Ilah (cartoons)

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Photograph of Ilah in the Sint-Anna tunnel, or De Voetgangerstunnel, Antwerp. Inge Heremans 675.jpg
Photograph of Ilah in the Sint-Anna tunnel, or De Voetgangerstunnel, Antwerp.

Ilah is the nom-de-plume of Inge Liesbeth Alfonsina Heremans (Leuven, 25 January 1971), a Belgian comic book artist, mainly known for her Cordelia series, a gag-a-day comic about a young woman, which has gained popularity and notoriety for openly but tastefully dealing with themes like sex and masturbation. Ilah is also a prominent illustrator of advertisements for the Antwerp book festival De Boekenbeurs and the bus company De Lijn . [1]

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Biography

She studied applied graphics at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and then received a master's degree in philosophy from the Catholic University in Leuven. The Cordelia series, which she developed in 1996, [1] appears in the newspaper De Morgen . Several collections of Cordelia strips have also been published. Another strip based on a character named Mira appears in Flair)  [ nl ] magazine. [1] Her work also appears in De Tijd , De Standaard , Focus Knack , Menzo  [ nl ], Ad Valvas , Frontaal Naakt  [ nl ] and GeenStijl . [2] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ilah". lambiek.net.
  2. "Inge Heremans". writers unlimited.
  3. "ilah". The Cartoonist. Archived from the original on 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2017-04-11.