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In Peace Despite the War, Ukrainian cartoonist Oleksy Kutsovsky (KUSTO) shows how everyday life continues, even in times of war. His drawings speak of daily routines, hope, and resilience.

KUSTO, born in Kyiv in 1971, has been working as a cartoonist since 1998 and has grown into an internationally acclaimed artist. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world and has received numerous awards. In 2024 he won the Bronze Hat in Knokke-Heist, and in 2025 he received the ECC Prize at the Euro‑Kartoenale Kruishoutem.
 

“Can we still laugh about everything?” asks cartoonist Phil Umbdenstock. It is a question he has been asking himself for fifty years, each time he draws a cartoon. The French cartoonist celebrates fifty years of drawing with a personal exhibition at the ECC, titled: “50 Years with a Smile!”

The show brings together around one hundred humorous drawings, carefully selected from his oeuvre. And yet, it is not a retrospective. Come and discover the cartoonist with that touch of rock’n’roll, often described by reviewers as the artist who delivers an “uppercut.”