Her beautiful illustrations stand out because of the particularly stylish artistic view, full of mystery and wonderful chromatics! Check them out on Queenio’s Toonpool gallery!

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01. Which fictional character are you?
The girl who chased a rabbit in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, I even can’t take my eyes off the rabbits and I get lost easily.
 
02. What’s in your refrigerator right now?
I have Green tea Chocolate, Coconut Chocolate and Black Chocolate. I bought them from   Malaysia.
 
03. What bothers you the most?
In the summer: I hate the mosquitoes. Hummm, and I always lose something when I need it and I waste a lot of time to find it….. and……
 
04. Do you like your place or would you like to live somewhere else?
I lived in New Zealand for 1.5 years. Now I am on the way to go back China. I like both New Zealand and China, but I will keep moving until I find out where is the best place for me that I would like to settle down in.
 
05. What are you able to do that Superman can’t do?
Well, all the things only for female I guess.
 
06. If you were sleep walking one night, where would you probably wake up the next day?
Swimming pool or airport.
 
07. What would you wear to be kicked out from a black tie cocktail party
Swim suit
 
08. Tell me the biggest prank you did on a friend.
My cousins and I made some weird dumplings for the Chinese New Year party filled with salt, pepper, strawberry leafs, sugar… … and mixed them with normal dumplings on the plate….
 
09. How to ruin your vacation?
You can ruin it by closing my bank account.
 
10. If I gave you a giraffe, where would you hide it?
I would paint it into pure white and leave it in the park as a moving-sculpture.
 

11. What do you do when you see the glass half empty!
It depends on what is in it.

Credits to Nicoleta Ionescu for
talking with Queenio

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The interview you find below the picture gallery.

01. Which movie/TV character you see yourself as and why?

Well, I never identified myself with those heroes-superheroes-antiheroes and their daring lives fraught with danger and emotions, too much stress…Who on earth lives like that in the real world?

Of course I would appreciate it if I slightly resembled the great Totoro or Ponyo or one of those Forest Spirits appearing in the movies by the great Miyazaki. I like that kind of character which is aloof from human morality, where nothing is good or bad in itself, where everything is small and big at the same time; they exist just like mother nature. They are little pagans who incarnate the rebirth of the savage „rewild“ and many other sentiments which the human being forgot about a long time ago, one last opportunity for humanity.

They are the primary harbingers of a new manner of understanding the relation between man and the planet, and with regard to this huge task, I like the idea that I have to put in my little grain of sand,too.

02. What are your New Year’s resolutions?

To keep on trying…which it not little. Trying not to lose ilusion and hope in this black future we’re bound to experience. Paraphrasing the great Robert Crumb: Keep on Trucking!

03. What bores you the most?

I’m bored with the discinlination to progress, the passivity of the society in view of the injustice and inequality. The arrogance and malice inherent to power make me despair.

And I’m terrified to live on a planet ruled by ignorance and the egoism of the Great System which is devouring us little by little without any prospect of us being able to or rather wanting to do something in order to avoid this process.

04. Do you like your place or would you like to live somewhere else?

You are in many respects a reflection or product of the place where you live, with all its defects and virtues. Like a huge tree, firmly fixed to the soil with its roots to nurture it. No one can know himself without knowing his soil, no one can love himself without loving his soil and no one can hate himself without hating his soil.

If I had been born somewhere else, I wouldn’t be me. Therefore I’ve learned to cherish and enjoy this place. The landscape, the silence, the sunsets, the flatness and the holm oaks are the great gifts of La Mancha which I wouldn’t change for anything in this world.

05. What are you able to do that Superman can’t do?

I can eat Kriptonyte, join an anti-system group, dine with my family on Sundays, crap on the flag of the United States, I suppose a  lot of things, huh?

06. If you were sleep walking one night, where would you probably wake up the next day?

I would probably not go very far, I remember that one time as a child I woke up totally disoriented under the living room table and I was quite frightened, I much rather travel dreaming, that’s safer.

07. What would you wear to be kicked out from a black tie cocktail party?

A white tie? I prefer to avoid parties where I’m not well received, a penguin party would probably be a good example.

