Henk Kuijpers - 1 Original page - Franka - Originele plaat 4 Het Meesterwerk - 1979

Original plate 4 from "Het Meesterwerk" with later modification (see photo 4) Beautiful very old page!
When in 1975 the magazines PEP and Sjors&Sjimmie were merged into the new magazine EPPO, that magazine attracted a slightly younger readership because the average EPPO reader was somewhat older than the Sjors&Sjimmie reader.
Martin Lodewijk, the art director of that new EPPO, suggested simplifying the cast of the first book (the one that appeared in PEP, Het Midsdaad Museum) for continuation in EPPO to a single character: Franka. Het Meesterwerk is thus the beginning of her solo career! Now she is constantly in view, she is a female main character, she gets her own house as setting, including her own neighbor, an artist. This is how the strip immediately moves into the artistic side.
Plate 4 Het Meesterwerk ink on drawing cardboard, 60x45 cm. Four Strips, large format!
(a face has been adjusted for the Dupuis edition.)

The winner of this lot also receives, for this auction in an edition of 150 unnumbered copies made, a special color print on A4 format, signed by Henk Kuijpers. The original of this print is also in this auction (see lot 150).