Published on 12-07-2024
Deze zomer kan je opnieuw cartoons spotten tijdens onze zomerse cartoonwandeling. Deze keer wijken we uit naar de deelgemeente Lozer voor een prachtig uitgestippeld parcours van ongeveer 6 km. Je wandelt een deel van het parcours door de bossen en dus was het thema snel gekozen: ‘Bomen ...
Published on 08-06-2024
Vasco Gargalo is a Portuguese cartoonist born in Vila Franca de Xira in 1977. Many of his political cartoons have been published in the Portuguese and international press. He has worked for ...
Published on 08-06-2024
Zemgus Zaharāns is a Latvian political cartoonist, illustrator and animator, born in Riga in 1980. He obtained a diploma in printing and offset lithography in Riga and studied in the Art Department of the L ...
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Published on 12-03-2024
With the exhibition 'De Stemwijzer', we present you with a range of political cartoons by Belgian cartoonists. The aim is to recall the events of the past legislature in the run-up to the Flemish, Federal and European elections. Mouth mask perils, playing air guitar, national debt, ...
Published on 11-03-2024
Darko Drljevic was born in 1962 in Kolasin, Montenegro. He is a cartoonist, painter and illustrator. He has written 5 books, and is editor of the humor magazine "TUS" and president of the Montenegrin Cart ...
Published on 02-01-2024
We celebrate CARNIVAL not only in Belgium but also in many other places in the world. About 15 cartoonists from different countries in the world give a picture of how the carnival tradition is celebrated in their country. Expect cartoons with Venetian masks and Brazilian Samba dancers. Wi ...
Published on 29-05-2023
Des Maux en Images Olivier Ploux graduated from the Intuit-Lab in Paris in 2008. During his studies, he discovered the work of Polish and French poster designers. At that point, he decided to create more illustrations himself. After a few years, he decided to ...
Published on 29-05-2023
Every year the ECC appoints a new Belgian house cartoonist. In 2023 Tony Tasco is our house cartoonist. Tony was born in Genk to Italian natives. His full name is Vito Antonio Tasco. Hence his stage name: VAT. He has been drawing cartoons since 1988, after att ...
Published on 12-04-2023
On the 14th of May we organise a breakfast buffet for Mothersday
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Published on 17-03-2023
During the Euro-kartoenale Kruishoutem, we always want to put a guest country in the spotlight. Every edition, a new curator is appointed who knows the cartoons and cartoonists from the host country very well. This year, a duo was chosen to curate the exhibition of cartoons from Egypt: Fawzy Mors ...
Published on 16-03-2023
The Euro-kartoenale is celebrating its 24th edition this year. What once started as a small cartoon exhibition by Flemish cartoonists during the Gulden Eifeesten in 1978 has grown into one of the most important cartoon competitions in the world. No less than 543 cartoo ...
Published on 01-01-2023
YAYO is the pen name of Diego Herrera, who was born in Colombia in 1961. In the late 1980s, he moved on further north and went to live in Montreal, Canada. There, he draws cartoons, illustratio ...
Published on 01-01-2023
Cartoonist, caricaturist and graphic designer THE EXHIBITION 'The lost generation' This exhibition by Iranian cartoonist Saman Torabi (b. Tehran, 1981) gathers cartoons he ...
Published on 27-08-2022
Marc Sleen is the only Flemish artist who got into the Guinness Book of World Records with the amount of drawings he created. Of course everyone over 25 knows the comic stri ...
Published on 31-05-2022
« Mundus vult decipi » : the world wants to be deceived. I would laugh my ass off if I saw how man, in this insane 21st century, with stubborn constipation of the mind is mud ...
Published on 28-03-2022
The ECC is celebrating this year the 15th anniversary of the European Cartoon Center and the 40th anniversary of the Euro-kartoenale Kruishoutem. In the jubilee exhibition 'House of the carto ...
