Ivailo Tsvetkov

The new ECC exhibition shows colourful cartoons of the Bulgarian cartoonist Ivailo Tsvetkov.
Time also to present his brand new cartoon and caricature book (2016).

"Ivailo Tsvetkov was born in 27th March 1964 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

He graduated at the Art School in Sofia in 1983. He worked as an artist/cartoonist in newspapers "Monitor" and "Telegraph" and in magazine "Tema". Ivailo Tsvetkov presented his artworks at several individual exhibitions at home and abroad. He also participated at countless collective exhibitions in many countries of the world.

Ivailo Tsvetkov took part at a number of national and international cartoon competitions and his artworks were awarded numerous prestigious prizes and honorable mentions (we can mention at least some of them: 1st Prize Angler, France 1993, Prize of Ministry of Culture, Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1999, Diplom of Excellence, Haifa, Israel 2002, Honourable mention, Kruishoutem, Belgium 2005, 1st Prize, Pisek, Czech Republic 2006, Master Prize, Master Cup Cartoon Biennial, China, 2007, Googlm Cartoon Contest, China 2008, among many others). Ivailo Tsvetkov is the President of FECO Bulgaria. He is living and working in Sofia, Bulgaria." (source: Fenamizah.com)

Ivailo is not only a good cartoonist, he loves football and likes a good beer.

On YouTube I found this video with pics and work of the artist:

Learn more:
Ivailo at Cartoon Gallery
Interview on CWN - Cartoon World News

Karl Meersman - een getekend wereldbeeld - traits marquant le monde (starring Guy Verhofstadt)

Searching for a cartoon book in my collection, I realised that I didn't show you this book of the great Karl Meersman earlier (114 pages, Roularta books, 2003., ISBN 90-5466-593-9).

It contains extraordinary drawings of mostly belgian politicians, artists and CEO's.

On the cover is former Belgian Prime Minister, now  Member of the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt.

In the book are some other oustanding portraits of Guy Verhofstadt in all of which you discover the craftmanship of Karl Meersman:

For those who don't know the art of Karl Meersman click here. You'll find previous articles on our blog with or about art of Karl.
Don't hesitate to look at the website of Karl to see more recent art.

Learn more:
www.karlmeersman.com - Karl Meersman's  official website

Jerzy Gluszek and Cartoons from Croatia

A good opportunity to acquire some more cartoon catalogues are the ECC exhibitions. It was a good idea of the ECC staff to make a limited edition catalogue of the work and artists shown in the exhibition.

The current exhibitions shows work of Jerzy Gluzek (Poland ) and of a selection of Croation cartoonists.

I really like the work of the polish cartoonist and illustrator Jerzy Gluszek.
Gabriela Dragun wrote about the art of Jerzy Gluzek here.

Jerzy Gluszek and Rudy Gheysens

Bijschrift toevoegen

In Croatia there is a florishing cartoon scene as you can see in the exhibition.

Bijschrift toevoegen

the result

Learn more:
www.gluszek.com
Croatian Cartoonists Association
Croatian exhibition pictures

Hanzz Karikaturen

He's a welcome guest everywhere he goes out to draw people on family and enterprise parties in Belgium or abroad. He likes to come to the ECC to meet with other cartoonists and caricaturists... let's introduce Hanzz (Hans Deconinck, °1960, Izegem, Belgium). In 2013 he had an exhibition in the ECC and it's there where I learned to know this kind artist.  At that time he didn't have a catalogue or caricature book, and that's why I didn't introduce him earlier.

ECC exhibition 2013

Belgian former King Albert by Hanzz

2013 ECC 

Toots Thielemans by Hanzz

Marco D'Agostino and Hanzz (ECC)

caught in action, drawing Marco D'Agonstino (ECC)

But now it's so far: he published a catalogue with about 46 of his best caricatures of famous people. Hanzz is an ardent user of digital media. He is a lead user testing different beta-versions of drawing tablets (Wacom) and drawing software as Paintshop Pro9 and ArtRage. To make a portrait, I thought Hanzz started scanning a photo of the person, and then manipulated that picture. But that's not the case. His caricatures a drawn by hand on the tablet with the specific software. The results are astonishing as you can see in the scans below...

Kim Young Un by Hanzz  (I had a problem with my scanner,
sorry for bad scan quality, original drawing is excellent)

Karl Lagerfeld by Hanzz

Stan Laurel by Hanzz

Charles Bronson by Hanzz

Let's end with the wise words of Hanzz himself: "Let the fun be with you".


Hanzz Karikaturen costs 10 eur. Contact Hanzz for a copy.
contact Hanzz: hans@hanzz.be

Learn more:
Biography on Hanzz.be
Hanzz-digitals.blogspot.be
follow Hanzz on facebook
Hanzz on Instagram