tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20933634218193855032024-02-02T17:52:18.553+13:00eRiQ's BLOGeRiQ lives in Taranaki with his wife Debra and a house full of books. He’s a photographer/illustrator and an author. This blog will be filled with things that inspire him.eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-25426926216783086132021-06-05T14:53:00.001+12:002021-06-05T14:53:07.983+12:00039 - #blogjune 05 - Happy Hot Air Balloon Day!<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>We should all have personal hot air balloons <br />and drift serenely through the clouds.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- <span style="font-family: arial;">Rhys Bowen</span></i></span> <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“It might seem crazy what I'm 'bout to say<br />Sunshine she's here, you can take a break<br />I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space<br />With the air,</i></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>” <br /></i></span></span></span>- Pharrell Williams<br /></span></span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GTJ8stlsdM-zUBoa3MJbqBRFd7eErSZ7S2vMbiIUAdKLLabayG6VPpudDTldOxYnaW7xUHIoiTn2qlAJ2-Ae2DgWpncNVYfkquO-B-lluxDle6SDMznN-A6IGAL8bccRet6767hpUTwH/s1666/balloonday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1666" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GTJ8stlsdM-zUBoa3MJbqBRFd7eErSZ7S2vMbiIUAdKLLabayG6VPpudDTldOxYnaW7xUHIoiTn2qlAJ2-Ae2DgWpncNVYfkquO-B-lluxDle6SDMznN-A6IGAL8bccRet6767hpUTwH/w640-h254/balloonday.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hot air balloons are the oldest form of technology for carrying humans, and so they definitely deserve to be celebrated. This day is simply about paying honor to this mode of transport, and to raise awareness about the history of transport. I can't remember actually having been in the air with one. I have been to ones that were still on the ground and a few times have seen them at special hot air balloon days in Hamilton. <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqq3VXhxKQu61-opKCrFzUN_p29iMNHk4CNE7NKR88PZcFzNaH7Q-LPlgjjVnxWmuRxNhdCaOxS-ZktIzZOHSRY4AQRHcD8hHC-Ay9bwDBDte9CCDSicZtZi80QNBMTBuY6sLesRK6W1H/s1666/balloons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1666" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqq3VXhxKQu61-opKCrFzUN_p29iMNHk4CNE7NKR88PZcFzNaH7Q-LPlgjjVnxWmuRxNhdCaOxS-ZktIzZOHSRY4AQRHcD8hHC-Ay9bwDBDte9CCDSicZtZi80QNBMTBuY6sLesRK6W1H/w640-h254/balloons.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Wow - April 2003 - THAT was a LONG time ago!<br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There have been several accidents in the news that I will always remember and that's probably what kept me from ever doing it. There was one in Florida, at Disney Springs that was basically tethered on ropes. Not quite the same experience. <br />As it is I am not a big fan of heights. I even have problems standing on bridges or high buildings. Just playing a PS4 game that will have me climb something really high can give me an unpleasant feeling in my stomach. I will stay at the bottom with my two feet, thank you very much.<br /><br /><br />Mr. Q signing off for another day of #blogjune!<br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>eRiQ<br />PO Box 60, <br />Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand</b></span></span></span><br /></span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-74825316624369269142021-06-05T14:25:00.001+12:002021-06-05T14:27:48.671+12:00038 - #blogjune 04 - Where did Friday go?<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Where did Friday go?” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- <span style="font-family: arial;">eRiQ</span></i></span> <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“Thursday goes too slow (bah-oom)<br />I've got Friday on my mind</i></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>” <br /></i></span></span></span>- David Bowie<br /></span></span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaF7Af9kqBJ-whex51yzTpVqCgg00Ig4IlYtIMys7d-gHk3uQJYXVc1Toam9CFU54i5fkbHrRfixh2DSe0zowKhmWp7eGaV_FycSFX_UmkJ66bbEeW87zXqezSW1u0VTeQSsQfc1QcdeN1/s1666/blogjune_top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1666" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaF7Af9kqBJ-whex51yzTpVqCgg00Ig4IlYtIMys7d-gHk3uQJYXVc1Toam9CFU54i5fkbHrRfixh2DSe0zowKhmWp7eGaV_FycSFX_UmkJ66bbEeW87zXqezSW1u0VTeQSsQfc1QcdeN1/w640-h254/blogjune_top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Friday I went to the beach - because our car had come back from the mechanic and I wanted to go and film some bits for another VLOG - here it is:<br />(click on the image if you dare)</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpPikNrYu4Q&t=8s" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1401" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_tas39xmFAiD4A9qqcmKmUqgIVJUehRQTPR2nJuzPfBWhDlgmdw42MmZz3NYDTgHvYTCk8NuDcOK7YcIVf9bgNOpOXZVJQfRkIFSwj0Ey3UCD34w74q6je_xkOuzpsIu0b5btYmLx26eg/w400-h225/Day5Thumb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Going to the Beach <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gcjJ_uDnU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1401" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGlTUel9FDzUaG7uBKaXxP2a45KEBNs5dPltD7AxEOJsVVDjLOX6-ZkxZgDN2P7U1LbJdQrq7qL3lCLDnP7o7l7PVUBtknyi7_RsEUu0r4Q8XfEKNgTtT6elJk1yGdS8pve84XTw0sUCDG/w400-h225/Day6Thumb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Plus my sixth vlog as well - because tecnically I am typing this on Saturday - - <br /><br />(( heck I am confused what day it is ))<br /><br />I don't know if people are actually enjoying these daily blogs, to be honest this first week has been a bit of a hectic one... with vlogging AND work etc. But I guess I should at least do my best to keep this tradition going and next week I will have a more structured schedule to fit in a more decent blog. With the crazy winter weather and no car for most of the week, it was nice to get out there again and enjoy the Taranaki coastline.<br /><br />Mr. Q signing off for another day of #blogjune!<br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>eRiQ<br />PO Box 60, <br />Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand</b></span></span></span><br /></span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-34501349379949448732021-06-03T20:27:00.002+12:002021-06-03T20:27:48.048+12:00037 - #blogjune 03 - HOLEY VLOG!<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- <span style="font-family: arial;">William Blake</span></i></span> <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“</i></span></span></span>We're on holy ground<br />Take your pride and lift it high</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>” <br /></i></span></span></span>- AHA<br /></span></span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJEZtVFlvuCH-_S9PrOIhGgS1KV8PXFLR0S0vTSI3W1ElY8x6_h0aR-Yubc7_BSjqrpBzUJHqXPvjSV2k6OetMmSzyS52GjQoqF-hsqTE0yDCNS2QGC_1JAHMV4l1Oj5hdCnfDcVYDGqJ/s1666/holey-vlog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1666" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJEZtVFlvuCH-_S9PrOIhGgS1KV8PXFLR0S0vTSI3W1ElY8x6_h0aR-Yubc7_BSjqrpBzUJHqXPvjSV2k6OetMmSzyS52GjQoqF-hsqTE0yDCNS2QGC_1JAHMV4l1Oj5hdCnfDcVYDGqJ/w640-h254/holey-vlog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My favourite rocks are the ones with holes in them, there are a lot of them to be found on the Taranaki beaches. I wrote about them in an article for our online <a href="https://issuu.com/eqube_publishing/docs/crisp_may_june__2021/8" target="_blank">magazine CRISP - click here to check it out, it is free on the ISSUU platform</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdq-3jBWXuD7kzCLUVcDwNCqPO7BLfXEuRLeqQrJ1y_HLYVLqk5cNM-4Q-QmA21rYoUD8KfPQw2ngKzDh4UaEPp73tieYOEFf2UM_nSiTMK6KH2TGqUYhT-gSmm7-Qpe-TuzGvrMFjawa/s1401/Day4Thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1401" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdq-3jBWXuD7kzCLUVcDwNCqPO7BLfXEuRLeqQrJ1y_HLYVLqk5cNM-4Q-QmA21rYoUD8KfPQw2ngKzDh4UaEPp73tieYOEFf2UM_nSiTMK6KH2TGqUYhT-gSmm7-Qpe-TuzGvrMFjawa/w400-h225/Day4Thumb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span><br />Meanwhile the fourth vlog of #vlogweek is up on YouTube with some more about 'holey rocks' and an awesome book about #Superman comics, called COVER TO COVER. Special features include a look at the evolution of the famous Superman S-shield and it's a showcase of Superman covers from around the world. As for the fastest runner, Superman or the Flash... I believe that that title went out to the latter of the two. The only thing running right here, has been my nose. Because as you know it is winter here in New Zealand and the mornings are getting rather <a href="https://issuu.com/eqube_publishing/docs/crisp_may_june__2021" target="_blank">CRISP</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYn9HGYH3_Ib2dXRuhX8_KNZwh9pIt_tQD_2GpxBhi5XOxdGF1Ij1I8VCcyG4H2XC140RqZr6CnGhmPw8dS-HUlgLAX1ib57UVJ50u8YYcvUt4nNGkk94LlfZPV2V6S2JsTqVEx-nUqXq1/s2048/running-day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="2048" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYn9HGYH3_Ib2dXRuhX8_KNZwh9pIt_tQD_2GpxBhi5XOxdGF1Ij1I8VCcyG4H2XC140RqZr6CnGhmPw8dS-HUlgLAX1ib57UVJ50u8YYcvUt4nNGkk94LlfZPV2V6S2JsTqVEx-nUqXq1/w640-h470/running-day.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the EPPO newsgroup I celebrated RUNNING day, by showing some of the covers of the EPPO magazine that featured running. Who knew there was a special day for that, it's like there's a day for ANYTHING these days! I wish there was a day dedicated to people sending parcels to Dutch people in New Zealand. Well, if THAT day ever pops up, I do have an address handy that you could use when you want to run to the post office with any special surprises!<br /><br />Mr. Q signing off for another day of #blogjune!<br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>eRiQ<br />PO Box 60, <br />Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand</b></span></span></span><br /></span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-34075736731461899752021-06-02T13:54:00.000+12:002021-06-02T13:54:42.421+12:00036 - #blogjune 02 - Rocks, vlogs and beaches<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Be still as a rock and you will see which way the tide flows.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- <span style="font-family: arial;">Anthony T. Hincks</span></i></span> <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“</i></span></span></span>I am a rock - I am an island<br />And a rock feels no pain<br />And an island never cries</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>” <br /></i></span></span></span>- Simon & Garfunkel<br /></span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsI9cyHDc5iG_NavQg6E5-1d3Rbs7oia85JCAtcYqdNgnu-Q26HVkRmhDmPNiJtczzj2NbkN9Lrb7F1Y6Eq8HOw9zuuh4jsuFmcxCwAUJ51C0Ri5nAVXge1sLBJuvB_t-etZna3bIXeOqJ/s1666/20210507_133808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1666" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsI9cyHDc5iG_NavQg6E5-1d3Rbs7oia85JCAtcYqdNgnu-Q26HVkRmhDmPNiJtczzj2NbkN9Lrb7F1Y6Eq8HOw9zuuh4jsuFmcxCwAUJ51C0Ri5nAVXge1sLBJuvB_t-etZna3bIXeOqJ/w640-h254/20210507_133808.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you know me, you know I love rocks. Going to the local beach, looking for them - taking photos and or stacking them is like a form of meditation for me. Just me and the rocks. Maybe I then become one with the rocks and feel no pain. That is of course unless one of them falls on my head, which with these Taranaki cliffs is always possible. I have actually witnessed a big rock slide one morning as I walked on the beach. That puts things in perspective and makes you respect nature and its forces.<br /><br /></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/OcU0o4e0D0M" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1401" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUOTBsTYfO67BzuQQHNxcO2sq8ZmJWf6pTQNt0Lb9cyIO6A_dwY5U1xqbgiFf6Uo0RSg4GegDLAP-n6jo0xJ9HT1BQHzRoVuVuc4NvOOeWhzdMVSmWMw74LDtsTuwogLT1X4mMdL93uCc/w400-h225/Day3Thumb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />The third vlog of #vlogweek is up on YouTube as we speak, the first two got about 90 and 60 views - so I know at least SOMEONE is watching them. I don't create them for the views, it's just a fun thing to do - but it is nice to see there's an audience out there beyond my 27 subscribers. I should promote it more on my Instagram account this week, as over there I have over 4000 followers.<br />Not bad for 50+ Dutch Kiwi Author/illustrator/photographer/art director<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVfLABtRxTzT415a4AyySv2UvlMtWFjLR2-q23ZZh4EQ9AuKaO1xBqk9H0ejlWCea_SU4pMS-taYLV00flH3j_09SXscDVVOjuRJ9asEWjlI3IeS6gjSieNyqr7KJ1bY-lznmFnr2dVrVh/s1712/reface_app1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1712" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVfLABtRxTzT415a4AyySv2UvlMtWFjLR2-q23ZZh4EQ9AuKaO1xBqk9H0ejlWCea_SU4pMS-taYLV00flH3j_09SXscDVVOjuRJ9asEWjlI3IeS6gjSieNyqr7KJ1bY-lznmFnr2dVrVh/w640-h364/reface_app1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I saw the horse faces on James Bond in the Kikker Comics vlog, it reminded me of all the fun apps that I have used over the years. Last week, I finally had a go at REEFACE. A great app for fun face swapping, highly addictive. I placed my face on James Bond, but I didn't recognize myself at all. And I just had to do one with the vlog-father, Michael. If this vlogchallenge was like the series FRIENDS, he would be Joey. Check out the vlog for the clips!<br /><br />Meanwhile if you are thinking of sending me something for my birthday in September make sure you send it way ahead of time. I am still waiting for an EPPO magazine that was send to me weeks ago. I am hoping to review it once it gets here, but I am not sure if it will make the #vlogweek series.<br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>eRiQ<br />PO Box 60, <br />Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand</b></span></span></span><br /></span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-7815609125988201572021-06-01T16:04:00.002+12:002021-06-01T16:04:48.290+12:00035 - Vlogging an old horse #blogjune 01<p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- <span style="font-family: arial;">Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart </span></i></span> <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“</i></span></span></span>When the going gets tough<br />The tough get going, tough, tough, huh, huh, huh</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>” <br /></i></span></span></span>- Billy Ocean<br /></span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihH1Pq7Ozms_wEj5scfGJuzjpzb3F6wtOT-2GhLBpvMZA0l5zZgCPkmaHHyxvuyBRyqm-uS4-ndkim92YdL3p-4F-5AJbsFWl3ihr9PvoIHAmEq03Wbqr_lm4AeodFsYeww-8AQvn0dqcK/s1476/me-vlogging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1476" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihH1Pq7Ozms_wEj5scfGJuzjpzb3F6wtOT-2GhLBpvMZA0l5zZgCPkmaHHyxvuyBRyqm-uS4-ndkim92YdL3p-4F-5AJbsFWl3ihr9PvoIHAmEq03Wbqr_lm4AeodFsYeww-8AQvn0dqcK/w640-h298/me-vlogging.