Drinking from the bottle may be handy if you want to drink a lot, but it will probably not up your social stature. But not to worry, because help is at hand from Flemish cartoonist Ilah. She has designed her own set of durable, large wine glasses, adorned with the image of her cute-but-catty heroine, Cordelia. They are yours for € 40,- per set, and they are available via mail.
And if anybody dares to congratulate me with my promotion by saying “pleasantly surprised”…
While browsing through Vacature (see earlier) this morning, it struck me that its publishers had used an age-old solution to the problem of how to keep your readers interested, and keep them from simply skipping this huge wad of paper full of, well, quite similar ads for jobs.
At certain intervals, Vacature inserts pages with editorial content and background. A fixed feature of these pages are short strips by Flemish cartoonist Ilah (blogged about earlier). These strips always have a subject related to the workplace and employment, and more often than not feature that typical Ilah strain of humor, which is not exactly biting but not too gentle either.
On the tickets for Flemish local public transport organisation De Lijn’s services (the bus, basically), Ilah’s Cordelia urges users to get their tickets in advance (as that is cheaper). Which is a bit strange to me, since this results in everybody at least once paying too much, namely for the ticket on which they find Cordelia’s good advice…
A while ago I presented a strip by Flemish cartoonist Ilah, which struck me as being eerily close to what’s happening in my life right now. A few days ago, she hit the spot again. I very rarely get to read strips that make me wonder whether I have hidden cameras in my house.
Translation :
– Mom !
- MOOOOOMMM !
- Yes?
- Check out these muscles !
(artwork © Ilah 2007 – published with permission)
Ilah is one of those cartoonist who manage to capture Real Life in a few carefully chosen lines. She makes it look so easy, and still has me stumped every time I see one of her cartoons or strips.
The strip above might as well be drawn for life in the morning at Château Sparehed… Even if you don’t speak Dutch, the meaning is clear I think. If not, here’s a quick translation :
(Strip © by Ilah, published in De Morgen, august, 13, 2007)
New Year’s cards are always a good source for nice illustrative work. These cards were commissioned respectively by Humo Magazine in 2005, and comic store Het Besloten Land in Leuven, Belgium in 2006(the best comic store on the continent, let me tell you). The art is by Ever Meulen (obviously) and Ilah, one of the few women cartoonists in Belgium, but also one of the finest. Cartoonists, that is.
What ? Is this year gone already as well ?
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