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the site of Aimée de Jongh. I make drawings, comics and other - and
it's all exposed on this website.
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28-10-06
- Birthday and first official publication!
October 20th was my birthday, I'm now officialy 18 years old.. sounds
old, doens't it? But I've got some great other news too: This weekend my
bookpresentation will be held in Enschede, the Netherlands. Reason: my
first, new book "Aimée TV" is out from Uitgeverij
BeeDee. The story is very simple: I find a job at a manga-TV channel
and try to teach the beginners of manga all the fine details about this
culture and comicstyle. The comicbook consists of gags, illustrations
and a handy register with manga-terms. Be sure to buy it: from next week
in every Dutch and Belgian bookstore or comicstore.
Here's the cover, click
for a large preview!
I will sign the book this
Saturday at Enschede, the Abunai manga
convention.
06-10-06
- 24 Hour Comics Day
Aimee is competing with this years "24
Hour Comics Day". Worldwide comic artists and cartoonists draw
24 pages in 24 hours. No breaks, no sleep, but plenty of coffee. I will
upload a new comic every hour on Saturday and Sunday at
my special 24 Hour Comic website! And if you're in Amsterdam: the
draw and scan location that the Dutch artists are using is Lambiek,
Kerkstraat 132.
10-09-06
- Aimee wins prize
For competing in the Stripstrijd competition and making the weekly comic
in the newspaper "Brabants Dagblad", Aimée has earned the so
called "Young Person of the Year" award. The award is handed
out every year to a person (younger than 18) who has done something
special inside the city Waalwijk. This year, a few weeks before my 18th
birthday, I won the prize. Woohoo!
06-05-06
- The battle has ended... no more Stripstrijd for me
The results are in, and altough I had more votes than my opponent
Michiel van de Pol, I lost the competition Stripstrijd.
The guys over at Parool liked his comic more because of several things.
If you want to know the details about it, OR want to read all the comics,
just go here.
Thanks for all your votes! Because of those, the contest remained
exciting till the last minute. I'll continue with other projects now, so
no worries here.
Oh, and keep an eye on the news section, just in case something exciting
might happen in the near future.... ;) har har har
20-04-06
- THE BATTLE
HAS BEGUN! A note to all you readers...
From Saturday 22nd of April till Friday 5th of May
I'll be in a contest called Stripstrijd with my comic "Osmond
en Ik". It's a competition where new Dutch talents battle
to win a daily comic in the Parool newspaper. On their website www.stripstrijd.nl
I will publish the comic daily during these two weeks. It's a brand new
comic that I've been working on the last few months! So be sure to read
it anyway.
Now all I
need is your VOTES to get me to the semi-finales. Click the link www.stripstrijd.nl,
choose "Osmond en Ik" and click the red pencil. Done!
For the people that have already vote for me: thanks!
N.B. If
you want to help me find even more votes, please put this banner on your
website and link it to www.stripstrijd.nl!
Thanks a
million, it's highly appreciated.
- Aimée
13-03-06
NEWSFLASH! Interview
and E-mail news
The newspaper Brabants Dagblad has published a short interview
about the comic I'm making for them. You can find the interview here.
Last week I've also been on the radio Maasstad Radio to talk
about the comic.
My mail and this website have been acting WEIRD lately. If you tried to
e-mail me for the last couple of weeks, you may have got your mail back
with the message my inbox was full.
MY NEW EMAILADDRESS will therefore be iamshotaro
[at] gmail.com !!! Please update your addressbooks
and bookmarks!
03-03-06
Updated the comic section
I finally updated the comic section with thumbnails, previews and info
about past comics, current comics and future comics. The online comics
as well as the published comics are now clearly exposed here.
Also added a little message at the top of this page...
07-01-2006
2 new black and white drawings
It's been a while since I've uploaded the black and white section,
because I've been busy with comic-stuff for some projects. Yesterday I
finally found some time to -draw- again like I used to. I hope I'll be
able to draw some more b/w drawings this week. For now, check out my Gorilla
and Stone Faces.
31-12-2005:
Happy Newyear... 2 new drawings
Check out Wondering and Kanni
in the artwork section.
15-12-2005:
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a happy 2006!
Here's a little Christmas-card for
everyone!
17-12-2005:
Comic con Turnhout + new drawing
Today, Saturday 17th December, I'll be signing my two books at the comic
event in Turnhout, Belgium. You'll find me behind the Senoeni
stand!
Also today, I uploaded my first
portrait ever. It's from the lead singer of the Italian band Giardini
Di Miró, one of my favorite bands.
05-10-2005:
Another NEWSFLASH! Review
in Aniway magazine
In this month's Aniway magazine (#2), Léon van Hooydonk wrote a short
review of my published comic Ai-chan TV. In the same section, the Apple
book from Cheesecake! Studio is reviewed, and my contribution, the comic
Stillborn, is praised in it. And that's not all, because I made a
4-panel comic in color for the issue. So.... don't miss it! It's in
Dutch bookstores everywhere now, and you can always order it at their
website www.aniway.nl
For me, well, it always feels so nice to help the mangaculture grow in
the Netherlands.
comic, Stillborn review and Ai-chan TV review... buy buy buy!