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8hTzwb8X5WKFcf4IO-EFzQ" target="_blank">Michael Minneboo </a>started this challenge called #vlogweek, in which he would be vlogging every day for a full week. He encouraged others to join on this 'crusade' of geeky goodness and soon enough all the usual suspects were filming their comic books and using clever effects to fill a minimum of 30 seconds.<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_AQTYiEQ52QDBHmeYR5OVjhylb552gMrNnqf3Cm-u8ntaKvsKti0pj-nM_lQg_f8y6z0XHI78gL_mP-T_iQFh-U5n0e7YL2R0xv04RUJMd4E6-cN77hi_8IZbA-G-loH1L8ThFR4UkQo/s1712/02-vlog-week-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1712" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_AQTYiEQ52QDBHmeYR5OVjhylb552gMrNnqf3Cm-u8ntaKvsKti0pj-nM_lQg_f8y6z0XHI78gL_mP-T_iQFh-U5n0e7YL2R0xv04RUJMd4E6-cN77hi_8IZbA-G-loH1L8ThFR4UkQo/w640-h364/02-vlog-week-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><br />So far I have been having fun, doing a rock and a comic of the day feature and showing some of my garden and today I walked to the local park because our car is at the garage waiting for parts to arrive. So no trips to the beach this week.<br />Don't worry, I have plenty other ideas and stuff to show.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmLSG406cY0&t=1s" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIOyvu0Jf1VffcJ14_MhWuwbab6h1qJdAOkRmTemN3Uqb7RCrP4aW5A4Uf_DlhjgI3P-W0kKq2xLsjzAMDJa4hBXbP5KshUdcJgY5MAyFMHQ0HzJQLmGfpwnEPNl0HVof7W_Pwo_QK6Jo/s320/Day+one+Thumb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFRMzPvSeY" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYLV1HA7GfnhBqWOP5f3ULmbfEITQaSOnscArHKjqVCN74Jr1vzlCslEmZGO2j50LWtVoOiSzDb9phddUcD7yDjvlNSHjtGVi2SE4EArSQRdfpo4w-hmC5M50kMo6Hucoflt3zXPdn-De/s320/Daytwo-Thumb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The first to days are now available on YouTube - with another FIVE to follow.<br />Click on the thumbnails to go directly to each day and make sure to subscribe and like the videos as that will motivate me to make more vlogs in the future.<br />For now #blogJUNE has also begun - how will I fit it all in?<br />Well, at least with no car for a week I am stuck at home anyway!<br />Let me know if there are any things you would like me to VLOG about and I will see if I can fit it into this vlogweek or any potential future editions.<br /><br />If you have any books or products that you would like me to review, you can send them to eRiQ / Mr.Q - <br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>PO Box 60, <br />Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand</b></span></span></span><br /></span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-36367473354560446622021-05-25T20:17:00.000+12:002021-05-25T20:17:02.017+12:00034 - It's time to come together<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- <span style="font-family: arial;">Natalia Kills</span></i></span> <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /><i><span style="font-family: times;">"</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">It's time to come together<br />It's up to you, what's your pleasure?<br />Everyone around the world, come on"</span></i><br />- Kool & The Gang</span><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Yxa9F9U97RRA8N_7s-W5PHioNY7hhNauEldBxL12Yyekj0_OgOOD5ol4myt_TQ6dawEntjT_A5nMj_IdKl5m750RQlQzgrocWgJihcgdfRYShYLxAWZPKRjT8XAOVKwntu9OcqFPdz11/s1417/001_25thMay2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1417" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Yxa9F9U97RRA8N_7s-W5PHioNY7hhNauEldBxL12Yyekj0_OgOOD5ol4myt_TQ6dawEntjT_A5nMj_IdKl5m750RQlQzgrocWgJihcgdfRYShYLxAWZPKRjT8XAOVKwntu9OcqFPdz11/w640-h268/001_25thMay2021.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On
Facebook I saw that one of my favourite comic book artists, Eric
Heuvel, turned 61 today - I still have seven years to go before I reach
that 'milestone'... We used to send cards to people we knew for their
birthdays, now it's a quick message on Facebook. Times have changed and
it's amazing how fast time has gone and how there are so many things we
look back on. <br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQj4I4bjOT_XVtCkBibBz73Zxx2QvAJbwa_likDtJkdiPLRYEDAf8sr-c_axWDBLdP9UV0ysnbjmchCr1ks4_g-l5zNpuCvVqM5Pp_bzgcGjG0pRvYBFHhDhkZ8WFhB2V192PR_dLMXWZ3/s1417/002_25thMay2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1417" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQj4I4bjOT_XVtCkBibBz73Zxx2QvAJbwa_likDtJkdiPLRYEDAf8sr-c_axWDBLdP9UV0ysnbjmchCr1ks4_g-l5zNpuCvVqM5Pp_bzgcGjG0pRvYBFHhDhkZ8WFhB2V192PR_dLMXWZ3/w640-h268/002_25thMay2021.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><br />Today, the 25th of May, was the day my dad was cremated back in 1999. I went back to Holland that year and stayed several months. I even worked for a design agency in Zoetermeer for a while before going back to New Zealand. I used the building of the place I worked for the one my comic book character works from. A comic that I have been working on for too many years now and really need to finalise. I am hoping this might be the year.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhu71_6Z_yTrcPYXSd8-M_GObJ2c_eU_CKpAg06L5r6ZpNy3uyzJNBaARUJZubu-pzIRCH7zP3BFRL2Z1Rbq2joX8gClhY8fFyFfgCw8KOyKRctCbWpUgX68yECwtlxAPR2akV1PkNdEsG/s1417/003_25thMay2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1417" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhu71_6Z_yTrcPYXSd8-M_GObJ2c_eU_CKpAg06L5r6ZpNy3uyzJNBaARUJZubu-pzIRCH7zP3BFRL2Z1Rbq2joX8gClhY8fFyFfgCw8KOyKRctCbWpUgX68yECwtlxAPR2akV1PkNdEsG/w640-h268/003_25thMay2021.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Also today in New Zealand the tv show Shortland Street is 29 today! Which means this year it has also been that long since I arrived in this country. Big celebration next year, as it will then mark 30 years. I have lived longer in NZ then I have in Holland.<br /><br /></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2DArentEuraHxo0jiOyKlYH5ALsIm6BMhrFOOdb865YhqywK5OwxTCn3IrCIASaeV5B4prD74yPhbowOsWEbYWUsT6VBEsg249yHwOkB8oPtj5FzyXXfpW9x_JUC3LW_WQX85O7PBO9j/s1417/004_25thMay2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1417" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2DArentEuraHxo0jiOyKlYH5ALsIm6BMhrFOOdb865YhqywK5OwxTCn3IrCIASaeV5B4prD74yPhbowOsWEbYWUsT6VBEsg249yHwOkB8oPtj5FzyXXfpW9x_JUC3LW_WQX85O7PBO9j/w640-h268/004_25thMay2021.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Plus it was 44 years ago today that Star Wars was first released! I still remember being 10 or maybe 11 and being blown away by the first movie.<br />The orginal toys are still in my collection - most of them, as I somehow lost the original R2D2 and my Obi-wan-Kenobi.<br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyn9TgsaF8N8jBIZtzuehXTkdA_7HlEUSAkXI8nasd4w4Kh6LhRvjl0C5KF-OKGuGMZVxBTEYfGPQlo7iKABx_h1LU1KxImY8gKZAeKonHJ8olS3imzNV0lHtGT_67FcO0BxKV9qXqIbm-/s1417/005_25thMay2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1417" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyn9TgsaF8N8jBIZtzuehXTkdA_7HlEUSAkXI8nasd4w4Kh6LhRvjl0C5KF-OKGuGMZVxBTEYfGPQlo7iKABx_h1LU1KxImY8gKZAeKonHJ8olS3imzNV0lHtGT_67FcO0BxKV9qXqIbm-/w640-h268/005_25thMay2021.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />So
many celebrations today, as we finish of with 'Towel Day' -- this is
celebrated every May 25 as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas
Adams. I celebrated it by folding the towels! <br /><br />What are you celebrating today?</span></span></span></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-27638172242116082472021-05-24T21:05:00.000+12:002021-05-24T21:05:26.859+12:00033 - Back to the Blogging<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>I knew I was alone in a way <br />that no earthling has ever been before.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- </i></span>Michael Collins <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /><i><span style="font-family: times;">"</span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. <br />And you coming
back to me is against all odds <br />and that's what I've got to face."</span></i><br />- Phil Collins</span><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9oE5dhypFducnph1ImcvDbvZfHFD-kvXyPv67YUbeGEPaHyuqETkaEFuVAhFW2cra8shpUOv2FXcTqThXg_Hahb-6SRJ-Sk8F7x2G8duX-4ckPQO_JpAKD9yjaiodsDHoi6WVUfMDT0T/s2410/20210403_105502-01.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="2410" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9oE5dhypFducnph1ImcvDbvZfHFD-kvXyPv67YUbeGEPaHyuqETkaEFuVAhFW2cra8shpUOv2FXcTqThXg_Hahb-6SRJ-Sk8F7x2G8duX-4ckPQO_JpAKD9yjaiodsDHoi6WVUfMDT0T/w640-h312/20210403_105502-01.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Okay - I know... It sure has been a while... <br />I guess the last few years have been quite surreal. To be honest I have been thinking of getting back to blogging for a long time - I have been looking at that empty space when I opened my blogger tab that was still open on the top of my browser. It's not that I haven't been busy.. I have finished writing a trilogy, illustrated two children's books, put together some poetry books and worked on several other publications (QUBE, NZO, COMIQ and CRISP) - There are still some other projects that I hope to finish this year (secret stuff) that I will be blogging about in times to come. The month of June is coming up and that's always been a challenge for me to blog EVERY day. LET'S DO THIS !!!<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDUVe4wGOIWZc_lKouFhIDdVeuPvC7hAasDcH_lRqoHWQxe1LE954r4VVQl42bkLl45q8a4RsN8UyZWYPY0AEkNHhEoeFLRNGvJh5uWBJhfi1eXoUIavkv5Ioy3YK61XhQrFqUBfIsfuj/s1985/today_IN_HISTORY_HULK.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1775" data-original-width="1985" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDUVe4wGOIWZc_lKouFhIDdVeuPvC7hAasDcH_lRqoHWQxe1LE954r4VVQl42bkLl45q8a4RsN8UyZWYPY0AEkNHhEoeFLRNGvJh5uWBJhfi1eXoUIavkv5Ioy3YK61XhQrFqUBfIsfuj/w640-h572/today_IN_HISTORY_HULK.jpg" width="640" /></a></span> <br />The other thing that I have been enjoying is posting EPPO magazine related posts, I have started doing it a while ago and have been getting some nice reactions. They are on the 'DE JAREN EPPO' Facebook group, run by Ger Apeldoorn. To be fair, I almost stopped posting stuff on 'Fakebook', but its comic (and Stephen King) groups have actually still remained a source of fun reading on a daily basis. <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2gv7LK1cSZSqyihdv5-1i0BdTBVPV6ULC9brQfnbpG8-30MjADqAWpySugXaXrLmclLQphQzrhqvPDl0n3XZV0aLf-p5QQDuzJx11IZsdVj1YTHRRpR8dO1hLQXYA_D0dx6TDWd97ZhO/s2048/astronomy-day.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2gv7LK1cSZSqyihdv5-1i0BdTBVPV6ULC9brQfnbpG8-30MjADqAWpySugXaXrLmclLQphQzrhqvPDl0n3XZV0aLf-p5QQDuzJx11IZsdVj1YTHRRpR8dO1hLQXYA_D0dx6TDWd97ZhO/w562-h640/astronomy-day.jpg" width="562" /></a></span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For the EPPO FB group I normally find out what is celebrated on that particular day and then find any related images in the pages of EPPO - For those unfamiliar with the name, it's a Dutch comic magazine that has been around since 1975. I read them all till about 1987. There was a break for several years, but it came back in full glory in 2009. With all the familiar comic stories and a range of new talent as well. Just looking through the pages brings me joy and it is fun to be able to put a smile on other people's faces who come across these posts and hopefully it makes them remember the great times they had reading these comics.</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZnK9QYyfg1tTpIyOjVFXHg3SV3rLgJuIkhW3snYoKJRd3lDEB4xiQ8EZgiWXdim5sxB4b49pBgbuNWURCZ9lOYpdKolJBySLZtBXETQqb_Xb-XREjbj9a3BpTuB_1J82koF_nbFIE2iZ/s2048/bike2workday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZnK9QYyfg1tTpIyOjVFXHg3SV3rLgJuIkhW3snYoKJRd3lDEB4xiQ8EZgiWXdim5sxB4b49pBgbuNWURCZ9lOYpdKolJBySLZtBXETQqb_Xb-XREjbj9a3BpTuB_1J82koF_nbFIE2iZ/w562-h640/bike2workday.jpg" width="562" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We all need more joy in life - and by the way - MAIL brings me JOY - why don't people embrace the old letters and parcels again? Feel free to send me some mail (you are most welcome to add books and or other surprises)
to:<br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>eRiQ, <br />PO Box 60, <br />Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand<br /></b></span></span></span></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-1349639788025018392020-12-14T09:52:00.005+13:002021-02-03T10:46:31.288+13:00032 - A post card from the other side of the world <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> “The world before us is a postcard, <br />and I imagine the story we are writing on it.” </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>- </i></span>Mary E. Pearson, The Miles Between <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:</b><br /><i><span style="font-family: times;">"Two of us sending postcards<br />Writing letters... On my wall<br />You and me burning matches<br />Lifting latches"</span></i><br />- The Beatles</span><br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TQ8tl-Pdv929U8jMn-GevMRvCvN8ROhrzfa7XCpyXbDRH4dYLCZj01-Nbb1Z1eD7Bzb57FsGtYSt7UnlHEnOaY6PgPYPWRBcefrFR6gEuaUABgzcIbWupp6uaPqXTradHSCy3N-WSgX8/s2048/20190727_133240.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="2048" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TQ8tl-Pdv929U8jMn-GevMRvCvN8ROhrzfa7XCpyXbDRH4dYLCZj01-Nbb1Z1eD7Bzb57FsGtYSt7UnlHEnOaY6PgPYPWRBcefrFR6gEuaUABgzcIbWupp6uaPqXTradHSCy3N-WSgX8/w640-h354/20190727_133240.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />The other day was chatting with someone about postcards. Do people still send them? Or is everything electronic these days? These days to people even still send letters or cards... I used to get a lot of postcards and had been collecting them over the years. Once I moved to New Zealand, </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I got rid of a lot of my collections</span></span>. Like my large sticker collection. Where most kids would plaster their doors and books etc with stickers, mine never even left their plastic base. I donated that box during the big purge of 1992 and sometimes I wonder if that person still kept them after all those years.<br />As I was going through some old archive boxes, I did come across a nice folder that had some of my Hein De Kort collection inside, including several post cards. <br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXCqir8HSHnOcMH8OqEjgQCAiGHxcH4olL5uC0RfWilIVu-eXtVFFxSJ_-4x_ZnBKOi_aHSoDZXvSVWWQSTr-En89JgIalxJW_W3t0MvcG0HiDhGsz-7oUDAgp8aIPhX1v0jK0poSmy44/s2048/stickers_hein-de-kort-1992.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="2048" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXCqir8HSHnOcMH8OqEjgQCAiGHxcH4olL5uC0RfWilIVu-eXtVFFxSJ_-4x_ZnBKOi_aHSoDZXvSVWWQSTr-En89JgIalxJW_W3t0MvcG0HiDhGsz-7oUDAgp8aIPhX1v0jK0poSmy44/w640-h500/stickers_hein-de-kort-1992.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOw5PG-Yu0CHuEb5MWGR_FxFKRwGMTfrxm38nrCyv3GO0oBf8jwGjQdTTZaedDF1bGNmR5Y99L-d5FxtYOna_FCDjas9TwdGhQWQH-oOHsM251HxtZ6r-2PtY5fgK3I5TZbJqefqM6MiJD/s1575/blog_hein-de-kort2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1575" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOw5PG-Yu0CHuEb5MWGR_FxFKRwGMTfrxm38nrCyv3GO0oBf8jwGjQdTTZaedDF1bGNmR5Y99L-d5FxtYOna_FCDjas9TwdGhQWQH-oOHsM251HxtZ6r-2PtY5fgK3I5TZbJqefqM6MiJD/w640-h342/blog_hein-de-kort2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hein is a Dutch
