Is er iets?

Peter van Straaten’s long-running single-panel series for the Dutch publisher Rainbow Pockets, Is er iets? (2005–present), distills the quiet, often absurd frustrations of everyday life into a single, wry black-and-white drawing. Van Straaten, both writer and artist, uses a deceptively simple style to capture moments of domestic tension, social awkwardness, and the small, unspoken dramas of middle-class existence. With just one issue released so far, the series stands as a concentrated, enduring example of his famously sharp, humanistic wit—a compact archive of the mundane made memorable.