JANGOJIM IN BERLIN

I'm in BERLIN from 27 Oct - 1 Nov ! Come see my works at The Browse Cartoon, Caricature and Comic Festival. Together with famous animators Paul Driessen ( Academy Award Nominated & worked on "Yellow Submarine" ), Raimund Krumme and Kris van Alphen ( Asterix, All Dogs go to Heaven, Lars the little Polar Bear ) Opening night 29 Oct. from 3 PM. Address update : Bergmanstrasse 5-7 between Kaiser's & Netto, Kreuzberg.

Jango Comix #43 - Rats

Fresh jango comix for an upcoming comic book.
Featured on the Vice Magazine Blog.

JANGOJIM SEPTEMBER SHOW PART II

New work for my September 2011 show JANGOJIM VS NATASJA BAANS @ Bries Space in Antwerp, Belgium.

BEELDDENKEN - A WORKBOOKIE

Beelddenken is a playful workbook I made for high school students who visit the temporary exhibition by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp at the brand new MAS museum in Antwerp. The cover is an adaptation of Koen Van den Broek's version of the Madonna by Jean Fouquet.

JANGOJIM SEPTEMBER SHOW PART I

New work for my September 2011 show JANGOJIM VS NATASJA BAANS @ Bries Space in Antwerp, Belgium.

CONVERSE WALL TO WALL PROJECT

* picture by Laurie Mottie
I was privileged to do the first mural for Converse's Wall to Wall project. Around the globe they have local artists do murals around the new star chevron logo. It was an adventurous task to paint the whole thing ( 20m wide at 7m height ) in 2 days on a shaky scaffolding while a storm was going on. But thanks to the awesome people of Converse, Street Art Belgium and assistants El Topo and Laurie Mottie I succeeded. check out the vid above and interview + pictures.

DUO SHOW IN SEPTEMBER

16th - 18th of September is the opening weekend of my duo show with Natasja Baans at Bries Space in Antwerp, Belgium. Our work is very different, but at the same time we share that naive nature and love for flashy colours. Both influenced by pop culture and our daily life we present you a lot of different artworks. painted, drawn, printed, big, small. come check it out ! More info on the flyer !

CONVERSE BLOCK PARTY MURAL TIME LAPSE

The great Kris van den Bulck, who recently made a little film about me now captured my color-by-numbers-mural performance for Converse Block Party in Antwerp. It was a fantastic day with fantastic people and I thank everyone who came by to paint my painting.


*check out the vid below !

THE LIBRARY PROJECT - POSTCARDS

Earlier this year I made 9 illustrations for The Library Project. I interviewed 9 young people and visualized what their ideal library would look like. Now Ladda VZW and the Waasland Libraries made these into a sweet postcard series ! e-mail me if you'd like a stack.

JANGOJIM - A DOCUMENTARY

Film school student, Kris Van den Bulck, asked me a few months ago to do his final school project about me and my passion for drawing. At first I was a bit hesitant. Aren't you supposed to be dead or very famous, crazy, very experienced,...before someone makes a documentary about you ? The idea felt weird, but I decided to help him create his final project as I thought it could be fun too. And I was happily surprised by the result. Thanks, Kris !

HOTEL JARRETELLE SKETCH

I was part of the live sketching crew at Hotel Jarretelle, Ghent's Burlesque festival.
It was awesome ! 1930's style, sexy pin-ups, feathers, exotica, fire & striptease. Difficult drawing when you can barely see anything & when the stuff happening on stage is more interesting than what's on your paper :).

ZeemeerZine

Little zine Maarten De Saeger and I created at Bar BIBI in Antwerp where I host a drawing night, every Monday. It's about seamen ( hehe ) and mermaids.

WOODPEOPLE - HOT DOG POM POM

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show.

Little ode to the acrobatic and entertaining basketball Harlem Globetrotters team ( I think their theme song fits best here) and the cheerleader scene in American Beauty. Great film.

PLANET X

Playing around with markers..
on Planet X.

WOODPEOPLE - HOLEYWOOD DIRECTOR

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show.

Little ode to the great Spielberg, the obvious emptiness of Hollywood and still awesome Jurassic Park. I bet Steven only drinks lemonade while playing with action figures in his office.