cartoonist and was the winner of the 1992 Stripschapprijs. When I look
through most of my old Dutch clippings and collections, it becomes quite
clear 1992 is the year I left Holland. This folder full of goodies was
book-ended by some the "Hein de Kort stickers" from the time that he won
the award.<br /><br /></span></span>Now, why do I still keep these things. you might wonder. They are inside a folder, inside a box, inside a cupboard, inside the garage. Why do people keep things... It's part of a (incomplete) collection... great memories of a time many years ago. They probably won't mean much to anyone after I leave this planet. Most of my collection will probably end up in a great big container, destined for the landfill of perpetual rubbish. </span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBdDUBRcOnm_jrnGQgycbe8WW9w3PsDcfjptQHk7dPayaofcwktgz0QokhPu3EB4Gil416Yp7E3Czpx_2FkFq67SzytaoRMOKJvyFXcn_Gj0n3xc7prWVQft3-FoWNOFIP4WdQcMDe6AyQ/s1025/hein-de-kort-info.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBdDUBRcOnm_jrnGQgycbe8WW9w3PsDcfjptQHk7dPayaofcwktgz0QokhPu3EB4Gil416Yp7E3Czpx_2FkFq67SzytaoRMOKJvyFXcn_Gj0n3xc7prWVQft3-FoWNOFIP4WdQcMDe6AyQ/s1025/hein-de-kort-info.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="1025" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBdDUBRcOnm_jrnGQgycbe8WW9w3PsDcfjptQHk7dPayaofcwktgz0QokhPu3EB4Gil416Yp7E3Czpx_2FkFq67SzytaoRMOKJvyFXcn_Gj0n3xc7prWVQft3-FoWNOFIP4WdQcMDe6AyQ/w640-h456/hein-de-kort-info.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Hein de Kort was one of my favourite cartoonists in Holland, you would find his work in so many publications. It seemed there was no stopping him. From small gags to full page colour comic strip stories. His often messy style adds to the charm of his work, including his very personal lettering. Even his use of language, is so typical Dutch and probably - like most of his imagery highly offensive, especially in these sensitive times. But my generation in Holland grew up with his humour inside family and kid's magazines.<br /><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwdsVsyCANjW0p8J7ISnNjghFmbuC-Dk95Q1ykwGw8rsWXxI9CGkACAlT7KE1ckpNjiD4FRpOZlZ0FPopEnTAGDUOSPsVUQYJN52iAbk6ljzxRUob-HJsrvJ1OBMjQLbU9Y8UosowfsS8/s817/hein-de-kort-info2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="817" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwdsVsyCANjW0p8J7ISnNjghFmbuC-Dk95Q1ykwGw8rsWXxI9CGkACAlT7KE1ckpNjiD4FRpOZlZ0FPopEnTAGDUOSPsVUQYJN52iAbk6ljzxRUob-HJsrvJ1OBMjQLbU9Y8UosowfsS8/w640-h424/hein-de-kort-info2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Back in 1986 I was 19 and reading the book "<i> En wie is nou het vrouwtje</i>"; over 75 pages filled with comics and stories with homo-sexuality as its theme. Hein created the cover and supplied about five pages. A self described book of self-mockery and romance. I believe I for it for a few dollars in the 80's, I have seen it online for sale for around $25 now. I am not sure where the imagery in this book stands these days as we live in conflicting times where on one hand people can be who they want to be, but on the other hand if a nipple gets shown on social media you could get banned for life. Isn't all about acceptance in life? Of everyone... no matter what your sexuality, religion, race and or sex is. </span><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the end, we all should just start to collect more joy, ...oh, and send more postcards. Send YOUR postcards (and or books and other surprises) to:<br /><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>eRiQ, PO Box 60, Hawera 4640<br />New Zealand<br /></b></span></span></span></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-69563025420880941452020-11-16T08:21:00.001+13:002020-12-17T09:24:38.278+13:00031 - Thinking outside the QUBE <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXef3YsyBUYA9FQtoudTpPTQrycqXc0ImaBuplks40o9vuQf_CWPea3tu3yXAepeNM6G-hwL79OiZUB2Oz4_Sh8I9IfX3desna96G1XhwzTCw8Zb-H1ioqXUa8W6hcdautRqFvSEjfC9Jp/s1417/20200725_115625-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="1417" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXef3YsyBUYA9FQtoudTpPTQrycqXc0ImaBuplks40o9vuQf_CWPea3tu3yXAepeNM6G-hwL79OiZUB2Oz4_Sh8I9IfX3desna96G1XhwzTCw8Zb-H1ioqXUa8W6hcdautRqFvSEjfC9Jp/w640-h270/20200725_115625-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></h2><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Okay, so 2020 has been quite a ride - and we still have some weeks left (SIX to be exact). I have been meaning to blog more, but life seemed like one big BLUR - <br />> EAT - SLEEP - </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">DRINK </span></span></span></span> - REPEAT <<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzzjpgDG50pMtXZIekrrm6jmYlvtC684JCEn1jPSKasBwkBc_q_WyBAA8pm-qUHpwoazFW2tgMHep9btiT41OKFPtYRVVdz2DKz50VdKf-9iX-sajOx9PI5oJ9MbzWV3pe5asICBKI0W7/s356/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzzjpgDG50pMtXZIekrrm6jmYlvtC684JCEn1jPSKasBwkBc_q_WyBAA8pm-qUHpwoazFW2tgMHep9btiT41OKFPtYRVVdz2DKz50VdKf-9iX-sajOx9PI5oJ9MbzWV3pe5asICBKI0W7/s320/images.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></span><br /><br />There are always cool things to write about though, like how I am working hard on the third novel of my SHOCK-trilogy and there are plenty of other interesting projects I have been working on that I will talk about in later blogs.<br /></span><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gx-tw4r5xJnX5NqNvKo7FHVsxuuYIE5OpTlnZIIWNdCSXlUL5waGpbIoY9O_xRVWJt1BdU1ac8NfC9j76IgaTAuf2VSFxk4Qx-ua2rLl9DLKdY8My6BygUnv3S00V0eFZyok2XJnSnTM/s800/linkedin_BANNER_august2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gx-tw4r5xJnX5NqNvKo7FHVsxuuYIE5OpTlnZIIWNdCSXlUL5waGpbIoY9O_xRVWJt1BdU1ac8NfC9j76IgaTAuf2VSFxk4Qx-ua2rLl9DLKdY8My6BygUnv3S00V0eFZyok2XJnSnTM/w640-h160/linkedin_BANNER_august2020.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eriq_nz_author/" target="_blank">new author Instagram</a> has been growing steadily - with over 1900 followers this morning. I have met some interesting people through IG chat from all over the world and it is great to share a passion for reading and books.<br /></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDK3tXHUdR1Grr6Hild6eUXRb1SShG8nldWyQrpNOws7yFWJtA_s6kze6365ztwJEF-Usj3GshX3FuDbY1hZKS8faeZ1s4zKU5b53nADmmUsKcemGaOlcDu6TO5BBUj3R0tUf4X-hf3v2v/s1086/2020-11-16_071718.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1086" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDK3tXHUdR1Grr6Hild6eUXRb1SShG8nldWyQrpNOws7yFWJtA_s6kze6365ztwJEF-Usj3GshX3FuDbY1hZKS8faeZ1s4zKU5b53nADmmUsKcemGaOlcDu6TO5BBUj3R0tUf4X-hf3v2v/w640-h176/2020-11-16_071718.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></span><br /><br />With our publishing company <a href="http://eqube.co.nz/">eQuBe</a>, I have also managed to create another <a href="https://issuu.com/eqube_publishing/docs/002_qube_spring_2020">QUBE</a> magazine and a new project: <a href="https://issuu.com/eqube_publishing/docs/comiq001">COMIQ. </a>The latter is to be a pop-culture related project - a bit like an extension of this blog, but placed in a digital magazine. <br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LoW7iJQ3n2uiSfVcMpGauBXNgxpPE0CgF5vnN0jtZyHW_z6y2sUDp3UDx60y9WNK-cD6zwzDpxouoAqA1VXLJljJYP47AH0sj5NIoWYgwEZ0JitcpIqdmJawwarvYvvbQWBQ6ULwOTMF/s990/QUBE2_-for_IG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="990" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LoW7iJQ3n2uiSfVcMpGauBXNgxpPE0CgF5vnN0jtZyHW_z6y2sUDp3UDx60y9WNK-cD6zwzDpxouoAqA1VXLJljJYP47AH0sj5NIoWYgwEZ0JitcpIqdmJawwarvYvvbQWBQ6ULwOTMF/w238-h238/QUBE2_-for_IG.jpg" width="238" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_As9o4tPJSITaPQBMrLzcbwc1hUSoHEs5YxCBk4InvtZJJvc_LxAjOComhtD51z8GhVh6qMtzL0gfwJkWvjHqpvizIxHHwb9ol5gRw697IA7eaU69IGbXcPToStz0C-eOoMUUcvpLvktQ/s990/COMIQ1_-for_IG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="990" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_As9o4tPJSITaPQBMrLzcbwc1hUSoHEs5YxCBk4InvtZJJvc_LxAjOComhtD51z8GhVh6qMtzL0gfwJkWvjHqpvizIxHHwb9ol5gRw697IA7eaU69IGbXcPToStz0C-eOoMUUcvpLvktQ/w226-h226/COMIQ1_-for_IG.jpg" width="226" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LoW7iJQ3n2uiSfVcMpGauBXNgxpPE0CgF5vnN0jtZyHW_z6y2sUDp3UDx60y9WNK-cD6zwzDpxouoAqA1VXLJljJYP47AH0sj5NIoWYgwEZ0JitcpIqdmJawwarvYvvbQWBQ6ULwOTMF/s990/QUBE2_-for_IG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></span></span><br />That gives you a bit of an update as to some of the projects I have been working on. I am hoping to start blogging more regularly again. With summer not far away here in New Zealand, I usually wake up very early and will do my best to use that time writing a blog about something. Or maybe even a vlog or two?<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><br /></span></p>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-32973474850838176422020-06-30T11:40:00.002+12:002020-06-30T11:40:57.840+12:00030 #blogjune 2020 - Yo Rick and a ballad of eRiCKs<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">030 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><p>“<i>“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”</i><i>”</i><br />- Erik Satie<br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“Would you know my name<br />if I saw you in heaven?<br />Would you feel the same<br />if I saw you in heaven?</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- Eric Clapton<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrIVczu9NM9SgjxQv3-kDjWlDyh_Tbd-l0tyLTAFf9xT78WAtVqGrpzxgUWxOoRBuSZovqMozQqtjsnYyCmFEZILA8K0LGaA_oGWNUVd8tOvZW4MaO8dOdbU0KWlCrVoKin04prjvlxpI/s1417/030blog_eriqs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="1417" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrIVczu9NM9SgjxQv3-kDjWlDyh_Tbd-l0tyLTAFf9xT78WAtVqGrpzxgUWxOoRBuSZovqMozQqtjsnYyCmFEZILA8K0LGaA_oGWNUVd8tOvZW4MaO8dOdbU0KWlCrVoKin04prjvlxpI/w640-h312/030blog_eriqs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Today is the last day of #blogjune - <a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2020/05/001-blogjune-2020-rip-eric.html">I started the blogs with an Eric</a>, so I thought I might as well end it with an Eric - and an eRiQ as well. What's in a name... </font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://youtu.be/-ky2GS5l8Kk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1312" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguX6Lu8TEM2n-RVKfS6qHzLtA16POGx41mCbqv4QMW3sBn3DO8wkDQAcYFofzIdnzM7rtsZXgKHTLhTuwe_RLIXBVKcIHvDIOFvd6xiIdYdafxJIItFdgF9qu9wI7T48qauGJxQBQZlF9J/w640-h380/030blog_eric_vlog.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">This morning I watched another <a href="https://youtu.be/-ky2GS5l8Kk" target="_blank">LIVE VLOG from Michael Minneboo</a>. In this episode of the Minneboo show, his guest was Eric Heuvel. He's a well known Dutch comic book artist with a great body of work, including January Jones (and her companion Rik). There are many influences of Herge's Tintin in the adventures of this "Indiana Jones"-like female pilot. I always love these little Easter eggs. During the vlog, I asked who could play the part of her in a potential movie - and the obvious choice would indeed be the actress actually named January Jones (no connection). Eric, at the time of starting the comic with Martin Lodewijk, asked 'Why January' and not April or June. June Jones, that could have worked.<br /><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbc3CF7rr8uQe6FjixUGDWI0ri1WKQhuEUcX9Kky9DwyY9nk_kiMj4WCYaJtRKECTqnw8sc0wRQDG_h2ctNkT3xUrcjlUsBlJPcmZHKuDl_lVaI3OzotUmGLsgbBbb8Z-iqrqzZy9KZPlb/s1591/030blog_eric_vlog2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1591" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbc3CF7rr8uQe6FjixUGDWI0ri1WKQhuEUcX9Kky9DwyY9nk_kiMj4WCYaJtRKECTqnw8sc0wRQDG_h2ctNkT3xUrcjlUsBlJPcmZHKuDl_lVaI3OzotUmGLsgbBbb8Z-iqrqzZy9KZPlb/w640-h322/030blog_eric_vlog2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyWGyc71w5bJpaWUafkyKB7czuqCFGZTu0GoGK-rluLzkrwX-DFL9fmw4o3Po4N5Sd590I4n47aq_7HSb4iUUKE55Kb4MFyeWYjvmGNMY9U1x3Pp1oKV55gtQICNpUhnyJJ6IJ0C6ofzg/s2388/030blog_eric_vlog5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="2388" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyWGyc71w5bJpaWUafkyKB7czuqCFGZTu0GoGK-rluLzkrwX-DFL9fmw4o3Po4N5Sd590I4n47aq_7HSb4iUUKE55Kb4MFyeWYjvmGNMY9U1x3Pp1oKV55gtQICNpUhnyJJ6IJ0C6ofzg/w640-h204/030blog_eric_vlog5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">I guess that's always one of the questions to ask when you create a comic book character; “What name should I pick” - Finding a name can be an interesting task. Do you name it after someone you know (a relative, friend or some historical figure) or name it after a thing to to with the character? If your character has red hair, you can call her 'Red' or 'Ginger'. It helps picking a name that will be memorable, often comic book characters will have names that are alliterations (in which two or more words in close connection begin with the same letter), like Peter Parker or Lois Lane. James Garfield Davis, who is the grandfather of Jim Davis the creator of the Garfield comic strip, was named after President James A. Garfield. In turn Jim Davis named the character Garfield after his grandfather. Garfield’s owner, Jonathan Q. Arbuckle, got his name from an old coffee commercial that creator Jim Davis liked. Talking about cats - Eric said in the vlog that he doesn't really like drawing animals. That made me think of a cat in one of the January Jones stories, that gets a skull on its head, which reminded me of an old Leonardo comic from the EPPO - in which a similar cat also gets into the same trouble. Poor Yorick.