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Original gouache (opaque watercolor) by Tom Poes and Lord Bumble walking in the sun, with Castle Bommelstein in the background. Illustrated by Dick Matena. This work has never been published and was created in 2015. Dick Matena started at Toonder Studios in 1960 at the age of 17. There he illustrated, among others, Tom Poes (1962-1963) and Panda (1961-1968). After Toonder Studios, Matena continued as an independent artist and wrote and illustrated many stories for magazines such as Pep, Donald Duck, Mickey Magazine, Panorama, Titanic, Free Balloon, Playboy, Penthouse, Comix, Zozolala, To Be Continued, Gummi, Zone 5300, De Toestand, Globe and Stripglossy and for international magazines such as Heavy Metal, Son of Heavy Metal, Creepy, Ilustracion +, Comix, Spatial and Métal Hurlant. Matena received the most important national awards: the Stripschapsprijs for his entire oeuvre, 1986; the Bronzen Adhemar for his entire oeuvre, 2003; The large retrospective exhibition “Drawn life”, 6 June to 27 September 2015, in the oldest book museum in the world; Meermanno Westreenianum. Dick Matena adapted Gerard Reve's De Avonden, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Kort American by Jan Wolkers and Kaas and Het Dwaallicht by Willem Elsschot and other literary masterpieces in comic form in an unparalleled way.
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