Archive for the 'Kim Duchateau' Tag
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…
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Yesterday we took the kids to an afternoon performance by song-and-dance-man Jan De Smet (as a life-long Dylan fan, he won’t mind me calling him that) and cartoonist Kim Duchateau. Jan played songs on his multitude of instruments : mostly translations of Woody Guthrie’s children’s songs, but also song from his own repertoire. Meanwhile, Kim provided live wacky illustrations.
It was pretty impressive to see how the two of them improvised and played together, considering that this was the frist time they did this. I liked the way every drawing was ready by the time the song was inished, and vice versa.
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Energy prices are on the rise in Flanders (as they are everywhere else, I gather). How to keep ourselves warm ? Kim has a few ideas in Knack.
(art © Kim Duchateau)
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Kim Duchateau, blogged about before, is becoming one of the regular cartoonists for the Flemish weekly news magazine Knack. These illustrations were made for two special editions of Knack, the literary yearbook (above) and the End Of Year special. If you can spot all the references to local news in the latter, you’re either from around here, or you’re too focused.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
“We’ve been walking for hours already, and we’re still not at the Angoulême Comics Festival”
“Well… We ARE walking against the reading direction…”
Nice self-referential comic from Kim Duchateau, in De Morgen.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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.
“All right, who put this red carpet in front of my door ?”
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
[youtube width="500" height="418"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCdVdWlLnZo[/youtube]At last year’s Turnhout comics festival, Dutch singer-songwriter Spinvis performed on stage with a real pantheon of Dutch and Belgian comics artists. On the video, you hear Nagemaakte Gek (Counterfeit Crazy), with artistic support by Hanco Kolk. It wasn’t the first time the two met up on stage : during the Strips In Stereo event in Amsterdam in 2006 Kolk illustrated a rendition of Spinvis’ song Voor ik vergeet (Before I forget).
More videos after the break. Even if you don’t understand Dutch, the music is amazing.
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
(”Don’t worry, Snowy’s in New York”)
(”Not like that ! In a clear line, OK ?”)
A while ago, a Congolese studen living in Belgium cunningly used the lack of real news during the summer months to file a complaint against Tintin In Belgium as being racist towards the Congolese people (indeed, the Congolese people are a race). At the same time, there was a lot of hubbub about Congolese president Kabilla visiting our country, and Foreign Minister De Gucht objecting to it. And Belgium’s topical cartoonists had a field day (top : Vanmol in Knack, on “Snowy” De Gucht being away, bottom : Kim on the Congolese protest, which was not really in a clear line)
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