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_IX7EUuGt4oWtgpTtLc4gm4eXAzlH6JIprong-lfLTl8-icDVPmwAZ0r43y1YT12P3ihzRbD9hKpA5NYyWiA29j731f3HKONQYSm9GpgvTLSEcbw83KwFeviuJTL-F7XGruLXk3wYMjY/s1591/030blog_eric_vlog3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1591" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_IX7EUuGt4oWtgpTtLc4gm4eXAzlH6JIprong-lfLTl8-icDVPmwAZ0r43y1YT12P3ihzRbD9hKpA5NYyWiA29j731f3HKONQYSm9GpgvTLSEcbw83KwFeviuJTL-F7XGruLXk3wYMjY/w640-h244/030blog_eric_vlog3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">As for my own name; eRiQ - well, I have written a little ballad about it.<br /><br /><b>----------- The Ballad of Mr.Q -----------------</b><br /><br /><i>On a day in September '67, a handsome boy was born,<br />finding a name - for this dutch child - had his parents torn<br />For a girl, his mum wanted - the name to be Astrid<br />for a boy, Gijs - a name the dad didn’t like one bit.<br /><br />So, Erik it became -- that 21st day of September<br />From the Old Norse name 'Eiríkr', or so I remember ...<br />using “ei” (ever) and “ríkr” (ruler) together,<br />ruling forever, like birds of a feather. <br /><br />In 1987 - twenty years later - our hero joined the Dutch army<br />but so many soldiers in his group were Eriks - oh BARMY-<br />To end confusion, nicknames was the trick.<br />Like his high school pseudonym, he quickly became Rick.<br /><br />As the soldier called Rick he met his first wife to be<br />stuck was the name Rick now for long as you see.<br />His mum finally got used to it, his dad sometimes still moaned<br />but even his dad’s name was just one that was loaned,<br />as HE was born Dirk, but went through life as Dick.<br />So yep - the name Rick was still to stick.<br /><br />After 1992, after playing with his drawing pen<br />he thought, signing my name - with a Q I now can..<br />Thus RiQ was born - a bright light in the dark<br />the “i” often turned into an exclamation mark.<br /><br />In 1999 his father sadly passed<br />It showed that nothing was meant to last<br />His marriage ended in that same fateful year<br />he needed a change - the solutions was near...<br /><br />As tribute he thought... to his original name<br />the “e” added back - thus “eRiQ” it became -<br />a homage to his departed daddy Q<br />to honor him - that was the clue.<br /><br />So - thus - through life our Dutch dude goes<br />by the funny name - that to some causes woes<br /><br />Please accept his choice and honor his quirky ways<br />so - his dad remains with him - forever ruling his days.<br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDCgJHOLv08tt4rTRlap8hKapcB5NnvJ_JqWt5IBrCAisU7DIKL4Gq1P-asuTKQL-wns9VyvrehiKiBYSq4BAN-sCNT6hPkz7CPSMUz3xgVgC3lk-EUUmujDhlya6J5YBORmgdQod_Mis/s231/eriq1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDCgJHOLv08tt4rTRlap8hKapcB5NnvJ_JqWt5IBrCAisU7DIKL4Gq1P-asuTKQL-wns9VyvrehiKiBYSq4BAN-sCNT6hPkz7CPSMUz3xgVgC3lk-EUUmujDhlya6J5YBORmgdQod_Mis/" /></a></div></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-84392599544089398742020-06-29T11:11:00.001+12:002020-06-29T11:11:09.351+12:00029 #blogjune 2020 - The cameras they are a' changing!<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">029 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><p>“<i>When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. <br />When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.</i><i>”</i><br />- Ansel Adams<br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“There's a camera rolling on her back<br />On her back - And I sense a rhythm humming in a frenzy<br />All the way down her spine</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- Duran Duran<br /></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9VjEeguioFxlsI1PicRfvxcForTcIh813ZSLHbnbrM24c3jSEhwTZKV0zIHYNUe5TuToeXGdcKzc1LZbhpShLryUg2j4EVr9wEu7AREJwg1dJHj-B4EdAJnvq61ZgSbm_mW70hTbNmJut/s1591/029_blog_camera001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1591" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9VjEeguioFxlsI1PicRfvxcForTcIh813ZSLHbnbrM24c3jSEhwTZKV0zIHYNUe5TuToeXGdcKzc1LZbhpShLryUg2j4EVr9wEu7AREJwg1dJHj-B4EdAJnvq61ZgSbm_mW70hTbNmJut/w640-h322/029_blog_camera001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">The 29th of June is <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/camera-day/" target="_blank">CAMERA DAY</a>. I have been taking photos since I was a little boy, my first camera was an old AFGAMATIC that used to be my mum's. Since then I quickly found myself some bigger, better cameras - had my own little darkroom in a cupboard for a while - and in 1999 I made the jump to digital.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFuMq1XqTBk3P-fH_2AQJ9L5VLeQL-5oGdCySymCNHozYVW3VfUfLnaDuwg5AxzuSCqulrtxWSlXRSJBa6Y4zVrqz5xF0dzRbpgs2YGfcS4yfXPllVT9Qr0TzhX2UuF4tRb313q6iaYMDQ/s1591/029_blog_camera1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="1591" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFuMq1XqTBk3P-fH_2AQJ9L5VLeQL-5oGdCySymCNHozYVW3VfUfLnaDuwg5AxzuSCqulrtxWSlXRSJBa6Y4zVrqz5xF0dzRbpgs2YGfcS4yfXPllVT9Qr0TzhX2UuF4tRb313q6iaYMDQ/w640-h128/029_blog_camera1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Even in the last 20+ years the digital camera has changed massively. I still shoot with my CANON SX60, but find that I more than often just use my actual mobile phone for snapshots and or things I keep for reference. When looking at the camera in comics, there are plenty examples to find from "the invention of the camera" by Leonardo in the EPPO to Donald Duck, Tintin and The Joker. But one photographer stands out among them and that's of course Peter Parker (Spider-man).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5Ffs6IywM7C3AgbMESLmZ4C6NhC7F92tYC9UD-nnaPfPec-LRCRTAAMLZjdeA-9ip54lype3mTcKVBlW9BOaBBuYHgjtI3VcvzlG8K3nw9TieGiKFuQsWbW7EPwWsC2cDU5E7qQzyD9W/s1591/029_blog_camera2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1591" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5Ffs6IywM7C3AgbMESLmZ4C6NhC7F92tYC9UD-nnaPfPec-LRCRTAAMLZjdeA-9ip54lype3mTcKVBlW9BOaBBuYHgjtI3VcvzlG8K3nw9TieGiKFuQsWbW7EPwWsC2cDU5E7qQzyD9W/w640-h322/029_blog_camera2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />I have used my camera a lot as reference material for comics and illustrations. A lot of comic book creators use photos to work from, some even add photos IN the story - others have whole comic strips with just photos and speech bubbles. I was reading some old John Byrne 'Fantastic Four' comics and Googled some of the 1936 locations and quickly found some of the photographs that were 'copied' for his comic. With digital photography and Google images, research for comics or illustrations has become so much easier. The times they are a' changing!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8k7Zjcvw_vaE5Q7m3tzXAKhjKyDOqzc6AN3P7eo4K5HGicEg2SbTacqfSDuxDquOsdPj89rrqGUax7FZ4LmqWJkEqQ2PGokXmVCVSbXpVNKfV4pW8_05WBorODsO-HFHOjiGfgb9UVC3a/s1591/029_blog_camera4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1591" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8k7Zjcvw_vaE5Q7m3tzXAKhjKyDOqzc6AN3P7eo4K5HGicEg2SbTacqfSDuxDquOsdPj89rrqGUax7FZ4LmqWJkEqQ2PGokXmVCVSbXpVNKfV4pW8_05WBorODsO-HFHOjiGfgb9UVC3a/w640-h322/029_blog_camera4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnRw5x8Sk4xt5ui4M5za4gNZERO_Y4zlhBJUra7zQRYXN9NVFuIM9CC4kiGRtlEH8m__XsOJ2xfVeu3YzW0pDUUYBE5wYfSuCOagVshkq88PFJV3VwTMXAUsmUjpkgN_EE8GR0eLA3C2L/s1591/029_blog_camera3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1591" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnRw5x8Sk4xt5ui4M5za4gNZERO_Y4zlhBJUra7zQRYXN9NVFuIM9CC4kiGRtlEH8m__XsOJ2xfVeu3YzW0pDUUYBE5wYfSuCOagVshkq88PFJV3VwTMXAUsmUjpkgN_EE8GR0eLA3C2L/w640-h322/029_blog_camera3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></font>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-40591677057811704252020-06-28T11:20:00.001+12:002020-06-28T11:20:52.985+12:00028 #blogjune 2020 - Glaze, Praise, I heart the days<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">028 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><p>“<i>We’re always looking, but we never really see.</i><i>”</i><br />- Milton Glaser<br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“Father of air and Father of trees<br />Who dwells in our hearts and our memories<br />Father of minutes, Father of days<br />Father of whom we most solemnly praise</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- Bob Dylan<br /></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2C2q8iesoH1G7Q0OlSdE297lscadH5bOHjln1RYkMdkiu9ho1Q_sz4ntnonz-RbIFIw66uiOIQ3ZnZgEYYW46undzd-eLJzzdmwepoMT2hTPm7o-NYlKS8uPjYhkT5X5PXd_hvmzVqNKz/s1591/029DAILYBLOG001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2C2q8iesoH1G7Q0OlSdE297lscadH5bOHjln1RYkMdkiu9ho1Q_sz4ntnonz-RbIFIw66uiOIQ3ZnZgEYYW46undzd-eLJzzdmwepoMT2hTPm7o-NYlKS8uPjYhkT5X5PXd_hvmzVqNKz/w640-h266/029DAILYBLOG001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">Today, <a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/028-blogjune-daddy-q.html">28th of June is my father's birthday</a> - he passed away in May 1999. Both May and June are always months of reflection for me. It's one of the reasons I started doing #blogjune... a sentimental journey to the past. For me the remaining bound volumes of EPPO (76-77), that made it to New Zealand years later, symbolise the bond with my father. He put all the EPPO (and Tintin) magazines in hardcover volumes for me. I wished I had more of them - not sure where they have ended up after all those years. But I am most happy to have at least three of them.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f8rx2O2w6xYPxdb7fOKkZYk6_6bnORff6hcDld55AYMLfLWyyZQ_S45pIv-xu-y1xK3r_cVfVcCumQv4mZ-IQfvRVyciq2QdHGLbImFeyhVyjNcRkOD2-6XP1ulhZrujgpi1cQoGG4wl/s1591/028_blog_glaser2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f8rx2O2w6xYPxdb7fOKkZYk6_6bnORff6hcDld55AYMLfLWyyZQ_S45pIv-xu-y1xK3r_cVfVcCumQv4mZ-IQfvRVyciq2QdHGLbImFeyhVyjNcRkOD2-6XP1ulhZrujgpi1cQoGG4wl/w640-h266/028_blog_glaser2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />This week I also found out that MILTON GLASER passed away. Many people might never have heard of him - but he was a great graphic designer that besides some iconic logos, created some historic graphic artwork - like the image of Bob Dylan. Most people will be familiar with the famous I HEART NEW YORK logo - well, that was one of his creations. He was also responsible for one of the DC comics logos. One that many comic book fans would have somewhere in their collection.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWBRHOOChyzdHirsSff6Qul1hojvjSv1knP6-0ELJLXX8YWdmWABXeoAxtQ_cva0-6Hxyk1Un-XcLPZYlvk5oeexe7TFL3GzGbdfL0zpLfXh6hWja5YA8lXhj8VS-1zcNkXWV3nAGBK-W/s1591/028_blog_glaser3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWBRHOOChyzdHirsSff6Qul1hojvjSv1knP6-0ELJLXX8YWdmWABXeoAxtQ_cva0-6Hxyk1Un-XcLPZYlvk5oeexe7TFL3GzGbdfL0zpLfXh6hWja5YA8lXhj8VS-1zcNkXWV3nAGBK-W/w640-h266/028_blog_glaser3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />A graphic designer doesn't often get credit for most of their work, unless you have read books about design or the history of a publication you wouldn't be aware of the origin of some of the icon masthead designs of magazines or even some book covers or posters. For instance,... It wasn't till I read the AMAZING book about the years of EPPO by Ger Apeldoorn <a href="https://www.bol.com/nl/f/de-jaren-eppo/9200000089701286/" target="_blank">(DE JAREN EPPO)</a>, that I realised the titles for the stories in the old EPPO magazines were created by Fred Julsing ( I HEART his work! ).<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMv_PdyEIH8xgtsbgJlP_8Qo5KQ6u5YlfxPONCipYcrCppFg_QFLJZG5v1rLaRe2rvmefvUz1SBQKAUTS33isdOuAYHtT9EUyFZmW1sAw8lfGLzyj_BrDcWpJDGXcB7TfZrFCz7kOo2M_w/s1260/029DAILYBLOG005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="807" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMv_PdyEIH8xgtsbgJlP_8Qo5KQ6u5YlfxPONCipYcrCppFg_QFLJZG5v1rLaRe2rvmefvUz1SBQKAUTS33isdOuAYHtT9EUyFZmW1sAw8lfGLzyj_BrDcWpJDGXcB7TfZrFCz7kOo2M_w/w410-h640/029DAILYBLOG005.jpg" width="410" /></a></div></font>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-81786225903246650912020-06-27T12:02:00.000+12:002020-06-27T12:02:18.544+12:00027 #blogjune 2020 - Soldiering on<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">027 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><p>“<i>One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. </i><i>”</i><br />- Victor Hugo<br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“Waitin' for the soldier to come back again<br />Never more to be alone when the letter says<br />A soldier's coming home</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- The <strike>Dixie</strike> Chicks<br /></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpocyi0etQnRVda954l4DANPP6ImrdC0Ff2glA06uyfvd3YcXn0dkomEsp5VteXQ2Nv9V4D_H5F4b1ugOFZs_eRn00kHR6EeFnzHhfxEuNQwDP3-ro0XfZhBuMD8Jw9SpgpOLUfr4NFOEl/s1591/027DAILYBLOG001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpocyi0etQnRVda954l4DANPP6ImrdC0Ff2glA06uyfvd3YcXn0dkomEsp5VteXQ2Nv9V4D_H5F4b1ugOFZs_eRn00kHR6EeFnzHhfxEuNQwDP3-ro0XfZhBuMD8Jw9SpgpOLUfr4NFOEl/w640-h266/027DAILYBLOG001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">The 27th of June is <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/armed-forces-day/" target="_blank">ARMED FORCES DAY</a>. It was created to give everyone the opportunity to show their support and gratitude for those who are currently serving in the armed forces, and those who have done in the past. I was a soldier in the Dutch army, back in 1987 - but I thought it would be interesting to see what armed forces showed up on some of the earlier covers of EPPO magazine.</div></font><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThJokkIP96MPweX-_E0M-NXcJ704e5BYD0EF1H08xT071gmOajA7RJEfTk-2pvEq-_n06pmu8cz78DnOfxwg4XDLpNvX3OSVbot38NlzfSBzLH38g8vYG83WWQ4tilCE1aJTWxjF5d1qz/s1591/027DAILYBLOG002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThJokkIP96MPweX-_E0M-NXcJ704e5BYD0EF1H08xT071gmOajA7RJEfTk-2pvEq-_n06pmu8cz78DnOfxwg4XDLpNvX3OSVbot38NlzfSBzLH38g8vYG83WWQ4tilCE1aJTWxjF5d1qz/w640-h266/027DAILYBLOG002.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">From Greek soldiers in the Stef Ardoba time travel story (that I absolutely LOVED) to the Roman army, that always seemed to loose the fight against Asterix and his fellow men. I guess the General (Generaal) was basically part of his own armed force, each time trying to take over the fort and then there was Beetle Baily (Flippie Flink in Dutch - don't ask me WHY) who showed another funnier side of American armed forces.