Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.5.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Drawing The Times A platform for graphic journalism ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://drawingthetimes.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Fresh](https://drawingthetimes.com/fresh/) - [Jaap's Silence](https://drawingthetimes.com/jaaps-silence/) - Monique van Dongen “I asked if that MUSIC COULD BE TURNED DOWN!” he practically shouts.In the newspaper he’s reading, the letter z in the word “Nazi criminal” seems to twist into something sharper, an aggressive symbol of the Nazi era. While Jaap sits quietly behind his newspaper, as he so often does, a small irritation about music that’s too loud - [A creative week of drawing and exploring the visual language in the Catalan mountains, July 23rd-30th, 2026](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-creative-week-of-drawing-and-exploring-the-visual-language-in-the-catalan-mountains-july-23rd-30th-2026/) - Last year's workshop on the fresh Catalan was so enjoyable that we decided to repeat the program this year! In the seven days that we will spend together, we will combine exercises and experimentation, drawing both from observation and from imagination–gaining skills, knowledge and confidence as visual storytellers. We focus on the basics of the - [‘There is a certain self-reflexivity about graphic journalism that written journalism often lacks’](https://drawingthetimes.com/there-is-a-certain-self-reflexivity-about-graphic-journalism-that-written-journalism-often-lacks/) - Drawing the Times spoke with comics scholars Mathijs Peters and Yasco Horsman about the question: how does the autobiographical comic relate to the journalistic or the non-fiction comic, and what exactly is this concept of the ‘autographic gesture’? - [Drawn To Freedom Part Two - Victoria Lomasko](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawn-to-freedom-part-two-victoria-lomasko/) - Drawn To Freedom, organized by Stichting Cultuurkoepel was a multi faceted co-creation project that took place in the Koepel in Haarlem in two parts: in the last weekend of May, there was a newsroom where stories were being visualized by graphic journalists in conversation with Haarlemmers for whom freedom is not a given. Most of - [Drawn to Freedom - Stripdagen Extra Edition 2025](https://drawingthetimes.com/stripdagen-extra-edition-2025/) - On May 24 and 25 of this year a special edition of the Stripdagen Haarlem took place which was dedicated to 80 years of liberation. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. It is unique that we in the Netherlands have lived in peace for so long. It - [Drawing the Revolution - A visual archive of the uprising in Serbia](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawing-the-revolution-a-visual-archive-of-the-uprising-in-serbia/) - The demonstrations in Serbia, which began in November 2024, have entered a new phase — shifting from peaceful walks and gatherings to a much grimmer situation. - [Crosscomix in Rotterdam | 12-13 September](https://drawingthetimes.com/crosscomix-in-rotterdam-12-13-september/) - The Cross Comix Festival 2025 takes place on Friday, September 12, and Saturday, September 13, at De Doelen in Rotterdam. The venue will host two days filled with talks, exhibitions, workshops, residencies, book presentations, performances, a makers’ market, a kiosk, and more. This year’s focus is on the impact of women in comics over the - [Visual Stories from Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.](https://drawingthetimes.com/visual-stories-from-armenia-georgia-and-ukraine/) - The impact of war transcends borders, with women often at the forefront. This project examines wars and conflicts that have deeply affected the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, emphasizing the universal need for peace and justice. The visual stories in this anthology are based on interviews with war witnesses, refugees, and displaced women. They explore the - [Lagos, home for all - collab between Dutch & Nigerian makers](https://drawingthetimes.com/lagos-home-for-all-collab-between-dutch-nigerian-makers/) - Under the somewhat vague but nonetheless ambitious slogan ‘resilient communities, inclusive cities, just societies’, the Dutch Stimuleringsfund provides funding for creative projects that bridge European and African culture. This grant allows creators to reach across borders and work with colleagues you would otherwise never meet in daily life. Animation studio Mooves (Amsterdam, Netherlands) joined forces Collab between Mooves and VX Animation, animations combined with AR posters - [Pumpaj! - Serbian protests, strikes, and comics](https://drawingthetimes.com/pumpaj-serbian-protests-strikes-and-comics/) - For eight months, people across Serbia have been protesting. Through illustrations, zines, and comics, artists have chronicled and mobilized the uprising. - [Draw for Life! Drawing workshop week in the Catalan mountains in August. Few places left!](https://drawingthetimes.com/draw-for-life/) - A creative week drawing in the mountains, exploring the visual language. 7 days in a beautiful and peaceful spot of the green Catalan Pyrenees in Spain, where we practice how to bring our ideas on paper. The training will be facilitated by 2 experienced visual storytellers, Eva Hilhorst and Yorgos Konstantinou. We will combine - [Marengo](https://drawingthetimes.com/marengo/) - Photography is not allowed in the courtrooms in the Netherlands, but drawing is. Aloys Oosterwijk is a prominent courtroom artist who mainly works for the Dutch press agency ANP. He made many reports in the courtroom, for example about Willem Holleeder. He published several books with his drawings. His latest book, Marengo, that he made - [Wie geht es dir? - How Are You? Illustrators Against Antisemitism, Hatred and Racism.](https://drawingthetimes.com/wie-geht-es-dir-how-are-you-illustrators-against-antisemitism-hatred-and-racism/) - The complexity of the current situation in the Middle East also affects the rest of the world and leads to uncertainty and polarisation. In Germany, a group of comics makers and illustrators initiated the project Wie geht es dir? How are you? They create stories to break the silence and create visibility for those affected - [Cartoonists for Palestine](https://drawingthetimes.com/cartoonists-for-palestine/) - Cartoon by Floor de Goede - You can find more of Floor de Goede's work here Cartoonists for Palestine is an online archive of cartoonists responding to the ongoing violence in Gaza and the genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a volunteer group of cartoonists, writers and editors who are collecting comics about Palestine - [Stripdagen Haarlem 2024](https://drawingthetimes.com/stripdagen-haarlem-2024/) - Stripdagen Haarlem is the largest biannual comics festival in the Netherlands and Flanders. The first festival, organized by Joost Swarte, who lives and works in Haarlem, took place in 1992. Every other year, the center of Haarlem was filled with comics lovers who tried to score second hand comic books for their collection and went - [Fighting Back With Drawings](https://drawingthetimes.com/fighting-back-with-drawings/) - This article was originally written in Dutch by Eva Hilhorst for Stripgids #15. Sadly enough, in Gaza things only got worse since the interview. Now Lebanon, Kerbaj's homecountry, is under attack as well. After the wall came down in 1989 Berlin attracted a lot of artists, there was a spirit of freedom and experiment. There - [Picturing the Unimaginable](https://drawingthetimes.com/picturing-the-unimaginable/) - TEN COMIC AUTHORS, TEN STORIES ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND OTHER NAZI CRIMES It's been almost 80 years since the second World War ended and there are only a few people alive who can tell about it from their own experiences. It's important that it will never be forgotten what happened. Personal, detailed stories help to - [Freedom of Press](https://drawingthetimes.com/freedom-of-press/) - In many European countries freedom of Press is at stake. The Berlin newspaper Taz made a dossier on the theme that was published on World Press Freedom Day, May 3. In collaboration with Drawing the Times, a number of illustrators and cartoonists were asked to create images that suit the theme. These illustrators are: Yorgos - [Remix Comix: European workshops and experiments](https://drawingthetimes.com/remix-comix-european-workshops-and-experiments/) - Remix Comix is a European project for illustrators, performers and comics artists. A new books outlines the result of the project. - [Ameliswaardig - Amelisworthy](https://drawingthetimes.com/ameliswaardig-amelisworthy/) - Photographs by Tanno Witkamp Five artists, connected to Het Huis van Betekenis worked on the project called Ameliswaardig, Amelisworthy in English. You can read the drawn reportages in the Special Ameliswaardig in Dutch. Amelisweerd is an estate in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the second most densely populated country of - [Queer History Month and Comics Anthology ‘THIS BODY OF OURS’ by Gus Møystad](https://drawingthetimes.com/queer-history-month-and-comics-anthology-this-body-of-ours-by-gus-moystad/) - Last Friday the 1st of March marked the beginning of Queer History Month 2024 in the Netherlands. It has been organised since 2021 by the Dutch LGBTQI+ heritage organisation, IHLIA, in order to keep queer themes, topics and history in the public eye also outside of Pride month. It is in that spirit that I - [Little Heroes - People That Make a Difference.](https://drawingthetimes.com/little-heroes/) - Kleine Helden - Little Heroes, is an anthology of nine stories made by graduate students of the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. They are based on a series of documentaries that Rudi Vranckx made for the Flemish television channel Canvas. They tell the stories of people that make a difference in their communities. They - [A Tata State of Mind Wrap Up.](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-tata-state-of-mind-wrap-up/) - On Friday the 13th of October there was a public event at Het Huis van Betekenis in Utrecht to wrap up the project A Tata State of Mind. Outside it was raining cats and dogs but that didn't prevent people form coming and discuss the topic by drawing to speak their minds. The project started - [A Tata State of Mind Wrap Up.](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-tata-state-of-mind-wrap-up/) - On Friday the 13th of October there was a public event at Het Huis van Betekenis in Utrecht to wrap up the project A Tata State of Mind. Outside it was raining cats and dogs but that didn't prevent people form coming and discuss the topic by drawing to speak their minds. The project started - [A Tata State of Mind Wrap Up.](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-tata-state-of-mind-wrap-up/) - On Friday the 13th of October there was a public event at Het Huis van Betekenis in Utrecht to wrap up the project A Tata State of Mind. Outside it was raining cats and dogs but that didn't prevent people form coming and discuss the topic by drawing to speak their minds. The project started - [A Tata State of Mind Wrap Up.](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-tata-state-of-mind-wrap-up/) - On Friday the 13th of October there was a public event at Het Huis van Betekenis in Utrecht to wrap up the project A Tata State of Mind. Outside it was raining cats and dogs but that didn't prevent people form coming and discuss the topic by drawing to speak their minds. The project started - [Drawing the Lofoten](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawing-the-lofoten/) - February 13 We traveled to Melbu on the ninth. It was quite a journey.. The bus that would stop in front of the Kunstkvarteret didn't go, so we walked to Leknes. The cars who passed us drove through the wet snow on the road and it splashed all over our legs. At the busstation we - [Your Window Comics](https://drawingthetimes.com/your-window-comics/) - We set up an open call to see which experiences our readers and fellow cartoonists have with climate change in their close surroundings. