Franka - 1 Puzzle - 1979

Franka-puzzel for Eppo

This puzzle was initially drawn as the cover image for Stripschrift. The time pressure was enormous around 1980 when the editorial offices still harbored the expectation of always two pages per week. That wasn’t feasible in certain styles at all. And a nice drawing that is available is never wasted, so I also used this one as the Eppo cover, and the piece was included as the opening scene in De Wraak van het Vrachtschip.

Also around 1980: Amsterdam still looked messy. The cityscape simply featured vacancies and poverty, moving out and demolitions, squatting, and people simply moving voluntarily to Purmerend. This is the APEGAPENSTEEG!

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