Clear Line

Herge’s art style, Ligne claire or Clear Line, was highly distinctive but has been used by a number of European artists. Amounst the best current practitioners is Eric Heuvel. An ex-history teacher and long time comics creator who has recently created a book on the Holocaust, The Search. It is the fictional story of Daniel, who after seeking information on the Holocaust on the internet, hears a first hand account from his grandmother Esther, who as a young Jewish girl saw her parents deported to their death in Auschwitz. The Search has recently been translated to German and is being used as a teaching aid to help German school children understand those terrible events.