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!
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.
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.
Bloeddorst is presented at the AFFF. Lots of full breed artists from our stable will be signing books or body parts, make bloody portraits and supply after-care to the shocked public. Jeroen Funke appeared as a zombie, which we didn’t notice until a fan pointed it out (I guess he works too hard). Check out the photo’s here.
AFFF now goes by the sissy name ImagineFF, even the posters back then were cooler.
“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‘.