08. Tell me the biggest prank you did on a friend.

The biggest prank I did on a friend was convincing him of precisely translating all of my cartoons and comics to English – I have a slight problem in the language department-, I hope the effort and inconveniences will someday come to fruition and compensate for the work.

09. How to ruin your vacation?

The vacation is irretrievably ruined the moment someone begins to work.

10. If I gave you a giraffe, where would you hide it?

It would definitely be far away from man, and quite possibly in company with many other giraffes.

11. What do you do when you see the glass half empty!

Finish it and serve me another one.

Credits to Nicoleta Ionescu for talking with Mortimer

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1. What was your dream last night?

I think I was being chased by a gang of gangster clowns. We exchanged some heavy pie shooting and… wait, no, that was before. Last night it was something about butterflies in the ice-cream. They were singing tarantellas to me… no, wait… break-dancing camels. I was in the desert when… hmmm… Sorry, I seldom remember my dreams… Think those I said were actual events…

2. Next plans or ideas?

There’s a plan going on for a book with all the cartoons I published in my first year of collaboration with Ponto Final, a newspaper from Macau, the place where I’m living since 2009. Maybe we can organize an exhibit for the launching of the book, probably by the end of this year.

3. Your food today?

For lunch I’ll probably invent something with rice, eggs… and whatever I have in the fridge (I love creative cooking). For dinner, I hope I can make the time to go to a restaurant called Nga Tim (the best in Coloane village) and have my favorite spicy clams cooked with black beans in Macanese style. Let’s see how that goes…

4. Do you like your place or would you like to live somewhere else?

Both. I like very much the life I have in Macau. But I’d also like to try some other places in the future. The thing is that working at home (God bless the Internet), in theory I may live wherever I want. I don’t know where I’m going next. Maybe, New Zealand…

5. What was the huge mistake in your life you (unfortunately) never did?

I didn’t join a football team when I was a kid. Or a political party when I was a teenager. Today I could be a very rich man…

6. Who are your neighbors?

They are mainly Chinese. Some are locals, some from Hong Kong, Guangzhou and other parts of China. But there are also some friendly people from Portugal, Australia, USA and others. I can’t name them all, cause my building is 47 floors high (I live in the 45th). Each floor has six flats. You do the math…

7. Tell me the shortest joke you know

Berlusconi. The guy is a joke. Not a very funny one, sometimes. But pretty short.

8. Tell me the biggest prank you did on a friend.

Once I told a friend that if he did ride his bicicle in circles around the city he could actualy be transported to another dimension after 50 laps (don’t ask me where I got that from). He believed. He was about to finish the last lap, when I called him and said that was a joke. He was furious cause he had to pedal back. That was fun.

9. How to ruin your vacation?

I don’t want to give you ideas, but… if I’m on the beach and you perform a “rain dance” you may actually ruin my vacation. But not that many people can do it. Please, Native Americans, stay away from the beaches I go to.

10. In 1977 NASA has sent orbiters Voyager 1 and 2 into space which will never stop to fly through the universe by gravity. They contain the Voyager Golden Records with many testimonials of whole mankind, greetings in 55 languages introduced by US president Jimmy Carter (“This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings….”). The Golden Records with a lifespan of 500 million years at least are including drawings of a naked man and woman, detaild genitalia, many scientific graphics, sounds of planet earth and music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart – and Chuck Berry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3haYAbqKjA

Maybe aliens out there will be shocked in some million years! But in case such a NASA mission will be replayed: which (1) of your artworks should join it ?
This one (and I hope they have a good sense of humor): http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/iPhone%204_87695

11. Please give us an answer to a question we didn’t ask!

My mom.

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The recent presidential election in Iran and its aftermath found huge international coverage and attention.
As you may know, there was a huge and unprecedented turn-out in balloting, which was a sign of the Iranian people’s will to reform the current situation of the country. But the aftermath of the election was so desperately annoying that no free soul can ever close his eyes on it.
The same is true for the cartoonists. They have always accompanied people in portraying pains and in offering criticisms, in denouncing violence and in promotion of justice; and they have always called for peace. The same is true for the time being. The cartoonists feel an obligation to stand by people who have faced such unkindness.
We the cartoonists have always tried to laugh people out of pain and pressure. But how can one witness killing of brothers and sisters and still remain silent?
In such a situation, the 9th Tehran cartoon Biennale is on the way. Due to the post-election events, the cultural joy has totally disappeared from Iranian society. So we don not see any real interest in holding such a Biennale. In the current situation, we see our responsibility in a different perspective which does not necessarily include laughing and making laugh.
Due to this fact, we the undersigned cartoonists, declare that we would not participate in this international festival. Previously, the festival has been held by cooperation and sympathy of professional Iranian cartoonists but this time, we would not cooperate or participate.

