Benoît Peeters

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Benoît Peeters (born 1956 in Paris, France) is a comics writer, novelist, and critic. He lived in Belgium, since 1978.

His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten. The series began with Les Murailles de Samaris (The Walls of Samaris) in 1983 and is still continuing.

He has also worked with Frédéric Boilet on a series of comic albums, including Love Hotel (1993), Tokyo est mon jardin (1997), and Demi-tour (1997), and has collaborated on a series of photographic works with Marie-Françoise Plissart.

He has written a number of books about the comics medium as well, including Le monde d'Hergé (1983), published in English as Tintin and the World of Hergé: An Illustrated History (1988), a biography of Hergé, a study of comics pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer, and theoretical works such as Lire la bande dessinée (1998).