Sigmund #2

History

Peter de Wit conceived the Sigmund character during a period of personal frustration, originally sketching a psychiatrist murdering a patient; the character's name is a deliberate nod to Sigmund Freud. The strip made an early television appearance in 1992 in a Teleac educational series on comic-drawing co-presented by De Wit and his frequent collaborator Hanco Kolk, before formally debuting in De Volkskrant on 2 January 1994. De Plaatjesmaker — the Amsterdam publishing imprint De Wit and Kolk had co-founded in 1988 — issued the first two Sigmund albums, with 'Tweede Sessie' arriving in 1995 as the natural continuation of the debut collection, collecting strips the author personally selected from his daily newspaper output.

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• Full title: Sigmund – Tweede Sessie (Second Session); second album in the ongoing 'sessie' collection series.
• Published in 1995 by De Plaatjesmaker, Amsterdam — the independent imprint co-founded by Peter de Wit and Hanco Kolk in 1988.
• Written and drawn entirely by Peter de Wit, who also personally curated the strip selection for the volume.
• Contains 160 individual gag-strip episodes hand-picked by De Wit from his daily De Volkskrant run.
• The strips collected span roughly late 1994 through mid-1995, incorporating topical Dutch and European references including the 1995 Limburg floods and Ajax's UEFA Champions League Final against AC Milan.
• Central character Doctor Sigmund is a diminutive, one-eyed psychiatrist — deliberately named after Sigmund Freud — who consistently fails or mistreats his patients through arrogance and cynicism.
• De Plaatjesmaker published the first several Sigmund albums (1994–1997), after which the series transferred to De Harmonie and later Oog & Blik, eventually running to more than twenty collected volumes.
• The inaugural album in the series (Eerste Sessie) won the 1995 VSB Publieksprijs, meaning Tweede Sessie appeared on the immediate wave of that public recognition.

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