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Aimée De Jongh
Aimée de Jongh (born 1988, Waalwijk, the Netherlands) is a Graphic novel, graphic novelist and animator, whose books have been published in more than 30 countries. She has won numerous international awards for her graphic novels and was nominated for three Eisner Awards for ''Days of Sand'' and ''Sixty Years in Winter''. Her books have received the Prix Saint-Michel, the Atomium Comic Strip Prizes and the International Manga Award. Career Early work Early in her teens, Aimée created manga-inspired small press comics with the Dutch collective ''Cheesecake! Studio''. At the age of 17, she published her first comic book ''Aimée TV.'' From 2012 until 2017, she created the daily comic strip ''Snippers'' for the Dutch paper Metro, which was collected in nine albums. Graphic Novels In 2014, she published her first graphic novel ''De Terugkeer van de Wespendief (The Return of the Honey Buzzard''), which won the Prix Saint-Michel and was adapted to a live-action film by Stanley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Editora
Conrad Editora (also known as Conrad) is a book publishing company in Brazil. Generally known as one of the most popular distributors of manga and manhwa in the Brazilian Portuguese language. Publishing history Manga * Absolute Boyfriend, by the name of ''Zettai Kareshi: O Namorado Perfeito'' * Adolf (2006 - 2007) * Bambi and Her Pink Gun, by the name of ''Bambi'' (2006) * Battle Royale (ongoing) * Blade of the Immortal, by the name of ''Blade - A Lâmina do Imortal'' (cancelled) * Buddha, by the name of ''Buda'' (2005) * Dr. Slump (cancelled) * Dragon Ball (later part as Dragon Ball Z) (completed) ** Definitive Edition (2005 - cancelled) * Fushigi Yūgi * Gon (2003 - ongoing) * MegaMan NT Warrior (cancelled) * Neon Genesis Evangelion (cancelled) * Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days, by the name of ''Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Iron Maiden 2nd'' (2006 - cancelled) * One Piece (cancelled) * Paradise Kiss * Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu, by the name of ''Pokémo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced or co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios or licensed to Amazon, as Amazon Originals, with the service also hosting content from other providers, content add-ons, live sporting events, and video rental and purchasing services. Prime Video is offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription. Amazon Prime Video is the third most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service in the United States, with 200 million paid memberships. Operating worldwide, the service may require a full Prime subscription to be accessed. In countries like United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, the service can be accessed without a full Prime subscription, whereas in Australia, Canada, France, India, Turkey, and Italy, it can only be access ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisko Hulsing
Hisko Hulsing (born 7 July 1971 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch director, animator, composer, painter and storyboard artist. His animated films won many awards, including the Grand Prize for ''Junkyard'' at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Shanghai Television Festival. Hisko Hulsing's film ''Junkyard'' had its online release in 2014 on Vimeo and was chosen as Top Ten video 2014 by Vimeo Staff, Vice USA and SOTW. Hisko Hulsing composes the orchestral soundtracks for his animated films. In 2014 Hisko Hulsing Studio animated large sequences for '' Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck'', the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain, directed by Brett Morgen. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures worldwide. HBO and Netflix broadcast ''Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck'' in 2015. Hulsing directed and production designed Amazon's first adult animated series, ''Undone'', which was created by K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered the longest-running and most important survey of contemporary art in the United States. The Biennial helped bring artists including Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Jeff Koons, among others to prominence. Artists In 2010, for the first time a majority of the 55 artists included in that survey of contemporary American art were women. The 2012 exhibition featured 51 artists, the smallest number in the event's history. The fifty-one artists for 2012 were selected by curator Elisabeth Sussman and freelance curator Jay Sanders. It was open for three months up to May 27, 2012 and presented for the first time "heavy weight" on dance, music and theater. Those performance art variations were open to spectators for an entire day on a sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The institution was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (18751942), a prominent American socialite, Sculpture, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named. The Whitney focuses on collecting and preserving 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection, spanning the late-19th century to the present, comprises more than 25,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,500 artists. It places particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists as well as maintaining institutional archives of historical documents pertaining to modern and contemporary American art, including the Edward Hopper, Edward an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miljohn Ruperto
