100 years Marc Sleen, the spiritual father of Nero: “A great joie de vivre, but also personal traumas” | Art & Literature

Art & LiteratureHe would have turned 100 this year and that is why the oeuvre of comics artist Marc Sleen is now extra celebrated. Not with a waffle maker, but with special reissues of the work of Nero’s spiritual father. “Rightly so,” says specialist Guido De Bruyker. “Sleen’s work is completely unique and deserves all the attention.” De Bruyker, who previously wrote a book about Nero, looks back in this interview on the artist’s eventful life. “His major life trauma was the death of his only child at birth, due to a doctor’s error.”