{"id":333,"date":"2017-03-23T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/benoit-peeters\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:25:17","slug":"benoit-peeters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/people\/benoit-peeters\/","title":{"rendered":"Beno\u00eet Peeters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/files\/2017\/03\/17555429_10158694036905122_721955823_n.jpg\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Beno\u00eet Peeters<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBeno\u00eet Peeters is ReOPeN&#8217;s Advisor and Contributor. He has been appointed by Lancaster University as UK\u2019s first Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art.&nbsp;Beno\u00eet was born in Paris in 1956. After a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he prepared his Master\u2019s at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS\u201a Paris, 1980) under the direction of Roland Barthes. He holds a \u00ab HDR-Habilitation \u00e0 diriger les recherches \u00bb (Paris I-Sorbonne, 2007).He published his first novel, Omnibus, in 1976 (Les \u00e9ditions de Minuit), followed by his second, La Biblioth\u00e8que de Villers, 1980. Since then, he has published over sixty works on a wide variety of subjects.An expert on Herg\u00e9, he brought out Tintin and the World of Herg\u00e9 (Methuen) and Herg\u00e9\u201a Son of Tintin (Johns Hopkins University Press). He has also written essays on Rodolphe T\u00f6pffer, Jir\u00f4 Taniguchi and Chris Ware, but also on Nadar, Paul Val\u00e9ry, Alfred Hitchcock, Raoul Ruiz\u2026A long association with the artist Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten has lead to the series of graphic novels The Obscure Cities. Sixteen volumes have appeared so far, with great success: they have won numerous prizes and have been translated into more than twelve languages. The Leaning girl was recently published in the US by Alaxis Press and The Theory of the Grain of Sand by IDW.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/files\/2017\/03\/demo-image-480x340.png\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/row --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Beno\u00eet Peeters Beno\u00eet Peeters is ReOPeN&#8217;s Advisor and Contributor. He has been appointed by Lancaster University as UK\u2019s first Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art.&nbsp;Beno\u00eet was born in Paris in 1956. After a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he prepared his Master\u2019s at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":65,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"builder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8tYh8-5n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":220,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions\/3161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/reopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}