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a comic. We received comics from several European countries and even from India. So how to decide which one is a winner? There are - [Draw Your Own Window Comic - Open Call](https://drawingthetimes.com/draw-your-own-window-comic-open-call/) - There is nothing as unpredictable as the weather - and it has become even more unpredictable lately, due to climate change. Many people talk about the change in the weather if you ask them about their experiences with climate change. But the impact of climate change goes further than a change in the weather… When - [Travel Sketchbook Ukraine - by Kees de Groot van Embden](https://drawingthetimes.com/travel-sketchbook-ukraine-17-03-2022-11-04-2022-by-kees-de-groot-van-embden/) - On February 24 early in the morning, I wake up with the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is not a small invasion, it is a full blown war, by an atomic power. The Russians throw bombs and missiles everywhere, from east to west. I don’t know why, I am in tears. I - [Graphic Storytelling in the Lake District](https://drawingthetimes.com/graphic-storytelling-in-the-lake-district/) - Judith Vanistendael, author of several graphic novels and drawn reportages, and Drawing the Times' Eva Hilhorst are working on a longer project in which they research several ways of graphic storytelling around climate change. The starting point of the research is that personal stories make the abstract subject tangible. In March they spend several weeks in - [Rewriting Extinction](https://drawingthetimes.com/rewriting-extinction/) - The Most Important Comic Book on Earth - Stories to save the world. Since Drawing the Times started a project about Graphic storytelling and Climate change, we had to see this book. The book is an anthology of comics, and was initiated by Paul Goodenough, who named the project Rewriting Extinction. Since the project was - [Graphic Journalism in Athens](https://drawingthetimes.com/graphic-journalism-in-athens/) - Workshop graphic journalism September 27 until October 1st at iMedD in Athens Founder of the Athens Comics Library and Art and Educational Director of Comicdom Lida Tsene organized a workshop graphic journalism at the headquarters of iMedD, incubator for Media Education and Development together with Eva Hilhorst, founder of Drawing the Times. Because of corona - [Online Course Graphic Journalism - October](https://drawingthetimes.com/online-course-graphic-journalism-october/) - In the last year Drawing the Times' editor Eva Hilhorst taught several online courses in Graphic Journalism. Enthusiastic students from all over Europe and one from Tanzania, got together through their Zoom screens to engage in the art of Graphic Journalism. During the courses they learned how to use the unique qualities of drawing as - [A Trip to Osh](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-trip-to-osh/) - by Victoria Lomasko translated by James McGavran “It’s funny! What are you, a famous artist, doing in this tiny, apolitical, totally uninteresting town?” asked a friend of mine from Bishkek when he found out I had come to spend a month in Osh. In fact Osh is probably the second most important city in Kyrgyzstan, - [The Meat Free City - An Introduction](https://drawingthetimes.com/the-meat-free-city-an-introduction/) - In the beginning of last year, artist-designer Mark Schalken was asked to give a lecture on animal rights and art. When the lecture was canceled because of corona, he asked a group of comic artists to create a graphic novel together. With drawn stories we can evoke a visual and challenging vision of the future for a large - [Qurban Bayram - By Leyla Ali](https://drawingthetimes.com/qurban-bayram-by-leyla-ali/) - I remember exactly when I stopped eating meat. I was nineteen years old, lived with my parents, and commuted every day to a neighboring city for college. By the entrance to the school’s courtyard there was a crooked butcher’s stall. The pole where living calves were tied up was crooked, as was the table where - [The Meat Free City - by Mark Schalken.](https://drawingthetimes.com/the-meat-free-city-by-mark-schalken/) - Drawn Animals In the summer of 2019, I travelled to the river Ardèche in the south of France, where prehistoric cave drawings were discovered. 30,000 year ago, groups of hunter-gatherers called Cro-Magnons lived there. These ancestors of ours already stood on two feet and had their hands free. They wore jewellery, used weapons, and controlled - [European Cartoon Award](https://drawingthetimes.com/european-cartoon-award/) - European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht announce the opening of the second edition of the European Cartoon Award, on May 6 2021. The 2020 winner, “Earth’s sixth mass extinction”, by Anne Derenne The European Cartoon Award 2021 is open for submissions From May 6 to June 18, 2021, cartoonists that publish in all 47 - [New Course Graphic Journalism starting in May](https://drawingthetimes.com/new-course-graphic-journalism-starting-in-may/) - by Femke van der Wijk - [We are...Doomed](https://drawingthetimes.com/we-are-doomed/) - Dutch cartoonist TRIK regularly posts new cartoons on the Drawing the Times website. Those razor sharp cartoons and many more are now collected in a cross over project, connecting TRIK's cartoon and the music of the band The Irrationals Library of spoken word artist and singer Joshua Baumgarten. This project reflects the world we live - [Course Graphic Journalism - Journalist Meets Cartoonist - UPDATE](https://drawingthetimes.com/course-graphic-journalism-journalist-meets-comics-artist/) - Course Graphic Journalism - Update 8 week course Graphic Journalism by Eva Hilhorst. 8 Tuesday evenings form October 27, 7.30 until 10 PM. The course will be in English, in case of non Dutch-speaking participants. Inscription fee: €325. 1 place left! This course teaches both (comics) artists and writers how to use drawing in journalistic work. Drawing has unique - [Call for Entries - Decolonize Your Mind!](https://drawingthetimes.com/call-for-entries-decolonize-your-mind/) - 2020 is likely to be the hottest year ever recorded in history. Not only the planet itself is heating up quickly, so do its inhabitants. Climate change, corona and social injustices made people go out on the streets to protest. The killing of George Floyd in May this year, galvanized a global anti-Racism movement. In - [Comics on Wildlife and Environmental Crime](https://drawingthetimes.com/comics-on-wildlife-and-environmental-crime/) - Earth League International is a non-profit organisation that applies professional intelligence expertise to disrupt the proliferation of wildlife crime around the world. Their mission is to fight Environmental Crime through effective Information Collection, Intelligence gathering in support of law enforcement agencies at various levels and countries; former CIA and FBI agents are inside the organization. They launched a new project - graphic novels and comics - [Book launch Verbonden Verhalen Cancelled](https://drawingthetimes.com/booklaunch-verbonden-verhalen-cancelled/) - On March 13 the book launch and presentation of Verbonden Verhalen - Stories from Overvecht was cancelled because of the coronavirus. One of the portrayed people, Nurya, had prepared delicious Eritrean food, that is now kept in the freezer for the postponed party. Also the presentation on March 20 at Het Huis van Betekenis in Utrecht - [Stories from Overvecht](https://drawingthetimes.com/stories-from-overvecht/) - Nine artists met with residents in the neighbourhood Utrecht Overvecht for the project ‘Stories from Overvecht’ and visited them a couple of times. Elderly people who live there from the beginning, and new residents who came here as refugees. What are their stories? How do they live their lives? The artists listened, watched and used - [Days of Onion](https://drawingthetimes.com/days-of-onion/) - B. Carrot, who published several stories on Drawing the Times, also made a book that will be published very soon: Alle dagen ui (Days of Onion). The book tells the true story of Saied, a man who sought political asylum in the Netherlands. Immediately upon arrival Saied was imprisoned in a foreign detention facility at Schiphol - [Workshop Graphic Journalism - Journalist Meets Comics Artist](https://drawingthetimes.com/workshop-graphic-journalism-journalist-meets-comics-artist/) - Thursday June 13, from 10 - 17 Huis van Betekenis, Lauwerecht 10, Utrecht (Netherlands). Including drawing materials, coffee, tea and lunch. Fee: €120. 20% discount for students and alumni, members of Huis van Betekenis. Drawing the Times is online for three years now, regularly publishing stories made by graphic journalists and comic artists. Over time, - [#8 Stories - Prague Pride 2018](https://drawingthetimes.com/prague-pride-2018/) - This story is made by Leyla Ali, an artist based in Utrecht Netherlands, who is originally from Azerbaijan. With this story she would like to give you an insight about the LGBTQ in Azerbaijan On 22 September 2017, more than 100 LGBTQ* individuals were rounded up by the police in public spaces and detained. Some were released, - [Comic-Salon Erlangen](https://drawingthetimes.com/comic-salon-erlangen/) - Every other year the entire German city Erlangen is dedicated to comics, when it is hosting the Comic Salon, an important event for comics and graphic literature in the German speaking realm. In cooperation with Erlangen Stadtmuseum and Deutscher Comicverein, the Comic Salon presents a comprehensive exhibition about the emerging genre of comic journalism. Works by - [Une femme, six humeurs - One woman, six moods](https://drawingthetimes.com/une-femme-six-humeurs-one-woman-six-moods/) - Hilde Baele, who is one of the leading ladies of the Croque ton histoire contest, launched a new project in Burundi for International Women's Day. Young Burundian artist were challenged to draw a portrait of one woman expressing six different moods: Happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise. Ten works were elected for an exhibition at - [Don’t You EEEEVVERR Do That To My Daughter!](https://drawingthetimes.com/dont-you-eeeevverr-do-that-to-my-daughter/) - In 2010 Glwadys Aguegue, Hermine Akponna and Hilde Baele started the NGO CàNous in Cotonou, Bénin. CàNous is active in the field of children’s rights, they want to give children and adolescents a voice. When children are able to share their experiences, they are no longer alone with their problem. The NGO gives information about children’s - [Dutch Design Week 2017- Review](https://drawingthetimes.com/dutch-design-week-review/) - A record amount of visitors at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this year: 335,000. This was a great opportunity for Drawing the Times to show what we have to offer: On the balcony Drawing the Times Lab was in full action, a collective of illustrators was working full time : Everyday we published an illustration in - [Call For Entries](https://drawingthetimes.com/call-for-entries/) - Drawing the Times is looking for enthusiastic illustrators who are willing to participate in live drawing at the Dutch Design Week. Everyday there will be a different theme that is linked to an event going on somewhere at DDW. We’re in need of visual reports of those events and that’s where you come in! The - [Drawing the Times goes Dutch Design Week](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawing-times-goes-dutch-design-week/) - Drawing the Times goes Dutch Design Week! Drawing the Times will be (omni)present at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, The Netherlands this year. The biggest design event in Northern Europe will take place from October 21 through October 29. The Dutch Design Week concentrates on the designs of the future. The emphasis is - [Drawing the Times Labs](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawing-times-labs/) - Drawing the Times is not only active as a publishing website, we are also giving lectures, workshops and even bootcamps to promote the medium graphic journalism. We call this the Drawing the Times Labs, because a lot of new ways of graphic storytelling are explored here. Young people are experimenting with the medium to become the new generation of - [Croque ton histoire - Scribble Your Story - The Winners](https://drawingthetimes.com/croque-ton-histoire-scribble-story-winners/) - On April 14 the jury of the Croque ton Histoire - Scribble Your Story gathered at the headquarters of Free Press Unlimited in Amsterdam. We got 100 submissions from 6 countries. There was a great variety in the professional level of the participants, but the stories were all compelling. It was not an easy decision - [Arab Winter, With a Hint of Spring: the Status Quo of Regional Comics - by Joost Pollmann](https://drawingthetimes.com/arab-winter-with-a-hint-of-spring-the-status-quo-of-regional-comics/) - "Comics and cartoons are being drawn, printed and published from Maroc to Qatar, but in Europe hardly anyone knows they exist. Even worse is that many Westerners believe that in islamic culture pictures are completely forbidden!" I wrote this in the opening paragraph of my book 'Chouf! Qra! - Comics & cartoons in the - [The Website Has a New Look!](https://drawingthetimes.com/the-website-has-a-new-look/) - You probably noticed that Drawing the Times looks a bit different. We made some necessary changes: instead of showcasing the current special on the homepage we now feature new and relevant stories. The overview of the different elements of Drawing the Times on the homepage are more balanced. You can share each story now. And to be able - [Bob Mollema - Syr x Amadeus Lyceum](https://drawingthetimes.com/bob-mollema-syr-x-amadeus-lyceum/) - Bob Mollema who published the story Bed, Bath and Dead on Drawing the Times, started a new project with an important role for refugees. Amadeus Lyceum asked Bob to start up an engaged project for their students. He took initiative and contacted restaurant Syr, where the kitchen is run by Syrian refugees, to start a collaboration. Together with the students and - [Croque ton histoire - Scribble Your Story](https://drawingthetimes.com/croque-ton-histoire-scribble-your-story/) - Fier de toi! Proud Of You! Open Call In collaboration with Free Press Unlimited, Drawing the Times is organizing a contest in graphic journalism in selected African countries: Rwanda/Burundi, Mali, Bénin, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is an open call for all artists living in these countries to enter the contest by making a visual - [Diala Brisly - Syrian artist's drawings on Syria](https://drawingthetimes.com/diala-brisly-syrian-artists-drawings-on-syria/) - Artist Diala Brisly fled Syria in 2013. She now lives in France but she's well known inside Syria for her work on a children's magazine, Zayton and Zaytonah - like Olive and Oliver, a boy and a girl. There are a lot of olive trees and olive farms in the north of Syria.. The main - [Victoria Lomasko: The green shoots of Russian grassroots activism (part 2)](https://drawingthetimes.com/victoria-lomasko-the-green-shoots-of-russian-grassroots-activism-part-2/) - Protesting truckers make a placard: “20 February: the day when the trucks won’t pass” Our story on Russia’s grassroots activism continues. From Moscow’s parks to federal highways, ordinary citizens learn the power of protest – and of solidarity. Over the past few years, Russian artist Viktoria Lomasko has travelled widely across Russia, as well as to Armenia, - [Victoria Lomasko: The green shoots of Russian grassroots activism (part 1)](https://drawingthetimes.com/3868/) - What do two Moscow parks and a truck drivers’ trade union have in common? They have been the focus of protests that have shown that the Russian public may be losing its traditional passivity. Over the past few years, Russian artist Viktoria Lomasko has travelled widely across Russia, as well as to Armenia, Georgia and - [An Image for Fraternity](https://drawingthetimes.com/an-image-for-fraternity/) - The RATP and