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A nasty, but possibly not very intelligent pair of guards.

Tom Poes en Ollie B. Bommel

I am happy! Now that isn’t very unusual, but the past week I had a stroke of luck. I ordered a few comics from one of my favorite inspirations. “Tom Poes en Ollie B. Bommel” a Dutch comic and semi-comic (and one movie) from Marten Toonder. These stories are absolute time-less classics, and even brought a new words and expressions to the Dutch language in a time where television was still a baby and child growing up. They are simple stories with multiple layers, written for kids and adult alike, fantasy and reality mixed together. The series has stopped now (the writer died at age 93) but it’s legacy lives on. I think there are a few translations into other languages, but to be honest, I don’t know if translations will honor the original story. Well… so I ordered them and on of the comics, gives an unexpected behind the scene’s look into the making of the comic, storyboards, sketches, etc… This could really be helpful. Yay! What inspires you?