Category: Reinier van der Plas

• Adventure Comics, Exoticism, and Nostalgia. Part 1: Scrooge McDuck

  December 2, 2021

  

  Up until the age of sixteen (or thereabouts) reading for fun meant reading comics. I grew up on the Belgian classics of Tintin, Asterix, Suske & Wiske, on the weekly Dutch magazine Donald Duck, on Jim Davis’ Garfield. The list goes on, but you get the picture. Many of these comicstrips have lost the allure…

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• Beginnings: Sable’s Coming-of-age Tale

  November 2, 2021

  

  Credit for the images in the article goes to Shedworks. It is a fresh new year for Writer’s Block with a wholly new board, and so it truly is a new beginning for us all. As we are finding our feet and discovering how we will work as a team, how to meet the expectations…

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