A riff on an old joke, but a relatively safe place to start, I guess. Things will only get weirder.


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Artist Herr Seele (“Mister Soul,” did I get that right?) was born in 1959 as Peter van Heirseele in Torhout, West-Flanders. His father was an office clerk and his mother a professional painter, who stimulated her son’s artistic interests. His grandmother Valerie Haesaert was also an artist, and once won a national award for amateur painting. As a child, van Heirseele already drew complete comic book stories. --Lambiek


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Writer Kamagurka, real name Luc Zeebroek, was born in 1956 in Nieuwpoort, a town near the Belgian coast. He came into the world with a bad Achilles tendon, which left him with crooked feet. The boy was bullied and suffered tremendous pain until an operation solved the problem. In the hospital, a young patient in the bed next to him died. All these traumatic experiences gave Zeebroek a combative attitude. In his opinion, life is so absurd, tragic and meaningless that it’s best to not take things too seriously. Growing up, he therefore wanted to turn everything into a joke, even severe tragedies.


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More (and I mean more):
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seele.htm
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kamagurka.htm

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      You read my mind!

      I had published a roundup of Cornella’s stuff on Reddit some time back, sourced on Imgur, but Imgur wound up deleting it because it was ‘too weird / offensive,’ I presume.

      I was just thinking about trying again over here, after some more ‘normal’ posts.

  • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    Ah man, I haven’t seen Cowboy Henk in forever! I love these weird comics!

    Also hey, is that an Everett True cameo in the animal brothel!? Is there an old Eurocomic Cinematic Universe?

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      is that an Everett True cameo

      I like you’re thinking, but I’d say NO, in this case.

      Fucking-asshole “Everett True” would have broken the table over his head. XD

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      When it comes to non-English, we generally speak French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch, plus a couple of others.

      Sorry, sir-- could you just say it in your own language? (no disrespect intended)