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The initiative for Sjoert came from the board of Het Stripschap. In December 1982 the first issue of Kwartaal was published, the quarterly magazine for the members of Het Stripschap. With this regularity in the printed matter, the need arose to give this printed matter its own face. The next issue, Quarter number 1, appeared on February 15, 1983, the deadline for issue was January 19, 1983. That was Sjoert's official birthday, after a very short pregnancy, because the assignment for Sjoert's design only came in the first week of January. In that short time, Henk actually designed three different Sjoertjes, a fairly tall rat-like lanky, a Paulus de Bos gnome-like figure and a kind of fauntje, which eventually became Sjoert. The first sketches were made by Henk during a telephone conversation with board member Hans Duncker, keywords were "flexible" and "beast" and also "faun" (the description of the final Sjoert. This is the gnome version of Sjoert...
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