Friday, 24 July, 2009
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!
Saturday, 18 July, 2009
There. It’s on. You can become homies now on MySpace AND on Facebook AND Twitter. The horror!
Jooooin us!
and
Jooooin us!
Tuesday, 7 April, 2009
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!
Monday, 30 March, 2009
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!
Wednesday, 25 March, 2009
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.
Monday, 17 September, 2007
Bloeddorst has been nominated for the ‘Stripschaps-penning’ (a shiny badge-in-a-box, the ‘Oscar’ for Dutch comics) as ‘Best Album 2007′ in the category ‘Dutch Adventure and Entertainment’! Stripschap writes in it’s statement about Bloeddorst being: ‘a collection of artists with a happy surprise on each and every page. A welcoming initiative in a country where more comic-magazines dissapear rather than being given birth‘.
Heavy-weights Hanco Kolk & Peter de Wit eventually won the prize in this tough category where fan-favourite Daan Jippes was nominated too.
Friday, 16 March, 2007
Today was the big presentation of the much anticipated Bloeddorst in the oldest comicshop in the world: Lambiek. The first copy was given by Menno to ‘mr Horror’ Jan Doense, also director of the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. Look at Menno shine
There also was a full-blown exhibition with the original artwork of all the artists contributing to the book. That attracted almost the whole Dutch comic-scene, never shy of free beer. The shop-owners are still talking about it, which is a big deal in Holland. The expo lasted a month.
