Lectrr has been nominated for the prestigious Dutch comicbook-price for the first time. His album “Lars! Attacks” was nominated for the Album of the Year-award
in the category “Youth”. The jury described the nomination like this:
“The master of absurd jokes finally dedicates himself to newspaper comics. His fear of dogs inspired him to create a series of hilarious, Tom & Jerry-like jokes in which the main character, a dog named Lars, is the victim of it all.”
Other nominees in the same category are “Zzzzeur Meyer” by Gerard Leever and “Opa Laat Zijn Tenen Zien” (translated: “Grandpa shows his toes”) by Floor de Goede and Erward van de VEndel.
The last book also won a Zilveren Griffel-award, an award for excellent childrens literature.
The winner of the Stripschapspenning 2009 wil be announced in september on the Stripdagen in Houten (The Netherlands), where Lectrr is also doing a signing session.
This weekend I was a guest at Belgium’s finest Comicbookfestival “Strip Turnhout” in Turnhout. Signing loads of books, meeting colleagues and just hanging around on one of the finest comic book fairs of the country. On sunday evening I performed (together with a dozen other comic book artists: Pieter de Poortere, Jan van der Veken (of the New Yorker-fame), Hanco Kolk, Peter Kuper, ao.) with the dutch band ‘Spinvis‘. Man, that was awesome! For those that missed this memorable performance: shame on you! It had everything to become a legendary performance. Mind my words.
The first youtube movies of that performance is starting to buzz around the net.