1- Arvin
2- Nahideh Asiabi
3- Mahdi Aghajani
4- Mojtaba Adibi
5- Majid Adibi
6- Ali Asadi
7- Leyla Afsari
8- Reza Amirriahi
9- Sepideh Anjomrooz
10- Roya Anooshe
11- Mehran Iranlou
12- Mohsen Izadi
13- Sadegh Bagheri
14- Hamed Bazrafkan
15- Rahim Baghal Asghari
16- Saied Behdad
17- Hamid Bahrami
18- Vajihe Pari Zangane
19- Payam Pourfallah
20- Naeem Tadayon
21- Yahya Tadayon
22- Abdolebad Taghavi
23- Mahdi Tamizi
24- Abdolhadi Sanaie
25- Saied Janghorban
26- Shahb Jafarnejad
27- Javad Jafarian
28- Mahmoud Javadi
29- Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
30- Hadi Heidari
31- Sasan Khadem
32- Nazanin Khami
33- Mohammad Khodadadi
34- Hossein Khosrojerdi
35- Morteza Khosravi
36- Hamid Kholghi
37- Behnam Khamisi
38- Mohammad Ali Khoshkam
39- Hamideh Khiabani
40- Hesam Dadkhah
41- Rahman Dadgostar
42- Behtash Davarpanah
43- Saied Davari
44- Hamidreza Davoudi
45- Ali Derakhshi
46- Paria Dehghani
47- Khashayar Radafshar
48- Farshid Rajabali
49- Jamal Rahmati
50- Maryam Rahimi
51- Hadi Rahimi
52- Saied Razzaghi
53- Ardeshir Rostami
54- Dariush Rmezani
55- Kianoosh Ramezani
56- Shiva Zamanfar
57- Kiyarash Zandi
58- Keyvan Zargari
59- Afshin Sabouki
60- Pouya Seyedkazemi
61- Fateme Shakool
62- Hooman Shahbandi
63- Mahdi Sadeghi
64- Hamid Sadeghian
65- Hossein Safi
66- Majid Salehi
67- Mohsen Zarifian
68- Ahmad Abdollahinia
69- Ahmad Arabani
70- Mahdi Alibeigi
71- Faez Alidoosti
72- Javad Alizadeh
73- Amin Alinia
74- Nooshin Omrahi
75- Arash Farrokhi
76- Hesam Fetrati
77- Mohammad Feizabadi
78- Asad Binakhahi
79- Majid Kazemi
80- Mahdi Karimzadeh
81- Ehsan Ganji
82- Ghasem Lotfi
83- Firoozeh Mozaffari
84- Bahar Movahhed Bashiri
85- Amin Moayedi
86- Shahnaz Mohi
87- Ali Miraee
88- Ayat Naderi
89- Mahnam Najafi
90- Alireza Nosrati
91- Maryam Noormohammadzadeh
92- Saeid Noroozi
93- Mana Neyestani
94- Vahid Nikgoo
95- Pantea Vaeznia
96- Hooman Hadizadeh
97- Ali Honarvar
98- Mohammad Sadjad Taheri
99- Mahmood Mohammad Tabrizi
100- Saeid Nemati
101- Salman Raeis Abdollahi
102- Peyman Rezaee
103- Bijan Asadipour
104- Hossein Shishegar
105- Saeid Ahrabi
106- Ali Mohammadi
107- Mohammad Tahani
108- Hamidreza Pournasiri
109- Masoud Mahini
110- Ali Tajaddod
111- Mahdi Mohammadi Roozbahani
112- Rafat Hashemi Sisakht
113- Saleh Tasbihi
114- Nima Jamali
115- Jalal Rahmati
116- Ali Jahanshahii
117- Alireza Hesami
118- Mohammah Saleh Razm Hosseini
119- Soroush Dastmalchina
120- Arezoo Aghababaeian
121- Hanif Bahari
122- Monire Kordestanchi
123- Armin Golchoobian
124- Mahnaz Yazdani
125- Mohammadreza Mobayen
126- Mahmood Salami
127- Behzad Riazi
128- Edik Boghosian
129- Maryam Farahzadi
130- Salman Taheri
131- Ghasem Elahi
132- Taravat Niki
133- Javad Karimifar
134- Syavash Zarrinabadi
135- Amir Dehghan
136- Sadegh Karaei
137- Ali Akbar Aryanfar
138- Morteza Azarkheil
139- Alireza Moghaddam far
140- Ehsan Mousavi
141- Atefe Madani
142- Mohsen Jafari
143- Farid Mortazavi

