https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_comics#Pep_magazine

It was Pep in particular that turned out to be an emancipating force for the Dutch comic world, freeing it from the shackles of 1948 while coaching coasting on the winds of the social and cultural changes that not only swept the Netherlands, but the entire western world in the 1960s. From the mid-1960s onward, the magazine reinvented itself when it quite radically distanced itself from its Disney and Le Lombard roots… --WP


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My own summary: Pep was a significant comics magazine, published in Holland / The Netherlands, that introduced Euro-Disney and BD comics to the nation, and later paved the way for homegrown talent to get their works published to a wider audience. From roughly that point, various Dutch comics began to be a real force around the rest of Europe, with such titles as Suske en Wiske, Agent 327, Storm, Douwe Dabbert, and the amazing Franka leading the way…

For more history, WP’s article on Dutch comics is particularly excellent & exhaustive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_comics

For those who can’t see the four images hosted in post, here they are at Imgur:
https://imgur.com/gallery/four-covers-from-pep-magazine-9EBc1KA

  • Meeshall65@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    Maybe some context: many of the Dutch artists came from the Dutch comicstudio Toonder, known sinds the 40’s for Tom Poes news paper comics. To name few: Dick matena, Thom Roep, Martin Lodewijk.

    Btw Vandersteen is from Belgium

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Thanks for adding on!

      Matena became pretty well-known internationally for doing light erotic farce. And I’m always getting Flemish creators mixed up with Dutch. :S

  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Unfortunately pics hosted on imgur aren’t visible in the UK, but I appreciate the summary and links!

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          This isn’t exactly a flash solution, but I just discovered that archive.ph can be used to retrieve Imgur content, provided one has the page link. The caveat is that you’ll need to paste it in manually and wait (the page above took about a minute+ to archive). Then it will show you the page, like this: https://archive.ph/nv07a

          From now on, I’ll try to include the Imgur page links in my posts so that at least folks in the UK can find a way to see the post content, if they choose to. Not perfect, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, hey?

          Now, what I should probably do is start testing PixelFed as an alternate image host. Last time I heard they’re reliable, and going strong. One other famous problem with Imgur is that it will drop hosted content, seemingly randomly. I have stuff I’ve uploaded there over 10yrs ago that’s still there, and other stuff that’s been deleted after like 4mos. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with NSFW or popular / less popular content, so I’ve really no clue…