Fraternité in France organized the exhibition Une image pour la fraternité in metro station Hôtel de Ville in Paris, initiated by the philosopher Abdennour Bidar. They are on display until November 14 and will travel through France afterwards. Jeanne Verdoux made this drawing just after the attacks on Bataclan in Paris exactly one - [What would the year 2020 look and feel like if Trump wins the U.S. Elections?](https://drawingthetimes.com/year-2020-look-feel-like-trump-wins-u-s-elections/) - Artist draw what concerns them if Trump wins the U.S. elections at the Comic Arts Brooklyn Festival on November 5th. Drawings by Anonymous, Mike Taylor, Morgan Holub, Keith Jones, Paul Kirchner, Hic & Hoc, Nicole Rifkin, Sanita kuš!, R. Sikoryak and Nate Doyle. - [Innocent Drawing](https://drawingthetimes.com/innocent-drawing/) - A group of artists in The Hague: Babette Wagenvoort, Frits Dijcks and Erik-Jan Ligtvoet initiated Innocent Drawing because they felt the need to draw for a 'good cause'. They have started by drawing postcards for prisoners of conscience that are sent via Amnesty International. The drawings are innocent, i.e. they can't have political meanings, because they might - [Victoria Lomasko: A Trip to Tbilisi](https://drawingthetimes.com/victoria-lomasko-trip-tbilisi/) - A trip to Tbilisi Victoria Lomasko Translation: Thomas Campbell Even before the trip, I had heard lots of rave reviews about Tbilisi from friends. They had told me about the beauty and hospitality of Georgians, about big meals with sing-alongs, about Tbilisi’s old courtyards. “What can I say about this tourist town that would be - [Violence and Misery Reign Supreme in the Divided City of Hebron](https://drawingthetimes.com/violence-misery-reign-supreme-divided-city-hebron/) - Hebron, the city of the Biblical patriarchs on the West Bank, plays a major role in the violence that has been plaguing Israel and the Palestinian Territories since late last year. Israeli settlers are talking about bloody terror, the Palestinians about a suffocating occupation. Two irreconcilable narratives from a divided city. Text DAVID ORANJE Illustrations - [The Nib](https://drawingthetimes.com/the-nib/) - The Nib is a daily comics publications that is part of First Look Media. They publish political cartoons, journalism, essays and memoir about what is going down in the world, all in comics form. The Nib delivers engaging and provocative social commentary in the form of political cartoons, comics journalism, and non-fiction writing from a - [Komikazen - International Reality Comics Festival](https://drawingthetimes.com/komikazen-international-reality-comics-festival/) - Komikazen International Reality Comics Festival is an annual festival for non-fiction comics organized by Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini and sponsored by Mirada Cultural Association. The first edition took place in 2005 in Ravenna, Italy with special guests Phoebe Gloeckner, Joe Sacco and Marjane Satrapi. This year the event took place in Rimini from May - [Women From Molenbeek - Portraits by Judith Vanistendael](https://drawingthetimes.com/women-molenbeek-portraits-judith-vanistendael/) - Malika Saissi, Coordinator of the woman’s movement Kaleidoscoop in Molenbeek “Since 5 years I crush taboos. We talk about homosexuality. I had to be strategic. I didn’t want to offend any of these women. We’re trying to catch up a deprivation of 30 years, but it works! After the attacks on Paris there is a - [Stripdagen Haarlem - Drawing Modern Feminism](https://drawingthetimes.com/stripdagen-haarlem-drawing-modern-feminism/) - Stripdagen Haarlem Stripdagen Haarlem is a biannual comic festival in the center of the old city of Haarlem, Netherlands that took place for the first time in 1992. The festival consists of many (free) exhibitions, fairs, discourses, concerts, movie screenings, award festivities and children activities. The main fair will be held in the first - [PostiveNegatives - True Stories. Drawn from Life.](https://drawingthetimes.com/postivenegatives-true-stories-drawn-from-life/) - PositiveNegatives produce literary comics about contemporary social and human rights issues. They combine ethnographic research with illustration and photography, adapting personal testimonies into art, education and advocacy materials. PositiveNegatives was initiated by Benjamin Dix. He worked in Sri Lanka for the UN for four years. When he returned to England he started to write his Phd thesis - [Cartoon Movement - There is more than one truth.](https://drawingthetimes.com/cartoon-movement/) - The Cartoon Movement is a a community of international editorial cartoonists and fans of political satire. The Cartoon Movement is part of The Video Journalism Movement (VJ Movement). The Cartoon Movement was set up by Tjeerd Royaards, a Dutch editorial cartoonist. Tjeerd is Editor-in-Chief. He is also on the Board of Advisors of Cartoonists Rights Network International and - [Strapazin - Das Comic Magazine](https://drawingthetimes.com/strapazin/) - The international comic magazine in German language "Abhauen, weggehen, Flucht“ - No. 122 / March 2016 The theme of this issue is Refugees. There are stories by Mazen Kerbaj (Lebanon), Hila Noam (Israel), Christoph Abbrederis (Austria), Paula Bulling (Germany), Harsho Chatteraj (India), Zep (Switzerland), Isabel Peterhans (Switzerland) and Ro (Switzerland). Subscriptions: www.strapazin.ch / www.strapazin.de Drawing the - [Brush & Bow - Exploring individual stories within wider social issues through art and music](https://drawingthetimes.com/brush-bow-exploring-individual-stories-within-wider-social-issues-art-music/) - Brush&Bow is a platform for creative journalism, using illustrations and sound-recordings to explore the individual voices and stories of people within current social issues. As a musician and artist duo, Harriet Paintin and Hannah Kirmes-Daly work closely together, using the arts to create spaces of communication, trust and celebration. In a world full of divisions, - [La Revue Dessinée: French magazine for in-depth graphic journalism](https://drawingthetimes.com/la-revue-dessinee/) - La Revue Dessinée is a French quarterly magazine, both digital and in print. Each issue contains 228 pages of articles in comic form. The story 'The Borders of Shame', by Taina Tervonen and Jeff Pourquié was originally published in La Revue Dessinée #7. - [Dunkirk Refugee Camp - "The Failure of our Humane Europe"](https://drawingthetimes.com/duinkirk/) - In the northern French town of Grande-Synthe, a suburb of Dunkirk and a two-hour drive from the Dutch border, it is harrowing to see how the European asylum policy is failing. Plagued by infectious diseases, violent people smugglers and unwilling authorities, the 3000 inhabitants of the refugee camp there are desperately trying to survive the - [Abadaringi - A graphic novel about the people of the Ecole d'Art Nyundo (Rwanda) from 1990 to the present day](https://drawingthetimes.com/abadaringi-graphic-novel-people-ecole-dart-nyundo-rwanda-1990-present-day/) - Jeroen Janssen lived and worked in Rwanda until 1994, when hell broke loose. He taught at the Art school of Nyundo, the only art school of Rwanda, located in the green hills between the Nile and the Congo river. He returned 20 years later with his sketchbook and his markers looking for the people and places - [Victoria Lomasko: A Trip to Dagestan](https://drawingthetimes.com/victoria-lomasko-trip-dagestan/) - Elmira, a Kumyk woman A Trip to Dagestan Victoria Lomasko Translation: Thomas Campbell Makhachkala 1 The first sight I was shown in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a Russian Federation republic in the North Caucasus, was the prison on Scorpion Hill. “A rebuilt garrison fortress, it is one of the oldest buildings in town: - [Forget Me Not - Stories of Child Trafficking from the Thai-Burmese Border](https://drawingthetimes.com/forget-not-stories-child-trafficking-thai-burmese-border/) - It’s hard being a kid born in the mountainous border region between Thailand and Myanmar. Political, economic, and geographic factors all threaten the fundamentals of childhood, and often disrupt or completely destroy the normal process of growing up. The area is unstable and relatively lawless, especially in rural villages where most people live. Children are - [Victoria Lomasko: A Trip to Yerevan](https://drawingthetimes.com/a-trip-to-yerevan-victoria-lomasko/) - A Trip to Yerevan Victoria Lomasko Translation: Thomas Campbell Armenian Site Who Lives in Yerevan? The strongest impression from my first day in the city was the sense that only one language was spoken on the streets and everyone looked more or less alike. Armenia is a monoethnic country. According to statistics, over ninety-seven percent of - [Drawings in Court. Aloys Oosterwijk](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawings-in-court-aloys-oosterwijk/) - In the Netherlands photographers are not admitted in the courtroom. To give an impression of the trial, an artist makes drawings of the suspects in the courtroom and those are shown in the media. They have to be neutral, not judging. Unlike graphic journalist, the artist in the courtroom should not show his feelings or emotions - [Drawn Report of the Launch Party of Drawing the Times by Typex.](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawn-report-of-the-launch-party-of-drawing-the-times-by-typex/) - Dutch artist, cartoonist and illustrator -well-known for his biography of Rembrandt, that is also available in English and Spanish- drew this excellent report of the launch party of Drawing the Times on November 25 in the Press museum in Amsterdam. - [The Launch of Drawing the Times](https://drawingthetimes.com/the-launch-of-drawing-the-times/) - Wednesday the 25th of November was the Big Day! From this day on everyone in the whole world has access to www.drawingthetimes.com! The Press Museum in Amsterdam hosted the launch party. Jules Calis, Holland's bravest comics journalist showed a documentary (in Dutch) about his work in the field as a comics journalist. The following speakers took part - [Victoria Lomasko: A Trip to Kyrgyzstan](https://drawingthetimes.com/victoria-lomasko-a-trip-to-kyrgyzstan/) - A Trip to Kyrgyzstan Victoria Lomasko August 25, 2014 Translation: Thomas Campbell Russian Site Kyrygzstan/Kirghizia I had come to visit Bishkek Feminists “Are there really feminists in Kirghizia?” my mom had wondered before I left. On the way from the airport to Bishkek the collective’s leader, Selbi, corrected my speech several times. “It’s not Kirghizia, - [Refugee Republic: Interactive Transmedia Documentary About a Syrian Refugee Camp in Iraq](https://drawingthetimes.com/refugee-republic/) - Refugee Republic Refugee Republic is production by Submarine Channel and De Volkskrant. Camp Domiz is a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq. Around 64 thousand predominantly Kurdish-Syrian refugees have sought shelter here. As the number of refugees grew, the camp gradually transformed from a temporary refuge to a makeshift town, where people live and work, go - [Jérôme - A Documentary About the Rwandese Who Took Part in the African Expedition of Ché Guevara.](https://drawingthetimes.com/jerome/) - Jeroen Janssen and Hilde Baele drew and wrote the Unlikely But True Story of the Rwandese Who Took Part in the African Expedition of Ché Guevara. Jérôme Sébasoni, the protagonist of the story is a remarkable man. He can tell numerous stories about the time when he joined Che Guevara, fifty years ago in his African expedition. The - [Big Birds of Freedom: Students reflect on the attacks in Paris.](https://drawingthetimes.com/big-birds-of-freedom/) - Students Illustration of HKU reflect on the attacks in Paris by making big birds of freedom. - [Graphic News: Graphic journalism designed for mobile devices.](https://drawingthetimes.com/graphic-news/) - Graphic News is the first digital native comics journalism portal. Graphic News is a project from the Cooperativa Pequod, wich was founded by a group of young people coming from the world of comics, journalism and communication, sharing among them a vision, passion and energy. The people of Graphic News think that comics journalism is today a reality capable of telling - [Drawing the IDFA](https://drawingthetimes.com/drawing-the-idfa/) - Drawing the Times cartoonists made drawn reports from the best documentaries shown at the IDFA festival last week. Gijs Kast made this after he saw the documentary Nice People by Anders Helgeson and Karin af Klintberg, on Somalian refugees that formed a bandy team in Sweden. Lampedusa in Winter from Jakob Brossmann, on the Italian - [Kuš Komiksi: Baltic Comics Magazine](https://drawingthetimes.com/kus-komiksi/) - Kuš! (pronounce koosh!) is a comics art anthology from Latvia founded 2007 in Riga. Every issue contains comics from international and Latvian artists on a certain theme which changes every issue. The aims of kuš! are to popularize comics in a country where this medium is practically non-existent and promoting Latvian comics abroad. kuš! doesn't just - [Drawing Radical Muslims: A Vapid Way to Use the Pen? by Joost Pollmann](https://drawingthetimes.com/pollmann-en-charlie-hebdo/) - There’s not an editorial writer in the world who did not comment on the Charlie Hebdo murders, on the freedom of speech, or on the responsibility of cartoonists: how far can or should they go? 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With a - [Licensing](https://drawingthetimes.com/about/licensing/) - Licensing licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 Unless specifically mentioned otherwise the content published on Drawing the Times are licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) . You can read the terms and conditions for using the contents published in this website here You are free to use the content if you don’t use them ## Stories - [Cartoons by TRIK](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/cartoons-by-trik-2/) - [Jaap's Silence](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/jaaps-silence/) - Jaap’s Silence – on war and the quiet after coming home Jaap is a hard worker. When he’s at home, he prefers to hide behind his newspaper. From behind that paper he comments on the world - and on his family. Beyond that he remains silent, and no one really knows why. Until his granddaughter - [Do You Know Flo?