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The 2002 Tina Jubileumboek was published to mark the 35th anniversary of the Dutch girls' weekly Tina — a magazine that, since its debut on 10 June 1967, stood as the first comics periodical in the Netherlands aimed exclusively at girls. Collecting recurring strip characters under one anniversary cover captured a snapshot of the franchise at a transitional moment: the weekly had just passed to new ownership under the Finnish Sanoma group (which completed its takeover of VNU's consumer magazines in 2001), and the Suus & Sas twin-sister gag strip by Gerard Leever had launched in the weekly just the previous year (July 2001), making the Jubileumboek one of the earliest collected appearances of those characters. As an anniversary volume, it also served as a flagship demonstration that Tina's Dutch-produced strips — particularly the long-running Noortje gag strip by Patty Klein and Jan Steeman, which had been running continuously since 1975 — had built a durable cast of original Dutch strip heroines distinct from the translated British material that had dominated the magazine's early decades.
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Tina began publication on 10 June 1967 as a Dutch-language, full-colour adaptation of the London IPC girls' weekly Princess Tina, brokered between IPC's John Sanders and De Spaarnestad publisher Walter Stuifbergen. Over the following decades, the magazine developed its own Dutch-originated strip characters alongside the licensed British material, and by 2001 the titles' ownership had shifted to the Finnish Sanoma group following its acquisition of VNU's consumer magazine division. The 2002 Jubileumboek was produced by Sanoma Uitgevers (the Dutch operating entity) to celebrate 35 years of continuous publication, coinciding with the same year the Noortje album series transitioned its publishing to Sanoma and the 'Beukenlaan 35' online game was launched as part of the anniversary campaign.
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- Publisher: Sanoma Uitgevers (Netherlands), the Dutch consumer-magazine arm of the Finnish Sanoma group, which had taken over Tina's parent VNU's titles in 2001.
- The Jubileumboek was tied to Tina's 35th anniversary year, the Dutch girls' weekly having first appeared on 10 June 1967 as a colour adaptation of the IPC (London) title Princess Tina.
- Character Noortje Visser — the clumsy, red-haired teenage blunder queen created by writer Patty Klein and artist Jan Steeman — debuted in Tina issue 37 of 1975 and is one of the longest-running Dutch comic strips; the Noortje album series moved to Sanoma publishing in 2002.
- Characters Suus ten Velde and Sas ten Velde — the twin sisters at the centre of Gerard Leever's gag strip 'Suus & Sas' — had only just launched in Tina in July 2001, making this Jubileumboek among the very first collected publications featuring them; the strip's first standalone album series began in 2003.
- Gerard Leever (born Naarden, 1960), who publishes under the pseudonym Gleever, based the twins on his own real-life twin daughters, and modelled supporting characters on his own family; his daughters later contributed to the strip's production as colourists.
- The strip character 'Tina Ruysdal' is the titular strip heroine of the weekly itself — the eponymous character who gives the magazine its name — and her presence in an anniversary volume alongside Noortje and Suus & Sas underlines the issue's function as a showcase of the franchise's core Dutch-created cast.
- The character 'Debbie' appearing in the Tina weekly was drawn from the British girls' comic Debbie, one of several IPC/D.C. Thomson titles whose stories were licensed and translated into Dutch for the magazine across its history.
- The 2002 anniversary year also saw Tina win a Mercure Award for its 'Beukenlaan 35' interactive online game, a cross-platform initiative launched 6 October 2002 in partnership with PixelPixies, aimed at 50,000 readers aged 9–15 — illustrating that the Jubileumboek appeared in the context of a broader, actively managed 35th-anniversary campaign.