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| Me, Winston and Charles |
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Friday, August 31, 2018
De Gaulle in 300 caricatures
In August I've been visiting Calais, France. After a walk in the WWII museum of the town, located in an former WWII communication bunker, we say the recent statue of Charles De Gaulle and Winston Churchill. De Gaulle married in Calais in 1921.
This week I found this book in a book shop in Brussels: "De Gaulle - 300 caricatures et photographies - 50 dessinateurs." It was published in 1968 and counts 1944 pages.
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De Gaulle on Wikipedia
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De Gaulle on Wikipedia
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
The princess who had everything...
I can't remember the time when I bought a fairy tale book before. It must be a long long time ago...
But a few months ago, two in house cartoonists of the ECC published no cartoon, but a real fairy tale book. And I bought it, in trust, without seeing it before. "The princess who had everything" - "De prinses die alles had" (Dutch language/ISBN 978-90-824489-4-8) is the very pleasing result of this successful collaboration.
The great drawings are made by IOA (Nikola Hendrickx) , the story is by AAaRGh (Mario De Koninck). Nikola has done a great job of drawing and painting the fantastic fairy-tale characters which Mario furnished with witty names and a nice story line. It's a children's book, but as an adult I enjoyed it very much.
What I also liked was the idea of printing a "making of " chapter at the end of the book.
Interesting for grownups, but also for children.
In the book I received a nice letter was added written by Mario and Nikola. They thanked the buyers and ended with the words:
"Do you like the book? Tell it further. Because we like to sell more books. Don't you like it? Be silent. Because we like to sell more books."
I tell it further... and I hope they sell more books. It's good!
Hereunder some pics of the former exhibitions in the ECC - and exhibition catalogues with cartoons by IOA - Nikola Hendrickx and AAargh - Mario De Koninck.
IOA
AAaRGh...
Learn more:
AAargh
IOA - Nikola Hendrikx webite
Order: nikola.hendrickx@hotmail.com
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| De prinses die alles had |
The great drawings are made by IOA (Nikola Hendrickx) , the story is by AAaRGh (Mario De Koninck). Nikola has done a great job of drawing and painting the fantastic fairy-tale characters which Mario furnished with witty names and a nice story line. It's a children's book, but as an adult I enjoyed it very much.
What I also liked was the idea of printing a "making of " chapter at the end of the book.
Interesting for grownups, but also for children.
In the book I received a nice letter was added written by Mario and Nikola. They thanked the buyers and ended with the words:
"Do you like the book? Tell it further. Because we like to sell more books. Don't you like it? Be silent. Because we like to sell more books."
I tell it further... and I hope they sell more books. It's good!
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| original artwork... |
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| Nikola Hendrickx, Mario De Koninck and Nicole Willemse (lay-out) |
Hereunder some pics of the former exhibitions in the ECC - and exhibition catalogues with cartoons by IOA - Nikola Hendrickx and AAargh - Mario De Koninck.
IOA
AAaRGh...
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Learn more:
AAargh
IOA - Nikola Hendrikx webite
Order: nikola.hendrickx@hotmail.com