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/do-you-know-flo/) - Floor de Goede, aka Flo, is trying to make sense of the world around him, by drawing cartoons and short comics. Here you can see a selection of them, there is more on doyouknowflo.nl and instagram. - [Bearing Witness](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/bearing-witness/) - A webcomic about memory, Margraten, and art's place in preserving history. - [Migratie, hoe werkt dat eigenlijk?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/migratie-hoe-werkt-dat-eigenlijk/) - "How Migration Really Works" by Hein de Haas, summarized as a comic strip. Migration is one of the most discussed and least understood topics of our time. Opinions and numbers are constantly flying around in public debate. But what do we actually know? This story is in Dutch. You can also download the pdf here. - [Never Never Again](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/never-never-again/) - [Overheid](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/overheid/) - ‘Rijkswaterstaat, het ministerie van Infrastructuur, de provincie, gemeente... De beslissers, de uitvoerders van het plan. Maar wat een complex traject! Rijkswaterstaat krijgt veel protest, ook de provincie en gemeente Utrecht maken bezwaar. Het is nu wachten op een uitspraak van de Raad van State. Daarnaast gaat de politiek dóór. De regering is demissionair en neemt - [All the Evil in the World](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/all-the-evil-in-the-world/) - The story of Giulio Regeni is also the story of five Egyptians that were falsely accused of his disappearance and killed. One year later the truth is still unknown. This story was published on Graphic News - [Mark Platje](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/mark-platje/) - Voor het project Drawn to Freedom, dat tijdens de Stripdagen Haarlem werd georganiseerd in het kader van 80 jaar vrijheid ging Micky Dirkzwager in gesprek met Mark Platje, die jarenlang aan huis gekluisterd was wegens nierfalen. - [Track Change](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/track-change/) - Brussels South Station is often portrayed as a dangerous and transient space—a hub of crime and hurried passengers. Yet for many, it is also a place of residence, community, and survival. This project seeks to nuance this polarizing narrative by turning a journalistic and artistic lens toward the organizations and individuals working on the ground - [Sisters](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sisters/) - Sisters is a deeply personal illustrated story by Anna Denise Floor, exploring the myths that every family holds dear; the stories told so often in childhood that they become a kind of personal folklore. As a child, these tales made her feel special and seen. But becoming a mother herself sparked a deeper curiosity: which - [The River of People](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-river-of-people/) - War in Abkhazia, Georgia (1992-1993), Russian-Georgian War (2008): Military supported by Russia Resulted in occupation of up to 20% of Georgian territories, displacement of hundreds of people, deaths of thousands of civilians and soldiers. Georgia's developing relationship with the West made the Kremlin try to "return" the country into the Russian sphere of influence. Since - [One Meme Away From War](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/one-meme-away-from-war/) - Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Wars (1988-2023): Beginning in 1988, the conflict stemmed from ethnic and territorial disputes rooted in Soviet "divide and rule" policies. The decades-long struggle of Armenians for self-determination in Artsakh culminated in a large-scale 44-day war in 2020, followed by the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive, which forcibly displaced over 120,000 Armenians from Artsakh. All of - [Last Night On Earth](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/last-night-on-earth/) - The ongoing Russian-Ukranian war (2014 - present) began with Russia's armed invasion and occupation of Crimea in 2014. The conflict escalated to a new level with Russia's full-scale invasion, drawing global attention to the devastating impacts of war, including widespread human rights violations, mass displacement, and the resilience of those affected, particularly women. In February - [Jungle Juice](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/jungle-juice/) - LAGOS – For years now, high sulphur levels in imported diesel and gasoline are causing severe air pollution in the city. This graphic journalism piece traces the data trail of the oil, from West Africa to European port terminals. In Europe, strict fuel standards have been in place since 2009. Yet polluting and harmful fuels - [Boerenzoon in Mokum](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/boerenzoon-in-mokum/) - Dit is deel 2 in de serie koeienverhalen die Mark Schalken tekent om aandacht te vragen voor een monument ter ere van de miljoenen koeien die jaarlijks naar de slachtbank gaan. Dit monument zet ons aan het denken over een toekomst zonder de dierenindustrie. - [The Rabbit's Scream](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-rabbits-scream/) - In this story Aleksandar Zograf talks about the protests against the corrupt Serbian government and how students became active protesters after the collapse of a canopy in the trainstation of Novi Sad in 2024. Their protests are armed with persistence, solidarity and humor, Zograf writes and they are connecting people from all generations and also - [De koe die niet dood wilde](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/de-koe-die-niet-dood-wilde-the-cow-that-didnt-want-to-die/) - Mark Schalken wil een monument oprichten voor alle naamloze koeien die werden geslacht in het Amsterdamse abattoir (zie www.koeienmonument.nl). Hij tekende een ode aan die ene koe die in 1987 ontsnapte en de kranten haalde. - [The Cow Who Didn't Want To Die](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/de-koe-die-niet-dood-wilde-the-cow-that-didnt-want-to-die/) - Mark Schalken wants to create a monument to all the nameless cows that were slaughtered in the Amsterdam abattoir (see www.koeienmonument.nl). He drew an ode to the one cow that escaped and made headlines in 1987. - [De Rode Lijn Den Haag](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/de-rode-lijn-den-haag/) - Griet Menschaert was one of over 150,000 who joined the March in The Hague 15th June 2025, to draw a Red Line against the Dutch government that doesn't act against the genocide that is taking place in Gaza. Griet was walking, protesting and drawing at the same time. Griet Menschaert was één van de meer - [Marni's verhaal](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/marnis-verhaal/) - Voor het project Drawn to Freedom, dat tijdens de Stripdagen Haarlem werd georganiseerd in het kader van 80 jaar vrijheid ging B. Carrot in gesprek met Marni Blom. Zij runde samen met Renie Limonard van 1984 tot 1992 het vrouwencafé Kantje Boord, later De Ladies. Dit café werd voor vrouwen een veilige plek om andere vrouwen te - [Mehrnousch](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/mehrnousch/) - Author Mehrnousch Zaeri-Esfahani was asked by illustrator Magdalena Kaszuba: "How are you?" The comic was created based on this conversation for the campaign "How are you? – Illustrators against anti-Semitism, hate, and racism." Mehrnousch Zaeri-Esfahani, born in 1974 in Isfahan, Iran, left Iran with her family in 1985 and came to Germany via Turkey from - [Wall Thoughts](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/wall-thoughts/) - [Onder de rook van de Hoogovens](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/onder-de-rook-van-de-hoogovens/) - Between April 22 and May 20, twelve artists who are connected to the creative collective Het Huis van Betekenis, drew people's portraits before the play Onder de Rook van de Hoogovens started in the Hoogovensmuseum in Velsen-Noord. While the artist was drawing and writing, people shared how they experience the presence of the steel factory. - [The Challenge From Nkumba](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-challenge-from-nkumba/) - In December 2024, when Josh Biseruka heard that he was selected for an Artist in residency in the UK, he started packing his suitcase right away. But then he received an email... - [Closing The Gap](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/closing-the-gap/) - Josh Neufeld explores a study of an intervention aimed at reducing blood pressure among local church parishioners with uncontrolled hypertension. This story was first published on The Journalist Resource. - [The Sunflower Community](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-sunflower-community/) - Losing a loved one is always difficult. Sudden, violent deaths can be especially hard to process. In this comic, Rachelle Meyer chose to focus on one aspect of the grieving process after her sister was murdered – maintaining communication with her family across a geographic divide. - [Mirjam Wenzel](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/mirjam-wenzel/) - Since 2016 Mirjam Wenzel has been the director of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, the eldest Jewish museum in Germany. She is the author and co-publisher of books and catalogues about German-Jewish art and culture history. Her publications include articles, essays and blog posts on cultural theory, aesthetic and museological questions, on the representation of - [Sint Joost Krant 2025](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-krant-2025/) - Tijdens periode 6 van jaar 2 van de opleiding Illustrated and animated storytelling aan de academie Sint Joost in Den Bosch en Breda hebben studenten gewerkt aan journalistieke beeldverhalen die zij hebben gebundeld in een krant. Hier een selectie van verhalen die de diversiteit van maakmanieren laten zien: Michael Kleij, Rosalie de Jonge, Ebba Balhuizen, - [Judy LaDivina & The Darvish](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/judy-ladivina-the-darvish/) - Make Hafla Not War! is the motto of Judy LaDivina (from Israel) and The Darvish (from Syria) when they perform on stage. “Hafla” means a dance party. The program "YallaHafla" is not just about Judy’s perfect lipsync and the hypnotic dance of The Darvish. By having a deep and open conversation and the possibility to - [My Jasmine Diary](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/my-jasmine-diary/) - The German/Swiss NGO Libereco previously organized projects in which war histories were incorporated into comics and graphic narratives. The latest project is Scars of Strength. In this project, 14 young people from Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan shared their war experiences. This was done as an oral history project called "To tell OUR stories: - [Ruth](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ruth/) - Nathalie Frank is one of the initiators of the project "Wie geht es dir?". Ruth is the first story that was published and is a personal story about the authors grandmother. - [Introduction](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/introduction/) - Over Ameliswaardig Wat is de impact van mensen op de natuur? Worden bomen en dieren bedreigd? Wat levert verbreding eigenlijk op? Is de historische waarde van Amelisweerd van belang? Hoe zwaar weegt de stem van de lokale politiek? Ooit een oerbos, nu een Utrechts landgoed met een geliefd bos, én een snelweg erdoorheen. Amelisweerd. Onderwerp - [Quel vent souffle sur la mer?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/quel-vent-souffle-sur-la-mer/) - La France, qui se dit en pleine transition énergétique et en faveur des énergies renouvelables, construit une centrale électrique en mer. Située dans une zone entourée d'aires marines protégées, quel sera l'impact de ces éoliennes sur la faune et la flore ? La biodiversité sera-t-elle affectée ? Axel Claes observe et commente ce qui se - [Quel vent souffle sur la mer?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/quel-vent-souffle-sur-la-mer/) - La France, qui se dit en pleine transition énergétique et en faveur des énergies renouvelables, construit une centrale électrique en mer. Située dans une zone entourée d'aires marines protégées, quel sera l'impact de ces éoliennes sur la faune et la flore ? La biodiversité sera-t-elle affectée ? Axel Claes observe et commente ce qui se - [Quel vent souffle sur la mer?