<br /><br /></div></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBk078zxl5_rfxftRiaHz5KrxxhR-JenAy6vsHARVhLY7Og_6cATen1uOLa5asQ3dsEAaHteIQo0djQYwH-yOUW_iJbdRsYN1_3rvyypwnrWxFt52nSOiYgQb1aPoievJp_zTFdQvT4Nl/s1591/027DAILYBLOG003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBk078zxl5_rfxftRiaHz5KrxxhR-JenAy6vsHARVhLY7Og_6cATen1uOLa5asQ3dsEAaHteIQo0djQYwH-yOUW_iJbdRsYN1_3rvyypwnrWxFt52nSOiYgQb1aPoievJp_zTFdQvT4Nl/w640-h266/027DAILYBLOG003.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">Back in 1977 another war-time story appeared in the pages of my beloved EPPO; " The Partisans" ( De Partizanen) drawn by Julio "Jules" Radilović. I was about ten at that time and the story never grabbed me, the whole war theme couldn't excite me as much as the stories of Storm, Franka etc. Later on in life I re-read some of the stories and even though they haven't got a high nostalgic value for me like some of the other series mentioned they are a good read and the artwork is amazing.</div></font><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDHyjBwojFd6M0luVPOIRDQ7ei1CNOcSiV7qK32SVnrPzN1Jcy8W4Otig6SJnfMGY8BzIwF6aAda49UrJ2R-Zv6nI1pf2j3MMVtxXPJbEvkHH6aeS19Wc1kimjnREK0G6DL0TSkHk-4Ai/s1591/027DAILYBLOG004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDHyjBwojFd6M0luVPOIRDQ7ei1CNOcSiV7qK32SVnrPzN1Jcy8W4Otig6SJnfMGY8BzIwF6aAda49UrJ2R-Zv6nI1pf2j3MMVtxXPJbEvkHH6aeS19Wc1kimjnREK0G6DL0TSkHk-4Ai/w640-h266/027DAILYBLOG004.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">Oh - it's also SUNGLASSES day today, <br />but I covered that in last years <a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/027-blogjune-fifty-shades-of-glaze.html">#blogjune episode (here)</a>.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/027-blogjune-fifty-shades-of-glaze.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3lx2N28p16h35YD_JT3_E34ZjI2JwFZ4W5nhzDTZQfQ4PuahuSNaUQ5bTPHoajVQPi_btUYCb-6MYul4GxRfKZ91JzgCfgVLpQZgsK2IOa-ev45IS_bAx2j2ay7zQ4OCJPyzUl3Iy5ca/w640-h266/27_BLOG_SHADES4.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn5XhGn82JZLoikvm921_ZMo2rZPvYniAdwgmq8dxAPdDwGHD65OecT6E0g4XKAA9NEQVrBsr81_ffLSEHwSd4lzFF8pnBq4TmlvrAcaSk2zjnrIYutJ2EcmyLoZHXdua6Vegq4fWbfUoZ/s1417/027DAILYBLOG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="1060" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn5XhGn82JZLoikvm921_ZMo2rZPvYniAdwgmq8dxAPdDwGHD65OecT6E0g4XKAA9NEQVrBsr81_ffLSEHwSd4lzFF8pnBq4TmlvrAcaSk2zjnrIYutJ2EcmyLoZHXdua6Vegq4fWbfUoZ/w478-h640/027DAILYBLOG.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/027-blogjune-fifty-shades-of-glaze.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></font></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-83499411317288639732020-06-26T11:57:00.002+12:002020-06-26T16:41:43.377+12:00026 #blogjune 2020 - A blog day afternoon<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">026 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><p>“<i>Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. <br />Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.</i><i>”</i><br />- Charles M. Schulz<br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“You ain't nothing but a hound dog<br />Crying all the time<br />Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit<br />And you ain't no friend of mine</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- Elvis<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiQQM2OGbnp3Say_6vDWaT5C-WwXdvDjH0qvijNw3wwQL9srA_pmwu-Pjb58SKixheu03-gW_-cjtbsVWtbO03K2i4KlYVVdULpxKAHTF22OKjNrJ2DyvaMvfJfPmBYnzkihrY5eLJrr34/s1591/26_blog_1977_dogs_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiQQM2OGbnp3Say_6vDWaT5C-WwXdvDjH0qvijNw3wwQL9srA_pmwu-Pjb58SKixheu03-gW_-cjtbsVWtbO03K2i4KlYVVdULpxKAHTF22OKjNrJ2DyvaMvfJfPmBYnzkihrY5eLJrr34/w640-h266/26_blog_1977_dogs_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;">Today is <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/take-your-dog-to-work-day/" target="_blank">TAKE YOUR DOG TO WORK DAY</a> - well, I have no dog. Never did have one. Ever since I saw CUJO my fear of dogs intensified. Not to speak about the incident in the 80's - when a German Shepperd attacked me and ruined my new pants.So - I am just going to do a dog blog about dogs in comics. I looked at two years of dog-eared EPPO covers (77-78) and found that in 1977 there were only five covers that covered the canine variety - and.. three of those featured Dogmatix (in DUTCH is was IDEFIX )*... plus a small version of the dog from Franka. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></font><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjpwBvvPhPNUvT9YwGdQKRFg-PhaCY8zajwfM3obWO5gQxZuH9rRzFUcj8xZlvVLapvy1ghpcq6GkV2zbF9JNeJFi5yJrc59LT43azTRNbe-hC8lbDnpNdv-tapAjoj74So1kdf9qKW7L/s1591/26_blog_1978_dogs_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjpwBvvPhPNUvT9YwGdQKRFg-PhaCY8zajwfM3obWO5gQxZuH9rRzFUcj8xZlvVLapvy1ghpcq6GkV2zbF9JNeJFi5yJrc59LT43azTRNbe-hC8lbDnpNdv-tapAjoj74So1kdf9qKW7L/w640-h266/26_blog_1978_dogs_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Luckily Dutch dog lovers could wag their tails in joy the next year - because even though 1978 started with Dogmatix/Idefix* on the cover, on the later ones EPPO's dog PINEUT was front and centre. The black and white, dotted dog even featured on some posters that year AND a whole EPPOVARIA was dedicated to DOGS! 1978, even though technically the year of the snake, truely became the year of the DOG (well - in the EPPO anyway).</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQ6j2KnTKtf7907wyf-Kmhvxcu8bZ_5WYaNkqLWulhhE0H9AqbuJ28FlkNnXxPXOUfaoB0krHPM1gBLTnt54FNWa3r9hu6vCcbsTn9oMwJSkP6GJmVyGynTO1z-q6NRX6v2BuDkk7wLsq/s747/26_blog_1978_dogs_VARIA_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="747" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQ6j2KnTKtf7907wyf-Kmhvxcu8bZ_5WYaNkqLWulhhE0H9AqbuJ28FlkNnXxPXOUfaoB0krHPM1gBLTnt54FNWa3r9hu6vCcbsTn9oMwJSkP6GJmVyGynTO1z-q6NRX6v2BuDkk7wLsq/w640-h638/26_blog_1978_dogs_VARIA_3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font size="4"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So - what is your favourite comic-book canine? Is it Snowy (from Tintin), Rataplan (from Lucky Luke) or maybe even Snoopy (from Peanuts) - Here in New Zealand it would be the dog from FOOTROT FLATS - without a doubt the most famous Kiwi dog in NZ comic book history. More about that in a later blog! WOOF!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*Asterix his dog</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></font><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-74473611607830428802020-06-25T10:56:00.005+12:002020-06-25T11:06:53.423+12:00025 #blogjune 2020 - The Smurfiest Facts<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">025 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><p>“<i>Have a very Smurfy day!</i><i>”</i><br />- Smurf <br /><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“La la la-la la la,<br />Sing a happy song.<br />La la la-la la la,<br />Smurf the whole day long</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- The Smurfs theme song<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOoTObKRcS7hTW0CsJdq8hThhHnHdDtH6vmzMLAS-_NSrw1DwkeAidta9BoxUaqd5e0UZkTmtxli_HjPHiZe7RCXUHbMM6-bIgBhV8UUI1ImCLTxW7ij4W5g0I1VdgUBq1Ft1yvx54-LBt/s1591/25DAILYBLOG000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOoTObKRcS7hTW0CsJdq8hThhHnHdDtH6vmzMLAS-_NSrw1DwkeAidta9BoxUaqd5e0UZkTmtxli_HjPHiZe7RCXUHbMM6-bIgBhV8UUI1ImCLTxW7ij4W5g0I1VdgUBq1Ft1yvx54-LBt/w640-h266/25DAILYBLOG000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">I like facts. I have always loved spending time in libraries in my younger years, looking around for books with interesting facts. These days there's the internet of course. A place made for fact lovers, useless ones included. Now, when watching something on TV, you easily grab your phone and find out more info about a certain topic. Back in the days the EPPO magazine often had a page called <b>EPPOVARIA</b> in which a certain topic would be highlighted (It was more than often about something mentioned in one of the comic stories) . Someone had a tattoo in a story, >BANG< - info about tattoos! Planes from the Franka comics - >BOOM< - all you wanna know. Even pop-culture elements from movies (<i>Superman</i>) or TV shows (<i>Battlestar Galactica)</i>. But I never cared much about the ones on sport (often combined with some boring poster of soccer players).</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVxu2VCYA4BwHhTwd7OU_eys7IzVteV-Dh5WM4JnkayKQJSS0PgC3aZzh9k5K-yTo5UzOAEam9d-rcneSkiT_Tug7i4wwgauXKPL92nOgyTkLMUPMj0Knl_Tcgqx44zaxQN5GNJMNJZ1FH/s1591/25_blog_eppovaria.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVxu2VCYA4BwHhTwd7OU_eys7IzVteV-Dh5WM4JnkayKQJSS0PgC3aZzh9k5K-yTo5UzOAEam9d-rcneSkiT_Tug7i4wwgauXKPL92nOgyTkLMUPMj0Knl_Tcgqx44zaxQN5GNJMNJZ1FH/w640-h266/25_blog_eppovaria.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Often I look online to check to see what was topical on that day in history. Fun facts that feed my curiosity.</font><font size="4"> One of the sites I like is <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/2020/06/25/" target="_blank">'DAYS OF THE YEAR'</a> - it lets you know what thing is 'celebrated' each day. Like today the 25th of June it is <i>'Global Beatles Day'</i>, <i>'Colour TV Day'</i> and <i>'Goats Cheese Day'</i> (to name a few). As a wise woman once said: <i>"They have a day for everything"</i>.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOZg6H6viZUZYgYsx3MT4HlUj4nOa6MSSFxeCAXAlUMIgr2PAeMoxpQuDCvQUQUjEhhNqwoiVPRy-ANHlOW5CbfvLqHojwJwOt02aN9C-Mx5FN5PfjHfpj7xWIT7HidVprrARTi7V0wBL/s1591/25_blog_eppovaria2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOZg6H6viZUZYgYsx3MT4HlUj4nOa6MSSFxeCAXAlUMIgr2PAeMoxpQuDCvQUQUjEhhNqwoiVPRy-ANHlOW5CbfvLqHojwJwOt02aN9C-Mx5FN5PfjHfpj7xWIT7HidVprrARTi7V0wBL/w640-h266/25_blog_eppovaria2.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><font size="4">Back in history there were another few facts that grabbed my attention:</font><br /><b><font size="4">1848 – A photograph of the 'June Days uprising' <br />becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.</font></b><br /><font size="4">Wow - I can't remember ever having seen that photo before - pretty cool.</font><br /><font size="4"><b>1903 – George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic was born</b></font><br /><font size="4">Of course, his 1984 book was extremely influential.</font><br /><font size="4"><b>1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl <br />(better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.</b></font><br /><font size="4">Did you know there have been many kids books and comic books based on her life! - I lived in Amsterdam many years, but never ever even went to visit the actual house she stayed in.</font><br /><font size="4"><b>1928 – Peyo was born , the Belgian author and illustrator, <br />who created The Smurfs.</b></font><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UFH5-mf_sNAvbLPQFzI7OkqS-eNGtfO1TPP4RiIGFCSxyY2_NjaCkQ4A4Gjt3-4VZ_iJmpPPcZ_3Xct9amaJvx3CDijKNePlxbUf8nrVDg06x7UWiRgJm6K_azIhMh9EahsZhuD03XRY/s701/walk-smurf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="701" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UFH5-mf_sNAvbLPQFzI7OkqS-eNGtfO1TPP4RiIGFCSxyY2_NjaCkQ4A4Gjt3-4VZ_iJmpPPcZ_3Xct9amaJvx3CDijKNePlxbUf8nrVDg06x7UWiRgJm6K_azIhMh9EahsZhuD03XRY/w640-h452/walk-smurf.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><font size="4">The Smurfs, who doesn't know this little group of blue human-like creatures. You might only know them from the animated series or the mediocre live action movies, but back in my younger years it was of course the comic books that made an impact AND the figurines. At the BP petrol station you could get a wide variety of smurfs.</font><font size="4"> Some of them have survived the many shifts and years and still grace my work room. The occasional one gets to come out with me on a photographic trip around New Zealand.</font><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhnnfgiLH5FjurnE7uQHHCdb_463Cl__aS5_Q_XvFnSLu7PN05jVvSHKC_uZBIt-F8LJC4RwejZg9vSun1f2chFLD9nOOK79wciE-qekKo0geRt9AqQO3wOgs-bb4fsWUdyxjX2GA1xev7/s1591/25_blog_eppovaria3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhnnfgiLH5FjurnE7uQHHCdb_463Cl__aS5_Q_XvFnSLu7PN05jVvSHKC_uZBIt-F8LJC4RwejZg9vSun1f2chFLD9nOOK79wciE-qekKo0geRt9AqQO3wOgs-bb4fsWUdyxjX2GA1xev7/w640-h266/25_blog_eppovaria3.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLw3xHRriVCMdTMc_Ve1aasgMx7piR1IXWOUkqkUVivxjhIplTNXSV4dliGYwYTz3cf6w2WEfcmbvRuqUK1WLkqNpGRZZDWQLMPot9774OEG9D1O3XgIPtAUtNpHVezOXbC45jo9La67G/s1417/25DAILYBLOG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="1060" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLw3xHRriVCMdTMc_Ve1aasgMx7piR1IXWOUkqkUVivxjhIplTNXSV4dliGYwYTz3cf6w2WEfcmbvRuqUK1WLkqNpGRZZDWQLMPot9774OEG9D1O3XgIPtAUtNpHVezOXbC45jo9La67G/w478-h640/25DAILYBLOG.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhnnfgiLH5FjurnE7uQHHCdb_463Cl__aS5_Q_XvFnSLu7PN05jVvSHKC_uZBIt-F8LJC4RwejZg9vSun1f2chFLD9nOOK79wciE-qekKo0geRt9AqQO3wOgs-bb4fsWUdyxjX2GA1xev7/s1591/25_blog_eppovaria3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-48140560249969236122020-06-24T11:29:00.001+12:002020-06-24T11:29:12.116+12:00024 #blogjune 2020 - Lucky, Luke and Two Smoking Barrels<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">024 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>I’m a poor, lonesome cowboy.</i><i>”</i><br />- Lucky Luke<br /></p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“Undercover cowboy<br />Workin' undercovers all over town</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- Clint Black<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrkADf8BqYDEAhV_gAB9T5KFjfworu3tBJUBlIMMch4_Izp_k0VfDTLPhG4IAOF2uUOmEY4G0BqwcVaGMpdXd9zgEuxpvL4gABu8DvQJj2uuwPy_nVNHHtH_mh-7OjbPep8Hp3hks7THr/s1591/24DAILYBLOG000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrkADf8BqYDEAhV_gAB9T5KFjfworu3tBJUBlIMMch4_Izp_k0VfDTLPhG4IAOF2uUOmEY4G0BqwcVaGMpdXd9zgEuxpvL4gABu8DvQJj2uuwPy_nVNHHtH_mh-7OjbPep8Hp3hks7THr/w640-h266/24DAILYBLOG000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><font size="4">In the seventies cowboys could still smoke (I am looking at YOU Marlboro Man!) - Even on the covers of a magazine aimed at the younger elements of society. In 1976, there were so many covers of EPPO that featured Lucky Luke, they should have renamed it after this lonesome cowboy.<br />That year there was only ONE cover with the titular character on the front. Eppo DID have the back page all to himself back then.