Published on 28-03-2022
The European Cartoon Centre has made a new exhibition 'Cartoons from Belgium' with cartoons by Belgian cartoonists, version 2022! This year's theme is 'The history of Belgian art in cartoons'. 34 Belgian cartoonists did send us their works. Since the exhibition w ...
Published on 27-12-2021
Aleksandre Sergeev did win the 'Prize of the ECC' at last year's Euro-kartoenale 'Chances and Opportunities'. Aleksandre was born in September 1948, in what w ...
Published on 27-12-2021
Frank Hoppmann is a German artist, caricaturist and illustrator. He was born in 1975 and lives in Münster, north-west of Germany. He studied graphic design with a focus on illu ...
Published on 17-08-2021
Gürbüz Dogan Eksioglu is a Turkish cartoonist, graphics designer and academician. He was born in Mesudiye Ordu (Turkey) in 1954. After high school he studied two years of civil engineering but he was not ...
Published on 16-08-2021
Sergey Sichenko is a professional artist, caricaturist and art-teacher. He was born in 1958 in Kharkov (Ukraine). In 1985 he graduated as Master in Arts at the Moscow Artistic Institute. He ...
Published on 06-06-2021
Elena Ospina is a Colombian painter, illustrator and cartoonist. She was born in 1963. She began working as an illustrator of the newspaper El Espectador. She has worked on creating ...
Published on 06-06-2021
Lise was born in Izegem (Belgium) in the wonderful year 1985. From the moment she could write she kept notebooks. As a 10-year-old she and a friend published The old gossip newspaper for young people ...
Published on 05-06-2021
This summer we organize our first cartoon walk. The walk starts and ends at the European Cartoon Center, René D'Huyvetterstraat 5C, Kruishoutem. The accessible r ...
Published on 31-01-2021
For the 23rd time already our European Cartoon Center is organizing its biennial cartoon contest. In these special times, with a worldwide pandemic, we consciously chose a positive theme: "Chances and Opportunities". This year, 714 cartoonists from ...
Published on 30-01-2021
Jan Dewilde (º1955) lives in Kuurne (Belgium) and is a former teacher of plastic education. But because the name Jan Dewilde causes confusion with a famous Belgian singer with the ...
Published on 29-01-2021
During the Euro-Kartoenale Kruishoutem we always want to put a host country in the spotlight. Each edition, a new curator is appointed who knows very well the cartoons and cartoonists from the hos ...
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Published on 20-12-2020
Our colleagues of the George van Raemdonckkartoenale Boechout organized their 15th cartoon competition in 2020. As always, the themes are carefully ch ...
Published on 04-01-2020
Trayko Popov is a Bulgarian artist, cartoonist & illustrator. He was born in 1955 in Sofia, where he still lives and works. He started drawing professionally ...
Published on 03-01-2020
Klaus Pitter was born 1947 in Timelkam, Austria. He studied Graphic Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna as free lance cartoonist and illustrator. ...
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Published on 02-01-2020
Jean-Loïc Belhomme (Belom) was born in 1950 near Rennes. He was obsessed by the adventures of Mickey and Tintin, before he tried to start drawing himself. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes befo ...
Published on 01-01-2020
In 2020 Erwin Vanmol is our house cartoonist and he has his personal exhibition in the ECC. Erwin Vanmol was born in 1967 in Aalst. He studied at ...
Published on 01-01-2020
Slawomir Luczynski was born in 1953 in Pabianice (Poland), where he still lives and work. He is one of the most famous Polish cartoonists and satirists. &nbs ...
Published on 01-09-2019
Max Tilgenkamp (pen name Stripmax) is a Belgian illustrator, press cartoonist and comic strip artist. He was born on August 26, 1978 in Brussels. He has had his work published in several newspapers and ...
Published on 01-09-2019
Farzane Vaziritabar, born in 1987, is an Iranian sculptor and cartoonist. She got her Diploma in painting from Yazd Visual Arts school in her hometown Yazd and her Bachelor in Sculpture and Master's degre ...