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/quel-vent-souffle-sur-la-mer/) - La France, qui se dit en pleine transition énergétique et en faveur des énergies renouvelables, construit une centrale électrique en mer. Située dans une zone entourée d'aires marines protégées, quel sera l'impact de ces éoliennes sur la faune et la flore ? La biodiversité sera-t-elle affectée ? Axel Claes observe et commente ce qui se - [Wind on the Water](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/wind-over-water/) - France is taking the energy transition into renewable energy seriously and builds a power station at sea in an area that is surrounded by protected marine areas. How will these windmills have an impact on the wildlife? Will it affect biodiversity? Axel Claes sees it happening before his eyes. special thanks to reporterre.net, splann.org, apache.be, - [Window Comic - Prague](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-prague/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [Window Comic - Samarina](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-samarina-greece/) - On February 28 a new IPCC report was released that was even more alarming than the previous one: The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5°C (2.7°F). Even temporarily exceeding this warming level will result in additional severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible. Risks - [Window Comic - Amsterdam](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-amsterdam/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [Window Comic - Brussels](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-brussels/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [The Stories That Tell Us](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-stories-that-tell-us/) - We tell stories to make sense of life, to put things into some kind of an order, a structure. What happens when we hold on to those stories too tightly, for too long? When do the stories start telling us instead of us telling them? - [A Stateswoman is Dead](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-stateswoman-is-dead/) - The New Green Deal provides an answer to the climate crisis. But what will happen if the EU effectively ends all livestock subsidies? Nina Mathijsen and writer Aetzel Griffioen foresee an historical day in Brussels. - [Metsänpeitto (Covered by forest)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/metsanpeitto-covered-by-forest/) - Comics can be useful tools for research in cultural anthropology, mythology and folklore. The Finnish comics artist Sanna Hukkanen collaborated with cultural anthropology researcher Inkeri Aula (Aalto University), and together they created a book about trees. For the book Metsänpeitto (‘Covered by forest’, Arktinen Banaani, 2018) they collected stories and mythology from Finnish and Karelian tradition - [Perilous Pathways](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/perilous-pathways/) - Filipino women, both in their home country and in popular migratory destinations such as Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, are being lured to Poland through word of mouth and social media accounts promoting jobs. The prospect of living and working in Europe seems like a dream come true. But many have found precarious jobs and - [Elvelangs](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/elvelangs/) - On June 9, people in the EU voted for the parliament and the outcome was less radical than expected, but still many Europeans voted for the far right, populist parties. One of the main reasons that people vote for these parties, is that they are worried about migration, worried that immigrants and refugees will take - [I Said Nothing](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/i-said-nothing/) - Who said political tensions couldn't fill the air? "I Said Nothing" is based on a genuine encounter and delves into the profound impact of these tensions on everyday life and Tânia's perspectives. This encounter, a testament to the personal toll of political unrest, occurred the day before the 2023 Dutch elections. - [Way out](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/way-out/) - Uitweg ('exit' or 'way out' in English) is B. Carrot's second book. It tells the story of Magda, an elementary school teacher in Warsaw who finds herself dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. The Catholic conservative Polish society and norms combined with the restrictive laws against abortion leave Magda in a tight spot.. B. Carrot was - [How We Stopped And Listened To The Birds - Chapter 1](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/how-we-stopped-and-listened-to-the-birds/) - During the Covid-19 pandemic, many were the images of empty cities worldwide, one of these Amsterdam. But how truthful were these images? This multi-chapter story challenges the narrative of the empty city in Amsterdam. It wonders about the connection of mass tourism to the disappearance of people on the streets through a historical overview and - [How We Stopped And Listened To The Birds - Chapter 2](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/how-we-stopped-and-listened-to-the-birds-2/) - During the Covid-19 pandemic, many were the images of empty cities worldwide, one of these Amsterdam. But how truthful were these images? This multi-chapter story challenges the narrative of the empty city in Amsterdam. It wonders about the connection of mass tourism to the disappearance of people on the streets through a historical overview and - [Portretten Amelisweerd](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/portretten-amelisweerd/) - Tijdens het publieksevenement op 11 november 2023 tekenden enkele tekenaars van het Huis van Betekenis portretten van bezoekers. Met Albert Hennipman, Katja Fred, Eva Hilhorst en Lotte Dijkstre - [Geschiedenis](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/geschiedenis/) - ‘Bij het landgoed en Landhuis Oud-Amelisweerd komen natuur en cultuur samen. En de meer dan 40 vrijwilligers brengen de geschiedenis en de toekomst samen. Zij dragen bij aan het onderhoud en dus het voortbestaan. Maar ook vertellen zij de verhalen van deze plek. Wist je dat de broer van Napoleon hier tussen 1808 en 1810 - [Boeren](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/boeren/) - ‘De boeren die op het landgoed werken en leven, pachten de grond van de gemeente. Zij beheren de grond al 150 tot 250 jaar, van generatie op generatie. Bij hen zit veel kennis. Maar hoe gaat het lopen nu de gemeente de C02-uitstoot flink moet beperken? Heeftdat effect op het boerenbestaan? De boeren horen niets, - [Het bos](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-forest/) - 'Amelisweerd is vroeger aangelegd als een tuin. De ‘ruïne’ van deze oude tuin is inmiddels overgenomen door de natuur. De boswachter houdt het in toom, maar laat de wildgroei ook zijn gang gaan. Wat landschapsarchitecten dan weer niet waarderen. Zij zouden de tuin willen herstellen! De boswachter steekt daar letterlijk een stokje voor. Mijn gesprek - [Weggebruikers](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/weggebruikers/) - ‘Weggebruikers zijn niet alleen mensen die over het asfalt rijden. Wat beweegt er over enonder de grond, en wat door de lucht boven het asfalt? En; hoe verhouden die gebruikerszich ten opzichte van elkaar? Een ijsvogel hoort dan ook thuis in de ‘soortenkaart’ van de weg. Mijn informatie komt onder andere van Rijkswaterstaat, Transport en - [Inleiding](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/introduction/) - Over Ameliswaardig Wat is de impact van mensen op de natuur? Worden bomen en dieren nu bedreigd? Wat levert zo'n verbreding eigenlijk op? Is de historische waarde van Amelisweerd van belang? Hoe zwaar weegt de stem van de lokale politiek? Ooit een oerbos, nu een Utrechts landgoed met een geliefd bos, én een snelweg erdoorheen. - [Ameliswaardig - the movie](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ameliswaardig-the-movie/) - [Ameliswaardige beelden](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ameliswaardige-beelden/) - Tekenaars van Het Huis van Betekenis gaven hun visie op het onderwerp: Eline Schipperen, Timon Vader, Paco Kamil, Lotte Dijkstra, Timber Sommerdijk, Aida de Jong. - [Introduction](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/introduction/?lang=nl) - [Het bos](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-forest/) - [Het bos](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-forest/?lang=nl) - [politieke prenten Sint Joost 2024](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/politieke-prenten-sint-joost-2024/) - How do you translate a political cartoon that was made years, or even a century ago to the present situation? First year students of Sint Joost Academy of the Arts, specialization Illustration and Animation, received a political cartoon from the Archive of Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum as an inspiration and starting point for a - [DISEASE X](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/disease-x/) - A virus that was unknown until recently has taken over the news and our lives. Merel Barends immersed herself into the subject : what are viruses and why are they so dangerous? - [Storytelling](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/storytelling/) - On February 24,2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Jenya Polosina and Anna Ivanenko from Seri/graph studio in Kyiv had to seek shelter. In this reportage they show how they experienced this terrifying situation. Two years have passed and peace is still far away. Jenya and Anna keep on documenting the situation in comics from their homebase in - [How We Stopped And Listened To The Birds - Chapter 3](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/how-we-stopped-and-listened-to-the-birds-3/) - During the Covid-19 pandemic, many were the images of empty cities worldwide, one of these Amsterdam. But how truthful were these images? This multi-chapter story challenges the narrative of the empty city in Amsterdam. It wonders about the connection of mass tourism to the disappearance of people on the streets through a historical overview and - [“Can We Call It Apartheid Now?”](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/palestine/) - This piece is the first in a series exploring different aspects of the day to day reality taking place in Palestine-Israel. We often read about the conflict in this region in the media. Here, B. Carrot tells it from her own personal and critical perspective. Carrot is an Amsterdam based, Jerusalem born and raised, Israeli - [The Seven Deadly Sins](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-seven-deadly-sins/) - This project is made out of frustration with our world leaders today. They bring so much pain and suffering with their personalities. And how is it possible that others fail to see this deadly behaviour of their leaders and follow such thinly sliced moral characters? Somehow I wish I could teach them some manners and - [The Journey of Godfred](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-journey-of-godfred/) - This is the story of Godfred, a young Ghanese man who crossed the Mediterranean sea as a minor while he had never learned how to swim. The story was made during the project Erasmus+ Youth project "Art as a tool for inclusion of young people" in Tornareccio, Italy and promoted by ARCI Chieti, in July - [Antarctica Indigo](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/antarctica-indigo/) - In these weeks, July 2023, when news reaches us of extreme heat waves in various parts of the world, also news reaches us that the winter ice in Antarctica is suddenly lagging dramatically behind with an area of 136.000 square kilometer, compared to what we might have expected, Drawing the Times publishes the drawing and - [Editorial Climate Change](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/editorial-climate-change/) - [Window Comic - Villarbasse](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comic-villarbasse/) - We started this project a year ago.. and it is only getting worse, so we keep it going until ... We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs to participate. - [War in Ukraine](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/war-in-ukraine/) - [Editorial Graphic Journalism](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/editorial-example/) - Eva Hilhorst, graphic journalist and editor in chief of Drawing the Times introduces you to the wonderful world of graphic journalism. - [In Search of a Subject (part 3)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-3/) - This is the third attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [Becoming Muslim Miss Manga](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/becoming-muslim-miss-manga/) - When Jeroen Janssen and Hilde Baele visited the FIBDA comics festival in Algiers last year, they were intrigued. With the slogan "Tell me in Bubbles" and workshops about "Freedom of Speech," "Politics and Cartoons,"The Comic Strip and Drawing in the Arab World" they asked themselves questions from the stance of "Je suis Charlie:" Aren't cartoons and - [Migrant's Stories](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/migrants-stories-2/) - The Serbian people suffered from war in the nineties of the last century in their own country, and now migrants from Africa and Asia pass through Serbia in search of a better life. In these stories Aleksandar Zograf lets an Afghan and a Syrian refugee talk about their harsh situation. - [How Does the U.S. Election Affect Your Daily Life? October 24, 2016](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/u-s-election-affect-daily-life-october-24-2016/) - Drawing the Times is inviting artists and people of all kinds to contribute loose drawings/handmade images that go alongside notes from your life / interviews of people around you that relate to how this election may impact you/them. We want to know how the US elections will affect daily life around the world. We are - [How Does the U.S Election Affect Your Daily Life? October 17, 2016](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/u-s-election-affect-daily-life-october-17-2016/) - Drawing the Times is inviting artists and people of all kinds to contribute loose drawings/handmade images that go alongside notes from your life / interviews of people around you that relate to how this election may impact you/them. We want to know how the US elections will affect daily life around the world. We are planning - [How Does the U.S. Election Affect Your Daily Life? October 10, 2016](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/how-does-the-u-s-election-effect-your-daily-life/) - Drawing the Times is inviting artists and people of all kinds to contribute loose drawings/handmade images that go alongside notes from your life / interviews of people around you that relate to how this election may impact you/them. We want to know how the US elections will affect daily life around the world. We are planning - [How Does the U.S. Election Affect Your Daily Life? October 31, 2016](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/u-s-election-affect-daily-life-october-31-2016/) - Drawing the Times is inviting artists and people of all kinds to contribute loose drawings/handmade images that go alongside notes from your life / interviews of people around you that relate to how this election may impact you/them. We want to know how the US