Vincent Deporter, an international Belgian artist who worked in both comics and animation has died. He was born on 13 February 1959 and died on 27 September 2022 at age 63.
Deporter began his career in comics working as an assistant to Jean Graton, before selling his own strips, as Mike Deporter, to Spirou magazine.
After relocating to New York in 1996, Deporter worked on DC’s line of comic books adapted from popular animated cartoons, like Scooby-Doo and Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Deporter also inked many of the Batman, and Superman style-guides.
He also worked for Nickelodeon, notably on SpongeBob SquarePants.
However, after Nickelodeon Magazine closed its pages, he started to write and draw for the SpongeBob Comics as a regular contributor.
Deporter also wrote and illustrated on more philosophical issues, illustrating the book Sacred Cows: a Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition around the World, by the host of The Thinking Atheist Seth Andrews.
At time of death, he lived in Arizona, painting and writing non-graphic novels.
