Exhibition: old cartoons about university life

During the months of September and October, you can visit the exhibition in the Erasmus Gallery with cartoons and illustrations of the university. The drawings were published in the seventies, eighties and nineties in the independent university magazine Quod Novum, the predecessor of Erasmus Magazine.

The cartoons were found by accident, but turned out to be a treasure. “The cartoons are of extremely high quality and give you a wonderful idea of what the university was like in those days.”

The official opening of the gallery took place on the 19th of September. Were you unable to attent the opening? Then you can watch the video here!

In the time of Quod Novum, everything was still allowed to be published, from nipple to social critique.

Joop Verkamman and Rob Figee worked as illustrators for Quod Novem. How do they look back at their time working for the magazine?

Read here how the current illustrators ikRotterdam think about their craft.

A strong woman with big arms lifting her pencil illustrates in the drawing of Rachel Sender the superpower of illustrators: reflection.

The broken pencil point and the empty sheet in the illustration by Esther Dijkstra symbolize the situation in the professional field.

And what is the importance of illustrations in journalism according to the editors?

Bas van der Schot’s (1970) political cartoons can be seen in de Volkskrant three times a week. He won the Inktspotprijs, the award for the year’s best political cartoon, twice (in 2002 and 2014). Van der Schot has been illustrating for university media since his student days, including Erasmus Magazine for some twenty years.