elections will affect daily life around the world. We are - [How Does the U.S. Election Affect Your Daily Life? November 7, 2016](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/how-does-the-u-s-election-affect-your-daily-life-november-7-2016/) - Drawing the Times is inviting artists and people of all kinds to contribute loose drawings/handmade images that go alongside notes from your life / interviews of people around you that relate to how this election may impact you/them. We want to know how the US elections will affect daily life around the world. We are - [Aleppo Is Hell](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/aleppo-is-hell/) - Costantini draws upon the experiences of the people of Aleppo - where thousands remain under siege by troops loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Sometimes the photos that float across our social media feed are too much to bear. How many more times must we see images like those of Hamza al-Khateeb, Aylan Kurdi or - [Life in Lybia - Gaddafi's Shadow](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/life-in-lybia-gaddafis-shadow/) - It's been 5 years since the death of Muammar Gaddafi and the fall of his regime. Wesam is a Libyan basket baller, rapper & comic artist. Drawing the Times asked him about his experiences in a country that went from dictatorship to revolution to new order in the past couple of years. Jan-Willem Spakman translated his answers into this - [Sint Joost 1](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drawing-the-times-labs/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 2](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-2/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 3](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drawing-the-times-labs-3/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 4](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-4/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 5](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-5/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 6](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-6/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 7](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-7/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 8](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-8/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Sint Joost 9](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-9/) - Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see what young people today care about. - [Plant Thoughts & Puzzle Cells](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/plant-thoughts-puzzle-cells/) - In this story Judith de Haan introduces the world of synthetic biology to us.It is a drawn reportage of the SynCity festival that was held on October 5 and 6 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. This story was made for the special newspaper that Drawing the Times made for Dutch Design Week 2017. - [The Moments of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Drawings](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/olympic-winter-games-2018/) - Italian artist Gianluca Costantini is sketching the 2018 Winter Olympics for CNN. Here's a selection of some of his drawings. - [Expecting 1](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU - [Expecting 2](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-2/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 3](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-3/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Data Analysis](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/6264/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Danger Data](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/6250/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Modern Mythology](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/modern-mythology/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Pig Propaganda](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/6257/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Phone Industry](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/phone-industry/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [How To Get Your Identity Back](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/get-identity-back/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Against The Flow](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/against-the-flow/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Picture People](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/picture-people/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Treated Like Food](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/treated-like-food/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Burning Out](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/burning-out/) - For the second time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Expecting 4](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-4/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 5](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-5/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 6](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-6-2/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 7](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-7-2/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 8](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-8-2/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 10](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-10-2/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [Expecting 9](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/expecting-9-2/) - "Expecting" is one of the webcomics produced by ERCcOMICS. ERCcOMICS is a EU-funded project aiming at communicating cutting-edge European research thanks to the power of visual storytelling. Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. As an exception, EU Border - [#We Want Jusitice](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/we-want-jusitice/) - Gianluca Costantini made these drawings of the recent student uprisings in Bangladesh. The protests began after a speeding bus killed two teenagers on 29 July, and featured student demonstrators calling for the government to regulate Bangladesh’s chaotic roads. - [Chinese Social Credit System](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/chinese-social-credit-system/) - For the third time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from the Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Being Alone in the Cloud](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/being-alone-in-the-cloud/) - For the third time Drawing the Times participated in a project of Visual Journalism for students Illustration and Animation from the Art Academy Sint Joost (The Netherlands) in their second year. The students chose a theme to make a visual narrative about. They were asked to show their point of view. It was very interesting to see - [Hong Kong Protests](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/hong-kong-protests/) - Gianluca Costantini made a series of drawings about the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong that started in March this year. - [The Voyage of Italy](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-voyage-of-italy/) - Gianluca Costantini drew the situation in his country Italy, the new epicenter of the coronavirus. - [An Evening at the Women's Association](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/evening-womens-association/) - Before the Covid-19 crisis hundreds of women throughout The Netherlands gathered every month for an evening at the ‘Passage’ (protestant women’s association) and the Women’s Guild (Catholic women’s association), where they enjoyed a diverse range of lectures, shared food and drink, danced, talked, held raffles, ending each meeting with a song, a psalm or ‘an - [We Won't Die The Dog's Death - Chapter 1](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/not-to-die/) - Struggles often meet and overlap, like those of the Kurds and the French “yellow vests”. The same struggle for freedom and social equality meets the identical repression. Drawing artist Mamoste Dîn introduces to us the self-managed camp of Kurdish refugees in Lavrio, Greece. In a pendular motion between Greece and France and between individual experiences - [Viral](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/viral/) - [A Portrait of Joshua Wong](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-portrait-of-joshua-wong/) - [Vogelgriep](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/vogelgriep/) - Bijna ongemerkt door de ophef over Corona, sluipt ook de vogelgriep door de wereld. De vogelgriep maakt al jaren ongekend veel slachtoffers onder vogels. Lang voor onze lockdown werden kippen en kuikens (maar ook kalkoenen, eenden enz.) in grote getalen ‘opgehokt’ en ‘geruimd’. Dit verhaal laat zien waar het vogelgriep-virus vandaan komt, hoe het zich verspreidt - [Window Comic - Berlin](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-berlin/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [We Wont Die The Dog's Death - Chapter 4](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/we-wont-die-the-dogs-death/) - Struggles often meet and overlap, like those of the Kurds and the French “yellow vests”. The same struggle for freedom and social equality meets the identical repression. Drawing artist Mamoste Dîn introduces to us the self-managed camp of Kurdish refugees in Lavrio, Greece. In a pendular motion between Greece and France and between individual experiences - [One Day of Breakfast](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/one-day-breakfast/) - A second report from the perspective of a volunteer at the French-Italian border, where an action has been set up to receive and support undocumented migrants directly after being released from an illegal border detention. The day is spent occupying a 'breakfast spot' by the side of the road, where people have the option to - [Lecciones marimondeñas](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/lecciones-marimondenas/) - This story is a sequel to Diaz' debut graphic novel OTRAS RAYAS - ANDERE LINIEN, that was published last year in German. The book is about German colonial histories in the Colombian region where his father is from. In this graphic novel there is an intermezzo where the same mask, as deus ex machina, talks - [War](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/war/) - On February 24 Russia invaded Ukraine. Jenya Polosina and Anna Ivanenko from Seri/graph studio in Kyiv had to seek shelter. In this reportage they show how they experienced this terrifying situation. A year and a half has passed and a peace is still far away and Jenya and Anna keep on documenting the situation in - [Vriendelijk ontworpen](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/vriendelijk-ontworpen/) - Een virus dat genetisch omgebouwd wordt tot baanbrekend medicijn; het klinkt als het begin van een rampenfilm. Toch zijn wetenschappers druk bezig om dit een realiteit te maken. Hoe gaat het daar nu mee? Wat zijn de mogelijkheden? En is dit niet gevaarlijk? Om antwoorden te vinden worstelde Mei-Li Nieuwland door wetenschappelijke publicaties en nieuwsberichten, keek ze - [Imagine Your World](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/imagine-your-world/) - Joshua Biseruka attended a workshop at the Goethe Institut in Kigali, Rwanda and made this reportage. We get to know the thoughts and dreams of the world at its best of the participating artists. - [The Riot In Social Psychiatry](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-riot-in-social-psychiatry/) - The renowned Danish welfare system is under heavy critizism for its inability to handle patients with mental issues. The psychiatric and social psychiatric systems are underfinanced, oldfashioned and rigid, critics say. Recently, the social psyciatric administration in the city of Copenhagen has begun employing former patients in order to develop new methods. Christina Færch-Jensen was - [Window Comic - Berliner Autobahn](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/highway-blues-2/) - In this Window Comic from Berlin, Nikhil Chaudhary is not only showing the view from his window (the eight-lane highway around Berlin!), but he also talks about the extension plans and an alternative solution for the carbon-intensive mobility. - [Wit Groen Zwart](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/wit-groen-zwart/) - Tata Steel is in the news on a regular base, most of the time in a negative way. For the people who have been working at Tata Steel, or rather at De Koninklijke Nederlandsche Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken, de Hoogovens (the blast furnaces) as it was originally called, this is hard to swallow. In fact, we - [Qurban Bayram](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/qurban-bayram/) - Food rituals are part of all eras and cultures. Illustrator Leyla Ali takes us back to her childhood in Azerbaijan and wonders what the Feast of Sacrifice of the future will look like. You can read the story with the text here - [A Tata State of Mind](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-tata-state-of-mind/) - It is a political cartoonist's job to express his opinion about political and societal issues. Dutch cartoonist TRIK is well known for his razor sharp cartoons on politicians and injustice. He lives in Haarlem, a city located west from Amsterdam and close to the seashore. It is also close to the steel factory Tata Steel - [Window Comic - Moscow](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-moscow/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [Window Comic - Belgian Ardennes](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-belgian-ardennes/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [Window Comic - Pančevo](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-pancevo/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [Window Comic - Bodrum](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comics-bodrum/) - Secretary-General Guterres of the U.N called the latest IPCC Climate Report, that was released on August 9, a red flag for humanity. