Anyone interested in the biography of Barbara Stok should actually be reading her 'Barbaraal' comics, a mercilessly realistic account of her private life reminiscent of Joe Matt's 'Peepshow'. In 'Barbaraal', Barbara tells it all about loud music, sex, going out, drunkenness and fear of death. In November, 1998, Barbara was in virtually all Dutch media when her comic book 'Barbaraal Tot Op Het Bot' ('Barbaraal All The Way') was published in traditional book format by the literary editor Nijgh & Van Ditmar.
'Barbaraal Tot Op Het Bot' is an anthology of the self-published 'Barbaraal' comix, for which Barbara in 1997 was nominated for the Dutch Stripschapspenning-prize for the best comic book of the year. Ever since her student days, Barbara has been writing monthly comix for the Groningen pop-cultural center Vera, as well as playing the drums in the Hockeyrockjes band. Barbara also did a monthly one-page comic in the trendy young girl magazine, One.
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