Christophe Poot
Belgian comics artist
Christophe Poot (born 6 June 1971 in Brussels) is a Belgian comics artist, author, publisher, and critic. He is a co-founder of the independent publishing house La Cinquième Couche and the founder of the micro-imprint Nu-Tête. He is known for a small but highly distinctive body of work characterised by an expressive, laconically drawn style, with literary influences drawn from Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Flaubert.
Biography
Training and early career
Poot was born on 6 June 1971 in Brussels. After studying at the Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles, he co-founded La Cinquième Couche in 1993 alongside a group of fellow students from the school's comics workshop, including Xavier Löwenthal, and others. He contributed to all the collective issues of the journal and took part in the graphic design of the collective album Le Coup de Grâce (2006).
In 1999, alongside Xavier Löwenthal, Poot participated in the Terre-Neuve project organised by the Recyclart association, aimed at transforming the urban rupture caused by the North–South railway junction in Brussels, contributing to five panels of approximately 16 square metres (170 sq ft) each.
He resigned from La Cinquième Couche in 2007 to devote himself entirely to drawing and to a major long-form narrative project. In 2008, he launched the web platform La Paroi, and in 2013 he founded the small independent imprint Nu-Tête, under which he published Magnolia Stellata (2013). He has also contributed drawings and illustrations to grandpapier.org, a platform for illustration and comics, since 2005.
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