Bloeddorst

Paris-based graphic artist Tougui customized a normal looking paper catwalk model by Bloeddorst very own Maarten Janssens into something not quite dead yet. Hehehe, we love that.

Go download it, it’s free anyway.

Oh boy, do we get excited this time around! With Halloween approaching, there’s lots of good things going on. Nice festivals, horror-movie-marathons and premières, par-tees and lots of scared people. What a time to escape from the real-life horror we read about in the newspapers. Not that we don’t care of course, but we just can’t care 365 days a year. Karadzic, fuck him. Gaza: we’ll be interested again next week. Politics? We never cared.

To celebrate we have these 10 wallpapers for you to put on your iPhones keeping the soul alive. Tell anybody how much you love us! 

Click on THIS LINK to download a zip file with all the 10 images.

Here’s how to upload them to your iPhone.

This haunted paperkit is a happy Halloween-gift from 3Eyedbear and Bloeddorst to you. It’s a simple and fast-to-build illusion of Louise Brooks who just can’t take her eyes of of you. Kind of creepy, but that’s what we are here for.

Download it now and go search for the pizzabox in the garbage-bin. You are going to need it.

This has GOT to stop, nobody can be THAT friendly! Well, yes we can. For you patient people waiting for the magazine to fly we have this little guy to accompany you. Again, Maarten from 3Eyedbear created a toy to show off at work or at the family-in-law at christmas. Gosh, how nice we are.

His name is Killer and it has got spices from famous movie-killers. So let’s make this into a little game: which one? And let’s spam the comment-box for it. Winner wins infinite fame beyond recognition.

Go download it NOW and send us pictures, pictures and pictures!

There. It’s on. You can become homies now on MySpace AND on Facebook AND Twitter. The horror!

Jooooin us!

and

Jooooin us!

Well, the name of the game is horror over here, but it doesn’t mean we are unfriendly people. What about this free gift for you to download, cut out, fold and glue together yourself? We are even that friendly to warn you about the difficulty of it, but horror ain’t for little kids anyway, right?  ;). A pincet would help. For instance…

Lot’s of kuddo’s for Bloeddorst-co-creator Maarten Janssens, who schizofrenicly builds lovely paperkits on the side. At his website 3EyedBear you can find more paperkits. And the answer to the question “how the hell can I put these kits together AND make them look cool?”.

But I’ll cut further crap. Let’s download the damned thing!

Our shop starts to get filled up, so go check all this stuff we have to offer in the sidebar! It’s a way to support your favourite artists too since all the proceeds go directly to them. We thought it to be beneficial to everyone. To bring it short: You get your deal directly from the artists without costly mediation, the artists can go run back to the pub with your money and if they sell out we get more artwork to show off! Wow, it’s ingenius!

Be Glad. We’re not Dead, Yet!

The plans are getting serious, 3 stories are in production now so we are close to filling a first episode. We are independant, two guys and a girl who pay the whole operation out of our own pockets and publish the magazine ourselves, so we had some meetings to straighten out our vision for the future. And some essential things have changed!

First of all, we want to go out and search our public internationally. Horror isn’t bound to any border obviously so we couldn’t think of a good reason to publish exclusively in Dutch. Our magazine will be in English and from now on we are going to communicate in English too. Also, anyone around the world with a good sense of horror can send submissions for any next episode. We officially are looking for scripts for comics and short stories and also artists are welcome to submit examples of their work so we can find a suitable story to match. Or the cover. To be honest upfront: we don’t pay for your contribution. We do it for love of horror and together we can bring it back, full-throttle!

Some tech-facts:

• Bloeddorst is going to be a quality horror-magazine with 20 pages of comic-galore and 4 (timeless) editorial pages.
• Our format will be ‘American Pulp Comic’, size 25,9 x 16,9 cm, the cover will be glossy, fullcolour dubbelprint. The inside greyscale with one additional colour: RED. The inside paper is aimed to feel cheap, dirty and underground and will weigh as least as possible (since we are going to send the mag around).
• We will print 666 copies of each issue and sell through internet and conventions. We are sell-outs  and like the tag: ’sold out’. We have the philosophy of ‘print when you’re full’ and will therefore appear infrequent.
• Sure, we know a lot of Dutch comic-artists so we want to have a local colleague guaranteed in every episode  Also we will have to select on quality. We want to represent GOOD horror, created by and for horror-fans.

Let the games begin. And please do tell us if you know a way to improve ourselves!

It’s official: This Halloween, Bloeddorst announces it’s plan to start all over again as a small independent underground comic-magazine. Inspired by the good reception of the first album in 2007, (nomination for ‘best Album, Entertainment’ at the Dutch Comic-Con) and the successful folowing tour, Menno Kooistra couldn’t resist the idea to reanimate the project any longer. Like the Dutch saying ‘the blood crawls where it seems impossible to go’, he wants his monster to stay alive.

To celebrate this good news, new publisher buro-Lamp rises to the occasion to bring a little preview called ‘Terugval’. This exclusive gem is the storyboard for the chilling story about fear of children created at the last global ‘24hourComic’-day by ex-Disney artist Maarten Janssens. It will be fine-tuned and re-sketched before it will be published in Bloeddorst and is therefor a unique glance at the ‘making of’ this little story.

The mini-comic is 8 pages ‘greyscale’ with red (!), with a cover of printed, solid red paper, taped around against pre-peaking with a title sticker. Besides the cover, the story doesn’t have text. Quality printing has been done by Den Hartog digital printing. Inside is an exclusive original little malicious sketch, signed by Maarten Janssens. There are no plans for reprinting so when it’s sold out, it’s done.

Price: €6,66 + shipping-costs. Call us crazy, but we are just happy to be back amongst the living again! 

Drop us your address and tell us how many copies you would like to have.

Back in 2006 at a local comic-convention in Holland, Menno Kooistra toyed with the idea to bring horror back into comics. The Dutch comic-community got very excited and created the 96 pages fullcolour coffee-table-book Bloeddorst from the ground up. It got critically acclaimed as a broad portfolio with the combination of acclaimed artists and fresh young, yet undiscovered talent and was successfully continued with an extensive tour throughout the nation, but the publisher didn’t want to continue the project after which it died slowly.
Now, Menno Kooistra, Maarten Janssens and Nynke Landman, all three involved from day one, emptied their wallets wanting to reanimate Bloeddorst and just do it themselves. It’s an uncertain road ahead but certainly filled with buckets of blood!