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To be able to solve the problem, everyone needs - [Window comic - Sweden](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/outside-my-window-in-rural-sweden/) - In her story Julia Nascimento compares the place where she lives in rural Sweden to her home country Brasil and fears that floods will get worse everywhere. At the same time she is hopeful, not for mankind, but for nature. - [Window Comic - Eindhoven](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/2-years-to-heal-1-square-metre/) - While climate change is a huge problem, Griet Menschaert zooms in into a tiny spot in her garden and uses it to show that biodiversity still is not a top priority for politicians. - [Window Comic - French Pyrenees](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-my-old-sheep-memory/) - Florence Debove and Barbara Le Pors are two shepherdess. Florence draws landscapes and sheep, Barbara gets inspired and begins writing a story. Together they bring to life an old sheep recounting her memory of the climate. - [Sint Joost Political Cartoons](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sint-joost-political-cartoons/) - Collection of political cartoons inspired by the cartoons in the collection Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Illustration/Animation students of Sint Joost Den Bosch and Breda. Cartoons by Janne Sastrokarijo, Chanel Houtzager, Jacorien Treur, Suzu Lin, Kayen Dijkstra, Lily van der Hulst, Manasse van Krimpen, Paulina Paszkiewic, Vera Rasenberg, Stan Verhoeven, Sam Jelier, Tessa - [The Ballad of Betty Rizzo](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-ballad-of-betty-rizzo/) - On June 24th, 2022, Roe vs. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in the USA, leaving individual states to decide whether or not to allow abortion to remain legal. In Rachelle Meyer's home state of Texas, a ban on abortion went into effect almost immediately. These events caused Rachelle to reflect on her own - [Dibang](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/dibang/) - The Dibang Valley, India, lies within the Eastern Himalayas Global Biodiversity Hotspot. It is largely inhabited by the Idu Mishmi tribe. For over 13 years, the locals have been resisting a hydroelectricity project on the Dibang River that flows through their homeland. The hydroelectricity project threatens to displace the local community and destroy the fragile landscape. - [A Trip to Kyrgystan](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-trip-to-kyrgystan-2/) - A Trip to Kyrgystan is the first in a series of graphic reportages that Russian graphic journalist and activist Victoria Lomasko is making of her visits to former Soviet republics and remote parts of Russia. The main topics of the series are gender problems, local activism and protest movements, the ways civil society is formed, - [Mascha Bongenaar](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/mascha-bongenaar/) - When Betje was asked by the Climate Center to make cartoons about the relation between climate change and humanitarian aid, the severity of our climate crisis sank in. She wanted to do something about it, but had no idea where to start. When talking to people about this, she discovered there are many others who - [Is Hypocricy a European Value?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/is-hypocricy-a-european-value/) - Yorgos Konstantinou is a Greek cartoonist who has a sharp view on the way European Union treats the people that come here to seek refuge. - [Everything Flows](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/everything-flows/) - In March 2022 graphic storytellers Eva Hilhorst and Judith Vanistendael went to Kendal in England to find out how people had experienced the floods of 2015 and how they could convey these stories with comics and drawings. In this graphic reportage you can read and see what they encountered. - [The Swimming Cats of Van](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-swimming-cats-of-van/) - The Van cat is native to the Armenian highlands surrounding Lake Van. They are famous for their legendary predilection for swimming. Legend has it a pair even sailed on Noah's Ark. But the story of the Van cat is really a story of shifting borders, mirroring the contested lands they call home. Are they Turkish? - [Beware! Conspiracy?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/bewareconspiracy/) - People are searching for explanations during a crisis, such as a pandemic. Conspiracy myths pop up quickly and catch on easily. They are not a new phenomenon. Indeed, they have been following the same pattern for centuries. So, how are they constructed, why do they work and how to deal with it within family and - [Window Comic - Lisbon](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comic-lisbon/) - Last week a group of Dutch Climate Scientists told us: We won't be able to keep global warming below of 1.5°C (2.7°F). Heat records were broken in Spain last week.. We all are aware of the urgency of the situation and immediate action is required to turn the tide. But what can we do? To - [La Mano de Dios](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/la-mano-de-dios/) - Sport is an important topic in the news. There even exist newspapers completely dedicated to sports. In comics it is not a very common topic. Claudio Marinaccio thought this should change and made a comic about one of the greatest football players of all time: Diego Maradona - [Vaccinated at the Ball](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/vaccinated-at-the-ball/) - Vaccinated at the Ball is the follow-up comic on A Tale of Two Pandemics, about COVID racial health disparities. In this story Josh Neufeld is highlighting a recent article in the American Journal of Public Health about an effort to increase COVID vaccination rates in Chicago's House Ball community. This story first appeared on The Journalist’s Resource and is - [Breathe: Reconnect, Respond and Reclaim.](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/breathe-reconnect-respond-and-reclaim/) - Eva Hilhorst was invited to this year's Comicdom Con in Athens, to host a series of workshops about comics and climate migration for young Greeks and refugees. For four days the participants were drawing comics. A lot of different stories emerged on the paper, all of them related to climate change somehow. Those stories also - [Travel Sketchbook Ukraine](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/travel-sketchbook-ukraine/) - In Travel Sketchbook Ukraine Kees de Groot van Embden takes us on a journey to Ukraine, three weeks after the war started. Propelled by the seriousness of the moment he picks up his brushes, and travels to the capital Kyiv, which is under siege and is threatened to be surrounded by the Russians. He portrays - [Randy](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/randy/) - In het hart van de stad slaat Randy al 23 jaar het ritme van Utrecht. Hij had een tijdje geen dak boven zijn hoofd, maar hij was nooit echt zonder thuis. Hij is namelijk thuis in muziek. “Er is veel verdriet in de stad,” zegt Randy, “maar als ik muziek speel, maak ik mensen blij, - [Marco](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/marco/) - Marco kan, ziet en vertelt veel. Dit jaar is hij zestig geworden. Jaren terug was Marco succesvol arts, met veel patiënten in en rond Utrecht. Nu is hij zelf ‘een konijn met een gebroken pootje’ en leeft hij in een kleine caravan bij een boerderij met recreatiecamping vlakbij Utrecht. 'Bij de gratie van de godin’, - [Wim](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/wim/) - Wim noemt zichzelf een puinruimer. Een puinruimer omdat hij, ook vóór wat hij noemt ‘het fatale teamfeest’, mensen en bedrijven helpt om beter te worden. Toen hij op straat belandde, verloochende hij deze persoonlijkheidstrek niet. Het is immers zijn tweede natuur. In de nachtopvang staat hij mensen met hetzelfde lot bij, en hij rijdt op en - [Unheard Sounds](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/unheard-sounds/) - In Ongehoorde geluiden komen mensen aan het woord die met moed en moeite het dagelijks leven trotseren in de stad Utrecht. Ze hebben een tijd geen thuis gehad en verdienen niets of weinig. Men loopt aan hen voorbij of denkt al snel aan overlast. Maar wie stilstaat en goed luistert, hoort de mens hierachter. En - [Window Comic - Northern Rivers](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comic-northern-rivers/) - On February 28 a new IPCC report was released that was even more alarming than the previous one: The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5°C (2.7°F). Even temporarily exceeding this warming level will result in additional severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible. Risks - [Ministry of Truth 20/20](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ministry-of-truth-20-20/) - In 2018 Alex Mankiewicz made a story about the Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani, who was in the Manus Island detention camp at that time. When she started searching on the internet for images of the detention camp, she found almost nothing. She wondered why. This piece is about images, pictures, photographs - and about censorship. - [Window Comic - Porvoo](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/window-comic-porvoo/) - On February 28 a new IPCC report was released that was even more alarming than the previous one: The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5°C (2.7°F). Even temporarily exceeding this warming level will result in additional severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible. Risks - [Until We Are All Free](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/until-we-are-all-free/) - From August-December 2017, Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish writer detained on Manus Island for the past 5 years, told his story to PositivesNegatives. The exchange was done clandestinely over WhatsApp. Halfway through, the Australian government closed the detention centers but would not allow those there refuge in Australia-or elsewhere. This is Boochani's story, before and during - [Dispatches from Przemyśl](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/dispatches-from-przemysl/) - Laura Cappon was sent to Ukraine for the RAI television channel, she spoke with people who arrived at the Polish border The comic was published in the weekly l'Espresso. Translation by Sarah Marion Tuggey - [Dissolve Medicine in Water](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/dissolve-medicine-in-water/) - A fish's behavioural changes may be linked to a bladder infection due to the use of medicine by people! Every year, large quantities of medicine residues enter surface waters in the Netherlands. It is difficult to determine exactly what the consequences are below the surface, but there is no doubt that an aquatic ecosystem is - [Make it Last](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/make-it-last/) - Moving into a new home is a good opportunity to reflect on how much stuff we are surrounded by, and how many things we really do not need. We live in a linear economy and are constantly being pushed to buy the newest thing. However, we can stop this crazy trend just by taking a - [Health & Waste](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/health-waste/) - A story of medical waste and mixed feelings. About what happens when things that make your body feel better make you feel bad for other reasons. - [Hostile](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/hostile/) - In German, my mother tongue we use the same word for pigeon and dove. I learned about the white dove as a symbol for peace and always related it to the birds in the street, thinking of it as “peace pigeon”. This minicomic is about fighting people and pigeons within our cities. TRANSCRIPT OF - [We Are Not a Number](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/we-are-not-a-number/) - In this story during visiting Fort Breendonk, in almost 400 words, we report a conversation between Arezoo (as a journalist and Iranian immigrant), Jeroen (as a Belgian artist) and a nationalist friend with an extreme right-wing party background. Fort Breendonk is a former military installation in Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium that served as a Nazi prison camp during - [The Shape of a Story](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-shape-of-a-story/) - Many of the stories we consume and tell follow a predictable narrative structure, but - in the midst of the climate crisis - we live in an increasingly precarious and volatile world. In this comic, Issy Manley looks to essays by the novelist Amitav Ghosh and children's stories by the cartoonist Tove Jansson to reflect - [Lucky City](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/lucky-city/) - Austrian cartoonist Ulli Lust resided in the city of Haarlem for two weeks In Februari 2018, to create a citybook about this Dutch city. The result is Lucky City, a city portrait in 20 drawings, in which a flooded Haarlem is portrayed. The artist was triggered by the optimism of the Dutch, who've been living their - [Tremblor](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/tremblor/) - The Italian cartoonist Claudio Marinaccio experienced several earthquakes while he lived in Chile and was surprised how everyone else was unmoved by them. - [A Trip to Osh](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-trip-to-osh/) - A Trip to Osh is a preview of Victoria Lomasko's coming book "The Last Soviet Artist" in which she will publish several reportages she made of trips to former Soviet Republics (some of them are also published on Drawing the Times). Educated as an artist during the Soviet era, she uses the Soviet modernist style - [Water Level](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/water-level/) - The