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Heer Bommel and Tom Poes are without doubt the best known and most important cartoon characters in the Netherlands. With the epic in which these two characters are central, Marten Toonder has enriched Dutch culture and language since 1941 and has entertained many millions of readers. From 1971 Toonder worked together with Piet Wijn. Toonder wrote the stories, Wijn sketched the strips and then they were inked by Toonder (sometimes with Wijn's help). All this while two oceans separated the two. Sometimes Toonder decided to change the twist of a story when the strips were already sketched/inked. Usually those rejected drawings ended up in the trash, but a few escaped that fate. This lot concerns such a rejected illustration of Heer Bommel and the Antilogue. Pencil, ink and blue pencil on paper. After Marten Toonder's death, his archives were sold to the State of the Netherlands and have since been kept in the Literary Museum.
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