The Ephemerist

When Pieter De Poortere’s Boerke finds himself in dire straits, a less than adequate super hero comes to the rescue !

(from Focus Knack, Boerke © Pieter De Poortere)

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I posted about Pieter De Poortere earlier, here and on the FPI blog. Here are some examples of the strips he creates about his anti-hero Boerke (published in English as Dickie). These books are amongst the best humor-with-a-twist anthologies to appear in the last few years. So, buy them.

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Here’s another of Pieter De Poortere’s great bird’s eye view illustrations that I blogged about earlier. This one was published on the cover of Focus Knack, to announce a lenghty article about the current state of Flemish cartoon and comics, which quotes Top Shelf’s Brett Warnock with an enthousiastic laudatio to the Flemish comic :

“Your flemish artists at least have a really unique and fantastic vision. Far to many Americans create comics full of talking heads, whereas Flemish, and also a lot of French authors dare to explore wild and boisterous ideas in brave artistic styles. I only whish American authors took them as an example.” (This, btw, is very weird, as I had to translate this from a Dutch translation of an English text - I only wonder how much I changed in it).

The article also contains profiles of six hot Flemish talents (Pieter De Poortere, Conz, Olivier Schrauwen, Judith Vanistendael, Brecht Evens and Simon Spruyt) and announces the great Belgian Cartoon Clash, a contest for new, undiscovered cartoonists who get a chance at winning 52 pages in Focus. More about that, along with an overview of the participants, here (in Dutch)…

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On the cover of Focus Knack this week, a new and delightful illustration by the one and only Pieter De Poortere, known amongst Eurocomics cognoscenti for his peculiar humour, at once zany and profound, which he lavishly spread across books like Boerke and Joe The Eskimo (Check my review at the Forbidden Planet Blog Log).

The theme of this week’s issue is the Cannes Film Festival, and the Focus people wanted an original competition. And so Pieter provided them with a challenge : he has hidden references to 14 films or personalities from film and TV. Can you find them all ? I only got 13, so let me know !

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