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Article: Frederik Peeters - Pachyderme
Posted: February 10, 2013
It is often assumed that meticulous planning, scriptwriting, sketching and preparatory breakdowns are essential stages in the making of any comic. Few artists would dare to trust a large element of improvisation in their process, but this is one of the key methods of the Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters. He enjoys developing the alchemy between words and pictures intuitively on the page, still thinking and deciding as he creates, not so much ‘automatic drawing or writing’, but definitely not over-preparing it all beforehand in detailed scripts and rough layouts. Ideas, images and texts seem to flow from his mind and memories through his hand and pen into ink and onto panel after panel. Peeters dares to leap into the unknown with each new experiment, whether working solo or in collaboration. The results are breathtaking; like him, we can’t tell where the story and art will takes us next. Read the rest of my new Article here…
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