Editing DirkJan (section)

==Publication==

DirkJan was first published in ''Critic'', the magazine for the local union of psychology students. It then moved on to monthly publication in the student magazine of Nijmegen ([[Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad]], ANS). DirkJan became known nationally when the then only commercial comics magazine of the Netherlands SjoSji (now defunct) started publishing the strip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/retera_mark.htm|title = Mark Retera}}</ref>

With the last move, the nature of the strip changed. Most of the student sidekicks got cancelled and DirkJan left university, first for jail (DJ is a notorious [[Kabouter]] abuser) and then to wander the globe and indeed space.

As of May 2023, there are 28 DirkJan albums, tentatively named 'DirkJan 1' through 'DirkJan 22'. Several newspapers in the [[Netherlands]] publish the comic in their daily edition. There are 8 more albums outside the regular series.

The amateur comics magazine [[Iris magazine|Iris]] (1990–1995) republished a number of DirkJan comics, some of which were refused for publication in SjoSji.