“Humor in Comics 2026” Pieter De Poortere

Pieter De Poortere (Ghent, 17 September 1976) is a Flemish comic strip author, known to the general public mainly for the comic strips and the animation series ‘Boerke’. (Dickie)

De Poortere started his career in 2000 as a freelance illustrator and published first in Humo and later in Focus Knack. Pieter de Poortere made his debut in 2001 with the album Boerke, which immediately won the prize for the best Dutch-language album of the year. The cynical humour and the innocent graphic style are De Poortere’s clear signature. Since then, several Boerke albums have appeared, the series has been translated into thirteen languages and the animation series, based on the books and produced by De Hofleveranciers, can be seen in more than 10 countries.

The wordless comics of De Poortere have an international potential, as was shown by the succes of the permanent exhibition of his work in the Brussels Comic Book Museum. But there is also a lot of interest abroad in Boerke, where our amiable loser stumbles through life as Dickie. In 2011, for instance, a wall of Boerke designed by De Poortere was inaugurated in Paris and in 2019 he published the album Super Mickey, in the Mickey Mouse hommage series published by Glénat.

Pieter De Poortere has also created several children’s books over the past 20 years. For the Van Eyck Year, he made the book “Lam” for the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, and ‘Renée’ about Belgian painter René Magritte.

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