The Cartoon Festival of Knokke-Heist (Dutch: Cartoonfestival Knokke-Heist) is an annual, international festival in the BelgianmunicipalityKnokke-Heist where visitors can see cartoons from all over the world.[1] Various prizes are also awarded during the festival, the most important of which is the Golden Hat (Dutch: Gouden hoed). Furthermore, the Silver Hat (Dutch: Zilveren hoed) and the Bronze Hat (Dutch: Bronzen hoed) will also be awarded. It is the oldest Cartoonfestival in the world, as the first edition was in 1962.[2][3] Yearly a book of 100 selected cartoons is also published.
The first festival was organized in 1962 with the theme of tourists. About 25 Belgian cartoonists were approached. Among them are the cartoonists Bob de Moor and Marc Sleen. Other participants included Cram, dani, GAL, GoT, hugOKE, Pil en Ploeg. The first festival was attended by 17,136 visitors. The first jury included Jos Ghysen, Gaston Durnez, Rik Sabbick and Luc Verstraete.[4]
Davidsfonds Prize for young talent: Sven De Bock (Belgium)
Awards 2003
Golden Hat: Michael Kontouris, Greece
Silver Hat: Ross Thomson, United Kingdom
Bronze Hat: Domenico Sicolo, Italy
Knack Award:: Constantin Ciosu, Romania
Audience Award: Liviu Stanilla, Romania
Panel/Jury
2024: Pieter De Poortere, Steven Degryse, Laura Janssens, Karl Meersman, Prudence Geerts, Tine Anthoni, Steve Michiels, Kim Duchateau, cartoonist KIM, Toon Horsten
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Johan Anthierens was a Belgian journalist, columnist, publicist, critic and writer. He became notorious because of his socially conscious columns, as well as his equally controversial opinions during interviews. He published both in HUMO as well as Knack and founded his own short-lived satirical magazine, De Zwijger in 1982-1985. The general public got to know him thanks to his television appearances, both as panel member in the quiz De Wies Andersen Show and as interviewer in the talkshow Noord-Zuid (North-South). Due to his confrontational criticism of capitalism, the monarchy, the Church, the establishment and the far-right movement Anthierens had both a lot of admirers as well as many enemies. Still, together with Louis De Lentdecker and Maurice De Wilde, he was widely regarded as one of the "Big Three" of Flemish critical journalism.
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Luc Rombouts is a Belgian carillonneur and author. He is the city carillonneur of Tienen in Flemish Brabant. He is also the official carillonneur of both Leuven University carillons and the Park Abbey. He has given numerous concerts in Europe and the US and appeared in festivals and conventions. Together with Twan Bearda he performs in a carillon duet called The Bells' Angels, exploring, expanding and performing four hand carillon repertoire.
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