Off to Berlin

I'm off to Berlin, teaching.
I will be back on Friday . I got a lot of questions from you, portfolios, movieclips, etc. It'll take time, but I'll answer each and everyone, so don't worry . But for the moment, have a nice week, discussing the Pixar-deal. ...
H

Le Shop

Now you can own this cute, vicious little rabbit of mine as a mug, clock, t-shirt, tank-top, everything you always wanted to own, but were afraid to ask for. What will they think off next ??? Thanks to Goro, for helping me setting this up .
Harald, the greedy bastard...

The Cast

Maquette

Another one of those beautiful maquettes from Gallery Fi Donc.

I'm telling you for the last time ....

Click the link, if interested

Winnie

Can't tell you, how much fun it is, to do this little, cheerfull, unpretencious characters.....

K.Rokodil

...a.k.a. Baron Coordt du Crocque au Vin. He thought his name no longer fitted, after he became Burgermaster of Poldertown and changed it, to impress his new friends.

A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day
On the banks of the cool Shalimar.
He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay
By the light of the evening star...

Alfred J. Kwak Webcast

Now you can watch a different episode of Kwak every week as a webcast at Herman van Veen's website. Enjoy it, while it's still free, H

I am the Walrus

King Franz Ferdinand I

.....wishing you a royal weekend.

The first drawings of the new year...

I always saw Prof. Paljass as a caricature of Peter Ustinov. We even asked him to do the voice but he declined , saying he would only do maincharacters.
The German name "von Unternull" ( below zero) is a reference to Wernher von Braun, the German rocket-engineer , who started out building rockets for the nazis and later brought Apollo 11 to the moon. ( Hence yesterday's little poem by Tom Lehrer). His character first appeared, in "Onder Water" a theatershow, written by Herman, which we later rewrote to " Vissen in trouble water /Fish and Ships". In this show he still had a German accent and an assitent, a penguin by the name of Fahrenheit. So is there a dark spot in Paljass' history ? I love to think so....
Eventually Herman did the voice himself in the TV-Series, which put his voice under a lot of stress, and I remember him saying, he would never do dubbing again.
The Professor's mentor by the way, is the legendary scientist and genius, worldexplorer and organist Prof. Prokudatis Krakedatus, whose diary is still in the professor's safekeeping. I wrote a lot of that backhistory down for volume 4 of the comicbooks, which I never finished....too much work with the TV-series...Maybe some day we'll find the time and right place.