Jan de Klerk

Jan de Klerk (b. 1987, Delft) is a Dutch comics artist and writer based in Utrecht. He studied illustration at the HKU and apprenticed at a small letterpress studio, which fed his fascination with textures and hand lettering. His breakout indie series "Bruglicht" won a Bronze Stripgroot in 2016, followed by the urban folklore mini "Maanvis" and the risograph anthology "Tegelgroen". de Klerk teaches sequential art workshops, storyboards for animation, and cycles the polder with a sketchbook balanced on his handlebars.

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