propose amongst us Probeersel folk: When do you

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1083292437293921862004-04-29T19:33:00.000-07:002004-04-29T19:38:14.796-07:00

Allrighty - it's the queens birthday by now, so everyone has the day off. Me too - but then, I always have the damn day off so it doesn't count. In fact, it's a disadvantage because I usually utilize my Fridays off to do some groceries shopping and I'll bet ya the stores are closed. Guess I won't be sleeping in late on Saturday... Anyway, it's that time of year again, folks: Tomorrow's May 1st -

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1082635313230611372004-04-22T04:56:00.000-07:002004-04-22T05:06:00.716-07:00

'The new comic' has now 3 pages done, but it sure isn't even near to be finished soon. The Annoyment one is stil in its 'done-but-still-needs-a-good-ending'-stage and today inspiration for a new comic came up. I've yet to come with a good title for it but it seems a pretty good project. It revolves around the adventures of two rather abstract characters. The comic's going to be mainly non-verbal

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1082505581928455582004-04-20T16:59:00.000-07:002004-04-20T17:03:47.373-07:00

For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the online comics buzz - unlike certain webmasters of this site with jobs that enable them to surf endlessly and read up on everything, PAID (you may envy me) - there's another 24 Hour Comic day coming up. In fact, many would say this is THE 24 Hour Comic Day. It celebrates 10 years of 24 Hour Comics since Scott McCloud first invented it, and the

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1082472264223334692004-04-20T07:42:00.000-07:002004-04-20T07:48:28.700-07:00

Patrick's officially joining the site - he sent me his info today and I'll be getting some pics of him and later this week the first pages of the comic. So expect to see him appear on our pages ! You heard it here first.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1082330977101882012004-04-18T16:27:00.000-07:002004-04-18T16:33:39.373-07:00

Oi...it's all about us, so why shouldn't it about the ones fresh in town? Besides, we can't handle that giant stash of beer on our own...oh wait...that was the big secret right? Dang...

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1082326178558727672004-04-18T15:09:00.000-07:002004-04-18T15:14:13.340-07:00

We may have a new member joining our community soon. His name is Patrick G. Smith, and those of you part of this site's staff have already seen his huge attachment when he sent us a page of his comic. Here's a reminder, first of all, to all new applicants: please, if you're sending us a sample of your comic, keep the image size below 500k ! Wayyyyyy below if possible - we just need to get an IDEA

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1081967617740020272004-04-14T11:33:00.000-07:002004-04-14T11:37:34.280-07:00

Alright, the bill for the site just came in again. It's a bit sooner than expected, 'Cause after al, the site doesn't exist for two years yet, does it ? Or am I really losing track... geez. Anyway, it's pricey. On a yearly basis it's still incredibly cheap, but since I only get this bill once a year and have to cough it all up within 10 days, it can seem a bit hefty. Anyway, I'm not complaining.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1081465320518443942004-04-08T15:58:00.000-07:002004-04-08T16:05:49.403-07:00

Stripster.nl pointed out the following press release. If you're all good boys and girls I might translate this at a later time - right now I'm at work, still, it's 1 at night, and I'm drop dead tired so excuse me but I'm not going to translate it. It only really applies to Dutch comic artists anyway. But since we have four of those on board at Probeersel.com, and have reasonably good relations

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1081461926348205902004-04-08T15:02:00.000-07:002004-04-08T15:09:15.140-07:00

Did some work on both 'the new comic' and the annoyment comic; the annoyment one seems to be finished now and all that remains to be done is come up with a good ending to it. 'The new comic' (I bet René hates this vague kinda stuff - heehee) has got a second page in its storyboard now and has a lot more to come. I was happy with the result and will do a third page this evening I think.

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1081347769578343602004-04-07T07:20:00.000-07:002004-04-07T07:26:52.780-07:00

Thought I'd mention here that I stumbled upon the ComixPedia-site's little story about us. Feel free to read our tiny bit of exposure - the encouraging part is the title: "Probeersel: Kind of Like the Dutch Keenspot"

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1081287347987756612004-04-06T14:35:00.000-07:002004-04-06T14:39:33.576-07:00

That's right - Worst Case Scenario got a literary edge to it as of today. I was so fed up with all the news lately about the comic artists turning renowned novels into graphic novels - especially Dick Matena who will soon be done with Gerard Reve's De Avonden, and who, though it's not a small archievement, gets majorly overhyped in my opinion (I read them) - that I thought it was time for a

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1081038596972761092004-04-03T16:29:00.000-08:002004-04-03T16:35:56.420-08:00

