The Making Of

The Making Of

The Making Of

The Making Of

vandersteenprijs

Vanavond om 19u, op het VPRO-radioprogramma 'De Avonden', een interviewtje met mij
naar aanleidig van de kakelverse Vandersteenprijs, die naar 'Ergens waar je niet wil zijn' is gegaan.

The Making Of

The Making Of

Anima Animation festival

De definitieve affiche voor Anima 2011.

The Making Of

idulfania

published in Brussel Deze Week.

After reading 'the man who grew his beard'

I had high expectations for The man who grew his beard by Olivier Schrauwen, but I wasn't prepared for how good it actually is - I hadn't expected to see a comic book like this so soon. We got lucky.
It's a collection of short stories that are intertwined, because many share the same subject and discourse: a look into the minds of autistic, touchingly isolated men, their feverish inner worlds (rendered in many different techniques inspired by outsider art) and how these interact and contrast with their real environment. The book starts of great, and then becomes greater, digging deeper into it's subject, leaving you out of breath by the end.
Because of it's subject and the concise, direct and honest way in which it is handled (Schrauwen does not repeat information, or cushion the strangeness of what is shown in some reassuring context), the book risks being tagged as 'surrealist' or 'absurdist', which sounds like 'random', while on the contrary I've never read a comic book that felt more careful and precise.

(The book is, for now, only available in Dutch. It's scheduled to be translated in English by Fantagraphics, and in French, by l'An2)

the making of

dédicaçe à l'Alsace

Strasbourg!

Librairie Quai des Brumes le 2 juin à 19h15
20, grande Rue

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