Oog & Blik

{{Short description|Dutch publisher of comics}}

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| founded = 1985

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| country = Netherlands

| headquarters = Amsterdam

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| keypeople = Joost Swarte
Hansje Joustra

| publications = Books, Comic books, Magazines

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Oog & Blik was an Amsterdam-based Dutch publisher of comics founded by Joost Swarte and Hansje Joustra in 1985.

Oog & Blik offered books mostly for an adult audience. It published original and translated graphic novels, underground comix, autobiographical comics, picture books, and silkscreens by Joost Swarte. Around 2010 De Bezige Bij bought Oog & Blik.{{Cite web |date=2018-06-28 |title=Overname Oog & Blik door Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij - De Bezige Bij |url=https://www.debezigebij.nl/nieuws/overname-oog-blik-door-uitgeverij-de-bezige-bij/ |access-date=2023-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628125259/https://www.debezigebij.nl/nieuws/overname-oog-blik-door-uitgeverij-de-bezige-bij/ |archive-date=2018-06-28 }} Joustra was fired in 2014 and started a new publishing company called Scratch Books. Almost all comic books artists left Oog & Blik afterwards to join Joustra's new company. Bezige Bij quit publishing comics in 2015 and further activities as Oog & Blik were put on hold.

The story of Oog & Blik was used as a case-study about creating and sustaining artistic independence.{{Cite journal |last=Vries |first=Rudolf de |date=2014 |title=Balancing on the "Clear Line": Between Selecting and Being Selected: Independent Comics Publishing in the Netherlands: the Case of Joost Swarte and Oog & Blik |url=https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/balancing-on-the-clear-line-between-selecting-and-being-selected- |journal=Comics in Dissent: Alternative, Independence, Self-Publishing |language=English |pages=113–125}}