Yes, yes, I got the damn date wrong on The Grim DotCom. What can I say in my defense ? I dunno, maybe I have a bit too much on my plate, with having worked on a daily Worst Case Scenario, having done the Penguism prequel episodes, The Grim DotCom (which lacked new storyboards until a few days ago), a guest comic here and there, a 24 Hour Comic, restructuring the Probeersel books, the stress

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080653374342850712004-03-30T05:24:00.000-08:002004-03-30T05:33:42.153-08:00

yesterday i had a really bad day. my mom was angry at me because i didn't finish my dinner. she: eat your potatoes! i: no! my dad: both of you, go to bed! - and this time in seperate bedrooms! so you understand, it wasn't fun. a consolation: april 1st RexRex starts!

troyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04261057875612932246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080625817559719782004-03-29T21:48:00.000-08:002004-03-29T21:53:52.403-08:00

That's right! You will be assimilated!

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080596529383039862004-03-29T13:42:00.000-08:002004-03-29T13:45:44.030-08:00

The incredibly complete comics-site (with the pretty damn famous Comiclopedia) Lambiek.nl now added an article about Comics and the Web. Good for them (and about damn time) I would say. What really kinda irks me though is that, as the Netherlands' first INTERNATIONAL, SELF-FUNDED, web comics COMMUNITY, we didn't even get a pixel's worth of attention. We're getting plenty of love elsewhere on the

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080492798460588462004-03-28T08:53:00.000-08:002004-03-28T08:57:23.356-08:00

I've been digging through Reinder Dijkhuis (best known from ModernTales webcomic 'Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan')'s reasonably new blog and he writes a few interesting things here and there. He's putting together a museum exhibit on webcomics (I can't completely agree with his picks since they reveal mainly a focus on 'established pros' and fairly little on new-and-upcoming-talent, the latter of which are

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080337084454064792004-03-26T13:38:00.000-08:002004-03-26T13:41:35.013-08:00

The Dutch site Stripster.nl features weekly editions showcasing various comics. They occasionally have a theme week, which usually makes for interesting collections of comics and artists to sort of come together. Right now their Music edition just went online, and guess what ? It features some of my work *proud glow* well, of course you're supposed to send in your work if you want it to be in

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080245289980783912004-03-25T12:08:00.000-08:002004-03-25T12:11:39.360-08:00

It definately pays off to keep an eye on the Stripliefhebbers forum, I just discovered once again. Jeroen Mirck pointed out that there will be a national Media Day organised on the 18th of May (location as yet unknown) which is intended to sort of 'bridge the gap' between editors, journalists, columnists on one side, and the audience on the other, through open debates, discussions, introductions,

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080227103461100212004-03-25T06:25:00.000-08:002004-03-25T07:16:45.403-08:00

Every once in a while you get one of those great, hole-in-the-market, genious ideas. I just had one. It's loosely based on some ideas other comics had. I'll mention them first. For several years now, the brilliant online strip Slow Wave has worked with a relatively genius concept: get people to send in their weirdest dreams, and Jesse Reklaw will draw them. Yes, I sent in my own at one time, and

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080145900673119862004-03-24T08:28:00.000-08:002004-03-24T08:36:43.466-08:00

Thank you, my master. Now go clean you room otherwise it's to bed with no dinner. And I mean it!

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080128626130216662004-03-24T03:42:00.000-08:002004-03-24T03:47:37.123-08:00

I fixed the stupid template 'bug' with the left-aligning images by introducing tables. I'll save you guys the stupid details but now it's possible to just blog little text without the image on the left messing up the page. You may bow before me now.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1080100800578280262004-03-23T19:55:00.000-08:002004-03-23T20:03:27.780-08:00

Just thought I'd make an appearance. w00t! Hopefully I'll have something of some substance to say in the future. Laters

Supreme Overlord of Earthnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1079997332513929322004-03-22T15:15:00.000-08:002004-03-22T15:18:57.920-08:00

I guess I'll kick off with a bit of news, then. I finally received the November issue of De Brug, an IT-bulletin published on the Haagse Hogeschool by colleagues of mine (from my paying job) who all dutifully are finishing the education I dropped out of. They asked me to do a comic for that issue, which I did for free (to keep a bit of my integrity) as long as I could put the site's URL in it.

StatusNilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545220433141201616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1079985182201130342004-03-22T11:52:00.000-08:002004-03-22T11:57:59.610-08:00

Change the bloody colors for God's sake! No really! I'm serious! Gnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Gregnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657463.post-1079973051682758312004-03-22T08:29:00.000-08:002004-03-22T08:40:33.373-08:00

Alright. A whole new blog, just for us Probeersel people. This will keep you up to date on everything that's going on with the site and related stuff. I'm going to try to get more people authorised to publish on this. Should be an interesting experience. For now, I've invited Greg but I wasn't sure how to do it. We'll start figuring out how this works first, THEN we'll invite some other people to

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