Published on 12-05-2019
Quirit is the 2019 house cartoonist of the European Cartoon Center. As house cartoonist he has his personal exhibition in the ECC during the summer. Quirit is the pseudonym of Jean-Marie Mathues. Jean ...
Published on 12-05-2019
Omar Zevallos was born in 1958. He lives and works in Lima (Peru) and studied biology and journalism. He is working as a graphical humourist, cartoonist and journalist. He had exhibitions all over the w ...
Published on 26-03-2019
In 2019 it is exactly 30 years ago that the Berlin Wall fell. Today we see new boundary walls erected all over the world. This inspired us to the theme for this 22nd edition of the Euro-kartoena ...
Published on 25-03-2019
This year it is 450 years ago that Pieter Bruegel passed away. What would the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder look like, should he use his brushes today? The City Peer therefore ...
Published on 26-12-2018
Jitet Kustana was born in 1967 in Semarang (Java - Indonesia) and still lives there. Father of four and undoubtedly the best known and most renowned cartoonist of his country. However, he had no amb ...
Published on 26-12-2018
Cristina Sampaio was born and lives in Lisbon. She graduated in 1985 from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. She started illustrating children's books in 1987, field where she publi ...
Published on 27-08-2018
Luc Verstraete was born in Eeklo (Belgium) in January 1928. This year In December it is 10 years since he died. We would like to bring him and his cartoons again to the attention with this exhibition, because ...
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Published on 31-05-2018
The Romanian top cartoonist Mihai Ignat did win last year the Prize of the ECC in the Euro-kartoenale 'The Soul'. And now he has his personal exhibition in the ECC. Mihai d ...
Published on 31-05-2018
AAaRGh is the 2018 house cartoonist of the European Cartoon Center. 'AAaRGh ...' is the pseudonym of Mario De Koninck. As house cartoonist he has his personal exhibition in the ECC duri ...
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Published on 15-03-2018
In 1987 Karl made his first drawing for the weekly magazine Trends. After a classical education in figure drawing and illustration art, Trends noticed him when he portrayed the passers-by in cities and s ...
Published on 15-03-2018
Cécile Bertrand is one of the few women, if not the only one, to have ever held the position of editorial caricaturist in a French-language daily, a position she st ...
Published on 30-12-2017
Seyran Caferli was born in 1966 in Imishli, Azerbaijan. His first cartoon was published in the comic magazine “KIRPI” in 1982. He graduated from the Journalistic Art Institute in 19 ...
Published on 30-12-2017
Mojmir Mihatov was born in Zadar, Croatia in 1952. He graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of Fine Arts in Zadar. He initially started his career as a designer as well as animator, ...
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Published on 22-08-2017
Mahmood Azadnia was born in 1985 in Mashhad, a big city in the north-east of Iran. He grew up in an artistic family: his father was also a painter. He started painting and drawing cartoons in 2000. ...
Published on 21-08-2017
Nikola "Ioa" Hendrickx is the 2017 house cartoonist of the European Cartoon Center. He is one of our youngest and most successful cartoonists in Belgium. He was born in 1982 in Dendermo ...
Published on 28-05-2017
Andrei Popov was born in 1970 in Sint-Petersburg. His family military background resulted in his education at Mozhaysky Military Air Academy between 1987 and 1992. In 1995 he left the military care ...
Published on 28-05-2017
Oskar Weiss was born in Chur (Switzerland) in 1944. His childhood was marked by moves and travels across borders, long before he himself traveled his pencil on paper. Aft ...
Published on 02-04-2017
For this 21st edition of the Euro-Kartoenale we chose the theme 'The Soul'. We were very curious to see how this universal theme would be interpreted by cartoonists from different cultural backgrounds. And we were not disappointed: 782 cartoonists, from as many as 82 different countries of the fi ...
