Oog & Blik
Oog & Blik was an Amsterdam-based Dutch publisher of comics founded by Joost Swarte and Hansje Joustra in 1985.
Also recorded as Oog & Blik
Oog & Blik
- Founded
- 1985
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Oog & Blik was an Amsterdam-based Dutch publisher of comics founded by Joost Swarte and Hansje Joustra in 1985.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Oog & Blik. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q7095269 · wikipedia · Oog & Blik
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Founded — 1985 • Successor — Scratch Books • Country — Netherlands • Headquarters — Amsterdam • Keypeople — Joost Swarte Hansje Joustra • Publications — Books, Comic books, Magazines
History
History
Oog & Blik offered books mostly for an adult audience. It published original and translated graphic novels, underground comix, autobiographical comics, picture books, and silkscreens by Joost Swarte. Around 2010 De Bezige Bij bought Oog & Blik. Joustra was fired in 2014 and started a new publishing company called Scratch Books. Almost all comic books artists left Oog & Blik afterwards to join Joustra's new company. Bezige Bij quit publishing comics in 2015 and further activities as Oog & Blik were put on hold. The story of Oog & Blik was used as a case-study about creating and sustaining artistic independence.
Creators
Creators
Oog & Blik books include those by: • Zeina Abirached • Stanislas Barthélémy • Charles Berberian • Enki Bilal • Christophe Blain • Theo van den Boogaard • François Boucq • Daniel Clowes • Robert Crumb • Def P • Guy Delisle • Peter van Dongen • Guido van Driel • Philippe Dupuy • Maaike Hartjes • Marcel Ruijters • Mark Hendriks • Ben Katchor • Hanco Kolk • Erik Kriek • Jacques de Loustal • Moebius • Peter Pontiac • Michel Rabagliati • Art Spiegelman • Joost Swarte • Jacques Tardi • Lewis Trondheim • Judith Vanistendael • Windig & de Jong • Peter de Wit • Typex
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- Netherlands
Named but not plotted · 1
Oog & Blik is associated with Netherlands.
Country
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Publishers and printers
5,459 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Oneworld PublicationsOrganisation
- Oni PressOrganisation
- Onufri Publishing HouseOrganisation
- Onyx Path PublishingOrganisation
- Open Book PublishersOrganisation
- Open Humanities PressOrganisation
- Open Library of HumanitiesOrganisation
- Open Road Integrated MediaOrganisation
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Oog & Blik?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.