Breaking news! Here’s the line-up for the first Bloeddorst magazine that if as goes well will be released during the Christmas holidays!
The cover will be made by the incredible comic artist Erik Kriek and the stories inside are from Maarten Gerritsen, Menno Kooistra (written by Peter Moerenhout) and Maarten Janssens.
Below quick sketches made by Maarten Janssens, who is looking for the right style. He’s inspired by Ashley Wood.
Stay tuned for more news!
Incredibly sad news. Last Saturday the amazing Dutch comic artist and Bloeddorst author Minck Oosterveer died in a motorcycle accident.
Minck created the comic hero Trunk for the first Bloeddorst book, together with writer and friend Willem Ritstier. Trunk later was given his own series of which the first book was released in 2008.
Minck will be greatly missed and we wish his family all the best.
RIP Minck!
It’s been a while, but hey, a lot has happened since. But we can assure you that we’re back now with great news.
Bloeddorst will return for sure. As a magazine, nothing new there, but brace yourself: on the iPad!
Yesterday we talked it all over with a fresh, young and talented people from LayerGloss who can make magic happen with the Apple tablet.
The first magazine of Bloeddorst, exclusively made for the iPad will probably see the light of day early 2012, perhaps even by the end of this year. Bloeddorst the magazine will not be just a comic made for the iPad. It’ll be an experience. Something unique and freaking terrifying. It goes without doubt you can expect the quality you’re used to from the book, but this time with extra’s. Expect sketches, bonus comics, easter eggs, movement, sound, and lots of other great features. One thing’s for sure: it’ll scare the living shit out of you.
Stay tuned for more news to come. We’ll post all the bloody details on this blog. Of course you can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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 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!
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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!
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:
and like the tag: ’sold out’. We have the philosophy of ‘print when you’re full’ and will therefore appear infrequent.
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.
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.