Published on 03-01-2017
Roger lives in a village in the English countryside near Wales. The nearest town is Ludlow in Shropshire. He moved there in 1999 to become a full-time freelance ...
Published on 03-01-2017
Marcin Bondarowicz is born in 1976 in Starachowice (Poland). He studied painting and graphic design at the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom. He is ...
Published on 23-08-2016
Can you make jokes about death, funerals ...?We asked some national and international cartoonists. And the result can be admired in the ECC ... with drawings of O-Sekoer, Nikola Hendrickx, Luc Vernimmen, Stefaan Provijn, Cost., Norbert Van Yperzeele, Pol Leurs, Alessandro Gatto, ...
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Published on 23-08-2016
Musa GümüÅŸ was born in 1963 in Gaziantep (in South Turkey, near the Syrian border). He graduated from the Department of Business Administration and Management at Marmara University. He currently liv ...
Published on 25-06-2016
Tony Houbrechts is this year the house cartoonist of the ECC, so he has now his personal exhibition in our center. He was born in 1942 in Sint-Truiden, grew up in Tongeren a ...
Published on 25-06-2016
Ivailo was born in 1964 in Sofia, where he still lives and works. He studied ceramics at the Art School. His first cartoon was published already in 1982 when he was only 18 years old. He works as a press cartoonist for the newspaper "Telegraph" and "Monitor". ...
Published on 09-04-2016
Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz was born in 1951 in Maków (Poland). In 1976 he graduated in graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he still lives and works. His first dra ...
Published on 08-04-2016
Carlos Brito was born in Lisbon in 1943 and moved in 1963 to Paris for political reasons. He studied sociology and followed no artistic training. His career from 1957 to 1979 can best be de ...
Published on 05-02-2016
Pirana (Leon Van De Velde) is a famous Belgian press cartoonist. He drew for several newspapers and magazines and published no less than 23 comic strip albums. He was a regular guest at comic festivals at home and abroad. Typical for the work of Piran ...
Published on 05-02-2016
Yuri Kosobukin was born in 1950 in Russia. He studied in Kharkiv for civil engineer aerospace and worked in Kiev at the Antonov Aircraft Design Centre as an engineer. When he started to draw his first cartoons he had no artistic training. With his men with big noses, he dev ...
Published on 05-11-2015
The Croatian Cartoonist Association was founded in 1985 in Zagreb and this year they celebrated their thirtieth anniversary of existence and successful work on promoting the cartoon in Croatia and the Croatian cartoon in the world. Ever since the beginning the Croatian Cartoonist Association has ...
Published on 05-11-2015
Jerzy Gluszek was born in 1956 in Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Wroclaw at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts. After graduation he worked in the launching of the magazines “Luxus” and “Gluszec” and took part in severa ...
Published on 21-06-2015
Constantin Sunnerberg (Cost.) was born in 1970 in Moscow (Russia). He grew up in an artistic environment and started to draw very young. He illustrated his first book at the age of ten. His mother was a convinced anticommunist and decided to leave the country and she married a French journalist. ...
Published on 20-06-2015
Jef Nys, the spiritual father of comic strip Jommeke 'His early years as a cartoonist' (1945 - 1955)
Published on 29-03-2015
We received 1815 cartoons by 532 artists of 71 countries. The prize winners are: First prize: Pawel Kuczynski (Poland) Second prize: Marco d'Agostino (Italy) Third pr ...
Published on 27-03-2015
The Blue Gold! Some despise it, others respect it, and everyone use it. Privileged see it as a right, while those who lack it see it as a treasure. The exhibited drawings will tell you that its preservation is the duty of everyone. ...
Published on 24-01-2015
Aristides Esteban Hernandez Guerrero, better known as ARES, was born in Havana Cuba, in 1963. He studied medicine and psychiatry and is a self taught cartoonist, illustrator and painter. He lives and works in Havana. His first cartoon was published in 1984, and subsequently ...
