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Clear Line Rules at New Yorker

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I had bought the oct. 22 issue of the New Yorker for John Updike’s review of the recent Charles Schultz biography, but lo and behold, there were also illustrations by two of my favorite ligne claire cartoonists to be savoured ! Joost Swarte made the illustration above for an article on a new trend in condensing books, and Floc’h made a portrait of historian and cultural critic Jacques Barzun (with a big fat clin d’oeil to Citizen Kane, no less).

(artwork © the respective creators)

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Heroes y Villanos

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

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Entrecomics reports on a Spanish project involving illustrative artists and cartoonists illustrating poems. They cite examples by Johan De Moor (above) and Joost Swarte, but (as far as I understand the text - I can do a wild guess when it comes to Spanish) there’s supposed to be a lot more.

I like this kind of endeavours. They bring good cartooning under the attention of different audiences, and they encourage cartoonists to do different things and stay creative.

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Joost Swarte on reading

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

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(Reading will kill you)

Reading is dangerous ! Dutch cartoonist and designer Joost Swarte wants to warn all of you of the dangers of books and reading in general. For that purpose, he has produced a handy set of post cards, each with an easy to understand message for particular risk groups and possible victims.

Carefully read these examples and get yourself a paper copy of the complete set. They are not only worth it - they might actually save your life !

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New Yorker Swarte

Friday, August 24th, 2007

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Joost Swarte provided the cover for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. I had to blow up an image from the New Yorker shop, so the quality is not that good. Sorry.

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Pseudoswarte in Hasselt

Friday, June 8th, 2007

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Found on the website for the Live In Hasselt music festival : another pseudo-Swarte. Not bad, but still below par…

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40 Part 18 - Humo 50

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

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Elaborating further on Kamagurka and Herr Seele, here is a beautiful comic that they created for Humo, to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The cool part about this strip is that two other famous collaborators to Humo, Ever Meulen and Joost Swarte, also contributed to it.

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Swarte Stamps

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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The rather excellent Moors Magazine, a Dutch webzine about stuff that its founder is interested in (a bit like the Ephemerist, I guess), has high quality scans of the magnificent Children’s stamps that Joost Swarte did in 1993. I particularly liked them because Swarte used a comic book language to spread their “story” beyond the confines of the stamps themselves. It looked as if somebody had torn fragments from existing comic books and cut them down to stamp size. They also echoed the narrative device used in one of my all time favorite comics, “Kinderen baas”, by having children and adults switch roles. Brilliant stuff !

Swarte’s release for this year is also very beautiful (also shown above), but a lot less inventive (in my opinion).

If you’re looking for good examples of mr Swarte’s work, Moors Magazine has plenty, as well as stuff by that other Low Countries luminary, Ever Meulen.

(Thanks to my mom for the link)

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Joost Swarte in The New Yorker

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

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I’ve been a fan of Joost Swarte’s artwork for quite a while, and when I met him earlier this year, I was happily pleased to find out he’s as much the gentleman as his artwork suggest.

It’s not been easy to track down his work recently, not where I live anyway, but luckily people are on the lookout for me.

So here’s a picture Swarte made for this week’s issue of the New Yorker. Enjoy !

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