Oog & Blik

Oog & Blik was an Amsterdam-based Dutch publisher of comics founded by Joost Swarte and Hansje Joustra in 1985.

Oog & Blik
Founded1985
SuccessorScratch Books
Country of originNetherlands
Headquarters locationAmsterdam
Key peopleJoost Swarte
Hansje Joustra
Publication typesBooks, Comic books, Magazines
Official websitewww.oogenblik.nl

Oog & Blik offered books mostly for an adult audience. It published original and translated graphic novels, underground comix, autobiographical comics, picture books, and silkscreens by Joost Swarte. Around 2010 De Bezige Bij bought Oog & Blik.[1] Joustra was fired in 2014 and started a new publishing company called Scratch Books. Almost all comic books artists left Oog & Blik afterwards to join Joustra's new company. Bezige Bij quit publishing comics in 2015 and further activities as Oog & Blik were put on hold.

The story of Oog & Blik was used as a case-study about creating and sustaining artistic independence.[2]

Creators

Oog & Blik books include those by:

References
  1. "Overname Oog & Blik door Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij - De Bezige Bij". 2018-06-28. Archived from the original on 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  2. Vries, Rudolf de (2014). "Balancing on the "Clear Line": Between Selecting and Being Selected: Independent Comics Publishing in the Netherlands: the Case of Joost Swarte and Oog & Blik". Comics in Dissent: Alternative, Independence, Self-Publishing: 113–125.


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