MYX Stripmagazine #43
MYX Stripmagazine #43 is one of the issues published during the mid-run of the Edollandia era of MYX — the Dutch-language anthology that served as one of the primary vehicles for bringing Belgian cartoonist Kim Duchateau's subversive gag-strip character Esther Verkest to a Dutch readership. The issue appeared in the same year Duchateau received the Bronzen Adhemar, the most prestigious Belgian comics award, giving these installments a particular resonance as snapshots of the strip at its cultural peak. Esther Verkest's ongoing serialization in MYX was part of a deliberate editorial strategy under Edollandia to cross-pollinate Flemish absurdist humor into the Dutch comics market, bridging a cultural divide that, as comics historians have noted, was rarely traversed in the other direction. As a periodical anthology rather than a traditional single-character comic, MYX #43 also represents the broader effort to sustain the Dutch comic magazine format at a moment when that format was under serious pressure from the album market.
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MYX Stripmagazine was launched in 2003 by Uitgeverij Silvester, founded by publisher Silvio van der Loo, who used the magazine partly as a pre-publication platform for French-language serials his imprint would later release as albums, while also providing a home for Dutch independent talent. The magazine ran into chronic deadline problems by mid-2005, which damaged its reputation on collector forums, and in 2006 Silvester sold the title to publisher Edollandia; issue #43 falls in that Edollandia period. Esther Verkest, created by Belgian cartoonist Kim Duchateau and debuting on 27 September 2000 in the Flemish men's magazine P-Magazine, had been a recurring fixture in MYX across multiple publishers, making her strips among the most consistent editorial threads running through the magazine's history.
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- MYX Stripmagazine #43 was published in 2007 by Edollandia, the magazine's second and final publisher, which had acquired the title from Uitgeverij Silvester in 2006.
- The issue contains an installment of Esther Verkest, the absurdist gag-strip series created by Belgian cartoonist Kim Duchateau (also known simply as 'Kim').
- Esther Verkest debuted on 27 September 2000 in the Flemish men's magazine P-Magazine, where she was conceived as a parody of the passive pin-up archetype — a red-haired heroine who is arrogant, sexually dominant, and consistently subversive of genre conventions.
- The year of publication, 2007, is the same year Duchateau received the Bronzen Adhemar, described by multiple sources as the most prestigious Belgian comics award, in recognition of his body of work including the Esther Verkest series.
- Duchateau's Esther Verkest Deel 3 — Van de Hak op de Tak had already won the 2006 Stripschapspenning ('Stripschap Badge') for Best Adventure and/or Entertainment Comic, meaning MYX #43 appeared during a period of heightened recognition for the strip.
- In the Netherlands, Esther Verkest was serialized regularly in both MYX and later Eppo; she also appeared in the German edition of Playboy and in the French adult-oriented magazines L'Écho des Savanes and Fluide Glacial, indicating the strip's multilingual reach by this period.
- MYX was conceived in part to fill the gap left by the defunct strip magazine Sjosji, and under Edollandia it continued mixing French serial adventures, Dutch independent shorts, and recurring Flemish humor strips — of which Esther Verkest was one of the longest-running.
- The magazine ceased publication entirely in 2008, making #43 one of the issues in its final stretch of approximately a dozen remaining numbers.
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Trunk, een privé-detective en ex-loopgravensoldaat, krijgt de opdracht de zoon van een echtpaar op te sporen.
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