Published on 23-01-2015
Doaa Eladl is one of the most famous cartoonists in Egypt and is an important voice of the press in the post-revolutionary Egypt. She publishes her drawings in the independent daily Al-Masry Al-You, and is the only woman in a team of four artists. She also illustrates children's books and uses so ...
Published on 27-09-2014
Vladimir KAZANEVSKY is a world famous cartoonist. He was born in 1950 in Lebedin, Ukraine. He now lives and works in Kiev. In 1973 he obtained a graduate in 'Cosmic Radiophysics', and in 1984 that of 'Press Artist' at the Institute of Journalism in Kiev. His ...
Published on 26-09-2014
Half a century ago, Luc VERMEERSCH studied graphic design at the Saint-Lucas Institute in Ghent. He began his career in the advertising business and created illustrations for several pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, chocolate-boxes and posters with his humorous touch. He has been drawing little ...
Published on 28-06-2014
War and humour? Two things that, at first glance, are incompatible. However, cartoons had an enormous impact during World War I. Humour was a powerful propaganda weapon during this war, but it was also a strategy for survival, in which amusement and comradeship helped civilians and ...
Published on 12-04-2014
Marco D' Agostino was born in 1963 in Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Italy. He became infected with the drawing virus at a very early age. Recognising that he had talent, his father gave him an easel, canvas and tempera paint as a gift for his 7th birthday. Nothing has stopped hi ...
Published on 11-04-2014
Cartoonwedstrijd Vianden 2013 'Het Ei'
Published on 25-01-2014
Riber HANSSON was born in Sweden in 1939. He studied technical science to become a structural engineer. He worked for several architectural practices in Stockholm. In 1970, he started his own business specialising in drawing perspectives. (This was before the age of computers.) Due to a recession ...
Published on 24-01-2014
Lectrr (Steven DEGRYSE) was born in 1979 in Roeselare and now lives in Ghent. At the end of the nineties, Lectrr, one of the first Flemish cartoonists, started to publish a daily cartoon on the internet. His website was a huge success and very soon he made his debut as an illustrat ...
Published on 28-09-2013
20 years kingship also means 20 years of a critical and humorous look at Albert II by the country's best-known press cartoonists. Albert and his family, his health, his travels, his relationship with politicians, government negotiations, the throne change ... all are discussed. ...
Published on 26-09-2013
Born in Izegem (Belgium) in 1960, little Hans DECONINCK was quickly fascinated by cartoons and caricatures. He saw them in the newspapers and in shop windows. He spent days and nights drawing caricatures to the great despair of his parents who considered his passion as an idiosyncrasy. That's why ...
Published on 29-06-2013
Agim Sulaj was born in Tirana, the capital of Albania, in 1960, but spent his childhood and adolescence in the costal city of Vlora. Since a very young age Agim experiences his passion and love for paintings and art in general and the talent is evident very early on. In 198 ...
Published on 28-06-2013
It is not an easy job to sum up Norbert Van Yperseele 's career as a cartoonist in only a few lines. He has being active for quite some years now in the cartoon world, but there were times that this was different. Having finished his classical education at secundary school, ...
Published on 22-03-2013
Marc De Cloedt, alias MAREC, was born in 1956 in Bruges. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. His first cartoons appeared in 1984 in the Bruges cultural magazines "Kan't? Magazine" and "De Uitkrant". In 1986 he made a weekly cartoon in the regional edition of the newspap ...
Published on 19-03-2013
We received 2483 cartoons from 718 participants of 79 countries. Most participants were from Europe (57%), followed by Asia (31%), South-America (8%), North-America (3%), Africa (1%) and Oceania (0.5%). The submitted cartoons approached the bike in all its aspects: the cycl ...
Published on 25-01-2013
Pawel Kuczynski was born in 1976 in Szczecin, in northern Poland near the German border. In 2001 he graduated in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. He worked as an illustrator for several newspapers in Poland. In 2004 he began to draw cartoons. In his car ...
