LITERARY TATTOO TIME

During the celebration of 10 years Creative Writing I painted literary tattoos live on people at the Magic Mirror Palace near the docklands of Antwerp, together with Bert Lezy. Great fun in a beautiful setting.

JANGO COMIX #56 - STREET FIGHTER

Fresh Jango Comix for GLITCH, a new Belgian digital game magazine.

Also for an upcoming Jango Comix collection book.

You can follow my comics on Facebook too if you're into that kind of thing.

ANTWERP GROUP SHOW

Made three original painted works about "Summer in Antwerp" for the big group show tonight, thursday 20 June at Galerie van Blerk, Mechelsesteenweg 28, Antwerpen. 

Curated by poet, writer and performance artist Vitalski.

Originals only, all art between 5 and 40 euro ! Don't misssss !! With other names like Serge Baeken, Bert Lezy, Gianmaria Caschetto, Stijn Vranken,..

MORE AND BETTER PICTURES SOON

HOME SWEET HOME ( ILLUSTRATION )

illustration I made some time ago for the zine "Home Sweet Home", by Stefhany Yepes Lozano.

AMSTERDAM GROUP SHOW

I'm part of a group show called "On Paper" at Walls gallery in Amsterdam. It's my first show in the Netherlands. Ten artists show their recent works from June 2 till July 3 2013. The weather on the opening was nice, I painted on the wall, it was a big success and I met some new great people + an epic dog: Betty the pug.

In the show there's cool people like Luke Ramsey, Sarah van Belle, Daan Botlek, Erosie, Martine Johanna, Ready2Rumbl, Danny van Ryswyk, Bob Waardenburg, P. Winkel.

More info on the Facebook page.

CHARLESVILLE ( ILLUSTRATION )

Drawing I made for a friend who tried to get the Charlesville, the last remaining "Congo boat", from Germany back to Antwerp before being demolished. Despite the cruel Belgian-Congo history, this was still a nice piece of maritime history that could've been turned into something positive. While being towed away to the junkyard in Latvia it sunk.

JANGO COMIX #55 - FLOWERS

Fresh Jango Comix for an upcoming Jango Comix book. 

You can follow them on Facebook too if you're into that.

CONSTIPATED COBRA - LOS ANGELES SHOW - ACTIVITY BOOK ILLUSTRATION

I made a black and white piece for an activity book at the Hive Gallery's Line Attack #2 Group show in Los Angeles.

ADVENTURE GAMES ( ILLUSTRATION )

I made an adventure games tribute, with special love for the closed Lucasarts studio and a few of my favorite games ( Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, the Monkey Island series ), for the indie game event "Free to Play" at Design Center De Winkelhaak in Antwerp. The event goes on till July and has an art tribute exhibition, custom made arcade games, documentaries, movies, workshops, etc. Don't miss, it's superfun !

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY ( FLYER )

Saturday 4th of May is Free Comic Book Day. I made a flyer for my favorite and iconic comic book store MEKANIK STRIP in Antwerp that also celebrates its 30th anniversary. The flyer shows all the fun stuff that's gonna happen and one of those things will be friends of mine and I painting or drawing on literally everything that you bring to the store ! So if you're in Antwerp, come by ! Last time I did this a few years ago we drew on a fridge.

BROSEIDON ( RISO BLUE/GREEN )

I made a third risograph print for the Topo Copy people from Gent for the opening group exhibition RISOGRAFIA #2 at DOK. An amazing place in the docklands of Gent for concerts, art events, lectures, workshops, parties,..

other artists : Liesbeth Feys, JesseRobot, Jos Verwer, Ephameron, Ward Zwart, Eva Mundorff, Sarah Yu zeebroek, PiracyLeague, Jan Van der Veeken, Mayken Craenen, Liesbeth De Stercke, El Neoray, Charlotte Dumortier (Pixelpanda), Stanislas Lahaut, Byram, Eva Mouton, Hank Quinlan, Mazu Prozak , Simon Laureyns, Emmeline Geiregat, Topo, Jens Wijnendaele, Pointdextr, Bue & Resto. 

Limited to only 50 signed copies. Mail jangojim@gmail.com if interested.

TUSSEN MEIR & MEKKA ( ILLUSTRATIONS + ANIMATION )

I made a truckload of editorial illustrations and animated promo for local newspaper Gazet Van Antwerpen's special about the struggles of young muslims in Antwerp "Tussen Meir & Mekka" ("Between the main shopping street of Antwerp and Mecca"). Here's the animation and below a selected compilation.

Tussen Meir en Mekka from Gazet van Antwerpen on Vimeo.

PRIKFORT NAPOLEON ( INSTALLATION )

The enthusiast folks of Ladda from Ghent asked me again to contribute in a cool group show at Fort Napoleon (an actual remaining fort of Napoleon) at the seaside of Belgium. 7 artists had to make a large pin board installation with doodles, sketches, ideas, inspiration, etc to visualize who they are. In times of digital pin boards like Pinterest or Facebook this is a nice reminder how fun a real pin board can be.

Other contributors: Adriaan Verwée, Byram (Bxll), Ben Benaouisse, Cox & Grusenmeyer, Inne Eysermans (Amatorski) and Topo.

/ MY INSTALLATION / - pictures by Jonas Nachtergaele

/ DEGURUTIENI CONCERT /

I got to know the fantastic dark freaky Japanese underground band Degurutieni from 
Osaka, that opened the exhibition and did some live sketching.

BLACK COFFEE ( VINYL COVER + ZINE )

Artwork I made for the cool AFTER SIX FESTIVAL in Antwerp last weekend. 12 bands teamed up with 12 illustrators. I teamed up with Polish garage rock/punk band Black Coffee from Warsaw. 

Bands were Slowcoaches, The Phantoms, Savanna, The Stubs, Dead Neanderthals, Little Boy, Moaning Cities, Black Coffee, Téme Tan, Vwhile and Charles Howl.

The others visual artists were cool kids Angela Ferreira ( Kruella d'Enfer ), Pedro Campiche ( akacorleone ), David Penela, Nick Alston, Dzia, Benjamin Sea, ATH1281, Essay Dee, Marie Err, Ricardo Cavolo and Stefan Unkovic.

Met so many fantastic people from Poland, Serbia, Greece, Portugal and England. It was the best !


/ SCREENPRINTED VINYL COVER /

/ Me drawing in front of Akacorleone's painting -  picture by David Penela /

/ SCREENPRINTED ZINE /

AFTER SIX FESTIVAL ( TOTE BAG DESIGN )

I'm part of the really cool AFTER SIX FESTIVAL this weekend in the south of Antwerp @ Scheld'apen. 12 Bands and 12 illustrators from all over the globe joined forces. The bands will perform saturday and sunday, while artwork specifically made for the festival will be available in the form of prints, vinyl records and tote bags. You can also purchase it as an "art pack". There's also an exhibition with large paintings. If you are in Antwerp or around, don't miss this !

www.aftersixfest.com

Here's my tote bag design for the festival !

MAGIC BOOK OF NIGHTMARES

I made a spread image for the MAGIC BOOK OF NIGHTMARES by BELLY KIDS over in London. Had so much fun with this one. Now you know that I fear nazi spiders and farting ducks.