Abel Dijkstra (Amsterdam, Netherlands,1998) is a visual storyteller and funny. He makes comics and self-publishes a magazine called Lovely. It’s the most contemporary comics magazine and it’s cool and free (not free of charge but free in spirit).

Abel sees comics as truly a magical way to freeze time and put feelings and invisible things into a reading experience. He’s not bound to a single style but you cannot escape his presence in all his work. You can feel and see and smell that it’s Abel Dijkstra, or Abel or Abelknabel as he sometimes likes to call himself. He currently lives and works in Zwolle: the soon to be capital of Dutch comics.

Fynn van der Ziel (1996) is an artist with a strong affinity for absurdism. Using various media, including plasticine and risography, he creates an unsettling world in which he feels at home.

In 2021, he successfully graduated from Academie Minerva in Groningen, with a film about the earthquake issues in the region. In spring 2022, he realized the mural of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn on Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat. The following winter, he collaborated with the band Roosbeef on a video for the song “Zomer in Nederland.”

With VIS he won the Small Press Award in 2024.