“I don’t pray for Bruune beans!”, Those are the well -known words that every Drent knows. Today it is exactly 90 years ago that the iconic book Bartje Van Anne de Vries appeared. And that is celebrated with a brand new comic book: Bartje, the graphic novel.
At the age of ninety, Bartje, the stubborn Drenthe boy with the angry face and the big heart, gets a new look. The comic strip has already been published in parts in the Dagblad van het Noorden in recent years, but is now in the store as a complete book.
“A graphic novel is more than a strip,” says illustrator Anco Dijkman. “It is raising to literature. Making an art form of a strip.”
The story, which remains partly loyal to the original book, also has new elements. “Sometimes some dialogues are copy fit,” says writer Amad Resh. “But there are also times when I come with dialogues myself. So it’s a mix of both.”
In some places he could not let go of the original. “Here, for example, Bartje thinks about everything about everything,” says Resh Wijzend to a piece of text. I completely removed this text from the book, because I thought it was so beautiful that I thought it was a shame to think of something else. “
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