Roel wrote the book Het is maar om te lachen. Hoe cartoonisten de wereld veranderen for the publisher Polis, (‘It's just for laughter. How cartoonists are changing the world'), on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Finally, Roel is also editor-in-chief of the acclaimed literary magazine Stripgids, according to the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant “the most beautiful comics magazine of Europe”.
At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2024, Roel Daenen will deliver the workshop "Museums striving for autonomy in the Netherlands and Belgium: A utopia?" on Monday 11 November.