Erik Wielaert grew up in Amersfoort, Leiden, Assen and now lives and works in Groningen. He studied liberal arts and paitning at the Art Academy of Groningen, and graduated in 1982. Since then he has been active as a plastic artist and illustrator, and eventually also as a comics artist. He has contributed to small-press comics magazines since 1988, and is cooperator and editor of the Groningen comics magazine Grnn. He has published regularly in Zone 5300 since 1998, and is also a contributor to Incognito, as well as the Incognito collection (the book 'Nachtschade'). The publishing house Sherpa produced a collection of his work in the book 'Nacht en Ontij', and Wielaert is working with Willy Linthout on a trilogy for Standaard Uigeverij in Belgium.
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