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...

De prinses die alles had

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!

original artwork...

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...

Learn more:
AAargh 
IOA - Nikola Hendrikx webite

Order: nikola.hendrickx@hotmail.com

In memoriam Louis Vuitton

Article by JMB

The French designer Louis Vuitton died on June 21st.
This is his real name and he has no family relationship with the creator of the famous luxury brand.

Louis Vuitton was 87 years old. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1954 and produced commercials, models, postcards and published in the press (France-Dimanche, Télé 7 jours, Vermot Almanac, Gros Nez Magazine, Une minute de Silence ...). He was familiar with many exhibitions and festivals and was twice awarded at St-Just le Martel: Public Prize in 1998 and Anti-junk food prize in 2003.

He has illustrated children's stories at Editions de St Mont and has self-published five books:

-  Les recettes du touille-fricasse (The recipes of the tortoise-fricasse) in 1994.  64 pages in format 15 x 21 cm, in texts and drawings illustrating improbable cooking preparations as crazy as humorous.

-  Y a rien à dire (1997) , Y a rien à lire (1999) and Soyez bref ! (2002) (Nothing to say- Nothing to read -  Be brief!): Collections of 60 speechless humor drawings in 14.5 x 14.5 cm format

-  Monstres et handicapés de la Mythologie  (Monsters and the disabled of Mythology) in 2008: a sum of smiling erudition in 72 pages in A4 format.

More Tie Cartoons...

Having read my sentence "It's the only tie book cartoon I know of ..." in a previous article, Jean-Marie was so kind to mention another cartoon book on this theme. It is a portfolio of about forty boards in 21 x 34 cm format, published by Enoteca Italiana.

Year after year this wine association organized a commercial event entitled "Week of Wines" which also presented an exhibition of cartoons related to wine associated with a theme, each time different (gastronomy, theater, discovery of America, art, cinema, the Middle Ages, love, ecology, music ...) which gave rise to the publication of a beautiful portfolio of these works.

The portfolio on the theme of elegance, created for the 25th edition, is dedicated to ties. It has the peculiarity of presenting on the cover folds giving it the appearance of a jacket under which is a shirt with tie coming out of the collar.

Related article:
Tie cartoons by Angelo Companer

God Save The Football

For those who still have time to watch some cartoons during the 2018 World Cup, I present this small book published in 1996. Not for the World Cup, but for the European Championship that took place in England this year.
Containing football cartoons of course.

I contains about 66 football cartoons drawn by Giovanni Sorcinelli  alias GIOX(Italy).

Tie cartoons by Angelo Campaner

Cartoon books can deal with many topics. In this little book, only 24 pages and 24 cartoons, you can see tie cartoons. The book was published in 1999 and is titled: "Cravattironia"

It's the only tie cartoon book I know of...

Angelo Campaner (Italy) won the cover award of the Eurokartoenale 2013 of the ECC.

Learn more:
Biography

Zum Lachen und Zum Heulen (Chaval) - To laugh and howl

"Zum Lachen und zum Heulen" contains 400 of the best cartoons of the french cartoonist Chaval (Yvan Francis Le Louarn). It was published in 1969 by Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich (344 pages).

On the inside of the dust cover, there are some words about Chaval, written by German newspapers of that time. Here's a translation from German.

Tagesspiegel, Berlin
"Der ungekrönte König der Pariser Karikaturisten."

The uncrowned king of Parisian cartoonists.


Neue Zürcher Zeitung
"Chaval is ein Meister der gezeichneten Situationskomik, einer Komik, die um so köstlicher ist, je weniger man sie literarisch erzählen kann. Man lacht durch das Auge, nicht durch den Intellekt."

Chaval is a master of drawn situational humor, that is all the more delicious the less one can tell it literarily, one laughs through the eye, not through the intellect.

Der Spiegel, Hamburg
Ein Buster Keaton der Kartikatur
A Buster Keaton of the cartoon


Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Er hat den anderen Grossen des französischen Humors eines voraus: er vermochte über den Anlass hinaus Symbole zu schaffen. Es gibt Zeichnungen von ihm, deren Betrachtung zu Meditationen anregt. Sie scheinen ganze Bücher voll tiefgründiger Auseinandersetzungen mit der Malaise des Lebens zu ersetzen.

He has one thing in store for the other great French humor: he was able to create symbols beyond the occasion. There are drawings by him that inspire meditation. They seem to replace whole books of profound arguments with the malaise of life.

Die Zeit, Hamburg
Chaval gehört ohne Zweifel zu den bedeutendsten Karikaturisten der Gegenwart.

Chaval is undoubtedly one of the most important caricaturists of the present day.

Die Presse, Wien
Chaval ist ein Klassiker under den Cartoonisten.

Chaval is a classic amongst the cartoonists.


Frankfurter Neue Presse
Chaval: er ist der König. Er hat die verrücktesten Einfälle alles Pariser Karikaturisten; das will etwas heissen. Kein überflussiger Strich auf seinen Bildern, kein Ornament. Es ist eine Landschaft des reinen, bizarren Humors.

Chaval: he is the king. He has the craziest ideas of all Parisian cartoonists; that means something. No superfluous line in his pictures, no ornament. It is a landscape of pure, bizarre humor.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, München
Wie Voltaire scheint Chaval lachen zu können und das Vermögen zu besitzen, andere lachen zu machen . Darin besteht, um mit dem grossen Fransozen zu sprechen, seine ganze Genialität.

Like Voltaire, Chaval seems to be laughing and having the ability to make others laugh. In this, speaking like the great French, his whole genius consists.

Learn more:
More about Chaval