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Animate Europe Announcements & Exhibit in Brussels!
Posted: December 1, 2013
I am heading off again to Brussels and the stunning Art Nouveau building by Victor Horta which houses The Belgian Comic Strip Centre next Tuesday December 3rd to take part in the announcement of the winner of the Animate Europe comics competition organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in collaboration with Dr Lydia Thorn Wickert of Thorn Concept.
I was one of the jury of leading comics creators and experts tasked with selecting the finalists to complete their proposed stories on a European theme and choosing one overall winner. The standard was very high and the viewpoints on Europe diverse and diverting, which made the judging process by Willem De Graeve, Thorsten Ernst, Lilli Gärtner, Andreas C. Knigge, Marzena Sowa, Linda Torfs and myself all the more challenging.
Twenty-one artists from fifteen countries sent in their proposals, seven finalists were picked to finish their graphic short story: Gerardo Cornejo Lucaveche (Belgium), Luke Ellison (USA), André Slob (Netherlands), Emily Victoria Solichin (Indonesia), Marco Tabilio (Italy), James Turek (USA), Kilian & Lukas Wilde (Germany). I hope some of you can join me on Tuesday night to celebrate the varied and outstanding work that was shortlisted and to discover who is the final champion!
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