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Peter Pontiac is the closest thing the Netherlands has to a Robert Crumb or Spain Rodrigez, a cartoonist who started doing underground comix and alternative magazine illustrations in the late sixties and hasn’t stop since, kept working in the underground tradition of self expression yet constantly maturing as a cartoonist. That the Amsterdam library is now honouring him with an exhibition in the main library is no more than his due.
Examples of his work can be seen in the video above, as well as on website. It should be obvious how much he has been inspired by especially American underground cartoonists and also how much he created his own style from it. His most mature work is probably the (auto-)biographical Kraut about his father’s experiences in World War II fighting for the wrong side — Pontiac’s real name being Peter Pollmann, but earlier work like his punk opera Requim Fortissimo is excellent too. For those wanting to sample his work, the recent Oog&Blik collection Rhythm collection most of his comics.
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