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  • Garage Cafe #2.4

    At Garage Cafe #2.4 Rosa and I gave an artist talk presenting our webcomic. We introduced our project and handed out two postcards to all the people who attended. One postcard was for them to keep, a souvenir from Switzerland, with a QR-code. The other…

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  • Veerwilddragers

    Veerwilddragers, mijn bed in de binnenstad (2024) is part one of the Mini Poëzie Bundels by Maurits Boskamp en Nik van der Meulen. Veerwilddragers is a collaborative mini zine created by artist Nik and poet Maurits, merging visual art and poetry to capture the essence…

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  • Keep building your house, Mrs. Winchester

    Keep building your house, Mrs. Winchester (2024) tells the story of Sarah Winchester. Legend has it that she went mad with grief after the death of her husband and child. Sarah consulted a medium who warned her of vengeful spirits seeking retribution for the lives…

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  • Schande magazine

    Door schade en schande wordt men wijs (2024), is a contribution to volume 7 of SCHANDE magazine. This is a humorous comic about the social implications of art school and being an artist. ‘SCHANDE makes the elusive tall trees accessible without morals and without ethical…

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  • Oh, to feel at home

    Oh, To Feel at Home (2024) is an 8-page zine. It’s printed on 100gr green label paper, with three different colours of soy-based ink. The booklet is an A6 zine, folded from an A3 piece of paper—15×10.5 cm.The zine has mostly illustrations and some text.…

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  • Writing down good reasons to freeze to death

    Writing down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook (2023), 36 pages, A5. (first edition) Self-published. This project served as an exploration of common themes in my artistic practice. escapism, isolation, solitude and melancholy are important in my work. These themes have…

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  • I met Poseidon the other day…

    I met Poseidon the other day… he just had his wisdom teeth removed and the anesthetic had not quite worn off yet (2023), 20 pages, A5. (first edition) Self-published. This is a magical realism zine. In the zine, you’ll go on an adventure through the…

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  • FuckFastFashion

    Anti-Fashion Show (2023) by Panos, Ema, Marianna and Nik. We marched in protest against the fast fashion industry by creating an anti-fashion show. November is a time of overconsumption; holiday shopping and Black Friday send huge numbers of people to the stores. We want to…

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  • FDIK contributions

    Contribution to volume 5 and 6 of FDIK (2023-2024). Fuck Do I Know is a rotterdam based collaborative zine run by Soyink and Saddy. Most issues are risoprinted and followed by a release event. I contributed to two of their publications: Volume 5: Fuck Do…

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