Benoît Peeters is a comics writer, novelist, and critic

Critic

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. He has lived in Belgium

Belgium

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 since 1978.

His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures

Les Cités Obscures

Les Cités obscures is a graphic novel series set on a Counter-Earth, started by the Belgian comics artist François Schuiten and his friend, writer Benoît Peeters in the early 1980s...

, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

 metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten

François Schuiten

Baron François Schuiten is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the series Les Cités Obscures.-Biography:François Schuiten was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1956....

. The series began with Les Murailles de Samaris (The Walls of Samaris) in 1983 and is still continuing.

He has also worked with Frédéric Boilet

Frédéric Boilet

Frédéric Boilet is a French cartoonist and a manga artist.-Biography:Frédéric Boilet's debut in comic art was in 1983 with La Nuit des Archées....

 on a series of comic albums, including Love Hotel (1993), Tokyo est mon jardin (1997), and Demi-tour (1997), and has collaborated on a series of photographic works with Marie-Françoise Plissart.

He has written a number of books about the comics medium as well, including Le monde d'Hergé (1983), published in English as Tintin and the World of Hergé

Tintin and the World of Hergé

Tintin and the World of Hergé: An Illustrated History is a book by Benoit Peeters, chronicling the illustrated history of Belgian writer-artist Hergé and his creation Tintin.-Translations of the book:* French: Le monde d'Hergé...

(1988), a biography of Hergé as well as a history for The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...

, and a study of comics pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer

Rodolphe Töpffer

Rodolphe Töpffer was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist. He is also considered to be the first modern comic creator.- Biography :...

, and theoretical works such as Lire la bande dessinée (1998).

In 2007, he began what would be the first biography of Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

. The book came out in 2010.

External links

• A short biography (In French)
• Fan site