Published on 21-01-2013
Pol Leurs was born in Luxembourg in 1947, and he is the father of three adult son. His career as an engineer has not prevented him from becoming one of the greatest cartoonists of his country. Under his artist name Poleurs he represented Luxembourg in numerous national and international competiti ...
Published on 28-09-2012
Angel Boligàn was born in Havana in 1965. In 1992 he moved to Mexico. He draws for the newspaper EL UNIVERSAL and the satirical magazines CONOZCA MÁS and EL CHAMUCO. He is a member of the cartoonist group "Cartooning for Peace" and won worldwide more than 130 prizes in cartoon compe ...
Published on 24-09-2012
... on 21 December 2012 according to the Mayan calendar. With cartoons of Alessandro Gatto, Ares, Dachuan Xia, Ilya and Grigori Katz, Ivailo Tsvetkov, Jerzy Gluszek, Marcin Bondarowicz, Michael Kountouris, Mikhail Zlatkovsky, Oleg Dergachov, Pawel Kuczynski, Pol Leurs, Riber Hansson, Vladimir Kaz ...
Published on 29-06-2012
Griet Blockx was born in 1978 and grew up in a cosy family atmosphere. In the beginning she didn’t quite know what she wanted to do in life, but to be a cartoonist was not the first thing she had in mind. After having followed successfully the primary and middle school, she c ...
Published on 23-06-2012
Satire, in the form of prose, poetry and cartoons, is the leading thread running through the history of Greece (wars, occupation, dictatorship, different regimes, economical and financial crisis,...). Cartoons always have been important – and maybe nowadays more than ever – in the cri ...
Published on 06-04-2012
Ross Thomson was born in Scotland and is graduated in graphics at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1962 he moved down to London and worked over 7 years as art director in various advertising agencies. During this time he sent some cartoons to the “Punch” magazine and much to his surpr ...
Published on 02-04-2012
Jirí Slíva was born in Pilsen in 1947 and is living in Prague since 1966. After finishing his studies in economics at the University of Prague, he worked for 8 years as a sociologist. Slíva´s first published drawings appeared in 1972 and as this s ...
Published on 23-01-2012
Klier (30/09/1966 Hamont, Belgium) was as adolescent not blessed with social skills, but he finally found through drawing cartoons a way to express himself. The fear of the teachers to see themselves once again as a caricature in the local student paper, opened him the way to the accountancy cert ...
Published on 20-01-2012
The concept of the exhibition 2Katz is the « binocularity »: two visions on a same topic, two expressions of two artists, an older one and a young one, a father and a son. Their works are presented in thematic pairs, giving each time a dramatic conflict to the whole. Visitors can admi ...
Published on 04-10-2011
Florian Doru Crihana was born in 1958 in Galaţi, Romania. He graduated naval architecture, but Florian is a cartoonist since 1990 when he gave up his engineer job and dedicated to cartoon and painting. His works were exhibited near famous artist of all time like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, G ...
Published on 01-10-2011
"The formation of a government can last some days, some weeks, even some months. It’s also possible that different informants and formateurs are pointed out." says the website of the Belgian government. But it seems that it could be longer. Belgium is now the world re ...
Published on 04-07-2011
Everybody knows them, the tourists on the beach protecting themselves from the sun with a coat of shining oil. The German cartoonist Peter Ruge is watching them for hours and all their acts and attitudes are precisely recorded in his sketch-books. Beautiful brightly-coloured beach towels are the ...
Published on 01-07-2011
Luc Vernimmen was drawing comics already when he was a child. So, it was obvious that he has chosen an art formation of free graphics at the Sint-Lucaspaviljoen in Antwerp. Later on he followed sculpture courses at the Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp. Regularly his works of ...
