Leftbank Books

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Leftbank Books is the publisher of Antoon Stessels' graphic novel PESILAT. With the PESILAT project, Antoon aims to create a 200-page graphic novel. Every newly created page will be published on globalcomix.com for free. You can support Antoon in his attempt to see through this project by buying the PDF version. After the project is finished, it will also be published in hard copy. Thanks!

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PESILAT. A Life as a Martial Artist

When I was 16, my elder brother asked me to pick up martial arts together. The art was called 'pencak silat'. It was something we had never heard of before. It was the late 90s; the Internet was in its infancy and we didn't have social media. It was a time of peace and optimism. Where my brother stopped doing 'pencak silat', I continued. Later, where he stopped doing 'kenpo', I continued. This is my life story in martial arts, in the heart of Western Europe, in a time of constant societal change.