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Respecting each other
Yesterday we did receive a mail of a cartoonist saying that the rule about the free catalogue in the rules of the Euro-kartoenale is lacking style and generosity. Why do we ask cartoonists to...
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End of the year event
Friday we had in the ECC our traditional ‘End of the Year Event’. It was great fun . First of all Jan Oplinus, from the ECC’s cartoonbooksclub, did give us some more insights in the strange world of a...
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Happy New Year
The ECC team members wish you a great 2013 with a lot of humour and creativity!
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Cartoonale Brugge: crime and punishment
Yesterday we went to Bruges, the beautiful UNESCO Heritage protected town in the North of Belgium. Since a few years the city of Bruges is organizing a cartoon festival, at first it was a rather small...
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We will miss the ‘Kosobukin’ man
Yesterday the great cartoonist Yuri Kosobukin did pass away in his home town Kiev at the age of 63 years and after a long illness. Kosobukin was born in 1950 in Russia and studied civil airline...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,700 views in 2012. If...
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Exhibition Pol Leurs and Pavel Kuczynski
Saturday evening we opened a new working year in the European Cartoon Center with two great cartoon exhibitions: Pavel Kuczynski and Pol Leurs. It was great to see the contrast between the two cartoon...
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Cartoon contest behind the scenes
So it seems rather calm in the Belgian cartoon world, but for the European Cartoon Center it are very busy times. In less than a week we are having the opening and prize giving ceremony of the...
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Opening Ceremony Euro-kartoenale 2013
Last weekend was a great weekend. On Friday our first prize winning guests were arriving in Kruishoutem: Constantin Pavel and his son of Roumenia and Mohsen Asadi of Iran. Wilson Figuerido of Brazil...
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Web documentary about Iraq – a view by cartoonists
The TV-channel Arte made a web documentary about 10 years war in Iraq. What do we know about Iraq 10 years after the second Gulf War? The web documentary consists also of interviews with cartoonists...
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Tourism Cartoon Competition by Norbert Van Yperzeele
In August 2012 the 4th International Tourism Cartoon Competition 2013 in cooperation with Anadolu University, the Association of Tourism Writers and Journalists and Anatolia, a journal for Tourism...
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Belgian Delegation in Eskisehir
Show the flag From 20th till 22nd April a Belgian delegation of cartoonists was invited by the city of Eskisehir in Turkey to attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Cartoons from Belgium” and...
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Festival of Vianden – The Egg
Saturday afternoon and we are driving through a great landscape to the touristic Luxemburg place of Vianden. We decided to stay over night this year, so we checked in at the great Hotel Belle Vue and...
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ECC Team building in Antwerp
Each year the ECC team members go on a 2-day surprise trip organized by one of the members. This year Herman, and his lovely wife Marijke, did organize the trip. For once we did know the destination:...
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4th International Cartoon Competition Berlin 2013
“Border” was the theme of this year’s online contest that was organized and conducted by the gallery KURTUKUNST in cooperation with the LIMES Image Agency. Valeriu Kurtu, Rais Khalilov, Paul Gross and...
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15th Portocartoon festival
After two weeks of holidays in Portugal we collected our collegues from the European Cartoon Center at the airport of Porto. At the same time O-Sekoer and Angel Boligan, with his nice son David,...
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Cartoonfestival Knokke-Heist
With its 52nd edition the Cartoonfestival of Knokke-Heist is one of the oldest festivals in the world. So of course it is a yearly tradition to attend the opening ceremony. In the cartoon competition...
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32nd Salon International de la caricature du dessin de presse et d’humour te...
A delegation of the ECC did take part at the 32nd edition of the International Cartoon Festival of Saint-Just-Le-Martel in France. At the festival the exhibition ‘les Belges ont de l’humour’ (cartoons...
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Meeting of Belgian Press Cartoonists in Wavre
The tourist office ‘Maison du Tourisme des Ardennes Brabonconne’ is very engaged in cartooning. Since years they are organizing cartoon exhibitions and every year there is a meeting with press...
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Cartoonfestival Olen: clean surface water and ‘the right for a bed and some...
Yesterday was the opening and prize giving ceremony of the cartoon contest of Olen in Belgium. A delegation of the ECC was there to be part of this festive edition: 25 years all ready since some...
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