jeroen de leijer

This is the comic strip that used to accompany my favourite radio show. I don't know why, but they seem to have stopped publishing them early last year. The radio show is still being broadcasted. Jeroen de Leijer studied at the same artschool I did, so I read. But much later in time, because he is much younger than me. Everybody is younger than me, but that is of little importance. I had my children before my carreer, so at least I didn't need any in vitro fertilisation. Jeroen also draws a comic strip in the same paper I did my first illustration in this week, so it can't really be a bad paper, I totally need to see a copy some time. Radio Bergeijk (the show) is very very typical Northern Brabant humour (Northern Brabant is in the southern half of the Netherlands - I know it must sound strange to Canadians to devide a petite country like Holland into regions of regions, but hell, doesn't Neil Young sing about Northern Ontario?). For me, every episode is a trip down memory lane. Half my family is exactly like the characters in both the show and the comic strip. Especially the half that doesn't want to know me anymore. Unfortunately they don't read BN/DeStem because they are from the eastern part of Northern Brabant. They read Eindhovens Dagblad, god I hope the local papers in Holland keep on merging like they do. I always imagine my sister-in-law reacting to my illustrating for NRC Handelsblad (very upscale) in a very radio Bergeijk tone of voice "Eindhovens Dagblad evidently wasn't good enough!".