25-10-2005: NEWSFLASH!
Interview in Trouw newspaper
Today the newspaper Trouw published an article about the Stripdagen,
a big comic convention I attended this weekend. I was one of the artists
that's in the article, together with mr. Jan Kruis himself! Aah! Check
the article out here.
22-10-2005:
NEWSFLASH! Interview in Brabants Dagblad
newspaper
Wednesday October 19th the newspaper Brabants Dagblad published an
interview with me about my artwork. The (Dutch) interview can be read in
the Tilburg edition and the Langstraat edition (region part of the
newspaper). Here's the interview
in jpg! Enjoy!
18-10-2005:
NEWSFLASH! Interview on Balzak.net
On the website Balzak.net, an online e-zine, an interview about my
artwork has been published, taken by artist Erwin
Vanmol. You can read it all here.
Great e-zine with a lot of talented Dutch cartoonists! You can sign up
for it on the site, free of course!
11-10-2005:
Centaurs in Autumn
Added a new picture to the artwork-section called Centaurs
in Autumn, and to get into the autumn mood I changed the picture
next to the menu for this one also.
07-10-2005:
NEWSFLASH!
review on 8WEEKLY
The website 8WEEKLY has published an online review of Senoeni,
Margreet
de Heer and my new books "Ai-chan TV" and "Naar
Tokyo". I really enjoyed reading it, it's great to know so many
people like my work! :)
Check out the review here: http://8weekly.nl/index.php?art=2896
05-09-2005:
NEWSFLASH! buy
my comics online!
My two comic books "Ai-chan TV" and "Naar Tokyo"
are now online for sale on the website
Senoeni Comics Productions (at the bottom). Read more
about it on
the Senoeni site.
Here's a short description of each book:
"Ai-chan TV" is about me, hosting a TV-program about
manga. The whole book consists of short 4 panel comics and is 44 pages
long! The book is printed black and white and the price is € 5,00.
"Naar Tokyo" is a 11 pages long story anno 2004. Me and
my friend Caspar are going to Tokyo to visit my idol Tetsuo Shima (from
the anime/manga Akira) on the day he's born. It turns out a lot
different than expected.. the book is printed in full-color! The price
is € 5,00.
05-09-2005:
presenting my first comicbook in Rijswijk, NL
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th of september I will be presenting my
and first(!) comicbook "Ai-chan TV", at the comic-convention
in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. The book contains short comics
of 4 panels each, with me being the host of a manga television program.
The book is published by Senoeni
Comics. You can find me at the Senoeni stand or the Clickburg
stand. See you there! Oh, and here's a preview from the comic!
01-09-2005:
Land of the Dead movie
This new movie from
George A. Romero is out now in Holland. It's about zombies taking over
the world. As you can see, it has nothing to do with my project Land
of the Dead... a project that I still have to finish one of these
days. Pure coincidence, but still I wanted to mention it :)
01-09-2005:
NEWSFLASH! Published interview
and: daily turns into weekly
This month the Dutch Aniway
magazine published an article with interviews of the winning artists of
the Fanthology contest. I've won
the 3rd price, and at the bottom of the second page in the magazine is a
part of my interview. Go buy it! In Dutch bookstores now! Their website
has the FULL article for free download, which contains a way bigger part
of my interview. You can download it now at their site Aniway.nl,
in 'Downloads'. Both the interviews are in Dutch.
The daily webcomic I
started has turned into a weekly one, because I couldn't handle it.
Maybe in a few years.. but for now I don't want to stress in such a hard
year of school.
17-08-2005:
New Dutch daily webcomic online
After a nice holiday in Italy I've decided to start a daily webcomic.
It's in Dutch, because it's easier for me to think of comics that way.
I'm going to upload a new daily comic everyday (except for the
weekends), about all the things that have happened that day. Check it
out!! the link is http://www.iamshotaro.com/daily.htm
14-06-2005:
June stuff
I've been to another comic convention in the Netherlands recently,
where I've made an agreement with www.senoeni.net
to publish a new comic in september. Cheesecake! studio will also
release their new books that month, so I'm really looking forward to it.
No new artwork yet, I'm busy working on the comics for Senoeni and
Cheesecake, and I'm finishing the 4th form this week.. so don't expect
anything the next two weeks... sorry ^^U
16-05-2005:
May
It's been a while. Headlines: I've been hanging around the
Webcomic-convention in Tilburg and the Animeconvention in Almelo (both
in Holland) for signing my stuff and make some random drawings...as
you can see on my new photo aimee5.jpg
^^U
Other big news is that I've won the third prize in the Fanthology
contest ^^ And our first print of Cheesecake! totally sold
out at the convention. Right now, I'm working on my new comic
'Stillborn', for the next books of our Cheesecake-circle. It's gonna be
over 40 pages, and I only have a few weeks... So my apologies for not
updating regularly, I'm just very busy! ^^U
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