Rupert Bottenberg (born 19 July 1971 in
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School.
The town is a tourist destination due ...
) is a Canadian
illustrator,
comic artist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...
and writer.
Bottenberg grew up in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
. After graduation, and many freelance jobs, he established "Comix Jams, public events centered on collaborative, improvised comic art," a concept that was picked up by many other North American cities.
His style of drawing has been called "clean-line" and full of "technical precision."
Bottenberg is currently the co-director of th
En Massecollaborative art initiative, and co-creator, with writer Claude Lalumière, of the cryptomythological multimedia projec
Lost Myths In 2012, Éditions TRIP released Bottenberg's first solo book, ''Traumstadtdenken'', a collection of artworks, graphic literature and comics.
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Canadian illustrators
Canadian newspaper editors
Canadian male journalists
Canadian comics artists
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