Paul Bodoni

illustrator

Dutch^[1] b. 1954, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel^[1] active 1977–present

Paul Bodoni (born Paul Bodoni Derksen) is a Dutch comic artist, born in 1954 in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. He studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. His comics appeared in magazines including Aloha, Oor, Hitkrant, Okki, Taptoe, De Vrije Balloen and Het Parool. From 1977 to 1983 he was an editor and artist of the alternative comic magazine De Vrije Balloen. In 1984 the publisher Espee issued a collection of his surrealist stories that had first run in the youth magazine Jippo. He emigrated to Sweden in 1988 and worked in social services. Drawings he made in 2000 during a period of burnout stayed unpublished until curator Gert Jan Pos found them in 2008. They were exhibited and then published as Terra Harmonica by Oog & Blik. His work has been shown at Galerie Lambiek and in Stockholm galleries.^[1]

• comics
• surrealism
• alternative press