<br /></font><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qRr87Kgk-w9sekxcP39OKwPwRZf8V_5rkQzsA6xCjA5jC8qWQJqZD7gHbqCscVyIuwu5_pjVI-yqXq2i2UydVaSRvzpVTeKaWyF_wnJ-ctpYVu7-W3TMOV67HdUOPPJ7cGT98FxMAeZ5/s2825/24_lucky_luke001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="2825" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qRr87Kgk-w9sekxcP39OKwPwRZf8V_5rkQzsA6xCjA5jC8qWQJqZD7gHbqCscVyIuwu5_pjVI-yqXq2i2UydVaSRvzpVTeKaWyF_wnJ-ctpYVu7-W3TMOV67HdUOPPJ7cGT98FxMAeZ5/w640-h148/24_lucky_luke001.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Another one that graced the front of the magazine more than in general was DE GENERAAL - and even in ONE of these covers he was dressed up AS LUCKY LUKE. A lucky year for the man, who later had to give up smoking. <br /><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDUn2YUZL3Wq4l5xb2CFf_oC3OYjwfqntYpukePvFRd1tsgFKX5oU-V9ay2mno54afcgFBRtIzRpf2OdpMCrrslJNmlHVc11cox7Sf4_DLJ65l_eFZ6PQk60paaDPzq7dbtIvjVRQXa_q/s2221/24_lucky_luke002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="2221" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDUn2YUZL3Wq4l5xb2CFf_oC3OYjwfqntYpukePvFRd1tsgFKX5oU-V9ay2mno54afcgFBRtIzRpf2OdpMCrrslJNmlHVc11cox7Sf4_DLJ65l_eFZ6PQk60paaDPzq7dbtIvjVRQXa_q/w640-h222/24_lucky_luke002.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlIxXWSPEk9FXBfsITuf5NJ4FXNcxfu6vyTOOyzSg1AaAyyGshyphenhyphenf-lY7AF8WObPO6hYAzkClhmeiSGbkm8BIFZZiLadePK6INjERBm0oetBnboLYUlah1dHFh2Uk0VMHL2egjR4YyPWnuA/s1417/24DAILYBLOG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="1060" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlIxXWSPEk9FXBfsITuf5NJ4FXNcxfu6vyTOOyzSg1AaAyyGshyphenhyphenf-lY7AF8WObPO6hYAzkClhmeiSGbkm8BIFZZiLadePK6INjERBm0oetBnboLYUlah1dHFh2Uk0VMHL2egjR4YyPWnuA/w478-h640/24DAILYBLOG.jpg" width="478" /></a></div></div><br />eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-81265471256883351912020-06-23T11:29:00.001+12:002020-06-23T11:29:40.752+12:00023 #blogjune 2020 - STRIP tease - who drew Jerom?<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">023 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story.</i><i>”</i><br />- Stan Lee<br /></p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>“I know the route of craziness<br />A bunch of dots that's chasin' us<br />Frame by frame, to the extreme<br />One by one, we're making it fun</i><i><i>”<br /></i></i>- Aqua<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_k0GH7ayngI9HDWBcabaeKt-P9jZptQJpoTGjt1IU6EbXbm8NVlp20G-yy8L4znZgn13IKAjgGMFuAcjoASpiIHcnDy1UtXw-WJlQJwBP-Sl930AcYQ9pbYZFBouhd36A2vpI4U46Q5H/s1591/23_blog_strips00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_k0GH7ayngI9HDWBcabaeKt-P9jZptQJpoTGjt1IU6EbXbm8NVlp20G-yy8L4znZgn13IKAjgGMFuAcjoASpiIHcnDy1UtXw-WJlQJwBP-Sl930AcYQ9pbYZFBouhd36A2vpI4U46Q5H/w640-h266/23_blog_strips00.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">In my bookcase I have a book called Strips by Kees de Bree, Rob van Eycks and Martin Wassington - it dates back to 1979 - but somehow I ended up getting it signed by someone.. but - I couldn't remember who it was or when. It must have been at some comic expo. After some digging in my brain, it would have been in 1985 - it was my birthday that weekend and I now realise the first drawing was by Eric De Rop... a Belgian comics artist, who worked for Willy Vandersteen's studio between 1970-1976 and 1984-2015. He inked series like 'Jerom' and 'Suske en Wiske' and 'Robert en Bertrand'. But the drawing of Jerom on the last page I just can't seem to make out the signature - someone will and clear up this mystery for me.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWA9FAuq4L9H3Hj8YTzsm1yv6OfB7626Kx-g-MZrc1j-GpFGoldhsspOojZpN9c4b814acL0GuNIE8UpuzfyMykrQBs2GJJ2QxKbmGQ9k0-1uwPEk1fEOBy69xoDXX132Jy9iPvM_9OeB/s1937/23_blog_strips2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1937" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWA9FAuq4L9H3Hj8YTzsm1yv6OfB7626Kx-g-MZrc1j-GpFGoldhsspOojZpN9c4b814acL0GuNIE8UpuzfyMykrQBs2GJJ2QxKbmGQ9k0-1uwPEk1fEOBy69xoDXX132Jy9iPvM_9OeB/w640-h256/23_blog_strips2.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /><font size="4">All in all it is a great book full of historical comic book information - there's even parts about de PEP and EPPO magazines - with an image of a scenario for THE PARTNERS by Dick Richards ( the pseudonym for... Dick Matena!) and drawn by Carry Brugman. I added the page from when it was first published in EPPO (1978-1979). I always thought this was a great series and it had so many cameos of famous actors etc as characters. I would love to see some of these stories made into a movie or series - hello NETFLIX - please check this out!!!</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37c5ZeEaLvOnISgqKGgsTOWHd4y3XrfbCacZCKrOizH7voPFSTJra3FCfM89Xg-Hd9r_2WJI0Ap3AsV-O1RIX-tqQXHNrLQdBejS57rzRCWevP6AWIIxcTQ-RQawcgeStjHdaVs_JDd_3/s1669/23_blog_strips.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1669" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37c5ZeEaLvOnISgqKGgsTOWHd4y3XrfbCacZCKrOizH7voPFSTJra3FCfM89Xg-Hd9r_2WJI0Ap3AsV-O1RIX-tqQXHNrLQdBejS57rzRCWevP6AWIIxcTQ-RQawcgeStjHdaVs_JDd_3/w640-h296/23_blog_strips.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /><font size="4">I love how the book has been drawn onto on both inside covers - so random - but a nice edition in my collection and I really like the image of Lucky Luke on the back as well.</font><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7t8WA2sOtgNsuJQPs6R3-VRkWpK_aGiBRtMWU96TAlLpywaTXrtwn6h0vCmO7xTxyH6Ri_Uds5WYgsSvICzYb0-pDB-Sk2VRtoEpyfwkyh7CIgE3pR5lENGfzOyHhnOj0ijam9DXhNfM/s1260/23_blog_strips3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="970" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7t8WA2sOtgNsuJQPs6R3-VRkWpK_aGiBRtMWU96TAlLpywaTXrtwn6h0vCmO7xTxyH6Ri_Uds5WYgsSvICzYb0-pDB-Sk2VRtoEpyfwkyh7CIgE3pR5lENGfzOyHhnOj0ijam9DXhNfM/w492-h640/23_blog_strips3.jpg" width="492" /></a></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-39686946177039341212020-06-22T10:16:00.003+12:002020-06-22T10:18:34.668+12:00022 #blogjune 2020 - The shortest Mash-UP<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">022 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. <br />You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. <br />It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing. </i><i>”</i><br />- Nadia Giosia<br /></p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>"'It's the terror of knowing what the world is about<br />Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!"</i><i>"<br /></i>- Queen, David Bowie<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnQ9lytOY2zhrv8y1OhnYFib8WoFXsAGrlqpP5w2Rj9DoZXntqnQVnuw3-Ki04iVX8A5sKUDLcmfAlQFJwMK_cr8Y5in0IRZiyJTYXivTjmI6D0mWvJmtWD_LCCLHddTGeEL-VDStjlCD/s2038/the-shortest-blog-top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="2038" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnQ9lytOY2zhrv8y1OhnYFib8WoFXsAGrlqpP5w2Rj9DoZXntqnQVnuw3-Ki04iVX8A5sKUDLcmfAlQFJwMK_cr8Y5in0IRZiyJTYXivTjmI6D0mWvJmtWD_LCCLHddTGeEL-VDStjlCD/w640-h242/the-shortest-blog-top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">After the longest night - I thought it was time for the shortest blog. This morning as I was looking for something else on Google, I stumbled upon the work of 'Butcher Billy'. This Brazilian designer and illustrator (42) creates some amazing pop-culture mash-ups... combining everything from bands, movies and books I love. Stephen King (we all know what a HUGE King fan I am - 2020 seems to be written by him), David Bowie and best of all; he has created covers of a fictional comic series called 'Planet Mercury comics' with Queen lyrics combined with comic book elements. Needless to say I have joined the 104K followers on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebutcherbilly/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and look forward to any future creations! </font><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8cF2tX3fJmhEkmZwxuTuf3Bm7ULR5wNhZZZ1jY7ql4hszplM-2FpEoKet_uA8NQxf3klxPTl7EbRbVZSbEcgIPnqG5I9viVllRYLxWDsqQgqfJ6oaRU2PYT_mqMaP_YSGc53KE55b_63m/s1669/the-shortest-blog-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1669" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8cF2tX3fJmhEkmZwxuTuf3Bm7ULR5wNhZZZ1jY7ql4hszplM-2FpEoKet_uA8NQxf3klxPTl7EbRbVZSbEcgIPnqG5I9viVllRYLxWDsqQgqfJ6oaRU2PYT_mqMaP_YSGc53KE55b_63m/w640-h296/the-shortest-blog-2.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwVD7jFuXgPGI5lpp8Tm5ldyxZdztj1Y4RhyOiV_W7hw6XCbW9qfR2YqPv9aMX5-0YvZ26LIuHz7gx1jB7x0J4jGD5vrxSV7doSZc-lg1AmvMPbPdGWJwxshzcG5l-4J_rklJKHDh5GWhr/s1654/22-the-shortest-blog-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="1165" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwVD7jFuXgPGI5lpp8Tm5ldyxZdztj1Y4RhyOiV_W7hw6XCbW9qfR2YqPv9aMX5-0YvZ26LIuHz7gx1jB7x0J4jGD5vrxSV7doSZc-lg1AmvMPbPdGWJwxshzcG5l-4J_rklJKHDh5GWhr/w450-h640/22-the-shortest-blog-1.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8cF2tX3fJmhEkmZwxuTuf3Bm7ULR5wNhZZZ1jY7ql4hszplM-2FpEoKet_uA8NQxf3klxPTl7EbRbVZSbEcgIPnqG5I9viVllRYLxWDsqQgqfJ6oaRU2PYT_mqMaP_YSGc53KE55b_63m/s1669/the-shortest-blog-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-17556796945273425552020-06-21T11:36:00.004+12:002020-06-21T13:10:36.955+12:00021 #blogjune 2020 - Daan framed the Rabbit in 1988<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">021 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. </i><i>”</i><br />- Bill Walton<br /></p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>"'Now if you had prepared 20 years ago,<br />You wouldn't be a wandering now from door to door.<br />Why don't you do right, like some other men do?</i><i>"<br /></i>- Jessica Rabbit<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdMHBVZVYM95QJVn1F2tBpYHxAVL_7H1IGEENTpHliK-QqOnP-5MdETwwJyWXyHM8_sjSbI2xgijPHcYgvXNBFbvw1QUajB4lIPACgy5r6b8A27suH_CbNBOQ19BP65xL8TRXbAvHmUTH/s2038/000_1988_sjorssji.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="2038" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdMHBVZVYM95QJVn1F2tBpYHxAVL_7H1IGEENTpHliK-QqOnP-5MdETwwJyWXyHM8_sjSbI2xgijPHcYgvXNBFbvw1QUajB4lIPACgy5r6b8A27suH_CbNBOQ19BP65xL8TRXbAvHmUTH/w640-h242/000_1988_sjorssji.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">In 1988 - fresh out of the army - the year I turned 21, there was a headline in one of the newspapers: Comic Magazines in trouble - The article talks about the changes in the comic book magazine world, with pages being reduced and or being published bi-weekly. The Tintin magazine was even going to be published monthly. I had stopped getting that years before. The new look Eppo WV with its triple comic strip covers and comic frames blown up to poster format in the name of 'art' stopped me from being a fan. With the name change to 'SJORS AND SJIMMIE' it lost my interest completely - it had stopped being 'my EPPO'.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLoenFzbxkNwPHdLQAHwWym29ukJ68mk26Od5lFu1-UNNRtW2-JJTcMsictjhGCmm-m3XTHX5G0S1p9w1EAi-mMHme1FPBtp8EFrk-NJDDG-2fnlJpVtpeKpE1dq0VmYl6iubyyuep1r1I/s833/001_1988_sjorssji.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="833" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLoenFzbxkNwPHdLQAHwWym29ukJ68mk26Od5lFu1-UNNRtW2-JJTcMsictjhGCmm-m3XTHX5G0S1p9w1EAi-mMHme1FPBtp8EFrk-NJDDG-2fnlJpVtpeKpE1dq0VmYl6iubyyuep1r1I/w640-h292/001_1988_sjorssji.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /><font size="4">The article in the paper blamed the reduction of the amount of children in families and the fact that TV was entertaining kids, more than ever. I think probably a lot of readers like myself from the early days had grown up and were studying or had a job. I was doing both that year - working odd jobs in the holidays and the weekends ( mostly cleaning jobs) whilst during the week I went to an art academy. It was nice to get back into art and drawing - I just found a sketch the other day that I had drawn for one of my uncle's 50th birthday. Wow - to think I have passed that milestone myself THREE years ago! It's amazing how these little time-travelling blogs bring up memories from the past.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEighq1v5yMhPxDMzG86kUi_O2MDFIUz3PwxUMQf1sJEqKQxvAN7SJhFYdNJHhI0oB-twFIXibVBPjBNoPUABpsnn78zxSjQ1Vvo3_dN436sPrr7J_gG_wocSekdgmRy1cDp3aSF_imE96na/s2038/002_1988_sjorssji.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="2038" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEighq1v5yMhPxDMzG86kUi_O2MDFIUz3PwxUMQf1sJEqKQxvAN7SJhFYdNJHhI0oB-twFIXibVBPjBNoPUABpsnn78zxSjQ1Vvo3_dN436sPrr7J_gG_wocSekdgmRy1cDp3aSF_imE96na/w640-h366/002_1988_sjorssji.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">1988 was more a year of music than comics for me - Tracy Chapman's FAST CAR, Bobby McFerrrin's BE HAPPY. There was still some classic George Michael en Michael Jackson and who could forget the DIRTY DANCING soundtrack. Which brings us to movies - yes, I did see the movie and even (still) own the record! Nobody puts baby in the corner, right! But THE movie of 1988 for me, would have to be: WHO FRAMES ROGER RABBIT (and of course Die Hard). So without a doubt I had to buy the comic adaption that year - "The hunt for Roger Rabbit" drawn by the great Daan Jippes (who's mostly famous for his Disney work - and has been a major influence on many Dutch comic book artists). It's still a nice book to look at from time to time and the movie itself remains a true classic. I am surprised that I never bought the 'Sjors en Sjimmie' magazine with the movie on the cover.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSt0abngh7mDKxgADBnicNNk0IpmrEmPVMHDnTBRwmsUUQaQeaAHQTRYDXNgYeqDIEbEoKMUfbZ-fFfU_7r_xE-HrN3TbMdILsFmPxjiQcgajMERNtthtZdZDCbav_MtimSCq2Qf4AHmdr/s2038/003_1988_sjorssji.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="2038" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSt0abngh7mDKxgADBnicNNk0IpmrEmPVMHDnTBRwmsUUQaQeaAHQTRYDXNgYeqDIEbEoKMUfbZ-fFfU_7r_xE-HrN3TbMdILsFmPxjiQcgajMERNtthtZdZDCbav_MtimSCq2Qf4AHmdr/w640-h242/003_1988_sjorssji.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-32671405360014600892020-06-20T11:41:00.002+12:002020-06-20T11:41:53.743+12:00020 #blogjune 2020 - The last year of EPPO<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">020 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, <br />the wit; and at forty, the judgment.