The entire 24 Oranges team visited the Stripdagen Haarlem yesterday, a comics con that takes place only every other year.
The weather was wishy washy, leaning towards raining, but never leading to a cleansing and cooling downpour. Nevertheless, some of the sellers of second hand comics packed up early on Sunday due to the drizzle.
The indoors events largely took place at De Philharmonie where a large number of artists were busy autographing away. Famous artist Jean-Marc van Tol, whose mug (photo) can be seen on TV show De Wereld Draait Door daily, had set up shop outdoors on the terrace of Café Studio, where a camera over his head recorded his every drawing, which was then relayed to a largish screen over his head.
Gr’nn artist Naam (pun intended, but not by us) drew us a button of 24 Oranges (photo), and Belgian comic artist Dominique Goblet told Jeroen Mirck (photo) about how she transformed punishment by her mother into a philosophical event, and how when making photos she is always looking for a narrative, and therefore rarely takes just one picture.
The theme of this years event was Eastern European comics, and this reflected in the tongue-in-cheek ‘Soviet’ style of the Stripdagen’s visual branding. Students from Design Academy Eindhoven were invited to tackle the problem of signage, and did so by introducing checkpoints with ‘guards’ and ‘passports’ where visitors could ask for information.
Should you happen to find yourself in the slow train between The Hague and Rotterdam, you might come across this monthly fanzine made by Schiedam artist Ronald de Graaff and friends. 
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May 1 was the day Robert Schuit started a new cartoon blog at—guess where?—
