Your 2011 Martin Toonder Award Winner



According to this post by Martin Wisse, the Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture has awarded the 2011 version of its Martin Toonder prize to Peter Pontiac. Pontiach is a Dutch artist with a career nearly four decades in length, perhaps best known for being influenced by R. Crumb and American underground comix who has split time between comics and commercial illustration. The award goes cartoonists for a lifetime of contributions to the "development of Dutch comics." Pontiac follows inaugural winner Jan Kruis. Wisse states that the awards program cited his graphic novel Kraut as a significant contributing factor in his being given the award.

Pontiac will formally receive the prize and its nearly $37,000 USD first prize in September at the Breda Stripfestival.
 
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