Joost Swarte...

I interviewed Dutch comics legend Joost Swarte for The Quietus. An incredibly talented man and one of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of talking to. I found our conversation very interesting. Check it out, and take a look at his lovely work. 

Besides comics, Herr Swarte is a huge music fan, drawing a number of sleeves over the years, and even collaborating on a couple of records with Arling & Cameron and Fay Lovsky.

I love Fun Shopping, the Shibuya-kei-esque opening of Arling, Cameron, & Swarte's Sound Shopping record:



Swarte's excellent cover art:

Appellation Contrôlée from Jopo In Mono, his collaboration with Fay Lovsky, based on his comic character Jopo de Pojo. Written by Swarte, this was a tune he would sing when doing the dishes after dinner.



And it was Swarte who recommended Amatorski to me during the course of our interview.