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The Christmas Lockdown
Haarlem, 15 December 2020
Today is the last day of my son’s day care. Full lockdown #2 starts tomorrow. Yaron is 2,5 years old, so he is too young to be left alone. As my wife is the one with the important job I will be the one…

Silence
Today was Memorial Day, during which the victims of the Second World War in Holland are being commemorated, just like every year on the 4th of May.
I realised I had actually never done anything about it, not with other people anyway,…

Stripdagen Haarlem 2012
Grote Markt, Haarlem
Strip, strips, meer strips...
For the collectors: the catawiki girls!
The 2-yearly Stripdagen Haarlem; always fun.

3D printing
Is possible now. Exhibition by various artists in De Vishal (Haarlem).
More info here: Ctrl-Z.
Work from (and curated by-) Eric van Straaten


Joost Swarte
Comics artist, illustrator, graphic designer, architect, Haarlemmer.
He has done several covers of the New Yorker
...and of the famous RAW magazine
Film & theatre building he designed
www.joostswarte.com |…

Looking for Izzy
Izzy was missing the other day.
We had started to let her out only a couple of weeks ago. Enough to get used to the gardens and not to get lost, but she isn't too bright. And she’s fat, too.
So I went looking beyond our balcony,…