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November 19, 2020 14:07

Great! Well done!

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Well done!

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November 19, 2020 17:17

Arco was a big fan of Martin Lodewijk and his creation Agent 327.

He would certainly have appreciated this.

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Unbelievable, - "the Ox has been felled" - Arco, we had a nice and special time with you. Thank you for this. I can still see you driving around in a golf car during the comic fair in the event hall Gorichem, as "festival director", not as an oven, what have you meant a lot to the comic world. Have a good trip on behalf of Jos and all "Eppo's" from Eindhoven, and thanks again for everything and maybe see you soon. Father Cees and mother Pia van Os, my condolences, a terrible experience to have to hand over your only child, strength with the processing of this disaster. Jos Huddleston Slater and all employees of Eppo comics, Eindhoven.

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November 21, 2020 17:16

Sad news.
My sincere condolences to family and friends

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November 22, 2020 13:05

Sad. news. I only see it now.

Only got to meet him once, I believe in 2013. In recent years I had sometimes contact with him via e-mail. Recently asked a question. He would check that. Never got an answer, but forgive him.

I didn't really know his background. That's why I really appreciate René's story.

Arco had been a catalog manager for quite a few years. How did he manage that? Collecting was his great passion, but the catalog also caused a lot of nagging and complaints. And it was great that he was often able to provide an expert opinion about so many collection areas.

At the same time, I didn't always agree with him. He could also make decisions that were less successful. And sometimes he was terribly cocky. Still, I couldn't really get mad at him. I respected him too much for that. And I believe that respect was mutual.

Arco was a striking personality. There was probably only one like him. People like that are rare. I already miss him.

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I don't visit the community site that often anymore, that's why I only heard about it today. It's shocking news! And so young.

I did not know Arco personally, but as I regularly wanted to change or improve things in the catalog, I was in regular contact with him by email. This always went smoothly and quite quickly.

Lastdodo loses a mainstay and "ancien" of the site. It will be difficult to replace it. It will be impossible to forget him.

You are doing well Arco, wherever you are. I did pray that there would be a huge collection of comics. Because you breathed comics.

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Double bang… Due to the death of my brother I am not active much, I am only now reading the shocking news. This is really unbelievable, such a man full of zest for life.

Arco, you have a place in my heart as a good friend. Rest Gentle.

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My condolences on your brother oki-doki.

Yes, it has been almost a month since Arco passed away. Still feels unreal.

Someone has added the special Agent 327 pastry that was handed out at his funeral to our catalog: https://www.lastdodo.nl/en/items/8309489-agent-327-tom-pouce

Arco would undoubtedly have liked that!

Whether the pastry is still in mint condition in this collection, I dare to doubt :-)

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Yep, that was me. Pastry is finished.

There will be a nice tile that we found in his flat.

Willem Naber

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December 13, 2020 10:05

Yep, that was me. Pastry is finished.
There will be a nice tile that we found in his flat.
Willem Naber


Good that you did this Willem, and nice to hear from you again.

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Yep, that was me. Pastry is finished.

There will be a nice tile that we found in his flat.

Willem Naber

Nice Willem!

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We are silent about it. So suddenly.
Arco, we had occasional e-mail and telephone contact. Great, those striking Rotterdam statements from you.
Wonderlandstrips.nl

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There is now a comics auction on Catawiki with pieces from the collection of the late Arco van Os, former community manager of LastDodo.

Proceeds benefit the comics information magazine Stripschrift published by Arco. A very good cause.

So don't hesitate and bid generously via:

https:/ /www.catawiki.com/nl/a/566797-stripveiling-private-collection

The auction ends on November 16th.
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Arco was also a huge James Bond fan. Last week there was also an auction of James Bond items from his collection. This auction yielded much more than we expected. This allows us to completely renew the highly outdated Stripschrift website.
I bet Arco has foreseen it all.
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Today it is exactly one year ago that Arco van Os passed away.

Arco was our colleague at LastDodo and Catawiki.
He was the point of contact for the collector community for many years and did a great job.

In addition to his great significance for our platform, Arco was also publisher and editor-in-chief of Stripschrift for a long time.
An auction ends tonight at Catawiki with pieces from his collection that he bequeathed to Stripschrift (make a generous bid via this link !)

Arco was also the organizer of comic fairs such as De Stripdagen. And he was a lyricist of books, songs and comic strips (such as a Sjors en Sjimmie story).

In addition to his great significance for the comics world, Arco was above all a very nice, driven and involved person with an incredible knowledge of many areas and a great sense of humour. He just turned 59 years old.

We will never forget him.

Below are two photos that we took in 2008 / 2009 at meetings with then administrators where Arco was the absolute pacesetter.


In this photo, Arco is second from the right.




And here on the left in the picture.

René, Marco and Tammo (Collectioneur)
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Beautiful photos. I always thought those administrator meetings were very important. I regularly revised my ideas about co-administrators after meeting them at such a meeting. Also about Arc. I still miss him sometimes.
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I always thought those administrator meetings were very important. I regularly revised my ideas about co-administrators after meeting them at such a meeting.

Yes, those were very nice and useful meetings! FransS 
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There seems to be a lot of things going wrong with the auction.
All lots are canceled afterwards and there are all kinds of negative reactions.
That's a shame, something must be wrong but things are not going well.
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the site was overloaded tonight
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LastDodo was out for a while (around 7pm), I noticed, but that must have had nothing to do with Catawiki's auctions.

And I don't believe that (the spirit of) Arco was responsible for it ;-)
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There was a major malfunction, Google, Marktplaats and other large sites were also affected by this...
Turns out that a cable was broken during excavation work, unfortunately sometimes occurs.
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Yes, there was a major outage last night that affected the (Google) hosting environments of many major websites including LastDodo and Catawiki. Fortunately, Catawiki was available again just before the Arco auction started (which allowed me to win something myself).

Arco must have laughed heartily up there at all the commotion :-)




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Yes, but wait to see how this ends, because all lots are now cancelled.
There will be busy consultations at Catawiki at the moment.
I do get angry emails from buyers, but okay. The problem is not with them, or with us, or maybe not even with Catawiki. We'll just have to wait and see.

Arco must have laughed heartily at all the commotion up there, I suspect :-)
I'm sure...
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Well, luckily Catawiki canceled the auction.
So we can start shipping.
The last big bump is working for now I hope.

After Arco passed away a year ago I went to Rotterdam almost every week, often together with Teus and Ton Schuringa. Now the waters of Stripschrift should calm down a bit (after sending the lots...).

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