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Here's a short
biography and a list of professional work that I did in my life thus far.
For comments,
requests, submissions, commissions, suggestions, questions etc... please
mail me here ^-^
General
nickname: Shotaro
name: Aimée de Jongh
born: Waalwijk, Netherlands
location: Waalwijk, Netherlands
age: 17 (10-1988)
photo: aimée3 ... aimée4
... aimée5
All time favorites! ~-^
-fav. manga: Akira
-fav. anime: Serial Experiments Lain
-fav. manga-ka: Katsuhiro Otomo, Yoshitoshi ABe, Tsutomu Nihei
-fav. book: Symposium (Plato)
-fav. movie: the Animatrix
-fav. food: Italian
-fav. bands: Sigur Rós, Múm, Under Byen, Radiohead, Godspeed you! Black
emperor, Oceansize, FFAF, Interpol, Nitrada, Mogwai, Giardini di Míro,
Death Cab for a Cutie, the Jim Yoshii Pile-up.
-fav. quote: "And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but conversely, visible because it is
seen"
(Socrates in Euthyphro)
Pro work
2002 and earlier
-Published a short comic in the magazines Robbedoes
(Spirou) and Suske &
Wiske, because I won a Dutch/Belgian comic contest. (I was 11 years
at the time and I felt really proud!)
-Made several drawings for the Dutch KPC
magazine.
2003
-In July I made a comic of 3 pages in the Dutch Aniway
magazine #14, about the character Tetsuo from the manga/anime
Akira.
You can click here
to see a picture of the issue, and click here
to order it.
-Won the 2nd price in the Dutch Kunstbende
art-contest for the region Noord-Brabant with drawing Bored.
-Did the mascotte for the Dutch manga-forum Mangadvd
2004
-In December I did the cover
illustration for the Dutch Aniway magazine
#19 about the Haibane Renmei anime series.
You can click here
to see a picture of the issue, and click here
to order it.
-Won the 1st price in the Dutch Kunstbende
art-contest for the region Noord-Brabant with a series of three
panitings.
-Published my first comic at the website Stripster:
www.stripster.nl
2005
-I did several drawings for the Buddhist magazine Buddhi in
Norway
-I published my first booklet with Cheesecake,
called Okashi! I did the cover and 4 short comics about the
series CardCaptor Sakura. If you want to order it, keep checking the
site: we will launch an order-system as
soon as we can.
-I published a 14-page long comic in the book Fanthology.
Originally this was a contest for amateur manga-artists, where I won the
3rd price with the comic Second Sight. Because I won a prize, my
comic got published.
You can still order the book with the comics of all the winners here.
-The Dutch Aniway magazine
interviewed the winners of the Fanthology
contest in vol #1, and they asked me some questions too. You can order
the magazine here,
or read the whole interview on their website here
(at the bottom of the page).
-Published 2 books at Senoeni
Comics Productions, both in a new chibi-like style. One contains
4 panel comics, the other a story of 11 pages in color. For previews,
visit my own page on the site here.
You can still order them here
at the bottom of the page.
-Published a 22-pages long comic called Stillborn in the new Cheesecake
book called 'Apple volume 1', which contains several shonen/boy
manga's. The story will be continued in Apple volume 2, which
will be published in 2006.
-I made a poster for the school's art-contest PanPodium,
about Passion.
-I made a drawing for the website of the Dutch festival Atlantis
Festival, on the right side of the website.
-I did a drawing for a new tutor-magazine by ThiemeMeulenhoff/Fontys.
-I did the cover and mascotte for a new Belgian manga magazine, which
will launch soon.
-I took part in the KermisComics
event in Tilburg, where several webcomic artists made comics about the
Netherlands' greatest fair located in Tilburg.
2006
- Started making the comic
Club Langstraat for the newspaper Brabants Dagblad
- Competing in a contest called Stripstrijd for newspaper Het
Parool and becoming 1 of the 12 finalists (contest still ongoing)
Propspects
-Cheesecake's
Okashi volume 2
-Cheesecake's Apple volume 2
-long comic for Uitgeverij Beedee
-other new secret projects! keep
checking the website for this stuff!
Companies/Circles/Groups
I'm in
-Cheesecake!
-Clickburg
-Senoeni Comics
Productions
-Stripster
-PanPodium
Interviews about my artwork
-interview
for winning a Dutch/Belgian comic artist for kids
(anno 2000: interviewd by the newspaper Brabants
Dagblad, in Dutch)
The interview is copyrighted by Brabants Dagblad 2000.
-interview in the Aniway magazine
(anno 2005) for winning the 3rd price in international art contest
Fanthology. You can download the whole interview (with all the winners)
here in *.pdf (at the bottom of the page), or order the issue of the
magazine here.
The interview is copyrighted by Aniway 2005.
- interview
by Brabants Dagblad for the new comic I'm making for the newspaper.
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