This weekend Dan & I trekked North to take in our first Dutch comics convention at the Breda Stripbeurs (in Breda of course). Taking place on March 6th and 7th, this convention was a good, medium-sized introduction to Dutch conventions and the European comic scene.
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Breda Stripbeurs struck me as a medium-size convention, with a gym-turned-convention [...]

The final day of Carnival featured a handful of activities. Namely a concert, a children’s costume contest, and the closing ceremony. We decide that we just had to attend the closing ceremony (we were erroneously told that they burned ‘t Mooswief at the end of each Carnival and weren’t going to miss that) at midnight. [...]

Monday we woke up late and opted to stay home for the most part since the only event happening was a children’s parade and I had no idea what time it was. The decision was a good one as I learned later that it started very late and it was quite cold.
 

 
Of course with [...]

I’ve written about Pecha Kucha before but the most recent event had some great speakers and interesting subjects. Here are my thoughts on each presentation in 140-characters each (not including speaker’s name & presentation name).
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Carnival officially kicked off at 12:11 on the Vrijthof with the raising of the Mooswief doll, but Dan and I were antsy so we got dressed up and left early with the intention of prowling the streets. I dressed as a blue punk rocker cat-girl (kat-meisje) complete with tail. Dan wore a foppish, [...]