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Maarten was born in The Netherlands in 1964. After a few years at the Willem de Kooning academie of arts in Rotterdam he started working as an independent cartoonist in 1992. Since then he has worked for several Dutch newspapers of which the collaboration with the Leidsch Dagblad even dates from 1997. His work has been in/on France 24, Le Monde, Washington Post and Trouw. Besides working at home he does live stand up cartooning and gives workshops.

With emphasis on Crimea

Is the indepedence of the countries surrounding Russia worth anything?
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Peace talks Syria, nice start... not!

Already 130.000 people died in this civil war and parties at the table just argue and argue.
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CO2 pollution: the people's choice

We can blame companies and politics for the fact that the CO2 level is still rising, but in the e
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Russian for beginners

GreenPeace activists are captured in Russia.
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Das Leben der Anderen (und Merkel)

Will spies stop spying when you tell them to stop? Grow up, Angela.
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Dutch Saint Nicolas and his Black Pete

Batman got rid of Robin and it seems that Saint Nicolas is losing his Black Pete because he remin
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Kenya versus ICC: another perspective

What if it was the other way around and the Dutch president was taken away to Kenya's supreme cou
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Who's a dirty boy? The Netherlands

The Netherlands is considering to keep a couple of old coal plants open: their pollution is 'not

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Dutch projects in times of crisis

Expensive highspeed trains that don't work and even more expensive jet fighters that don't work w
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Unwilling Nations

Boycot of China and Russia (and a lot of other countries in the past) make possible actions of th
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limited narrow action

No boots on the Syrian ground but a clever action. Here's how it works...
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Sports and Russian homophobia

Some changes have to be made to prevent things from getting to gay for the Russian Winter Olympic
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Repeat offender under Sharia law

Repetition under Sharia law is less probable but I still prefer western law
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Different view

Okay the new windmills aren't that beautiful on your horizon.
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