MAX Magazine #34/2022
MAX Magazine #34/2022 carries an installment of 'Kind aan huis,' the original Dutch comic strip that serves as the heart of the Bartels family characters Geke and Herman. The strip is one of the most-read features in the Netherlands' largest paid weekly magazine, bringing a domestic slice-of-life sensibility — aging couples, generational friction, and the comedy of empty-nest life — to an audience of hundreds of thousands of Dutch readers each week. Its consistent popularity within MAX Magazine reflects a living tradition of original Dutch-language comic-strip storytelling embedded in mainstream periodical publishing, carrying forward a form with deep roots in the Netherlands' long history of strips in the press.
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The strip 'Kind aan huis' was created by writer Jan Dirk Barreveld and artist Robby van der Meulen as a recurring feature in MAX Magazine, the weekly TV guide of public broadcaster Omroep MAX, which has been published since 2013. The strip proved popular enough that its first season was eventually collected into a standalone album. MAX Magazine itself — published 52 times per year by MAX Mediaproducties B.V. — became the largest paid magazine in the Netherlands as of September 2022, the same year this issue was published.
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- Published by MAX Mediaproducties B.V., the publishing arm of Dutch public broadcaster Omroep MAX.
- Contains an installment of 'Kind aan huis,' a Dutch original comic strip featuring the Bartels family: husband Herman, wife Geke, their son Eddie, and his family.
- Strip created by writer Jan Dirk Barreveld and artist Robby van der Meulen.
- Central characters Geke Bartels and Herman Bartels are an older Dutch couple whose daughter has left home to study abroad, generating the strip's comedy around themes of aging, generational difference, and modern technology.
- By September 2022 — the period of this issue's publication — MAX Magazine had become the largest paid weekly magazine in the Netherlands.
- The 'Kind aan huis' strip was described by readers and the publisher as one of the most-read sections of the magazine, with many subscribers turning to it first.
- The strip's first season was later collected and released as a trade album through the MAX member store.
- MAX Magazine publishes 52 issues per year (with occasional double issues), making issue numbering sequential by week; #34/2022 corresponds to the 34th week of 2022.