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Jan Van Der Veken #grafica #illustrazioni Chris Ware, Art Et Illustration, Arte Popular, International Artist, Flat Illustration, Comic Styles, The New Yorker, Graphic Novel, Poster Design

For such a well-respected and wonderfully talented illustrator there's a surprising lack of information about Jan Van Der Veken out there on the internet. His online presence is decidedly minimal, amounting to just a Tumblr, a short biography on Drawn and Quarterly and a few lines of a Wikipedia entry that offers "Van Der Veken developed his own artistic style…" by way of explaining Jan's creative output. Not a lot to go on really. He doesn't even have a proper email address.

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"A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel" by Gabriel Winslow-Yost, New York Review of Books, Dec. 20, 2012 review of "Building Stories" by Chris Ware Comic People, Graphic Narrative, Architecture Diagrams, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Market Art, Image Reference, Comic Layout, Lo Fi

Chris Ware’s drawings are meticulous, even chilly, with flat, muted colors and the straight lines and perfect curves of an architectural rendering. The panels follow an orderly horizontal grid, but have a discomfiting tendency to occasionally shrink to near illegibility; or they might suddenly demand to be read from right to left, or even disappear entirely, to be replaced by pretty but unhelpful typography, complicated diagrams, or plans for a paper model of one of the stories’ locations…

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