By Ali Miraee (Tehran, Iran)

“Hidden Eye” by Javad Alizadeh (Tehran/Iran)

Dauer der Ausstellung: 21. März – 10. Mai 2009
Cartoonfabrik, Krossener Straße 23, 10245 Berlin-F’Hain
(Am Boxhagener Platz), MI-SO 14:00h – 19:00h

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Hier ein paar Bilder von der Vernissage in der Cartoonfabrik, Berlin:

Full house.

Da kann keiner ernst bleiben.

Schlange bei der Signierstunde. Cartoonist Flix beim Anfertigung einer Zeichnung für Kittihawk. Daneben Bernd Pohlenz.

Marathon.

Zeichner und Grafiker Kamil trägt die passende Farben.

Gute Stimmung.

Eröffnung am 20. März 2009 um 20 Uhr
(Mit Alkohol und kleiner Live-Lesung von Ralph Ruthe und Flix)

Dauer der Ausstellung: 21. März – 10. Mai 2009
Cartoonfabrik, Krossener Straße 23, 10245 Berlin-F’Hain
(Am Boxhagener Platz), MI-SO 14:00h – 19:00h

FLIX – DIE CARTOONS

Seit gut sieben Jahren zeichnet der Comiczeichner und Illustrator Flix auch Cartoons. Unter dem Label Verflixt  werden sie in verschiedenen Zeitungen abgedruckt. Seit Anfang dieses Jahres erscheint täglich ein Cartoon im Internetportal web.de.

Flix (Jahrgang 1976) gehört zu der Generation von Zeichnern, die mit dem Computer groß geworden sind und die Möglichkeiten der modernen Technik inzwischen für ihre Arbeit benutzen. So sind seine fertigen Cartoons keine Originale mehr, sondern Daten, die man ausdrucken kann. Während andere aber nicht einmal mehr Stift oder Pinsel benutzen, zeichnet Flix zunächst mit der Hand. Mit hartem Bleistift fertigt er auf einem relativ dicken Karton eine Skizze an, aus der dann eine mit schwarzem Feinliner gezeichnete Vorlage wird. Die Bleistiftstriche radiert er weg. Nach dem Einscannen bearbeitet Flix diese Vorlage nicht nur farbig per Computer, er schiebt Sprechblasen und Figuren hin und her, fügt neue Details ein, bis er die perfekte Konstellation für seinen Bildwitz gefunden hat. Heraus kommen farbintensive Cartoons, die sich vor allem immer wieder dem Thema Nummer eins des Lebens widmen – dem  Alltag zwischen Mann und Frau.

2005 veröffentlichte Carlsen die erste Sammlung dieser Cartoons unter dem Titel „Verflixt -…und jetzt?!
Zur Ausstellung in der Cartoonfabrik erscheint der zweite Band mit dem Titel „Verliebt!“ (64 Seiten/100 Cartoon/9,95€). Die Cartoonfabrik zeigt ca. 120 Cartoons von Flix zusammen mit etwa 30 Vorlagen und liefert so dem Betrachter die Möglichkeit, die Entwicklung der Bilder nachzuvollziehen.

