A Calendar of Tales
February 21, 2013 by Margreet de Heer
Filed under Events, NBM Blog
Widely beloved author Neil Gaiman has started the project A Calendar of Tales, in which he invites the world to make art with him. Using the tweets of thousands of people as an inspiration, he has written twelve tales, one for each month, and is now inviting artists to illustrate them. I love this. Even [...]
Of Cats Past, Part Four
October 3, 2012 by Margreet de Heer
Filed under NBM Blog
The nicest cat I ever lived with (apart maybe from Siamese Boris) was Bloem, a feisty, sociable, intelligent small black female who had all but literally clawed her way out of the garbage cans of Amsterdam as a kitten to set up home with me, in 1999. In 2004 I drew her into a comic [...]
Thoughts about Blogging and Marriage
July 5, 2012 by Margreet de Heer
Filed under NBM Blog, New Releases
Since I started this blog, I’m paying more attention to other bloggers and the choices they make. There are promotional blogs, ranting blogs, look-at-our-kids-blogs, look-at-our-cats-blogs. Blogs with endearing content in gruesome, flashy designs, with or without soundtracks. Blogs with superficial content in very slick layouts. And ever since Blogging became all the rage, there is an [...]
