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A new Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB, an issue about development aid. I liked to use a famous quotation from a poet of Willem Elsschot in this cartoon, in the last image. My translation: 1) VZ: Make poverty history once and for all! I keep saying this! 2) VZ: Poverty: is it any good? Did it ever bring us anything? Is it useful? No? Why do we still have it? 3) Woman: I am sorry, but I don’t have any change. 4) VZ: Between dreams and deeds, the path is blocked by laws and practical objections.
(This is my own translation of Elsschot’s famous line, in 2015 Paul Vincent and John Irons translated the same line from the poem ‘The Marriage’ as ‘as giving dreams their head / raises both practical and legal snags.‘)

Een nieuwe Van Zanten-strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB, een nummer over ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Ik vond het leuk om een beroemde dichtregel uit het gedicht ‘Het Huwelijk’ van Willem Elsschot erin te gebruiken.

A Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB, an issue about social mobility. My translation: 1) Grandson: Granddad, did you know that the region where a kid grows up, has its influence on future income? 2) Grandson: I looked it up and yeah right: I live in a bad region. 3) Grandson: Homework, show-and-tells, tests and exams, school projects… What is the point of it all? 4) VZ: Miss Teacher, he could really, really use his Christmas holiday.

Een Van Zanten-strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB, over sociale mobiliteit.

A Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB – a second time on the theme of ‘productivity’. My translation: 1) Despite the developments in information and communication technology, productivity is hardly increasing. 2) I recognise this. Due to the increasing complexity of ICT, I sometimes just can’t get to start working at all. 3) For instance, take this Candy Crush level…

Een Van Zanten strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB, voor een tweede keer over arbeidsproductiviteit.

A Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB. Theme: labour productivity. My translation: 1) Man: Labour productivity is hardly growing. I know the reasons! 2) My colleagues are looking at their mobile phones all day, checking their social media, spreading fake news, booking airbnb’s and organising childcare. In between, we scrum and make to-do-lists. This way, we keep ourselves busy, but can we call that work? O no. 3) Man: Tell me honestly, what do you do in a working day? 4) Don’t worry about my productivity. I only have to fill a few images in ESB every month.

Een Van Zanten-strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB. Thema: arbeidsproductiviteit.

A new Van zanten cartoon for the economist magazine ESB. Theme: pension system – a major reform on the system is agreed upon in the Netherlands. My transaltion: 1) VZ: Pension system. 2) – 3) VZ: Typical reaction! He will change his tune when he will be 66 years old.

Van Zanten-strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB. Het thema was deze keer het nieuwe pensioenakkoord.

A comic for the economist magazine ESB, about private debts. My translation: 1) Man: I have debts, but I don’t feel guilty about them. 2) Man: I live up to the budget rules of the European Union. I spend 3% more than my gross salary. My debt is not higher than 60% of my gross salary. 3) Man: And when I spend more, then I follow the EU attitude towards Italy: softness. I leave it to my children and grandchildren to pay off my debts. 4) Man: Another coffee? I pay. VZ: In that case, I’d like to have an apple cake with it.

Een strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB over private schulden.