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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
When Flanders was one of the featured regions at the most recent festival in Angoulème, Pieter De Poortere created this illustration for the Flemish media weekly, Focus Knack.
If you recognize 7 out of these 14 comics characters (as impersonated by Pieter’s comic hero, Boerke), you are quite an avid comic reader. If you can tell the names of 12 of them, you do indeed have a good knowledge of Eurocomics. If you know all 14, you’re probably my neighbour.
(artwork © Pieter De Poortere)
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Every year around Christmas Studio Brussel, Belgium’s biggest rock station, organises Music For Life, an awareness campaign to raise money for an urgent issue that the Red Cross is working on. This year the money that is collected via the campaign will be used to help mothers and children on the run for war and violence.
Cartoonist Pieter De Poortere created a special episode of his weekly Boerke strip for the action, putting his own, strange spin to it. The original of this strip is for sale via an Ebay action. Bid !
(artwork © Pieter De Poortere, reproduced with permission)
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
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For an article on the 40th anniversary of Mai ‘68 in Focus Knack in April of this year, Pieter De Poortere came up with thes magnificent illustrations. They could easily pass for contemporary stencils, and completely capture the spirit of the times.
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(artwork © Pieter De Poortere)
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
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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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
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.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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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