</i><i>”</i><br />- Benjamin Franklin<br /></p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>"'87 and Cry - '87 and Cry<br />And there's nothing inside<br />And there's nothing in mind</i><i>"<br /></i>- David Bowie<br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnJJO-RbMJv7gIZQnPFGZA7FpT3qvYk-n0ONNhz6BMulysvYRFu77pcXX1oAaeubMtCLgmJwpuYFz5zGKB2TuSY-9tW0XfJ1TWY-VZLQBhSnLber86-u-eVrq4P27k3iwuxbCIacBKKfV/s1591/000_1987_thE_LAST-YEAR-OF-eppo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnJJO-RbMJv7gIZQnPFGZA7FpT3qvYk-n0ONNhz6BMulysvYRFu77pcXX1oAaeubMtCLgmJwpuYFz5zGKB2TuSY-9tW0XfJ1TWY-VZLQBhSnLber86-u-eVrq4P27k3iwuxbCIacBKKfV/w640-h266/000_1987_thE_LAST-YEAR-OF-eppo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">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.</font><font size="4"> I must confess, the new cover design with the three comic strips never appealed to me.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxyub0X9veE7aR2Db5_MbBaCp-ECZkJOymR61-OWa75YDzOFmunAm_nE1O7uFSCdNtkF1XMEJO6Y9IBtyyR2dAUHFNQOZXyJMa2XWFVHLiozyT5GS0GMuqY18qozeQxg9AV2j72UTnP8f/s833/001_1987_januaryjones.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="833" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPxyub0X9veE7aR2Db5_MbBaCp-ECZkJOymR61-OWa75YDzOFmunAm_nE1O7uFSCdNtkF1XMEJO6Y9IBtyyR2dAUHFNQOZXyJMa2XWFVHLiozyT5GS0GMuqY18qozeQxg9AV2j72UTnP8f/w640-h292/001_1987_januaryjones.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /><font size="4">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.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY38xOKvyIPU2z5IoNsuVYV_YcNvGqUnoVWLNQ3dyPrm3_3apnVeJQ7xJ6C4Lv_wc-rK-Nc3mpNc40U1Ffw8gXelU95hJ7MkTcibOVpPp4KB9qQ3lib__BwYb-AUQ0b9YQXTcQmPiF1VtQ/s833/002_1987_yoko_franka.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="833" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY38xOKvyIPU2z5IoNsuVYV_YcNvGqUnoVWLNQ3dyPrm3_3apnVeJQ7xJ6C4Lv_wc-rK-Nc3mpNc40U1Ffw8gXelU95hJ7MkTcibOVpPp4KB9qQ3lib__BwYb-AUQ0b9YQXTcQmPiF1VtQ/w640-h292/002_1987_yoko_franka.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">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.<br /><br /><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPg9kBxK_QlsnhqGf1cTtV3kIpPR3-c1Be6b9PSbbZ9mZ-KOEMQqME-0mKWVbFu5uPM74YDNfSKEkI-nITY73UjUeo4FnR88VHXhrGe-Ar4sEoedcxwV3CkB26hX5gj7n6ScnLfPsgN7t/s297/gilles.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="297" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPg9kBxK_QlsnhqGf1cTtV3kIpPR3-c1Be6b9PSbbZ9mZ-KOEMQqME-0mKWVbFu5uPM74YDNfSKEkI-nITY73UjUeo4FnR88VHXhrGe-Ar4sEoedcxwV3CkB26hX5gj7n6ScnLfPsgN7t/w320-h320/gilles.gif" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0fKLd2G2Vx_bh7g5OjXalYsuWG16Ohv1URCbSiK79jGoAlSm-ZhU6nisQjRYDIOY0uA0u2JVt4FqVlTQIez_x307qykqVLttmnNbBdRQ1dDMcrE4FaRzK0Ox9gq1NcAF7VwOIdVqHpfA/s366/polderkolder.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="366" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0fKLd2G2Vx_bh7g5OjXalYsuWG16Ohv1URCbSiK79jGoAlSm-ZhU6nisQjRYDIOY0uA0u2JVt4FqVlTQIez_x307qykqVLttmnNbBdRQ1dDMcrE4FaRzK0Ox9gq1NcAF7VwOIdVqHpfA/w320-h293/polderkolder.gif" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPg9kBxK_QlsnhqGf1cTtV3kIpPR3-c1Be6b9PSbbZ9mZ-KOEMQqME-0mKWVbFu5uPM74YDNfSKEkI-nITY73UjUeo4FnR88VHXhrGe-Ar4sEoedcxwV3CkB26hX5gj7n6ScnLfPsgN7t/s297/gilles.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS9x0PTYOk16vcVOl6jzvHW7cxfVKSCGnVO4vXVd5PybhAwM3WW13Nw-t2zNLxFpjBNWFCZYp9pGFVsw6Qw16WvXvusVt0kzHSEice7CsqdUccavLBoRNqqgwgK_murvgLOLTn0-KWvHCg/s2557/1987_to-be-continued.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2557" data-original-width="1654" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS9x0PTYOk16vcVOl6jzvHW7cxfVKSCGnVO4vXVd5PybhAwM3WW13Nw-t2zNLxFpjBNWFCZYp9pGFVsw6Qw16WvXvusVt0kzHSEice7CsqdUccavLBoRNqqgwgK_murvgLOLTn0-KWvHCg/w414-h640/1987_to-be-continued.jpg" width="414" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-59495973671163326572020-06-19T11:51:00.001+12:002020-06-19T11:51:55.464+12:00019 #blogjune 2020 - Dossier FLODDER<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">019 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>Neighbour, what are you doing now?</i><i>”</i><br />- Kees Flodder<br /></p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>"All the old paintings on the tombs<br />They do the sand dance don't you know<br />If they move too quick (oh whey oh)<br />They're falling down like a domino</i><i>"<br /></i>- The Bangles<br /></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgy7vuA_66t4GOBJ_H2Tn6FZk5hDboU6cxAXegD8Fhwg47xkRnG6Epgur9x1zm9jRcvgLhKwhZPD-IzSvES_WMjEqvT1LH0ABaLe6prsJsryBr1H0-ZjexJh6FPbvOD1DNUAIJwD5TSdX/s1591/000_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgy7vuA_66t4GOBJ_H2Tn6FZk5hDboU6cxAXegD8Fhwg47xkRnG6Epgur9x1zm9jRcvgLhKwhZPD-IzSvES_WMjEqvT1LH0ABaLe6prsJsryBr1H0-ZjexJh6FPbvOD1DNUAIJwD5TSdX/w640-h266/000_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">In 1986, the year in which I walked like an Egyptian, did my first illustrations for a computer booklet and <a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/020-blogjune-love-and-movie-making.html">wrote my first screenplay ( read all about it HERE:)</a> for me it is also a reminder of the Dutch movie FLODDER. It was quite a year for Martin Lodewijk, the creator of the drawing on the Flodder poster. He had a couple of stories in the EPPO magazine ( the BLACK BOX was brilliant), even made it onto the cover and was still writing the script for STORM.<br /></font><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgai3lFehja81hWhFCcZhSzYBhZSE3_IMlKAS3-mymfreI427TBuD6BhOxFlxVZrU2tUWwxCr6OFZjcBGAA8pO7CN3AibI0yoBI9dTgPhHsvhzF-dY71nDGQPP89X5db3kVxceO-EIZ4wH2/s1562/005_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1562" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgai3lFehja81hWhFCcZhSzYBhZSE3_IMlKAS3-mymfreI427TBuD6BhOxFlxVZrU2tUWwxCr6OFZjcBGAA8pO7CN3AibI0yoBI9dTgPhHsvhzF-dY71nDGQPP89X5db3kVxceO-EIZ4wH2/w640-h286/005_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Another project he had worked on was the artwork for the chips line of SMITHS called TENGELS - I have been an empty chip bag collector for many many years and after seeing the advertisements in the EPPO magazine that year, that bag had to be added (and consumed).<br /><a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/029-blogjune-let-chips-fall-where-they.html">(here's a link to my blog about my chips bag collection)</a><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFSfYSPv_tjU-vImGLlwSYYHCz8jg_Z0i7WDDMhsoQqIawLCt7qbecj4KDaadJDPKPYyCxYpVZyYe7JlKTW85Puye3lS63L9-IOT5yMrxLpbNAmk2ZXT7RxfrvC0ISAEzkzMI9hwbxdyA/s1562/003_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1562" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFSfYSPv_tjU-vImGLlwSYYHCz8jg_Z0i7WDDMhsoQqIawLCt7qbecj4KDaadJDPKPYyCxYpVZyYe7JlKTW85Puye3lS63L9-IOT5yMrxLpbNAmk2ZXT7RxfrvC0ISAEzkzMI9hwbxdyA/w640-h286/003_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">But, as I said at the start - at the end of 1985 I went to see FLODDER at the cinema with some friends. Afterwards we ended up at Cafe 2005 in The Hague, on the Denneweg; where we actually met Dick Matena! <br />Back in the 80's I used to cut out the movie poster ads from the newspaper, I still have quite a few of them in a box in the garage. Even some of the Flodder sequels. I have seen one of them, the one where they go to America, again Martin Lodewijk created the poster artwork. Nowadays movie posters can easily be found online, I was amazed by the amount of different language versions out there of Flodder! But - it's still nice to have a print version of the actual poster that was in the VERONICA magazine.<br /><br /></font><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9rL2rUWwM6XAP2vzGb5kkyXSp5q6l6y_ieIDV99QONGlsKbauCG1mkPyq1dtS-l7GMuGlqxYsCRjwxHp7iju2B5N1rpElx_j7Hwcr7KWFv9ZeJ0qLwI1ztg83Y1RIuKNCZm1PfQ72icvP/s1859/001_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1859" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9rL2rUWwM6XAP2vzGb5kkyXSp5q6l6y_ieIDV99QONGlsKbauCG1mkPyq1dtS-l7GMuGlqxYsCRjwxHp7iju2B5N1rpElx_j7Hwcr7KWFv9ZeJ0qLwI1ztg83Y1RIuKNCZm1PfQ72icvP/w640-h226/001_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE_edWIPklfrrx2WqMY4eLWwgIrmt0ZbPRYqiMIkl5UQSqPjrpAdjLk9wAg8IHVV6n459dnLOns2WSrRqUnTJzhUJTuxh9zUxmcN_IO1Gl99k7CRVryKdpaabkipPQ7cQFywM7t2mmr-X9/s1859/002_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1859" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE_edWIPklfrrx2WqMY4eLWwgIrmt0ZbPRYqiMIkl5UQSqPjrpAdjLk9wAg8IHVV6n459dnLOns2WSrRqUnTJzhUJTuxh9zUxmcN_IO1Gl99k7CRVryKdpaabkipPQ7cQFywM7t2mmr-X9/w640-h226/002_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" width="640" /></a></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">I have never seen the TV series or read any of the comic books, I did come across some of the panels Martin created of the film - if he had done the actual adaption I would have bought it for sure. I would probably even have bought an adaption of the Rambo movie if Martin Lodewijk had created it!<br /><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBvgPE4IKs1RW7fbpPE1KR0xYWEDckTqnbTcS8rvDkVnp-qqZoZ8WA9Du-5ekDvWvEEocNes9NeVy8Q8SEsALS_mdJ5y1y12RJSAdgAY_ARyX1u0tl4cXk1DPNNCXFA_BbjluiWBMuCS0E/s1562/006_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1562" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBvgPE4IKs1RW7fbpPE1KR0xYWEDckTqnbTcS8rvDkVnp-qqZoZ8WA9Du-5ekDvWvEEocNes9NeVy8Q8SEsALS_mdJ5y1y12RJSAdgAY_ARyX1u0tl4cXk1DPNNCXFA_BbjluiWBMuCS0E/w640-h286/006_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrchZe8mQF3PAkqhKXgAPWaN31b68IUjGAhawj7mohDM67Rbm8g04MnyJ-8cJGzAKptNhEkvkxhoIgR_ovBE23Y5pSBTURhdhzMxJTM4jY5P6p-XCwqwYO6H0clcs90dnAVAV3ZUBq12U/s2339/1986_to-be-continued.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="1654" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrchZe8mQF3PAkqhKXgAPWaN31b68IUjGAhawj7mohDM67Rbm8g04MnyJ-8cJGzAKptNhEkvkxhoIgR_ovBE23Y5pSBTURhdhzMxJTM4jY5P6p-XCwqwYO6H0clcs90dnAVAV3ZUBq12U/w452-h640/1986_to-be-continued.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1eM2qR2BtQ" target="_blank">(Watch the trailer of FLODDER here)</a><br />--<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBvgPE4IKs1RW7fbpPE1KR0xYWEDckTqnbTcS8rvDkVnp-qqZoZ8WA9Du-5ekDvWvEEocNes9NeVy8Q8SEsALS_mdJ5y1y12RJSAdgAY_ARyX1u0tl4cXk1DPNNCXFA_BbjluiWBMuCS0E/s1562/006_1986_DOSSIER-FLODDER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><font size="4"><br /></font><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-86331655683536265142020-06-18T11:43:00.003+12:002020-06-18T16:20:44.762+12:00018 #blogjune 2020 - 'Badyear' to be continued<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">018 #blogjune 2020</b><br /><br /><p>“<i>At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; </i><i>at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”</i></p><p>- F. Scott Fitzgerald</p><p><br /><b>Song of the Blog:<br /></b><i>"Eighteen - I get confused every day<br /></i><i>Eighteen - I just don't know what to say<br /></i><i>Eighteen - I gotta get away"<br /></i>- Alice Cooper</p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4lpjEWpXQEmst54DpG7fd43YEiQEIgfSJ9ePfztONnm0G8kIVm6qlP6UcU9tus43oTx6kjVdfcI5qNOP4k9Mq3BqAeKt9-GvRNkhfGqzpz45QqC-sCj4riMcNyca1u6e7Un90AH6s4U6/s1591/000_1985_to-be-continued.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4lpjEWpXQEmst54DpG7fd43YEiQEIgfSJ9ePfztONnm0G8kIVm6qlP6UcU9tus43oTx6kjVdfcI5qNOP4k9Mq3BqAeKt9-GvRNkhfGqzpz45QqC-sCj4riMcNyca1u6e7Un90AH6s4U6/w640-h266/000_1985_to-be-continued.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">In 1985, the year I became a 'man' of 18, I was still an avid comic book reader - and got the EPPO magazine every week even though I lived on a social security benefit whilst attempting to live on my own AND maintain to go to school. It was a year of many changes and even my beloved comic book magazine decided to become known as EPPO WORDT VERVOLGD (To be continued)... <br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxph5O-jnBSqdzaZ7N7i8V4pJGHNn_p6UFHPhuo5-iIOFK_EkMHLZU77WBxVArCEylDzvnp6-X7hh6n4BMJYw5KDLpHDFL60Xo4A09z3eWrWCQjTmmNbVMQj8tVNrBjyvk9Mr05dcE1HY8/s809/001_1985_to-be-continued.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="809" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxph5O-jnBSqdzaZ7N7i8V4pJGHNn_p6UFHPhuo5-iIOFK_EkMHLZU77WBxVArCEylDzvnp6-X7hh6n4BMJYw5KDLpHDFL60Xo4A09z3eWrWCQjTmmNbVMQj8tVNrBjyvk9Mr05dcE1HY8/w640-h186/001_1985_to-be-continued.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">I sure wasn't a bad year for comics... I always enjoyed the BRIAN and the BRAINBOX stories from Jan van Haasteren or just a bath joke ( bad joke ) from Gerald Leever ;) and even whilst my personal life at times felt like a water balloon had popped - the weekly adventures of my favourite heroes helped me continue every week in 1985.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht29-jnmYX4kC7qQ0_CQNIUuiCbZA7zHSN5AFFhqs8LXQCkxXC7TD20VxQCiHA5fTJIoAs8wWbJ8jieCCHh8d_N0wBEGnq8vHZ2OqWMFpAEeRLqxTiZReKaMddAfNxmS3bf8Lcg-TYuZHl/s809/002_1985_to-be-continued.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="809" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht29-jnmYX4kC7qQ0_CQNIUuiCbZA7zHSN5AFFhqs8LXQCkxXC7TD20VxQCiHA5fTJIoAs8wWbJ8jieCCHh8d_N0wBEGnq8vHZ2OqWMFpAEeRLqxTiZReKaMddAfNxmS3bf8Lcg-TYuZHl/w640-h300/002_1985_to-be-continued.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">There were some excellent covers of the General again in 1985 ( if you want to see more of Peter de Smet's work check out this great Facebook page by Ralph Brendt: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DeGeneraalenanderwerkvanPeterdeSmet/" target="_blank">"De Generaal en ander werk van Peter de Smet"</a>. I will be doing a bit about some of his other work myself in an upcoming blog.</font><font size="4"> Of course I loved the FRANKA covers the most, as a big Henk Kuijpers fan - but THE cover of 1985 would have to be the first WORDT VERVOLGD one - with some of the images of Storm, Franka etc and Sjef van Oekel on top of it all.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnKajYN46z4" target="_blank"> I did a vlog about that issue last year</a>. I had deleted all my youtube videos since, but have uploaded this one again for the blog.<br /><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="392" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wnKajYN46z4" width="471" youtube-src-id="wnKajYN46z4"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wnKajYN46z4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="1654" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKuDA79WgWao88gheMBzYurdQtR1GyrES95fPdFHOMDrIkrT3pxn9hmIoJn9FcB8ml24dS8eZ9vXT4qzcX0FQJNdMPxmPJqx9QA-WYOhtXRE8_V0qbwEsXT1eNk4HdJOQJDhU_OxMrl57/w452-h640/1985_to-be-continued.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><font size="4"><br /><br /></font></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-19109793479700711922020-06-17T11:54:00.002+12:002020-06-17T11:54:55.709+12:00017 #blogjune 2020 - Orwell that ends well.