{"id":103381,"date":"2019-09-23T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=103381"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:29","slug":"we-were-the-leftist-court-jesters-in-a-right-wing-bastion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/09\/23\/we-were-the-leftist-court-jesters-in-a-right-wing-bastion\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We were the leftist court jesters in a right-wing bastion’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 21 and 32 years have passed since Joop Verkamman and Rob Figee, respectively, submitted their last illustrations for Quod Novum<\/em>, the predecessor to Erasmus Magazine<\/em>. It feels like a lifetime ago for the two men, who were responsible for the weekly newspaper\u2019s visuals for a long time. Figee: \u201cSome of my memories are a bit hazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo because universities where your subject isn\u2019t taught and bridges that are built to an in your\ntime uninhabited riverbank are named after you, you want to be called Desiderius Jansen from\nnow on?\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\n\t\n\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\tImage by:<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoop Verkamman<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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