Joost Swarte
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The theatre that Swarte built
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
On April 30 1995, the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte was miserably tossing around on his…
Back into battle
Issue 51, Spring 2004
Nicholas Blechman’s ’zine is a barbed response to contemporary US politics
Comics for damned intellectuals
Issue 8, Autumn 1992
It is ten years since Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman impetuously founded Raw Books and Graphics. Since then, Raw, the couple’s alternative comic strip magazine, has provided an outlet for talented unknowns, given new significance to the term ‘graphic novel’, almost single-handedly reinvented one of America’s most popular indigenous artforms – all on a shoestring budget.
Recent blog posts about Joost Swarte
Take the clear line
28 October 2019
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Posters, Visual culture
Kunstal Rotterdam presents a generous survey of work by Dutch illustrator, designer and comic artist Joost Swarte. Jan Middendorp reports
Joost Swarte must be the best known and most appreciated Dutch illustrator, designer and comic…