Joost Swarte

Joost Swarte ( born December 24, 1947 in Heemstede ) is a Dutch illustrator, comic artist and designer. He introduced in 1976 the concept of ligne claire drawing style for a Herge and, with his colorful, clearly contoured drawings to the representatives of the nouvelle ligne claire.

Joost Swarte was born on Christmas Eve 1947, he studied industrial design in Eindhoven, with drawing of comics he began in the late 1960s. He published the magazine Modern paper that came up later in the comic magazine Tante Leny Presenteert.

He created not only comic series like Katoen en Pinbal, Jopo de Pojo, Anton Makassar, Dr Ben Cine and rivet Zo Maar Zo, but also illustrations, posters, panels and magazine covers for Vrij Nederland, the Belgian magazine Humo and the Italian architecture magazine Abitare. After his participation in the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême in 1980 his comics gained international attention and have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian and German. This overview of Swarte, hors series, was published by Futuropolis 1984. He worked for the American magazine RAW and drew covers for The New Yorker. Swarte was one of the initiators of the Dutch comic festivals Stripdagen Haarlem.

As a designer Swarte developed mainly furniture, he also worked on glass windows and murals. In Haarlem he designed together with the architectural firm Mecanoo the theater building " De Toneelschuur ". He also designed the design opened in Louvain- la -Neuve 2009 Hergé Museum.

Awards

In 1981 he received the Prix Saint -Michel for best foreign artists on the Belgian comic festival in Brussels. With the Stripschapprijs, a price for Dutch comic artist, he was awarded in 1998. The Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix appointed him in 2004 as an officer in the Order of Oranje -Nassau.