Published on 15-04-2011
The ECC welcomes the “Bunny Suicides” for the next exhibition in spring. You certainly know these charming white rabbits in their creative attempts to end their lives using an unlikely variety of items. Revolving doors, a toaster, a cricket ball, a boomerang, a hand-grenade, the shini ...
Published on 14-04-2011
We received 3039 cartoons of 798 participants from 78 different countries. 70% of the participants lives in Europe, 20% in Asia, 5% in South-America, 4% in North-America and 1% in Africa. The jury awarded the following cartoonists: 1s ...
Published on 04-01-2011
Paul De Valck “BRASSER” was born in Humbeek on March 6, 1937. In the sixties he married Leona Van Belle from Schepdaal, a municipality of Dilbeek, and became that way a thoroughbred citizen of the Pajottenland. He borrowed his pseudonym as cartoonist from the nickname of the inhabitan ...
Published on 30-09-2010
Oleg was born in 1961 in Rostov (Russia). He lived 20 years in Russia and 20 years in Ukraine. In 1984 he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Print, Graphic Art and Book Design. In 2005 he moved with his family to Canada. He had over 20 personal cartoon exhibitions in 1 ...
Published on 29-09-2010
Atila Ozer was born in Burdur (Turkey) in 1949. He graduated from State Engineering and Architecture Academy as a Construction Engineer. 7 years later he ended his career as a construction engineer. He completed his master’s degree in Communication Arts and his PhD in Graphical Design. ...
Published on 25-06-2010
Winner of the Prize of the ECC 2009
Published on 21-06-2010
Top-ranking Bulgarian cartoonists present their view of Europe
Published on 01-04-2010
The French cartoonist Roger Mofrey was born in 1927 in Paris, where he graduated as an interior designer. It is a versatile man who combined a long career of artistic director in an advertising agency with the drawing of press cartoons for “Ici Paris", "France Dimanch ...
Published on 31-03-2010
Sus Damiaens, alias Canary Pete, is our house cartoonist 2010. During this year he will comment the events in the ECC and the cartoonworld with his cartoons. Sus is the successor of Stefaan Provijn and Ludo Goderis. Canary Pete draws press cartoons for the Belgian newspaper ...
Published on 04-01-2010
For 40 years Europalia is one of the most important cultural events of our country. This year Europalia devotes its activities to China and for the first time the cartoon art is on the program. The European Cartoon Center is therefore proud to present an exhibition on “China in Cart ...
Published on 14-12-2009
The ECC presents, during the autumn of 2009, an exhibition of the masterworks of Mikhail “Micha” Zlatkovsky, a top-ranking cartoonist. 120 of the most recent works will give you a critical image of our society. In his cartoons Zlatkovsky pays a particular attention to problems ...
Published on 12-09-2009
The ECC organizes a special exhibition of 40 years André Nollet cartoons. André Nollet was born in Wervik (Belgium) in 1946 where he learned to draw and write with the slate-pencil in the local school. At the St.-Amandscollege in Kortrijk he was teached Greek ...
Published on 22-06-2009
During the summer the European Cartoon Center always puts the work of his house cartoonist in the spotlight. This year this is Ludo Goderis. Ludo was born in 1961 at Zeebrugge and since 12 years he lives with his wife and four children in Bruges. He i ...
Published on 19-06-2009
Michel Bridenne slaagt er als geen ander in om mensen aan het lachen te brengen. In zijn cartoonreeks ‘Paartijd’ laat hij ons op een uiterst humoristische manier kennismaken met het liefdesleven van de dieren. In de velden, vijvers en bossen lijkt de lente wel t ...
Published on 08-06-2009
“Humour et Vigne” (Humor en Wijngaard) is de naam van de vereniging die tweejaarlijks een cartoonwedstrijd organiseert in het Franse Jonzac. Door de keuze van het thema “Wijngaard” (Vigne) bieden de organisatoren de kunstenaars telkens opnieuw een br ...
