Wasco made this amazing sketch for me ..
Thank you once again!
Cats & penguins
During the 2000s several of Wasco's works were cat-themed, including the booklets 'Cats by Wasco' and '1.000.000 katten' (2007). The next decade was however largely devoted to penguins, starting off with a set of 40 match boxes with penguin designs and prints, made in collaboration with Griffioen Grafiek (2011). They were accompanied by three booklets with "the extraordinary adventures" of Phillip de Pinguin. The booklets 'Philip aan zee', 'Philip krijgt een ei' and 'Philip & George', as well as Wasco's later 24 Hour Comics, featuring this penguin character all breathe the atmosphere of J.H. Koeleman's classic 'Pinkie Pienter' comics. Wasco's next penguin project was completely different: In 2018 he devoted a full month to drawing 1000 penguins in all sorts of styles and shapes, from round and comical to cubist and angular. Printed with the wider color spectrum of the Risograph printer, the resulting square-shaped book '1000 Pinguins' (Scratch 2018) was Wasco's ode to paper books and graphic arts. He returned to his favorite animals for his 2020 tear-off calendar '2020 Pinguïns' (Scratch, 2019), which featured - not surprisingly - 2020 penguins in 366 pieces of art! In turn, for the tear-off calendar of 2021 ('Poezen & katten'), he drew a copious amount of cats!
