Judith Vanistendael | |
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| Born | Judith Irene Vanistendael  21 August 1974 Leuven |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
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| Website | https://judithvanistendael.wordpress.com/ |
Judith Vanistendael (born 21 August 1974, Leuven) is a Dutch-speaking Belgian comics author, illustrator, and teacher in comics art. She also worked for a time as a children's book illustrator.
Judith Irene Vanistendael is the daughter of the Flemish poet-journalist Geert van Istendael. [1] After her secondary studies, she attended an art school in Ghent, [2] and spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. [3] Returning to Ghent, she resumed artistic studies for four years before continuing her studies in Seville, Spain. [2] She learned comics creation at the Institut des arts graphiques Sint-Lukas Bruxelles in 2000, [2] with teachers, Nix and Johan De Moor before publishing in journals such as Ink, Demo, Zone 53001, and Bruxxxel Noord. [2]
Vanistendael's career began with the illustration of Flemish tales written by her father, Vlaamse Sprookjes (1995), then Het Koeienboek by Bibi Dumon Tak (2000). [2] She also worked for a time as a children's book illustrator. [2]
She wrote and drew La Jeune fille et le nègre, an autobiographical story in two volumes about the love between a young Togolese and a young Belgian. [1] The narration depicts "the absurdity of the regularization procedures for undocumented migrants in Belgium", which multiply the obstacles facing this political refugee. [1] The book, which mixes drama, humor, love, and lightness, according to Le Soir , immediately won several cultural prizes and was part of the selection for the Essentiels d'Angoulême in 2009, [1] and for the Prix Tournesol . [4] The storyline echoes a novel by Geert van Istendael, Bericht uit de burcht (News from the citadel), which expresses his dismay at his daughter's relationship with an undocumented man. [1]
In 2012, Vanistendael published Toen David zijn stem verloor (David, women and death), whose hero is suffering from cancer and undertakes to change his life, [5] without succeeding in protecting the women who are close to him from the effects of his agony:—"The disease is the tragedy of the patient, but also of those around him." [6] The work, which is inspired by the death of Vanistendael's father-in-law, took two years to complete. [6] Her preference was using watercolor. [7] The work was one of the five finalists for the critics' grand prize. [8] She has been nominated for the Eisner Award on three occasions. [9]
Based on a screenplay by Mark Bellido, Vanistendael drew and colored Salto - L'Histoire du marchand de bonbons qui disparut sous la pluie (Salto - The Story of the Candy Merchant Who Disappeared in the Rain) (2016), which features a candy seller turned bodyguard in Spain of the 1990s. [10] The main character, Miquel, is a failed writer who sells candy to support his family and agrees to become a bodyguard for a politician threatened by ETA, which ends up destroying his life. [11] [12] Vanistendael uses several processes and formats, in particular the colored pencil. [12]
Vanistendael joined forces with Michael De Cock for a children's series, Rosie et Moussa, which appears in Dutch and as a serial in Brussel Deze Week before being the subject of four volumes. [13] The story tells of the great friendship between two children from Brussels. [13] The series was translated into many languages and received several awards. [13] Director Dorothée Van Den Berghe was inspired by it to create the film Rosie et Moussa, released in theaters in October 2018. [14]
In 2019, inspired by the character of Penelope in the Odyssey , Vanistendael delivers Les Deux Vies de Pénélope, where a doctor mother engages in humanitarian work and distances herself from her family, especially her daughter. Vanistendael opted for a treatment with "watercolor stains". [15] Vanistendael long wanted to describe the life of a woman who, due to an intense job, cannot invest herself with her daughter. [16] Having read the work of Homer, Vanistendael was struck by the role of Penelope, who limits herself to keeping the hearth, while her husband has increasing adventures. [16] Nevertheless, Vanistendael retains that Odysseus left his family because a higher interest required it. [15] In Vanistendael's album, Penelope's husband is responsible for watching over the home, while Penelope, haunted by her missions in countries at war, "refuses to let herself be reduced to her dimension as a mother" and returns to her humanitarian activities. [15] During the production of the work, Vanistendael went to a refugee camp and drew a graphic report: Moria, the hell of Lesbos. [17] [18] For this work, she received the "Bulles d'Humanité" prize, awarded by the newspaper, L'Humanité . [19]
In 2021, at the Prix Atomium , Vanistendael won the Prix Willy-Vandersteen with Zidrou for La Baleine-bibliothèque (Le Lombard). [20]
Vanistendael has a daughter. [15]
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