Benno Vrankens album debut ‘Kustbewoners’ (2002), is a cartoon story collection (in Dutch) compiled some of Vranken’s most dismal tales of coast dwellers, including the recurring character Walburg. In the first story, the man drinks himself to death to be reunited with his deceased wife in the afterlife, only to discover she has already found another man there. Walburg dies again in his second story, shortly after killing his wife with a spade.