In my comic Bed, Bad and Dood I try to take the viewer into the story of a refugee. I believe that a vital society needs new cultures.

To understand the refugee, we must become an actor in the refugee’s narrative. For this project I have spoken with many refugees. I have combined their stories and kneaded them into a realistic knit.

In this story you follow Wijnbrand Axel de Haan. He has to flee the Netherlands due to extreme natural disasters. He gradually loses everything and becomes displaced. Wijnbrand arrives in a non-existent country where they treat him as a number. He gets deeper and deeper into the restraining corridors of bureaucracy.

Bed, Bad en Dood was for sale at the famous zine store Athenaeum in Amsterdam.

This series was born out of my fascination for suspense and transformation. It is an investigation that I carry out in addition to my regular work and what is continuously growing.

Dinner At Six (restuarant) has asked me to make drawings for a possible future publication that fit in nicely with their work process.

For these drawings I used my imagination and converted their question into symbolic images that enrich their process.

Heimwee (Homesick) is a magazine founded by Het Huis van Zeker (Utrecht-based illustration collective). The magazine was created to visually capture the Covid-19 crisis and to give stories and experiences a stage.

This illustration I created for the Schuur. A cultural hotspot in Haarlem. The question was whether I could capture in a visual sequence that young people learn something about culture. My idea was to capture the movement of a walking figure, but he travels through a different setting each time as if he is going through the experiences himself. In the end, he leaves the Schuur fully enriched.