JANGODOODLES 2011 - pt 1

I've been doing a lot of doodling with markers again lately. aww yeahhh

EARTHBARF - LIMITED RISOGRAFIA PRINT

I'm proud to be part of the Topo Copy Expo - Risografia project, organised by El Topo and Sam Scarpulla, that opened the DOK area in Gent. A fantastic party place in the docklands where all kinds of artists go wild in empty factory buildings and even a newly built arena.

They asked a bunch of talented people ( amongst them Ephameron, Jan Van Der Veken, Zosen, Thierry Jaspart, Mark Goss, .. ) to make a 2 color-print and this is my addition to the series. It's for sale and limited to a series of 100 signed prints.

WOODPEOPLE - ROCKABILLY BUBBLE BOY

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show.

Together with my previous rockabilly waitress this grease boy here is a little ode to the Rockabilly/Rock 'n Roll era and greasy haircuts of Elvis and Johnny Cash. I think this song by Ruckus Tyler fits him perfectly.

WOODPEOPLE - ROCKABILLY SHAKE GIRL

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show.

Little ode to the Rockabilly/Rock 'n Roll era-waitress. Very inspiring times with movies like American Graffiti or music like this one here from Charlie Feathers, nicely used in Kill Bill.

The Wall

Professional photographer Vincent Callot and his girlfriend put some of my prints up in their house and shared this picture as proof :). Looks sweet !

additionally this post is called "The Wall", because I went to see Pink Floyd's The Wall last week and it was awesome !

MASTERCLASS at the MAS

In July I'll be giving a creative workshop in the new MAS museum of Antwerp, about the collection of masterpieces of the KMSKA ( 500 years of art in Antwerp ). You can subscribe here

WOODPEOPLE - FLOWERGIRL

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show.

Little ode to the sexy Poison Ivy and the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors.

BIRDFEST for VICE MAGAZINE

Quickie illustration for VICE MAGAZINE FESTIVAL ISSUE 2011.

CHALK DRAWING MADNESS & JONGBLOED

CHALK CHALK CHALK tonight ! Live drawing in front of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp together with great artists like Anneke Caramin, Ward Zwart, Gitte Le Bruyn, Eva Mundorff, Astrid Yskout and possibly English guest illustrators Gemma Correll and Anthony Zinonos.


JONGBLOED / warning: in Dutch /

sta me toe hier ook de creatieve jongerengroep te promoten van het KMSK. Ze zoeken nog volop nieuwe enthousiaste leden tussen 16 en 24 die mee crazy projecten willen realiseren in het geweldige gebouw tussen Rubens en Ensor. Spring er zeker eens binnen en check voor meer info

http://facebook.com/KMSKA.jongbloed

JANGO COMIX #42 - STAR WARS

as featured on DRAWN !

WOODPEOPLE - PRISONMAN

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show.

Instead of killing people this guy here is mostly killing time.
Little ode to the Coen Brothers' Oh Brother Where Art Thou and The Big Lebowski for the prison and bowling themes.

WOODPEOPLE - BOXMAN

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show. Here's a little ode to the early boxing era, when boxers still had cool mustaches.

WOODPEOPLE - SPIELMAN

This is part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for an upcoming solo show. This fella's name refers to the glockenspiel instrument below, but also to the main character in the fantastic Polanski movie, The Pianist. The brassband costume is on its turn a little ode to The Beatles.

WOODPEOPLE - OILMAN

There will be a little bit of blood..

Ode to a fantastic film, There Will Be Blood, and part of a new series: "WOODPEOPLE", for a new upcoming show of mine, based on a Playmobil toy and my Lumberjack illustration earlier.

PICTURESQUE WEBSITE

I designed the website of some good friends of mine
( 2 professional photographers and 1 director ) for their new production company, Picturesque. It had to be fun and colourful, so I provided a world starting from space to jungle, New York-like city, Alaska, Scotland and Hawaii-like place with the three of them returning on each page. crazy and playful.
website to be visited here: www.picturesque.be

ILLUSTRATION TIME - CITY LIFE

I was contacted again by the nice people of youth culture expert organisation Ladda, to make a quick series of illustrations to accompany their research study about why young families choose or choose not to live in a city. It might not all make much sense without the text material, but you can look at the drawingz.