Miljohn Ruperto (born 1971, Philippines) is a Los Angeles-based visual artist. Education Ruperto received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Work Ruperto's work has been described as "speculat ngon the nature of assumed facts and construction of truth," and utilizing "an intriguing play between an apparent sense of control, or purpose, and the actual lack of it." His work "challenges fixed conceptions of truth and history, and instead speaks of an indeterminacy and subjectivity of experience that renders truth and fiction near indistinguishable." In 2012, the Whitney Biennial featured Ruperto's "Voynich Botanical Studies." The work, a series of photographs of imaginary plants based on illustrations from the Voynich Manuscript, is an ongoing collaboration with Danish artist Ulrik Heltoft. Ruperto and Heltoft "created he imageswith 3-D modeling software that blends found images and textures in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Street Arts Center
18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit arts center in Santa Monica, California. 18th Street Arts Center amplifies the impact of artists on society. Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community. It provides artists with creative time and space and produces artist-led projects that drive social change. It was founded in 1988 and is the longest running artist residency center in Southern California. 18th Street Arts Center’s residency program hosts 60 or more American and international artists and curators a year. History 18th Street Arts Center was co-founded by writer Linda Frye Burnham, who founded High Performance Magazine, and artist Susanna Bixby Dakin.who helped Burnham publish of High Performance Magazine through Astro Artz publishing. Working out of a loft in downtown Los Angeles, during the 80s Burnham and Dakin decided to start art artist community near the ocean where the air was clean compared to downtown Los Angeles. Burnham found and Daki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gobelins, L'école De L'image
Gobelins, l'école de l'image (French: ) also known as Gobelins Paris is a school of visual communication and arts in Paris, France, with its main location near the Latin Quarter. A consular school funded by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, it provides several programs at a range of fees. It is best known for the Cinéma Department of Animation, founded in 1975 by Pierre Ayma. Its former students include many strip cartoonists and animation artists such as Didier Cassegrain, Cromwell, Yacine Elghorri, Jean-François Miniac, and Pierre Coffin. The faculty includes Michel Bouvet. The Animation Department is currently directed by American storyboard artist and director John Coven. Over the years, Gobelins has introduced major innovations in multimedia content, developing products for the web, CD-ROM, Interactive DVD, and public installations. The video department, created by Daniel Boullay and Guy Chevalier for the training of adult students, has since 1985 been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem De Kooning Academy
The Willem de Kooning Academy () is a Dutch academy of media, art, design, leisure and education based in Rotterdam. It was named after one of its most famous alumni, Dutch fine artist Willem de Kooning. Overview The Willem de Kooning Academy is the art school of Rotterdam and part of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (RUAS). Previously called the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Academy of Visual Arts), it has since 1998 carried the name of alumnus Willem de Kooning (1904–1997). Willem de Kooning was born in north Rotterdam and graduated in decoration art (now styling). He went to New York at the age of 22 and became a frontman of the Abstract Expressionism painting movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The academy's postgraduate programmes are housed in the Piet Zwart Institute, named after faculty alumnus Piet Zwart (1885–1977). Zwart designed stamps, print advertising, books, interiors, furniture (including the Bruynzeel kitchen) in the 1920s and also spent time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Tuniques Bleues
''Les Tuniques Bleues'' (Dutch: De Blauwbloezen) is a Belgian series of ''bandes dessinées'' (comic books in the Franco-Belgian tradition), first published in '' Spirou'' magazine and later collected in albums by Dupuis."Best of Belgium's Cartoons", Ooi Kok Chuen. ''New Straits Times'', November 27, 1995. Created by artist Louis Salvérius and writer Raoul Cauvin, the series was taken up by artist Lambil after Salverius' death. It follows two United States Army cavalrymen through a series of battles and adventures. The first album of the series was published in 1970. The series' name, ''Les Tuniques Bleues'', literally "the bluecoats", refers to the uniforms of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cinebook has started to print the comics in English as "''The Bluecoats''", releasing ''Robertsonville Prison'' in 2008. It is one of the best-selling series in French-language comics. History Cauvin has written the stories for the first 64 volumes. Six of the first ten vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston (comics)
''Gaston'' is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgium, Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Spirou (magazine), Spirou''. The series, serving as a spin-off (media), spin-off of the magazine's primary series ''Spirou et Fantasio'', focuses on the everyday life of Gaston Lagaffe (whose surname means "the blunder"), a lazy and accident-prone office junior who works at ''Spirous office in Brussels. Gaston is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France) and has been translated into over a dozen languages, but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 1990s (as ''Gomer Goof''), there was no English translation until Cinebook began publishing English language editions of Gaston books (again named 'Gomer Goof') in July, 2017. Since the 1980s Gaston has appeared on a wide variety of merchandise. Publication history André Franquin who was then in charge of ''Spirou et Fantasio'', the prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
