#Henk Kuijpers

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Franka

by Henk Kuijpers

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Blanka by Henk Kuijpers

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Franka by Henk Kuijpers

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Back cover of 'Murderous Competition' with Franka and Citroën CX by Henk Kuijpers.

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O outro día decateime de que medrei adorando 2 das mostras mais eroticofestivas do comic europeu que estiveron ao acceso da cativada galega:

1. O castelo regadeira (e o seu epiquísimo spinoff: Os sete lunares de Xiana) na revista Golfiño

2. As traducións galegas de Xela Arias da seri Franka de Henk Kuijpers (deixaron de traducila cando se decataron de que saía moita teta para ser BD, que daquela eran "cadriños para crianzas" e namais)

Fun exposta a unha sexualidade libre e aberta por estas cousas e non creo que saíra traumada nin moito menos.

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Henk Kuijpers

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Prince Valiant art by Sanjulian offers in latest Catawiki International Original Comic Art Auction

Prince Valiant art by Sanjulian offers in latest Catawiki International Original Comic Art Auction

A Prince Valiant artwork by the great Spanish artist, Sanjulian, is surely going to be just one highlight of the latest Catawiki International Original Comic Art Auction, closing next Thursday (28th October 2021). Original illustration of Prince Valiant, by the great illustrator Sanjulian. The illustration has a size of 50 x 70 cm Offering its usual mix of international art by a diverse range…

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My first comic book love was FRANKA. Written and drawn by Henk Kuijpers (b. 1946), the popular series features a daring and clever sleuth—the title character—who always finds herself in the middle of an intriguing mystery or some violent dispute, and sets about to make things right. Debuting in the 1970s, Franka was a strong female character, but she wasn’t designed that way: like Ripley in ALIEN, she could have been male, or without gender, or anything, but she just happened to be female.

To me, a kid from Holland, the series had something that many other popular comics didn’t: Franka was Dutch. Unlike Batman or Spider-Man, X-Men, or Tintin, or Asterix, or Donald Duck, Garfield, the Pink Panther, whoever—her town was my town, the characters were my neighbors, and I only needed to look out of my window to see the signs, brands, fashions, storefronts, and cars that formed the backdrop of her adventures. When you’re a kid from a small country, that’s big. That’s like living next door to a celebrity.

You have to realize I come from a small place. A nothing place that has never produced any name worth mentioning. A nothing place in a small country you probably associate with dykes (no not those dykes), tulips, and windmills, and that may or may not be somewhere near Denmark. Spider-Man, Batman, X-Men, and all the big heroes were aliens—they wowed me like aliens—but Franka was my secret friend. She was someone I might run into.

In later years the comic changed, and frankly, it lost me a little. Small towns and petty swindles made way for luxurious holiday destinations and international high crimes. Glimpses of Franka’s breasts—so exciting back then—became money shots: they became blatant and, well, cheap. She became voluptuous, a Venus. Her head shrank and shrank. Her character changed too: the smart and sometimes flustered young girl became a rather pedantic WOMAN, a winner, forever drawn to fast cars, rich players, exotic locales. Not so much interested in the people involved in the crime she was investigating as in the chase itself, and the adventure, the glitz and the glamour. To put it bluntly: she became less human.

Don’t get me wrong though: FRANKA is still a strong comic. It didn’t turn bad all of a sudden. Its style and tone just changed; they became further removed from my own interests. And, of course, I’m not that kid anymore.

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Original Franka page, by Henk Kuijpers. It’s such a clean style, with straightforward presentation, and yet still full of life!

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Franka

by Henk Kuijpers

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Franka. Henk Kuijpers

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Franka by Henk Kuijpers

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Comic book heroine and sex symbol Franka with Citroën DS by Henk Kuijpers.

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Henk Kuijpers