Archive for January 20th, 2008

Aldegonne

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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When I talked to Kim Duchateau at the Turnhout festival last year, I was surprised to hear him say that for some reason, he wasn’t able to find a public for his comics abroad. It would seem that Kim’s humour, and Flemish humour in general, is to typical, to local, to really do it in a foreign country.

I think that what you don’t know, you don’t like. And for that reason, I present two fine examples of Kim’s strip Aldegonne, about a young, naive girl, who is at loggerheads with the world. Translation, I think, is hardly necessary, but I’ve tried to provide some anyway. Enjoy, and let me know if you liked it.

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“All right, who put this red carpet in front of my door ?”

Tintin inspires some more

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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Here’s a final set of examples on how Tintin and related elements are used as a cultural icon in journalism and topical cartooning. Above, the front page of the april 3, 1987 edition of the Flemish daily De Morgen. It shows La Castafiore singing her famous aria, only now it’s not seeing her beauty that makes her laugh, but the scandals, shennanigans and goings-on that plagued the National Opera at that time.

Below, the Thompson twins (who, in fact, are not even brothers) are used by Flemish cartoonist Gerard Alsteens to comment on the Mexican elections somewhere in the mid-80’s, where everybody claimed they had one.

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“I win”
“I would even state, ‘I win’”

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