Minck Oosterveer

Minck Oosterveer pursued an education to become a master of the arts. Although he grew up in The Netherlands with European comics, he was soon more interested in American comics, especially the newspaper comics of the 1930s-50s. It was the pulpish, direct style and the usage of black and white in the realistic artwork that attracted him the most. Oosterveer's work is strongly influenced by Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, and Will Eisner.

After working for studio Peter de Raaf on productions like 'Tom & Jerry', 'Sesame Street', 'Paddington', 'Ovide' and 'Spider-Man', Minck Oosterveer started working with Willem Ritstier on the series 'Claudia Brücken' for the franco-belgian publishing-house Lombard and its magazine, Tintin. The collaboration with Ritstier resulted in a daily newspaper comic in an American style, 'Jack Pott', in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.

Since 1996 Oosterveer and Ritstier also worked on the newspaper comic 'Zodiak' for De Telegraaf, the series 'Rick Rolluik' for Suske en Wiske Weekblad, and 'Arachna' for ComicWatch magazine. Oosterveer did the art and story for the comic 'Excalibur', published by Enigma, and artwork for a successful animated movie, 'Mario A'.

In 2002, Oosterveer and Ritstier started a new daily comic strip in De Telegraaf, called 'Nicky Saxx', their most successful comic series up till now. Following their contribution to the horror anthology 'Bloeddorst', they started the comic series 'Trunk' in 2006.

Next to working on 'Trunk' they formed a new team for 'Storm', the successful European comic series created by englishman Don Lawrence, which they make in alternation with the team of Romano Molenaar, Jorg de Vos and Martin Lodewijk. For the relaunch of Eppo magazine in 2009, Oosterveer and Ritstier started the western-comic 'Ronson inc.' In August 2008 Minck Oosterveer debuted in US comics with 'Zombie Tales #4/ Zaambi' written by Cris Morgan and published by BOOM!-studios.