Bloeddorst

World’s oldest comic-information magazine Stripschrift reviews Bloeddorst as ‘it can be seen as a succesful project‘. Sounds like Dutch thriftiness, but the book gets 4 stars out of 5, which we interpreted as succesful indeed. Read the review here.

‘A pattern-card showing the talent enriching the Dutch comic-scene‘. Robin Schouten reviews Bloeddorst in Myx magazine. We love him too.

Filmkrant heads with ‘Invasion‘ after spotting artist Jeroen Funke stumbling to the signing-session at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. Now we know what took him so long. ‘He has looked better‘ commented his girlfriend.

The Telegraaf finally reads Bloeddorst. Almost. The short article is a sum up of who’s in the book and the header comes from the cover. We appreciate it nonetheless and hope the copie goes to a nephew who does like horror.

“In Bloeddorst, almost every artist shows it’s very best. The contributions can be seen as the ultimate bussines-card from a whole new generation.‘ Says Olivier Wortel over at 8Weekly. We say ‘Hello‘.

Vpro, a local artistic authority, reserves a whole spread to enjoy Bloeddorst, but hopes to see more long serious stories the next time. We agree, but have the excuse that one of the main-purposes of the project was to show as many artists as possible. It resulted in mainly short stories, but we promise to straighten this out in the magazine. We want to be loved by everybody, we are that cheap and pulp, but won’t safe on blood and violence 

Read the review here: part1, part2

Nieuwe Revu classifies Bloeddorst as ‘one of the five things you NEED to buy, watch or check‘. And it’s not even dull-season.

Volkskrant did a review. The header can be translated as ‘Bloodthirsty comics too good to be scary‘. Journalist Joost Pollmann thinks he can handle more than we can. Next time we will find his demons!

Jan Kuys, from Noordhollands Dagblad also reads Bloeddorst: (free translated) ‘It’s fat like mud (Dutch expression, meaning cool), the blood drips out of it, it’s very colourful and holds good in your hands‘. Yup, he probably liked it

There also were some internet-journalists at the presentation. Jeroen Mirck from ComicBase really liked the party and Michael Minneboo reviews the book extensively a day later.

It has been rotten away by time, but David Steenhuyse from Belgian ‘De Stripspeciaal zaak’ wrote Bloeddorst to be ‘way better than all the imported junk’. So I note that down nonetheless 

Love also from horror.nl: ‘Bloeddorst is a gain to horror-aficionado’s’.

Bloeddorst can, besides the usual comicbook-stores, now also be bought at Selexyz, Ako and the fantastic LandOfTheDead.