The formal facts:
- Born in 1970 in the Netherlands,
when cool music still ruled the world
- Graduated at the Royal academy for Art and Design,
‘s Hertogenbosch, NL
- Occupation: graphic designer, illustrator
Stuff I’m totally into:
- Painting/drawing
- Freakin’ around with illustrator and the ‘ole Photoshop
- Doing graphics and videoshows for roadburn
- Collecting cartoons/comics and original comic art.
- Collecting movies (old horror/sci-fi movies,
60s/70′s exploitation flicks, Jess Franco, Mario Bava)
- 8mm movies (of the kind I just mentioned)
- Old (southern)rock (Grand funk Railroad, James Gang,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ram Jam, ZZ Top, Ted Nugent)
- Oldschool HEAVY/Doom/Deathmetal (Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Repulsion, Place of Skulls, Autopsy, Pentagram)
- Pre-Raphaelite and symbolist paintings (J.W. Waterhouse and Carlos Schwabe!)
- European Comics: Suske en Wiske (especially Eugeen Goossens era), Frank Margerin, Peter de Smet.
- EC horror comics, Creepy magazine, Bernie Wrightson. Basil Gogos
- MAD Magazine, Jack Rickard, Jack Davis, Bob Clarke!
My music:
- I’ve formed and been a member of several bands in the doom and deathmetal scene (guitar: Acrostichon, Black Melody, Robotmonster, Crustacean, Master(USA), Disembowel and vocals in Robotmonster)
Fave movies:
- “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” by Tobe Hooper
- “Bride of Frankenstein” by James Whale
- “Jack the Ripper” by Jess Franco
- “Danger Diabolik” and “Kill baby Kill” by Mario Bava
- “The Exorcist” by William Friedkin
Fave Albums:
- Normaal: “Oerend Hard”
- Celtic Frost: “Into the Pandemonium” and “To Mega Therion”
- Repulsion: “Horrified”
- Autopsy: “Severed Survival”
- Pentagram: “Relentless”
- Grand Funk Railroad: “Grand Funk”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Second Coming”
- Place of Skulls: “Nailed”
- ZZ Top: “Fandango”
- Ted Nugent: “Ted Nugent”
- Adam and the Ants: “Kings of the Wild Frontier”
- Naked City: “Torture Garden”
Fave Writers:
- Edgar Allen Poe
- H.P. Lovecraft
- George Orwell
- Robert Irwin
- Patricia Cornwell