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Ca, 1955. This is a drawing from the "Nelly van der Geer collection". Heer Bommel in different poses to find the right posture, facial expression and composition. Signature Toonder. Toonder drew these sketches for the correct posture of his figures in the day trips. The picture of Tom Poes with Heer Bommel is illustrative of this. In the 1950s, the editors of N.R.C. (De Volkskrant) Marten Toonder to make a number of Bommel drawings available for an exhibition in the hall of the office, intended to give an impression of the realization of the Tom Poes & Bommel strip. In addition, there would be a promotional brochure (booklet) from N.R.C. (De Volkskrant) for which these drawings would also be used. Marten Toonder made a number of original day strips available, but the editors also thought it important to also show preliminary studies in order to make the development more comprehensible in this way. Marten Toonder then gave his secretary Nelly v.d. Bring along a small number of study / sketch sheets, which he sometimes made to draw the correct facial expression or anatomical posture in a scene, with the request to the editors of N.R.C. (De Volkskrant). For reasons that are unclear, these sketch sheets were later lost, to the annoyance of Marten Toonder. Much to the surprise of Nelly v.d. Geer himself, an early researcher in the comics world found these sketch sheets in the early 1980s in a folder in the private archive of Ms v.d. Geer. To the seasoned Toonder collector, this "mythical story" about the (re-) discovery of these drawings is known as the discovery of the "Nellie v.d. Geer collection".
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