ZUIDERPERSHUIS ILLUS - STERKE MARCEL

I was asked to do a series of illustrations for Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp. Based on the recent technical drawing I made for them, they chose to focus on one of the characters, a muscled dockworker "Strong Marcel", to add in texts or explanatory sheets.

SILKSCREEN T-SHIRTS - ANTWERPE!

after a workshop silkscreen printing on t-shirts I made a few of these. It's a reference to the main folk tale and the severed hand of an evil giant of my city, Antwerp.

JANGO COMIX #41 - MONSTER ATTACK

Wow it's been a while since I updated this bloggie here. Been so busy on so many projects I didn't find the time. Exciting stuff coming up. In the meantime, fast comic I made for a magazine, old comic book print style.

ZUIDERPERSHUIS

I did this drawing for the nice people at the Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp. Featured on their website here. It's my pimped version of a technical drawing of the old hydraulic system.
The building used to be an energy plant, but is nowadays a cultural center.

The original image was a complicated black and white technical drawing and the quest was to do an update, to make it more fun for kids to learn about the workings of the machine.

Black Staedtler pen 0.3, A4 paper size, colours in photoshop

THE LIBRARY PROJECT

Happy New year, y'all !
I did 9 interviews for local libraries and VZW LADDA with young people about their ideal library and visualized them. I sweated my ass off, but I'm happy with the results. All pieces A3-size, Faber Castell B-Pen, colours in photoshop. Have a look on my flickr-page to see them seperately and mail me if you'd like original prints.

MAP OF ANTWERP

The map of my city Antwerp I made for the nice people at Use-It. Free download on their website.

JANGOJIM SOLO SHOW (featured)

Nice article about my work and my first solo show last month on CREAFIX. A new creative blog full of inspiration. Picture by Creafix.
All prints are available.

SINKPROOF

English version on
my deviantart-page. Original prints are available.

CODASYNC TIME LAPSE PAINT JOB

This is me painting the logo in a ghost town for the CD/LP cover of awesome rock band CODASYNC, which is being released this very weekend in Antwerp, Belgium. My girlfriend took a picture of this setting including the logo, which ended up as the cd cover. Our first collab. It was swell. The video was shot and edited by Ken Wastyn.

FEATURED (San Francisco)

I'm featured in the cool doodle drawing collection booklet, Group Poop, by Alex Chiu from San Francisco together with groovy guys like Luke Ramsey and Maxwell Paternoster. Even cooler is the small review about the booklet in Robot Magazine, a pop culture mag.

FEATURED (Berlin)

The very nice Marky Nimrod from Berlin has devoted a really nice post to my work on his blog and how he stumbled upon me. What a great guy ! I added some extra info about 3 of my favourite works.
Read it here and check out his blog too ! He's evolving fast with his fun underground-alternative-like style.

MAP OF MECHELEN

The map of the city Mechelen I made for the nice people at Use-It.

GIRAFFE BOOKINGS LOGO

This is the main logo I designed for Giraffe Bookings/Records, a Belgian booking agency with mostly funk, soul and brass bands.

FEATURED (Antwerp)

I'm featured on the blog of the nice ladies from Zezaflor with my train model and Antwerp postcards. Check it out!

POSTCARD TRAIN MODEL

To promote the postcards I did for the nice people at Use-it (see 2 posts below), I pimped their office in Brussels with a working train model including a model of the Atomium monument made from potatoes. Man, that was fun :)

THE WOODHOUSE COLLECTION #3

Third collection of original handdrawn pages, inspired by my recent trip to Stockholm. These are for sale. Mail me if interested.

Nr 1, 8, 9 are not available anymore

POSTCARDS GALORE

Series of postcards for the nice people at Use-It to promote my city, Antwerp, in Brussels. Young tourists get these cards for free at the Use-It Office together with some stamps and a train ticket.

I took some known buildings of Antwerp and changed them into a themepark attraction. Boy, will those tourists be disappointed when they find out there's no museum rollercoaster, haha.