Rik Spanjers
@rikspanjers.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Television and Cross-Media Culture focusing on Anime, Comics, Games and Historical Representation.
Thank you for this moment.
March 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thank you for this moment.
More eyecandy from one of the coolest museums/DnD locations i have ever seen.
January 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
More eyecandy from one of the coolest museums/DnD locations i have ever seen.
One of the very few complete William Morris bookcases. In Huis van het boek museum in De Hague.
January 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One of the very few complete William Morris bookcases. In Huis van het boek museum in De Hague.
Big writing day today on the visualizations of Nothing New on the Western Front.
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Big writing day today on the visualizations of Nothing New on the Western Front.
My daughter (8yo) amazing rebuttal to yet another story about media being the death of creativity.
January 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My daughter (8yo) amazing rebuttal to yet another story about media being the death of creativity.
Here's another one.
December 26, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Here's another one.
Here we go: a 40 y/o trying to tell a bunch of 19 y/o's about social media.
December 3, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Here we go: a 40 y/o trying to tell a bunch of 19 y/o's about social media.
Finally arrived at the last content week of my media aesthetics course.
December 1, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Finally arrived at the last content week of my media aesthetics course.
Warhammer needing to underline its satire is peak 2024. Satire does not direct but splits the audience.
November 25, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Warhammer needing to underline its satire is peak 2024. Satire does not direct but splits the audience.
Dutch games journalist write a piece about the "corruption" of the games awards without mentioning the anti-woke sentiments that are driving many of these votes of no confidence. I wonder how the games community remains as sickly as it is...
November 23, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Dutch games journalist write a piece about the "corruption" of the games awards without mentioning the anti-woke sentiments that are driving many of these votes of no confidence. I wonder how the games community remains as sickly as it is...
Ancient fungi aliens bu Shirakawa. Starts bland but then there is the monster design.
November 22, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Ancient fungi aliens bu Shirakawa. Starts bland but then there is the monster design.
Book #4: besides high fantasy, i was reading histories of animation this summer. This was one of the 4 i tried to plough through.
August 24, 2023 at 5:29 AM
Book #4: besides high fantasy, i was reading histories of animation this summer. This was one of the 4 i tried to plough through.
Book #5: my summer reading. The summer was spent in the Blacl Forest with my wife and two daughters. Many things were great, and so was this trilogy.
August 24, 2023 at 5:26 AM
Book #5: my summer reading. The summer was spent in the Blacl Forest with my wife and two daughters. Many things were great, and so was this trilogy.
Book #3. This is the coursebook that I will start teaching in September. It is part of a first year course in media studies at the University of Amsterdam (#UvA).
August 21, 2023 at 6:33 PM
Book #3. This is the coursebook that I will start teaching in September. It is part of a first year course in media studies at the University of Amsterdam (#UvA).
Book #2: Goethe and Schillers letters to one-another are a great way to get to know these folks. Bought them on a trip in Germany with my now wife. They remind me more of the trip than of their contents.
August 21, 2023 at 7:39 AM
Book #2: Goethe and Schillers letters to one-another are a great way to get to know these folks. Bought them on a trip in Germany with my now wife. They remind me more of the trip than of their contents.
Because all of this feels like I need to reintroduce myself, I am going through my bookcase and will tell stories about my books starting today. First up: Paradisio by Maruo, which is a troubling but beautifully drawn atrocity tale centering around the blackest holes of WW2.
August 21, 2023 at 7:03 AM
Because all of this feels like I need to reintroduce myself, I am going through my bookcase and will tell stories about my books starting today. First up: Paradisio by Maruo, which is a troubling but beautifully drawn atrocity tale centering around the blackest holes of WW2.
Stay tuned for more!
August 20, 2023 at 8:55 PM
Stay tuned for more!
Diving into my Strasbourg treasure trove of alternative and horror manga.
August 20, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Diving into my Strasbourg treasure trove of alternative and horror manga.