<div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4">017 #blogjune 2020<br /><br /></font></b><font size="2">“Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.”<br />- George Orwell, 1984<br /></font><br /><b><font size="4">Song of the Blog:</font></b><br /><i><font size="2">"Someday they won't let you, now you must agree<br />The times they are a-telling and the changing isn't free<br />You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV<br />Beware the savage jaw of 1984"</font></i><font size="2"><br /></font><font size="4"><font size="2"> - David Bowie</font><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqOUnPpTIcLtpC7kyYlhndMyq1UFBPHTbovikIU6UtoEJkvsK3LALLGjOnI_mZ7zCsP2VBNHmlibGCFnygXZhoj7c89xeALXwrIKJ5zEHOtKOawhHfekVDMXOG3WpmWR4nmv-7e0uFsTu/s1591/1984-EPPO-cover-001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqOUnPpTIcLtpC7kyYlhndMyq1UFBPHTbovikIU6UtoEJkvsK3LALLGjOnI_mZ7zCsP2VBNHmlibGCFnygXZhoj7c89xeALXwrIKJ5zEHOtKOawhHfekVDMXOG3WpmWR4nmv-7e0uFsTu/w640-h266/1984-EPPO-cover-001a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">During the year of 1984, I somehow reached the age of 17 even though - after a few years of turmoil - it felt as if I had grown up way faster. You can read some more about <a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/017-blogjune-lemme-tell-ya-something.html">my life in 1984 in an older blog</a>. Many people have compared 2020 to 1984 - and I have seen COVID-19(84) mentioned online many times. During lock-down here in New Zealand I have been reading the trilogy '1Q84' - by Haruki Murakami. Books and comics have always helped me through some of the more darker days. </font><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEuIJJahWj9UpffunLZO0e-e65LBoDZFuxqjYnBHMeRqTAKj_OZHF-UHQUqkYkLvivrVq-fpXYvHkgkAHAexMeGJMOaEWb-9fxeWSanDwQGY9bbVpHJ5xZfJn5VzbSCc96sVik3NJBUhg6/s1512/017blog1984_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1512" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEuIJJahWj9UpffunLZO0e-e65LBoDZFuxqjYnBHMeRqTAKj_OZHF-UHQUqkYkLvivrVq-fpXYvHkgkAHAexMeGJMOaEWb-9fxeWSanDwQGY9bbVpHJ5xZfJn5VzbSCc96sVik3NJBUhg6/w640-h262/017blog1984_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br />At the moment there's a lot of darkness in the world - and I think as a society we need to focus some more on the positive things in life. Instead of destroying the things from the past that we just don't like, we should be learning from them. In one of the 1984 Eppo magazines, there's a story where Jerom is destroying a statue - I never really liked seeing JEROM as a comic in the EPPO back then - but now - years later - I look at it differently. Our views change over the years and hopefully our levels of respect grow along with it.<br /><br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oyWnxrvyZSrhFvAqs8MhdcuPI3_MYf7wyAHPxOSl8hc85k9nKq7HOFpdX3pRmWnxGNadoosAGKzn12fm6Z8sTNCnXH0RWR9I99Z9CxPLd7VInq3FcubnyMsVKr2TVMzUjAAlrCDqeyD7/s1592/017blog1984_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1592" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oyWnxrvyZSrhFvAqs8MhdcuPI3_MYf7wyAHPxOSl8hc85k9nKq7HOFpdX3pRmWnxGNadoosAGKzn12fm6Z8sTNCnXH0RWR9I99Z9CxPLd7VInq3FcubnyMsVKr2TVMzUjAAlrCDqeyD7/w640-h248/017blog1984_03.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><font size="4">I now also have so much respect for <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/egmond_uco.htm" target="_blank">Uco Egmond</a>, who's character EPPO gave the name to the comic magazine I loved so much. Each week there was a new gag and often a cover drawing and there were also his adventures of </font><br /><font size="4">'Falco en Donjon' - Another comic book artist, </font><font size="4"><a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gleever.htm">Gerard Leever</a> took over the titular character for a while and I loved it when EPPO started his own comics and later basically started to run his own Eppo magazine.<br /><br /></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1jzS5XDSX6qXIoTfEUsNnFAMkv68eZvoaqHCWPCZ1Q8LJcSvEL_FNey6kJahLAZwEghF95mM-b07vuHaG7AAFbCaTnjkIYu3cT2sPSOs5IA7WcXRN5pIUBs1WaBYsqw8KMw8OWj60ZSz/s1758/017blog1984_02a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1758" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1jzS5XDSX6qXIoTfEUsNnFAMkv68eZvoaqHCWPCZ1Q8LJcSvEL_FNey6kJahLAZwEghF95mM-b07vuHaG7AAFbCaTnjkIYu3cT2sPSOs5IA7WcXRN5pIUBs1WaBYsqw8KMw8OWj60ZSz/w640-h224/017blog1984_02a.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><font size="4">I also enjoyed it when I spotted the EPPO name in the backgrounds of other comic stories, like in GUUST FLATER. I have had fun going through some of the old 1984 Eppo magazines again and seeing so many familiar stories and movies. I still have the Ghostbusters poster - plus the STORM (Marduk) poster hangs in my office! 1984 wasn't too bad a year and as Martin Lodewijk put it in the last issue of Eppo that year: "Orwell that ends well."</font><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRN2iX0FPgcADCjNHFYmIj4dpKk98VxV4VMdFFlywqZjx4jb7Za9cpG5e73enI2dqWaooNlxtfsWQ6C7DBxy4lzgd5hB-ly9QNYj8_LEyKuhLsvIkUsI1lVt2Lw6Sd_q-DfmKi46B7wwI/s1591/017blog1984_05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRN2iX0FPgcADCjNHFYmIj4dpKk98VxV4VMdFFlywqZjx4jb7Za9cpG5e73enI2dqWaooNlxtfsWQ6C7DBxy4lzgd5hB-ly9QNYj8_LEyKuhLsvIkUsI1lVt2Lw6Sd_q-DfmKi46B7wwI/w640-h266/017blog1984_05.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_DRmLmWGIumW_qu0fm_2M8yMsROQ8FxZkyDl2HgFaMDzLElSJPefPAgIAijv39LzDf3WefgK4PIiJuDwPjNsBj-Cbo97kKoA94WvImubwDrHLkEXY3C_qJxnP7eq7lk90aDkR_7R6nlO/s1024/1984-EPPO-cover-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="776" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_DRmLmWGIumW_qu0fm_2M8yMsROQ8FxZkyDl2HgFaMDzLElSJPefPAgIAijv39LzDf3WefgK4PIiJuDwPjNsBj-Cbo97kKoA94WvImubwDrHLkEXY3C_qJxnP7eq7lk90aDkR_7R6nlO/w484-h640/1984-EPPO-cover-1.jpg" width="484" /></a></div></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-15008324920913825332020-06-16T11:56:00.001+12:002020-06-16T11:56:23.878+12:00016 #blogjune 2020 - The Teeth of the Dragon<div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4">016 #blogjune 2020<br /><br /></font></b><font size="2"> "The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. "<br />- Jim Morrison<br /></font><br /><b><font size="4">Song of the Blog:</font></b><br /><i><font size="2">"In the dance halls and the cinema<br />Shame - On the TV and the media<br />Shame - We loved you"</font></i><font size="2"><br /></font><font size="4"><font size="2"> - Eurythmics</font><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMW5zJaiwOqIiXBUa8lMvDXZjOlJRegMMlXdQ3uAVZbyLO5VfAqPevuRUaVpRSg0OU3KY0QChf1abfVfZ3oyzWLfQyprn-jDOWHodLN0OsSpYo1kL4-tCUwnJ4c6lAckH8AE_hDQb5o7RH/s1591/1983-EPPO-cover-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMW5zJaiwOqIiXBUa8lMvDXZjOlJRegMMlXdQ3uAVZbyLO5VfAqPevuRUaVpRSg0OU3KY0QChf1abfVfZ3oyzWLfQyprn-jDOWHodLN0OsSpYo1kL4-tCUwnJ4c6lAckH8AE_hDQb5o7RH/w640-h266/1983-EPPO-cover-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">During the year of 1983, my 'sweet' sixteenth, there were some memorable EPPO covers that have stayed with me for many years. One has always stood out for me - the issue that had the first episode of the new Franka story "The Dragon's Teeth". This book and its sequel have been an important part of my life.</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmm8XxXTy8KC01yW3maj815C91LWhax6XOy8xGmuTu81IZcs-FappfcUxeGFI52ABbzf5DE5uYBPylygU4dajdSvhGzkGZAgcjm13ULubwGCRKB25bkS1ai0oHWA6EKMLPEN3gJx57evap/s1591/1983-EPPO-cover-003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmm8XxXTy8KC01yW3maj815C91LWhax6XOy8xGmuTu81IZcs-FappfcUxeGFI52ABbzf5DE5uYBPylygU4dajdSvhGzkGZAgcjm13ULubwGCRKB25bkS1ai0oHWA6EKMLPEN3gJx57evap/w640-h266/1983-EPPO-cover-003.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><br /><font size="4">The cover however had no connection with the first pages of story, we had to wait another couple of weeks before the cover fight was covered in the actual pages of EPPO; and what a fight - the action between the two characters takes place inside a small cinema and mimics a sequence that takes place on the screen behind them. Those pages of Franka have always been some of my favourites of all comics I have read. Classic Franka.</font><br /><font size="4">Recently I came across a comic that had a similar scene... great minds think alike, I guess...</font><font size="4">I also remember some articles a few years back that blamed Tom and Jerry for ISIS - as it showed children that violence is natural. Hmm... what about 'the news'?</font><br /><br /><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vDYeKGXWV0ABOxP62YB7YObk0turFzkvhXYFzBTHAskH-6XKRrw1fguNSGVT9zeu9oqVm5Zm9DMzKN1EuYPZvyhxXjNl0LRYzjCHCe75bhsEVVpl7DGnnWiw1e4gGEclv6aOfBJhoxbF/s1591/1983-EPPO-cover-004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vDYeKGXWV0ABOxP62YB7YObk0turFzkvhXYFzBTHAskH-6XKRrw1fguNSGVT9zeu9oqVm5Zm9DMzKN1EuYPZvyhxXjNl0LRYzjCHCe75bhsEVVpl7DGnnWiw1e4gGEclv6aOfBJhoxbF/w640-h266/1983-EPPO-cover-004.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /><font size="4">In 1983 there were also some cool STAR WARS covers, a few STORM covers and a pretty awsome sequence of covers of THE GENERAL by Peter de Smet. But in the end there can be only one winner - the FRANKA cover... one of the few EPPOS that made it to New Zealand.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRlTlxD-x4IEFnZsoLVfmt67yKW8t8jiklMmgALVV5ev-YqvodRG0ebXE6mI3UzJW0jzaGEFGrKkTmIiHAF1S9aT0MCWkpd68EGBkN3sh6sOHkod4_7y9ICtmv9cltLBuVQ34Rnur0DLW/s1024/1983-EPPO-cover-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="776" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkRlTlxD-x4IEFnZsoLVfmt67yKW8t8jiklMmgALVV5ev-YqvodRG0ebXE6mI3UzJW0jzaGEFGrKkTmIiHAF1S9aT0MCWkpd68EGBkN3sh6sOHkod4_7y9ICtmv9cltLBuVQ34Rnur0DLW/w484-h640/1983-EPPO-cover-1.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093363421819385503.post-74712999900112062602020-06-15T11:09:00.001+12:002020-06-15T11:44:00.062+12:00015 #blogjune 2020 - EQ PHONE HOME - part TWO<div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4">015 #blogjune 2020<br /><br /></font></b><font size="2"> " I'll be right here."<br />- ET<br /></font><br /><b><font size="4">Song of the Blog:</font></b><br /><i><font size="2">"Boy, you're an alien, your touch so foreign<br />It's supernatural, extraterrestrial"</font></i><font size="2"><br /></font><font size="4"><font size="2"> - Katy Perry</font><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzu9YzQpqE4H9qyuLRhgjWODMlsuyeg8lYdFYcvNd9uCKMWw4zVGkUoU4my3gs8Dbv2clJOZtPSw_tkArEHe9AN98FzBIthWHS4SNtKhSCZUsJxZ2OfBHFLLZNRnCqL9JkRYBK7s288TQ-/s1591/015blog_ET.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzu9YzQpqE4H9qyuLRhgjWODMlsuyeg8lYdFYcvNd9uCKMWw4zVGkUoU4my3gs8Dbv2clJOZtPSw_tkArEHe9AN98FzBIthWHS4SNtKhSCZUsJxZ2OfBHFLLZNRnCqL9JkRYBK7s288TQ-/w640-h266/015blog_ET.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">In 1982, the year I turned 15, the world was obsessed with this little alien called ET - and so was I... The movie made a huge impression on me. I have seen it numerous times, own the DVD have the soundtrack and whenever I was at a Madame Tussaud I would have to get a picture taken with that 'creature'. Ok - real fans of my blogs might remember last year's one with a similar theme (<a href="https://eriqsbloq.blogspot.com/2019/06/015-blogjune-phoning-home.html">here</a>) - but this is the special edition... with more bits!</font><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFp_DEpuYHeN81LDwJB9skpvX2V263C-eVa8nm1LWRkcojOC0dTf3VTHBcItXwFGTNNe8WRhwAwHu7T4QMkuC5Zays_QUpa1XxgJBT77NzyDW7ukNsfIX-LfK-Y-rf2vjs0-5al0Ox8JOA/s1591/015_ET01a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFp_DEpuYHeN81LDwJB9skpvX2V263C-eVa8nm1LWRkcojOC0dTf3VTHBcItXwFGTNNe8WRhwAwHu7T4QMkuC5Zays_QUpa1XxgJBT77NzyDW7ukNsfIX-LfK-Y-rf2vjs0-5al0Ox8JOA/w640-h266/015_ET01a.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><font size="4">I got the toy (of course) and collected any clippings I could find to paste into an exercise book that I have kept all those years. Bits from magazines, snippets from newspapers, photos, you name it. I even bought an extra copy of the EPPO magazine in week 49, just so I could cut it up and stick it in the book. At that time I thought it would be SO cool to have an actual ET mask like in the picture. Now, I think it looks rather creepy!!</font><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDU6J9Sfokuhj81_uk2npYxkhkuvzuNJMKsfvX7zTr5GwyL5dK3zilsRZtlOBo3oXuz8Cf7xf_ABU1Kci9d_hWGmtgJovP_Gdcag3rSVgbxBUjSbW3fu_fkQMmFtC3_tbm7qs1ZhWRauHe/s1591/015_ET03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDU6J9Sfokuhj81_uk2npYxkhkuvzuNJMKsfvX7zTr5GwyL5dK3zilsRZtlOBo3oXuz8Cf7xf_ABU1Kci9d_hWGmtgJovP_Gdcag3rSVgbxBUjSbW3fu_fkQMmFtC3_tbm7qs1ZhWRauHe/w640-h266/015_ET03.jpg" width="640" /></a></font><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">The other day I was reading some old Batman comics, when one of the bad guys was actually wearing a mask that reminded me a lot of that ET one! - There have been some fun ET cameos in other comics as well.In Uncanny X-Men #245 (1989) we not only see ET - but Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Jawas, Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett, Yoda, the Xenomorph Alien and Alf! I love those little Easter Eggs in comics.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBW062DoxupTUOrPNGT2Tw9vmz57TprjshKzGRy_G71hSDyu5cW-oE-IECnqmR0f6h9YqzEXnIo-xxEhpNqc-0OMxw7YbWx1djRTxA-8Rwg8U-kE5lf-SzsBsvHF428oEmGhWxL_p6zi_/s1591/015_ET02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBW062DoxupTUOrPNGT2Tw9vmz57TprjshKzGRy_G71hSDyu5cW-oE-IECnqmR0f6h9YqzEXnIo-xxEhpNqc-0OMxw7YbWx1djRTxA-8Rwg8U-kE5lf-SzsBsvHF428oEmGhWxL_p6zi_/w640-h266/015_ET02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Toy-wise, I still have the original larger ET from 1982 - but I have since acquired an Elliot on the famous bike (that sits in front of a moon lamp!) and another version of the friendly alien. Plus for one of my birthdays I got the awesome spaceship that takes the little guy back to his home planet. </font><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGA2xF2p1-nc7KzMJiXHdrP_VFn9UgGA-ag9i1HYvYgnFeizF7DFFsMMyM_fXIXp-z6hHSx4WVKNxPuIvKa5AWLXeiv2iqFiCp8nOklpcH2grNaL9l9Io4ODeEY5ORbrm6aDNgfff4VPU/s1591/015_ET04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1591" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGA2xF2p1-nc7KzMJiXHdrP_VFn9UgGA-ag9i1HYvYgnFeizF7DFFsMMyM_fXIXp-z6hHSx4WVKNxPuIvKa5AWLXeiv2iqFiCp8nOklpcH2grNaL9l9Io4ODeEY5ORbrm6aDNgfff4VPU/w640-h266/015_ET04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>eRiQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122218508110499456noreply@blogger.com0