Flix ist 1976 in Münster/Westfalen geboren, in Darmstadt aufgewachsen und lebt und arbeitet heute als freier Comic- und Cartoonzeichner und Illustrator in Berlin. Er studierte in Saarbrücken und in Barcelona Kommunikations-Design. 1998 veröffentlichte er angeregt von dem Cartoonzeichner Peter Butschkow, seinen ersten professionellen Comic „Who the fuck is FAUST?” (Eichborn), der ab April 2009 in komplett überarbeiteter Form als täglicher Strip in der FAZ erscheinen wird. 2003 erschien bei Carlen Comics seine Diplomarbeit „held”, die mit einigen Preisen ausgezeichnet wurde, u.a. mit dem „Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award“ und dem „Max-und- Moritz-Preis 2004“ als „Beste deutschsprachige Publikation”. In dieser Geschichte erzählt Flix sein gesamtes Leben von der Geburt bis zum Tod, also Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Bisher wurde „held“ in spanisch, französisch und koreanisch übersetzt. Mit „sag was” und „mädchen” komplettiert Flix seinen
biografischen Comic. Sein Comic „Da war mal was” mit Episoden aus dem geteilten Deutschland erscheint regelmäßig im Berliner Tagesspiegel. Zum Jubiläum des Mauerfalls werden diese Geschichten bereits im August 2009 in Buchform bei Carlsen veröffentlicht.

Eröffnung: Freitag, 20.3.2009
Mit Flix & Ralph Ruthe & Ausschnitten aus ihrem Programm „Mädchen, Monster, Missgeschicke“

Flix auf toonpool

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Unemployment is everywere. Unemployment is a global problem, and it seems that it hits the hardest to those who fall the deepest. The financial crisis and the resulting firings caused several tragedies all over the world you can not laugh about.

This is where rodrigo’s cartoon »Unemployment« gets into the game, and you can laugh about rodrigo’s Unemployment – because he turned the modern amorphous monster into a classical ancient beast.

The day this cartoon was published on the website of the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, the local Teachers Union announced that 39,613 teachers would have no job for the new school year. That’s a big amount of people, all of them with their families suffering from it, but then again so little in a small country of this planet which is haunted by the global monster unemployment.

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According to the classical cartoon tradition, rodrigo chose a symbol for something incomprehensible, impalpable, non-explainable in all its complexity. If parents were asked by their child, »what’s unemployment?«, they might show this cartoon to their child.

p.s. Is it coincidental that one of the most popular German websites for job searchers is monster.de?

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Arbeitslosigkeit ist überall. Arbeitslosigkeit ist ein globales Problem, und es scheint vor allem die am härtesten zu treffen, die am tiefsten fallen.
Die Finanzkrise und die daraus resultierten Entlassungen haben zu einigen Tragödien geführt, über die man nicht lachen kann.
Hier setzt rodrigo mit seinem Cartoon »Unemployment« an, und über rodrigos Arbeitslosigkeit kann man lachen – denn er macht aus dem modernen gestaltlosen Monster ein klassisch antikes Untier, das man anfassen kann.

An dem Tag, an dem dieser Cartoon in Portugal veröffentlicht wurde, gab die portugisische Teachers Union bekannt, dass es für 39,613 Lehrer keinen Arbeitsplatz im neuen Schuljahr geben würde. Das ist eine große Menge Menschen, allesamt mit ihren Familien, die darunter leiden, aber wiederum so verschwindend klein in einem kleinen Land auf der Erde, die von dem gigantischen Ungeheuer Arbeitslosigkeit heimgesucht wird.

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In klassischer Cartoon-Tradition wählte rodrigo ein Symbol für etwas Unfassbares, Ungreifbares, was in seiner Komplexität und Kompliziertheit kaum zu erklären ist. Sollten Eltern von ihrem Kind gefragt werden, “Was ist Arbeitlosigkeit?”, sie sollten dem Kind diesen Cartoon zeigen.

p.s. Ist es Zufall, dass eine der größten deutschen Websites für Jobsuchende monster.de heißt?

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This year’s winners in the cartoon section are:

1. Nel (Ioan Cozacu)

2. Ari Plikat

3. Heiko Sakurai

Artists, journalists and other people on the After Ceremony Party:

Arnd Hawlina, cartoonist and architect

Cartoonist Freimut Wössner