Published on 10-04-2009
We received 2000 cartoons of 588 participants from 70 countries. The jury selected 250 drawings for the exhibition and 100 cartoons for the catalog. The ...
Published on 03-01-2009
Luc Descheemaeker was born in 1955 in Bruges. He teaches ‘Art and Culture’ in the Sint-Jozefinstitute in Torhout. He makes cartoons and humor photos and won more than 100 international prizes. Hij tekent cartoons en maakt humorfoto’s en won meer dan 100 internationale prijzen. H ...
Published on 31-12-2008
Jean-Maurice Bosc was born in Nîmes in 1924. In 1952 he discovered a book of humor signed Mose. He then spent all summer drawing in secret, and after a merciless choice of the best pieces that threw on the pyre more than 200 drawings, he set off to Paris with 49 cartoons under the arm and 2 ...
Published on 04-10-2008
The history of Congo from 1958 till 2008 seen through the eyes of Belgian and Congolese cartoonists.
Published on 20-06-2008
Stef is our house cartoonist 2008. During the year 2008 he will comment the events in the ECC and the cartoonworld with his cartoons. Stef was born in 1960 in Deinze (Belgium). He studied Applied Arts at the Royal Academy of Ghent. ...
Published on 18-06-2008
In 1978 werd in het Poolse Legnica een tentoonstelling georganiseerd met het werk van enkele cartoonisten uit de buurt van Wroclaw. Nu 30 jaar later kan Satyrykon terecht beschouwd worden als één van de beste cartoonfestivals ter wereld. Anno 2008 is Satyrykon ...
Published on 20-03-2008
Een eerste cirkel, en nog één, een ovaal en twee puntjes voor de snuit, de ogen, een kurkentrekker voor de staart en een bed van modder. Voilà, zo teken je een varken. Voor Pierre Ballouhey zijn varkens een ware obsessie. Zijn post-its naast de telefoon stonden vol met kleine ...
Published on 15-03-2008
From the 21th of March till the 15th of June the European Cartoon Center presents the exhibition ‘Geperste Koppen’. The famous caricaturist Jan Op De Beeck shows more than hundred caricatures of national and international known personalities, artists, politicians, sportsmen ... ...
Published on 04-01-2008
Alessandro Gatto was born in 1957 in Castelfranco Veneto where he actually lives and develops his activity of designer and painter. He has a list of many jobs executed for Italian companies and public corporations and from other countries (United States, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Algeria, Englan ...
Published on 02-01-2008
The Belgian governments Verhofstadt I and II were a source of inspiration for the Flemish cartoonists: the Nepal weapon trade, the spectacular escape from the prison of Dendermonde, the attitude of Belgium in the Iraq war, the one-liners of politicians meant for the Congolese leaders, the Sabena ...
Published on 05-10-2007
2007… the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome… a historical event. Meanwhile Europe has extended. On May 1st 2004 the European Union grew from 15 to 25 Member States and in 2007 Bulgaria and Romania joined the club. What is the signification of this entry in the European Union fo ...
Published on 01-10-2007
Punt (Jan Van Der Aa) was born on January 14th 1927 and died recently on September 28th 2007. As a child he dreamt of an artistic career, he made his first oil painting on the wood of a cigar-box at the age of 6. But due to the war and also because his parents didn’t ...
Published on 15-06-2007
'HUMOUR IS THE TENDERNESS OF FEAR' Mordillo Guillermo Mordillo was born in Buenos Aires in 1932 from Spanish immigrants. He studied design at the Journalist High School and worked for different movie studios and also as illustrator of children’s books. ...
Published on 05-06-2007
As the “Tour de France” passes this year in the region of Kruishoutem, the ECC has decided to give to this event a cultural note with an exhibition of “Thomas Pips” cartoons, drawn by Buth. Leo De Budt (Buth) was born in Ghent in 1919. A ...
Published on 04-06-2007
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