Benoît van Innis

Benoît van Innis (25 May 1960 – 24 February 2024) was a Belgian cartoonist and visual artist.

Biography Born in Bruges on 25 May 1960, van Innis was the son of a legal advisor. He dropped out of secondary school and attended the in the studio of , from where he graduated in 1984. He cited René Magritte, William Steig, Saul Steinberg, Glen Baxter, and Ronald Searle as his main graphic influences.

Van Innis's work was popular in Dutch-speaking magazines such as HUMO, Knack, and Vrij Nederland and the newspapers De Morgen, De Standaard, NRC Handelsblad, and de Volkskrant. His French-language publications were included in Le Vif/L'Express, Lire, Le Magazine Littéraire, Le Monde, and Paris Match. He also published in the American magazines Esquire and The New Yorker.

Van Innis's first book, Rire en automne à Bruges, was prefaced by Ever Meulen and published by B. Barrault in 1989. The following year, he published his second book, Le Musée interdit, accompanied by an introduction from poet Roland Jooris and published by . In 1991, he participated in the collective album Les Aventures du latex - La bande dessinée européenne s'empare du préservatif. In 2008, he published works based on the compositions of Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc. which he replaced to pay homage to the victims. The work was inaugurated on 18 July 2016, containing an olive tree to symbolize peace and accompanied by a poem in Dutch, French, and the six languages of UNESCO.

Benoît van Innis died on 24 February 2024, at the age of 63.

Works In French Rire en automne à Bruges (1989) Le Musée interdit (1990) Voyages aux pays de nulle part (1990) Oncle Gilbert (1995) Bleu outremer (1997) Le Vent est bleu (2002) La Table (2008)

In Dutch Bravo! Bravo! (2000)

Cartoon albums Les Aventures du latex - La bande dessinée européenne s'empare du préservatif (1991)