020 #blogjune 2020
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty,
the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Song of the Blog:
"'87 and Cry - '87 and Cry
And there's nothing inside
And there's nothing in mind"
- David Bowie
In 1987, before I turned 20 in September.... I got to see David Bowie during the glass spider tour in Rotterdam, my friend and flatmate still tried to get our movie "FLAUWOCCULT" made and I had to join the Dutch army... life was changing rapidly and there was no time for the EPPO anymore... I had stopped buying them every week and my interests were obviously elsewhere. I must confess, the new cover design with the three comic strips never appealed to me.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxyub0X9veE7aR2Db5_MbBaCp-ECZkJOymR61-OWa75YDzOFmunAm_nE1O7uFSCdNtkF1XMEJO6Y9IBtyyR2dAUHFNQOZXyJMa2XWFVHLiozyT5GS0GMuqY18qozeQxg9AV2j72UTnP8f/w640-h292/001_1987_januaryjones.jpg)
But it sure wasn't for the lack of talent - I still liked a lot of the content and it was the year that January Jones was first published. Heralded as THE NEW FRANKA (?) - it turned out to be a great series by the amazingly talented Eric Heuvel and (-yes- there's that name again) Martin Lodewijk. I have always had a soft spot for female comic book characters. My bookcase is filled with Yoko Tsuno, Natasja and of course FRANKA.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY38xOKvyIPU2z5IoNsuVYV_YcNvGqUnoVWLNQ3dyPrm3_3apnVeJQ7xJ6C4Lv_wc-rK-Nc3mpNc40U1Ffw8gXelU95hJ7MkTcibOVpPp4KB9qQ3lib__BwYb-AUQ0b9YQXTcQmPiF1VtQ/w640-h292/002_1987_yoko_franka.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxyub0X9veE7aR2Db5_MbBaCp-ECZkJOymR61-OWa75YDzOFmunAm_nE1O7uFSCdNtkF1XMEJO6Y9IBtyyR2dAUHFNQOZXyJMa2XWFVHLiozyT5GS0GMuqY18qozeQxg9AV2j72UTnP8f/w640-h292/001_1987_januaryjones.jpg)
But it sure wasn't for the lack of talent - I still liked a lot of the content and it was the year that January Jones was first published. Heralded as THE NEW FRANKA (?) - it turned out to be a great series by the amazingly talented Eric Heuvel and (-yes- there's that name again) Martin Lodewijk. I have always had a soft spot for female comic book characters. My bookcase is filled with Yoko Tsuno, Natasja and of course FRANKA.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY38xOKvyIPU2z5IoNsuVYV_YcNvGqUnoVWLNQ3dyPrm3_3apnVeJQ7xJ6C4Lv_wc-rK-Nc3mpNc40U1Ffw8gXelU95hJ7MkTcibOVpPp4KB9qQ3lib__BwYb-AUQ0b9YQXTcQmPiF1VtQ/w640-h292/002_1987_yoko_franka.jpg)
So my weekly addiction to EPPO stopped during the year of 1987 - I would still get the occasional copy or later on when in NZ I was send some whenever a story of Franka was published. But really 87 was the end of EPPO for me, not that there was nothing inside - I just had other things on my mind.
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