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In 1995 Wasco launched 'Wasco's Comics and Stories' (1995), a new self-published title with a nod to the American comic book series 'Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'. It starred the wizard-like Tuitel, with his hourglass-shaped body and pointed hat, whose name and looks were based on a character from Piet Marée and Willy Willemse's children's book 'Ping-Pong-Ponia' (1960). Since then, Tuitel has served as the personification of the artist in exploring the laws and boundaries of the comics medium. Tuitel and his dog Phiwi walk through abstract landscapes which play with lay-outs, panel borders, narratives, chronology and other conventions of the sequential art form. Some episodes are in strip format, others full pages, but all are boundless experimentations with lines and time. Characters walk over the panel borders in all directions, narratives start in the middle of a page, pages that use color as part of the narrative... everything is possible. Episodes with more text, like the 'Tuitel vertelt' series, have a more philosophical undertone.
Besides 'Comics and Stories', Tuitel and Phiwi appeared in many of Wasco's self-published comic books, including a new series of Wasco's Weekblad (2006), the 'Strip Book' series (2007) the two 'Brol' books (2008), 'Vertigo' (2009), 'Het Magnetisch Park' (2009), 'Meneer Tuitel' (2009), and in the next decade, 'Minimal Comics 1' (2010), 'Meneer Tuitel Slaapt' (2010) and 'Alone' (2010). A choice selection of his small press work appeared in the hardcover collection 'Het Tuitel Complex' (2015), which was published by Scratch Books. After 25 years of creating comics, it was Wasco's first full-blown book publication with an official publisher. The pages gave an interesting look into Wasco's parallel universe, which not only comes from his own mind, but also borrows imagery from Piet Mondriaan and Hergé.
