Archive for the 'Kim Duchateau' Tag
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
“Next !”
Even though the eagerly awaited Tintin movie is still in post-production, and no final footage (or even still photography) has been made available so far, Flemish media were abuzz last week with news that director Steven Spielberg was considering Belgium as the location for its sequel. Which led De Morgen resident cartoonist Kim Duchateau on Friday to the above impression of what the casting sessions for that film would be…
(cartoon © 2009 de Persgroep Publishing)
Posted in Comics, Movies, Topical Cartoons | 2 Comments » | Tags : Kim Duchateau, Tintin
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
“Humiliation in Smurfish is 5 dollar extra” – From Kim Duchateau’s Facebook gallery.
(cartoon © Kim Duchateau)
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Yeti is a monthly magazine for kids, published by the Flemish Government’s Department of Education. It typically features tips on school life, combined with jokes and general zaniness. The magazine regularly features illustrations and strips by Flemish cartoonists Nix, Kim Duchateau and Bart Schoofs.
Nix recently came up with the character Paniekman (Panic Man) as the main vehicle for an urgent advise column, in which real school problems are handled in a humorous and also quite often absurdist fashion. For the november 2009 issue of the magazine, Kim Nix created this cover image, which clearly shows he knows his classics (even though most of the mag’s audience will probably not get the reference).
If you like, you can read the whole issue (and all previous ones) online.
(© 2008 Vlaams Ministerie van onderwijs en vorming)
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
When Bob Dylan Revisited, a compilation of Dylan interpretations by the likes of Dave McKean or Lorenzo Mattotti, was published in Dutch a few weeks ago, Kim Duchateau either felt left out, or found himself quite inspired. In any case, he agreed to do his own comic version of a Bob Dylan song for the Flemish Radio 1 programma, Mezzo. The result of two hours of hard labour, a quite funny version of Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35, can be seen on the Radio 1 website. Groovy !
(Lyrics ©1966; renewed 1994 Dwarf Music; Artwork © Kim Duchateau)
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
This cartoon by Kim Duchateau in tuesday’s De Morgen explains the result of Moulinsart’s handling of the press at the opening of the new Hergé museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. For more, check my post at Forbidden Planet.
As an aside to this, the Musée Hergé had better take care of the SEO of their website – if you enter “musee herge” as search terms in Google, the official site only shows up as tenth ranked item…
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
De Morgen cartoonist Kim Duchateau did this topical cartoon on the crisis and the Cannes festival. I like it when there’s no translation necessary…
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Ever Meulen provided this year’s topical Christmas front page for the Belgian daily De Standaard, but even though there’s a manger in the centre of the picture, 2009 comes creeping in in the bottom right corner, and so I thought it was quite appropriate to make this my first post of the new year (which, incidentally is the Ephemerist’s third in this format !)
In the special review edition of Knack Magazine, Kim Duchateau took a more topical approach (below). You’ll doubtlessly recognize John McCain and Barrack Obama, Amy Winehouse having a fit, pirates on the african coast, and the Chinese Olympics, but there’s also a lot of local news, such as almost all our top athletes quitting, our banks imploding, a year without any government to speakof and a lot more.
(artwork © Ever Meulen and Kim Duchateau, respectively)
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
(“Well, at the moment the whole country is on its head (with the political crisis and all)” – “Yeah, so ?”)
Kim Duchateau has a daily cartoon in the Flemish newspaper De Morgen, and he quite often manages to slip some comics-related content in them. Here are some example.
(“New trends in tattooing” – “I had to gain weight first in order to fit a whole graphic novel on my body”)
(illustrations © De Morgen & Kim)
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
With the Olympics finally over (and while we’re waiting on the reports on their doubtlessly disastrous long-term effect on the Chinese people, their environment and economic situation), here’s a nice cartoon from De Morgen by Flemish artist Kim Duchateau about a new Olympic discipline, the 100 meters free speech.
Besides the fact that this cartoon uses traditional cartoon elements like word balloons in a nice, formalistic manner, I particularly liked Kim’s implicaiton that free speech automatically entails uncouth language and verbal abuse.
(artwork © Kim Duchateau)
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Dieter, our youngest son (and creator of the Multiple Plunk, the Balrog, the Dangerous Map, and the Multi-tooth Smile), recently did a delightful picture of the sun for an assignment at our local children’s art academy. Much to our surprise and delight, that same picture was used on the poster of the academy’s annual art fair, which resulted in Dieter’s sun popping up all over town…
The art fair was part of the Limburg Tour, a weekend-long series of art fairs and exhibitions of local artists in different venue across the province. A map of the events was drawn by Limburg cartoonist par excellence, Kim Duchateau. Which gives to this post the necessary comic content after all…
Posted in Illustration, Life | 1 Comment » | Tags : Dieter, Kim Duchateau
