Willem - Lot 93

Willem Les emmerdeurs 48 pages, paperback, dust jacket Numbered 86 from an edition of 280 + current edition. "L'art en écrit", 2014. Editions Janninck Format: 125 x 210 mm Attached is an original, one-of-a-kind signed, hand-colored comic strip box. Note: Bernhard Willem Holtrop, alias Willem, was born in 1941 in Ermelo, Netherlands, and now lives in France. He attended art school in the Netherlands from 1962 to 1967, and as a member of the Provo movement, he founded the satirical newspaper God, Nederland & Oranje, most of whose nine published issues were seized. Arriving in France in 1968, he began drawing for L'Enragé in May, before taking part in the first issues of Hebdo-Hara-Kiri, the future Charlie-Hebdo, in September. He made a name for himself with his scathing social and political satires and sometimes violent images. He went on to become editor-in-chief of Charlie Mensuel, before joining Libération in 1981. Willhem is also an illustrator and the author of numerous comic strips. In 2013, he was awarded the city's Grand Prix at the Angoulême Festival. Les dessins sur l'art de Willem: biting portraits of some fifteen international artists in comics, a ferocious and funny satire of the art world, nourished by the personal artistic experience of the cartoonist accustomed to the pages of Charlie Hebdo and Libération, as well as those of Beaux-Arts Magazine. The first edition is accompanied by a signed original, hand-colored comic strip box.