Biography
Minck Oosterveer pursued an education to become a master of the arts. Although he grew
up in The Netherlands (Holland) 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 a studio 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 'les
editons Lombard' and Tintin-magazine . 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 worked also with Willem Ritstier on the
newspaper comic 'Zodiak' for De Telegraaf, and series 'Rick Rolluik' for Suske en
Wiske-magazine, and 'Arachna' for ComicWatch-magazine.
He 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. Their latest
comic-series is called 'Trunk' (2006). Next to working on 'Trunk' they teamed up
(2007) as writer (Ritstier) and penciller (Oosterveer) for 'Storm' (don't confuse
with 'Storm' by Marvel), a successful European comicseries created by Englishman
Don Lawrence, (there is also an other team formed by Romano Molenaar, Jorg de Vos
and Martin Lodewijk). August 2008 Minck Oosterveer debuted in US-comics with
"Zombie Tales #4/ Zaambi" written by Cris Morgan and published by BOOM!-studios.
Date of Birth: 19 July 1961
Birthplace: Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Thanks to Lambiek
