Peter Pontiac

Peter Pontiac, a self-taught artist who started his career in comics in the mid-70s, was influenced by the underground comix movement as a whole, and by R. Crumb in particular. Pontiac published his work in several magazines, including Tante Leny, Hitweek, Aloha, Gummi and Modern Papier in Holland, El Vibora in Spain, and Anarchy Comix and Mondo Snarfo in the States. In Holland, he also illustrated great events in rock & roll history for the music magazines Music Express and Oor.

It took until 1990 before he found a concept and an editor (Oog en Blik) to publish his complete oeuvre: 'The Pontiac Review'. Seven albums have been published, including the trilogy 'Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll'. Prior to this collection, his album 'Requiem Fortissimo' was published by Casterman. In 1997 he won the Stripschapprijs for his entire oeuvre and in that same year, he self-published the comic book 'Lost in the Lowlands'.

In the late 1990s, Pontiac was intensively busy with his biographic all illustrated novel 'Kraut'. The book was published in 2000 by Podium. It's a quest for his father, a German-collaborator and a SS war journalist on the Eastern front, who disappeared without a trace from Curaçao in 1978. With this book, Pontiac delivered a masterpiece, in the tradition of artists like Robert Crumb, Jacques Tardi and Art Spiegelman.

As a painter and illustrator, Pontiac has had expositions in Brussels, Angoulême, Blois and Rio de Janeiro. There was an exhibition of Peter Pontiac's work in Lambiek's old gallery in November 1987 and February 2003, and he hosted a book-signing and small exhibition for the updated printing of Kraut in the new Galerie Lambiek in May 2005.

Peter helped put Lambiek on the map, and we are very proud to have him as our house artist.