Vuile handen - Stop de zeehondenjacht!

Merel Barends' Vuile handen - Stop de zeehondenjacht! is a single-issue Dutch comic from Arena (2006–present), blending stark black-and-white art with a pointed environmental protest against seal hunting. Barends, the sole writer and artist, crafts a raw, polemical narrative that channels activist urgency into the comic medium. Though brief, the work stands as a focused artifact of early 2000s European advocacy comics, its singular mission to condemn a specific practice making it a blunt, memorable document of its era.