Bloeddorst

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.

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.

Luuk van Huët from Amsterdam Weekly also visits Menno:

Interview with Menno for Stripeljee, a Belgian e-zine. The interview handles about Menno’s upbringing in the deep Amazon forests of Brasil by a gang of anaconda’s. And how his then-cultivated fascination with vampire-bats probably got him thinking about the horror-book to come. But not before the Ukrainian ship he was working on in his adolescence years got attacked by this humongous monster from the deep deep blue.

I believe the essence of the story was like this, but Stripeljee has unfortunately deleted this amazing story.

In Veronica Magazine, the biggest tv-guide of Holland, Bloeddorst got reviewed. It’s in Dutch, but it’s safe to say they liked it.

Menno is invited to explain stuff about Bloeddorst on radio 3FM. Michiel Veenstra, the host of this popular program is a big comic-fan so Menno hád to come. The website announces the upcoming guest as “…pulling the right nerves. The book consists of the most disturbing and sickening comics to date!”
We agree.

Later this month Bloeddorst became the official book-of-the-week for the Book-club of the program.