Artbook Thorgal - 40 ans by Grzegorz Rosiński

murder ballads in 'In the Pines' (2016), and the epic Viking saga 'De Balling' (2019). Kriek has gained a wider audience with his more serious graphic novels, including his collection of Lovecraft adaptations, 'Het Onzienbare' (2012), his graphical adaptations of U.S. In the same vein he created the spin-off 'Little Andy Roid' (2000), about an android robot. 'Gutsman' gained a cult following because of its absurd, self-reflexive and adult comedy. In comics circles, he first became known for his comic book series 'Gutsman' (1994), a pantomime superhero parody.

After 40 years, the Thorgal series remains as vibrant as ever, and peers and readers alike view Rosinski as one of the legendary figures of our era.Erik Kriek is a Dutch illustrator, designer and comic artist, whose work has a retro feel and great affiliation with Americana. Starting in 2010, while continuing to illustrate the original Thorgal series, Rosinski took on the additional task of supervising the creation of The World of Thorgal, a new collection of stories taking place in parallel with the main series, and brought to life by a talented crop of authors and artists. Over the years, Rosinski stayed loyal to both his collaborators and his readers, but his high level of production allowed him to vary his work, alternating between Thorgal, with such collaborators as Yves Sente ( The Revenge of Count Skarbek, Dargaud/Europe Comics), Xavier Dorison, and Yann, and other notable series such as La complainte des landes perdues (Dargaud Lament of the Lost Moors, Cinebook), with writer Jean Dufaux. He would soon meet author Jean Van Hamme, whose fantasy saga Thorgal (Le Lombard Cinebook/Europe Comics in English) would launch them both into the comics ether. But he never stopped seeking new opportunities, which in 1976 led him to come to Belgium. After earning a degree in fine arts in Warsaw, Rosinski soon became the star and artistic director of Relax, the first Polish comics magazine. In this way, ever since publishing his first illustrations at the age of 16, Rosinski never stopped evolving and advancing as a graphic artist.

Over the course of his remarkable career, his only fear was to be defined and limited by some form of identifiable style. And the idea of movement is also a fitting way to describe the artist's work as a whole.

Polish comics artist Grzegorz Rosinski is not so much an illustrator as a movement.

Artbook Thorgal - 40 ans by Grzegorz Rosiński