When he was still a child, Ribley! already used to make persiflating scrapbooks and write witty poems. No wonder that throughout his life he would also write plays, short stories, fairy tales, comic strips, songs, philosophical essays, filmscripts, and even an encyclopedic catalogue. His early works were created under the pseudonym of Boebbel .

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SCRAPBOOKS

When he was still a child, Ribley! already used to make persiflating scrapbooks, such as I Saw My Tits Grow Bigger, in which he mocked the beauty ideal of big bronzed breasts.

MAGAZINES

Around 1970, Ribley! and his rock band mate Guy Zak started to publish a magazine called Drivdlav, which mainly consisted of comic strips and scraps. After a while, Zak quitted and Ribley! decided to lead Drivdlav into a new direction. The name of the magazine was first changed into Phlegm and later on into Boebbeltje .

Initially, the new magazine was a kind of fan magazine related to the performances and creations of Ribley! under the name of Boebbel . Eventually, Boebbeltje grew into a full magazine with short stories and fairy tales, pseudo - scientific articles and fictional interviews, funny limericks and jokes, drawings and comics , and finally also boebbelograms (see Games). The last edition of Boebbeltje was published in november 1984.

POETRY

Ribley! has written a lot of witty poems and funny rhymes, but has also composed more poetic or even romantic verses. His humorous poems were compiled as Art in Poessy, while his non-humorous verses were compiled as Poesick .

SHORT STORIES

Ribley! has written a lot of short stories. Some of the short stories were published in the Ribley! magazine Boebbeltje . Most amusing were Red Cabbage with Tomato Sauce and the story of Mannox and the Virgin Reaper .

FAIRY TALES

Ribley! has also written a lot of fairy tales, which were compiled as Fairy Tales for Adult Watchers .

The most memorable fairy tales were : The Nutty Prince , The Unhappy Testicle , Snorebrock and Mouseline , The Criple Musician , and The Cranberry Picker .

PLAYS

Ribley! has written several plays and short plays, but mainly comedies. His most succesful plays were probably :

Ski-Lol in West-Tirol (Scalps from the Alps)(1985) , Klaveren 4 Troef ! (How to Play a Trump)(1984) , and of course Toet Anch Amonn en Hamledt in Antwerpen (TutAnkhAmen and Hamledt in Antwerp)(1983).

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COMIC STRIPS

Ribley! has published several comic strips in his magazines:

v The Death of Luke

v The Spitting Turdaboo and the Long Drop Loo

v The Beernoses on the Warpath

v The Eventures of Pike and Puzy .

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

Ribley! has written a lot of philosophical essays.

In Pint We Trust are the philosophical principles of a bacchanalian fan club sect that he founded in the 1970's and disbanded in the 1980's.

Philosoph-IA is a compilation of rather serious essays on various subjects, while Memoirs of a Queen Tyrant / Memoires van een Tirannes is a collection of letters with humorous reflections.

ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS

Around 1990, Ribley! was contacted by an inhabitant of the planet Mehlodia. According to the information he received, Ribley! portrayed some of the creatures of this planet by means of sculptures. He also wrote an encyclopedic catalogue about them, called Mehlodia , an Earthly Observation / Mehlodia , aards Bekeken .

(If you want to meet the Mehlodians, just click the picture…)