Olivier Schrauwen
Author of Arsene Schrauwen
About the Author
Series
Works by Olivier Schrauwen
Sunday : part 2 6 copies
Sunday : part 3-4 6 copies
Sunday : part 1 6 copies
30,000 Years of Bad Luck 6 copies
Sunday 5-6-7-X 5 copies
29,000 Years of Bad Luck 4 copies
The trap 2 copies
Zaadmat Magazine 1 copy
Associated Works
Mooi is dat! hoogtepunten van de Nederlandstalige literatuur verbeeld (2010) — Illustrator — 18 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1977-11-07
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent - KASK Gent
École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc à Bruxelles - Short biography
- Olivier Schrauwen est un musicien et dessinateur de bande dessinée belge, né en 1977 et vivant à Berlin.
Après avoir étudié l'animation à l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Gand, Olivier Schrauwen a poursuivi un master en bande dessinée à l'École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc à Bruxelles, ce qui l'a entre autres amené à contribuer aux revues Ink et Hic Sunt Leones. Son premier livre, My Boy, est paru chez Bries en 2006 et a rapidement été traduit en français. Il a ensuite continué de publier dans de multiples revues, magazines et anthologies de la scène alternative – Canicola, Strapazin, Mome, Mon Lapin, etc – tout en restant un adepte de l'auto-édition. - Nationality
- Belgium
- Birthplace
- Bruges, Belgium
- Places of residence
- Berlin, Germany
- Map Location
- Belgium
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Reviews
OMG! 500 pages of a repellent European dude spending one entire Sunday dithering, dawdling, doing drugs, earworm singing on loop, fantasizing, free associating, frittering, getting drunk, masturbating, napping, procrastinating, smoking, watching The Da Vinci Code on Netflix, and whining, whining, whining.
Books that review themselves:
This very thought I'm articulating
this very, very thought I'm having . . .
right now
Right
now
It doesn't need to be verbalized,
it doesn't matter
Irritatingly show more pointless.
To fluff it out, the panels sometimes shift to show what other people in the protagonist's life or neighborhood are doing but always under his tedious narration and sometimes featuring . . . (Ha! Ha!) . . . synchronicity and/or . . . (Oh my!) . . . serendipity (I'm crushed by literary heft! Make it stop!). A good chunk of pages are dedicated to a chthonic mouse and a couple of cats wandering about putting on a terribly dull Tom and Jerry sideshow . . . or being symbolic or something ('Cuz literature!). And let's not get started on the irony of the protagonist being a font designer with dysgraphia, an impairment of written expression (Mercy, sir. I beg for mercy!).
Pigshit.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Foreword -- Reading Instructions -- Part 1. from 8:15 am to 10:15 am -- Part 2. from 10:20 am to 11:30 am -- Part 3. from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm -- Part 4. from 2:15 pm to 3:30 pm -- Part 5. from 3:45 pm to 5:00 pm -- Part 6. from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm -- Part 7. from 8:30 pm to 10:45 pm -- X
(Best of 2024 Project: I'm reading all the graphic novels that made it onto one or more of these lists:
• Washington Post 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2024
• Publishers Weekly 2024 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
• NPR's Books We Love 2024: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels
This book made the Post list.) show less
Books that review themselves:
This very thought I'm articulating
this very, very thought I'm having . . .
right now
Right
now
It doesn't need to be verbalized,
it doesn't matter
Irritatingly show more pointless.
To fluff it out, the panels sometimes shift to show what other people in the protagonist's life or neighborhood are doing but always under his tedious narration and sometimes featuring . . . (Ha! Ha!) . . . synchronicity and/or . . . (Oh my!) . . . serendipity (I'm crushed by literary heft! Make it stop!). A good chunk of pages are dedicated to a chthonic mouse and a couple of cats wandering about putting on a terribly dull Tom and Jerry sideshow . . . or being symbolic or something ('Cuz literature!). And let's not get started on the irony of the protagonist being a font designer with dysgraphia, an impairment of written expression (Mercy, sir. I beg for mercy!).
Pigshit.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Foreword -- Reading Instructions -- Part 1. from 8:15 am to 10:15 am -- Part 2. from 10:20 am to 11:30 am -- Part 3. from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm -- Part 4. from 2:15 pm to 3:30 pm -- Part 5. from 3:45 pm to 5:00 pm -- Part 6. from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm -- Part 7. from 8:30 pm to 10:45 pm -- X
(Best of 2024 Project: I'm reading all the graphic novels that made it onto one or more of these lists:
• Washington Post 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2024
• Publishers Weekly 2024 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
• NPR's Books We Love 2024: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels
This book made the Post list.) show less
Not very pleasant character, in a not very pleasant story, with not very pleasant art.
There is humour in this book, but it is very dark. It does have a nice degree of mystery, and the artwork does have some nifty touches, but it is also so rough that it is often difficult to figure out what has happened. I will say that the fighting scenes are all portrayed in an interesting way that mostly communicates the events while still accentuating the chaos.
There is humour in this book, but it is very dark. It does have a nice degree of mystery, and the artwork does have some nifty touches, but it is also so rough that it is often difficult to figure out what has happened. I will say that the fighting scenes are all portrayed in an interesting way that mostly communicates the events while still accentuating the chaos.
Published in English in 4 installments between 2018 and 2021, Olivier Schrauwen’s Sunday is a testament to the possibility of the graphic novel as a form. Schrauwen was born in 1977 in Flanders and currently lives in Berlin. He is considered to be one of the most important authors working in the field – think of Chris Ware for reference.
In 2023 Bries Space published Zondag in Dutch as one tome of 472 pages, an event of sorts, and an object of delight for any lover of paper and fine show more print. English, French and Spanish editions are being prepared by other publishers.
The story banal – one day in the life of a fictional nephew – it nevertheless manages to convey something of the human experience, as Schrauwen focuses on somebody that is alone with his thoughts for an entire day. Highly creative and original, Schrauwen doesn’t flinch from the less noble side of what it means to be alive. 5 star material for sure.
Weighing A Pig Doesn't Fatten It show less
In 2023 Bries Space published Zondag in Dutch as one tome of 472 pages, an event of sorts, and an object of delight for any lover of paper and fine show more print. English, French and Spanish editions are being prepared by other publishers.
The story banal – one day in the life of a fictional nephew – it nevertheless manages to convey something of the human experience, as Schrauwen focuses on somebody that is alone with his thoughts for an entire day. Highly creative and original, Schrauwen doesn’t flinch from the less noble side of what it means to be alive. 5 star material for sure.
Weighing A Pig Doesn't Fatten It show less
The art was uninteresting, the stories were uninteresting, the characters were uninteresting. Really wish I hadn't picked this up, or, failing that, hadn't cracked the cover.
The first, and least auspicious, of the stories turned out to be funny at times, which gives one the hope that, like many a webcomic, there will be some good stuff communicated through these amateurish drawings. Turned out that was a fluke, though. This is a collection of stories about vaguely different show more don't-quite-fit-in-and-slightly-insecure-about-it characters in wildly different times and places which all, oddly, look as if they were scrawled on bathroom stalls. One almost expects the finale to be a full-page face drawn onto and around a bog-roll holder. show less
The first, and least auspicious, of the stories turned out to be funny at times, which gives one the hope that, like many a webcomic, there will be some good stuff communicated through these amateurish drawings. Turned out that was a fluke, though. This is a collection of stories about vaguely different show more don't-quite-fit-in-and-slightly-insecure-about-it characters in wildly different times and places which all, oddly, look as if they were scrawled on bathroom stalls. One almost expects the finale to be a full-page face drawn onto and around a bog-roll holder. show less
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