The American magazine Communication Arts has awarded its Award Of Excellence 2008 to Dutch illustrator and cartoonist Joost Swarte. Swarte was given the award for the cover he drew for the August 20th, 2007 issue of the New Yorker Magazine. The subject of this illustration (which was featured earlier on my own The Ephemerist blog) was summer reading, and was created under the supervision of art director Françoise Mouilly.
Swarte is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, with covers as well as feature illustrations. He’s also well known as one of the founders of the biannual comics festival Stripdagen Haarleml, as a regular contributor to Humo and Vrij Nederland Magazine, and as the designer of some of the most innovative and creative postage stamps in the world.
Mon, Oct 27, 2008
Awards, Comics and cartoons, From our Continental Correspondent