Henk Kuijpers - 1 Calendar - Franka - Stripschapkalender - 1986

Stripschap calendar 1986

barely outside the Drenthe village of Dalen, on the two posts of the fence of a cemetery, stands the double solemn admonition:
WAT GIJ NU ZIJT WAS IK VOOR DEZEN—WAT IK NU BEN ZULT GIJ DAAR WEZEN. Memento Mori, but drawn out, in the style of a nineteenth‑century pastor/poet. Very suitable as a motto in the Victorian haunted-house-by-the-cemetery horror genre. This time there lives a mad Frankenstein with a skeleton servant.

That is what I drew when Stripschap asked in 1985 for a picture for the 1986 calendar. It became the cover.

Stripschap 1985: calendar 1986. landscape A4, metal clip, signed

The winner of this lot will also receive, produced for this auction in a run of 150 unnumbered copies, a special color print on A4 format, signed by Henk Kuijpers. The original of this print is also in this auction (see lot 150)