summer of 2020, much like the summers before it, was hot and dry in Germany. Nino Bulling explores the countryside in Brandenburg, north of Berlin, and notices changes brought about by the ongoing drought: the fall of the groundwater level, drying out of swamps and kettle basins and slow disappearance of species. This story - [Humans and Other Animals](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/humans-and-other-animals/) - In 2029 we will stop eating meat en masse. How can humans and other animals come closer? Eva Hilhorst investigates the possibilities. - [Farmer and Future](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/farmer-and-future/) - How does one say goodbye to one’s dairy farm? And for whom? B.Carrot sketches the arguments and feelings that arise when Dirk and Annie tell their fellow farmers that they are going to quit their business. - [The Burger of Your Dreams](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-burger-of-your-dreams/) - With Gus Moystad, we descend into the hell of the worldwide meat industry. Is it a nightmare or the reality of 2021? How do we wake up? - [Paria](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/paria/) - But..what will happen after 2030? Typex drags us to 2084, to heavenly gathering of humans and other animals, featuring the very elderly Greta Thunberg. - [Masters](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/masters/) - In 2028 the consensus of society has changed forever. The slaughterhouse director is brought to court because of his crimes. How will justice be served? Bob Mollema shows us in ‘Masters’. - [The Snowflake Show](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-snowflake-show/) - The Arjan Lubach of 2027 is takes a look at the history of animal rights in the Snowflake Show. A lot has improved for them, now that they are represented in the political system. But what does it mean for humans? - [Purchasing Power](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/purchasing-power/) - Our food supply system is bizarre and complex, as Timon Vader shows us in his story Purchasing Power. Join him in his dive into the world of one of the central players. This comic is best viewed on a large screen! - [Michelle and Ravi's School](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/michelle-and-ravis-school/) - Hedy Tijn tells us the story of a chicken in Paramaribo in the early sixties, and how animals could play a bigger role in education in the near future. - [Dessiner sur l'herbe](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/dessiner-sur-lherbe/) - [Farhad](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/farhad/) - [Een Corona Expositie](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/een-corona-expositie/) - A coronaproof exposition During lockdown, a regular art exposition was not possible and that is why Barbie, an artist living in Hilversum, the Netherlands, invented a coronaproof exposition. Not just for artists, but anyone who wanted to share their hobby could participate. Chantal Wentink explored her own neighborhood and portrayed the exposition and the participants. - [The Invisible Enemy](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-invisible-enemy/) - For many people, the pandemic has not just upended their lives, but has also served as a trigger for old traumatic memories to resurface. For Anna Denise, the flashbacks and panic left over from the years when her infant son was battling autoimmune neutropenia, a rare blood disease, led her to try Eye Movement Desensitization - [Vermicompost - wormen zien](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/vermicompost-wormen-zien/) - Dieren die we vaak over het hoofd zien, of niet willen zien: wormen. Maar ze zijn onmisbaar voor de bodem, en ze kunnen goed composteren. Daarom halen steeds meer mensen ze in huis. Zo ook Femke, die de worm van dichterbij probeerde te bekijken en hier getekend verslag van doet. - [Robots As Therapeutic Mediators?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/robots-therapeutic-mediators/) - Artificial Intelligence and robots, have been increasingly involved in our daily lives, to help us find the right piece of music, the shortest path to a meeting, answers to some questions. These developments have also opened a new scope of application : the use of the robot as a therapeutic mediator, for children with Autistic - [Human Rights. Period](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/human-rights-period/) - On November 24, 2020 the Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a law that makes menstrual products free for Scottish citizens. However, this good news reminds us that around the world half of the population has to deal with the stigma of menstruation and issues such as period poverty. Period right is a human right, and we - [Conny's Halal Smørrebrød](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/connys-halal-smorrebrod-2/) - The public housing projects in the danish suburbs were cornerstones of the famous welfare state. But since the 1970’ies, these concrete utopias have met more problems than any of their founders could have imagined. Today the areas are undergoing a dramatic demolition process with the aim of getting rid of ghetto problems in the country. - [Within The Walls](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/within-the-walls/) - Judith Vanistendael writes and draws her way through the weird spring of 2020 in Within the Walls, a mini graphic novel that charters life during corona in her Brussels neighbourhood, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Aware of the fact that she is one of the lucky few who can sit in her garden, she set out to interview less fortunate - [De coronavaccins komen eraan](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/de-coronavaccins-komen-eraan/) - Natuurlijk willen we af van de maatregelen die verspreiding van het coronavirus afremmen. Een vaccin zou ons ons oude leven kunnen teruggeven, al is het maar deels. Maar wat weten we over deze nieuwe vaccins? Zijn ze ook geschikt voor de risicogroep van corona, namelijk 70-plussers en chronisch zieken? Heleen Croonen is medisch journalist bij - [Ik denk aan snoep](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ik-denk-aan-snoep/) - Een filosofische mijmering over waarom we snoep gerust kunnen inroepen om ons de pandemie-ellende een beetje te helpen dragen. Beeldend kunstenaar Griet Menschaert sprak met filosoof en journalist Leon Heuts en maakte er een kort beeldverhaal over. - [Otto's Legacy](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ottoe-legacy/) - 'Ottos Erben' is an interview/reportage with Mrs. März who tells the story of the recent neoliberal changes in rents and housing in Berlin, Germany. The reportage was researched, written and drawn together with the journalist Inga Dreyer. This comic was initiated in the comics and journalism workshop at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin held by Lilian Pithan and Sascha Hommer. The - [Swallow Street](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/swallow-street/) - We are in Romania, where it’s a cold winter and life is full of contrasts. This is the story of a little boy, David, living in Swallow Street, and the story of a group of people being stigmatized and oppressed for generations. Originally, a film was made from this story. In this short mixed-media documentary - [A Tale of Two Pandemics](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-tale-of-two-pandemics/) - In a “A Tale of Two Pandemics: Historical Insights on Persistent Racial Disparities,” Josh Neufeld uses the form of comics journalism to highlight a recent research article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The comic draws on the research article itself, along with additional sources — including interviews with co-authors Lakshmi Krishnan, S. Michelle Ogunwole and - [A Virus and its environment](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-virus-and-its-environment/) - This is a HIV story that we hear about less but is equally relevant. It’s about the way in which viruses cause but are also caused by social and political change. The main source that sparked my interest was a research article called “The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations” that - [An Anatomy of Institutional Racism](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/an-anatomy-of-institutional-racism/) - A longstanding defense of American policing is that, when an officer is caught abusing their power, it can be explained away as the problem of "one bad apple" – in other words, it's the fault of an individual corrupt officer. The investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department, conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) - [Fighting For The Vaquita](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/fighting-for-the-vaquita/) - This comic is part of an ongoing partnership between Earth League International, the world's preeminent intelligence agency for the planet, and Ava Salzman, a young cartoonist at Harvard University, to create comics to spread awareness about environmental and wildlife crime. Featuring scenes of investigative work such as quad searches, night stakeouts, and crime analytics, this comic - [Tunnel](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/tunnel/) - The text here comes from a recording - the monologue of a man named Grigoriy, forced to sleep in the subterranean passages of Kyiv. He expresses frustration with the broken promises of the EuroMaidan revolution of 2013-2014. But, of course, the feeling of being forgotten is not unique to Ukraine. Despite my offer to communicate - [Bird Flu](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/bird-flu/) - The fuss about corona makes it possible for the bird flu to sneak around the world almost unnoticed. Bird flu is killing an enormous amount of birds. Long before our lockdown, chickens and chicks (but also turkeys, ducks, etcetera) were locked up and culled. This story tells us where the bird flu virus comes from, - [Een virus en zijn omgeving](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/een-virus-en-zijn-omgeving/) - Dit is een HIV-verhaal waar we minder vaak over lezen, maar dat net zo goed relevant is. Het gaat over de manier waarop virussen sociale en politieke verandering veroorzaken, maar er ook door veroorzaakt worden. De belangrijkste bron die mijn belangstelling wekte was een onderzoeksartikel “The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human - [ZIEKTE X](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/pandemieen/) - Een tot voor kort onbekend virus beheerst al maanden het nieuws en ons leven. Merel Barends verdiepte zich in virussen: wat zijn dat nou eigenlijk, en waarom zijn ze zo gevaarlijk? - [Nepnieuws? Check!](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/fake-news-check/) - Omdat we er middenin zitten is het onmogelijk om met dit verhaal het laatste nieuws te brengen. De COVID-19 pandemie is voorlopig nog niet uitgewoed, de infodemie van nepnieuws is dat nog lang niet. In dit verhaal hebben social media een belangrijke rol. Hun invloed blijkt steeds belangrijker te zijn in maatschappelijk en politiek opzicht. Hoe - [De onzichtbare oorlog](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/de-onzichtbare-oorlog/) - Bij de term ‘cyberoorlog’ ben ik vast niet de enige die gelijk aan Skynet denkt, de kwaadwillende AI uit de Terminator-film. Uiteraard kwam ik er snel achter dat dat beeld niet klopt: cyberoorlog gaat niet over robotlegers en is al helemaal niet ver weg, in tijd noch ruimte. Cyberoorlog is nú, overal, elke dag; het - [Fake News? Check!](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/fake-news-check-2/) - It is impossible to bring the latest news in this story, because we are still in the middle of a COVID-19 pandemic and a fake news infodemic. Social media have an important role nowadays in spreading the news. How do social media companies like Facebook and Twitter deal with their responsibility when it comes to - [Viral](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/viral-2/) - [Friendly by Design](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/friendly-by-design/) - A virus genetically altered to become a revolutionary medicine; it sounds like the beginning of a disaster movie. And yet, scientists are hard at work to make this a reality. How far along are they? What makes this technique so promising? And is it really safe? To find answers, Mei-Li Nieuwland struggled through scientific publications, listened - [When The Tears Run Into Your Mouth](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/tears-run-mouth/) - This is the story of Nurya. It wasn't easy to get in touch with Nurya, she is a busy mother of five. But once Munir, who has Eritrean roots as well, had made an appointment at her house, she cooked the most delicious food. In this story you can read how she does it and you even - [Born Optimistic](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/born-optimistic/) - This is the story of Neeltje. Neeltje likes to help other people and is very good at cheering them up. She was born optimistic. She tells B.Carrot she never complains, does that mean she always feels happy? Translation by Tui Clark. - [From Homs to Overvecht](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/from-homs-to-overvecht/) - This is the story of Rami. Rami tells Leyla why he had to leave Syria a couple of years ago. Now that they live in a free country, Rami can finally tell his children the truth about Assad. He leads an active life in Utrecht. Translation by Tui Clark. - [Relatively New Family](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/relatively-new-family/) - This is the story of Deema. Nina and Deema both have a small child, so they meet in the playground. What starts as an interview gradually grows into a friendship between the two women and they even go dancing together one evening. Translation by Tui Clark. - [We're All Human Beings](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/were-all-human-beings/) - This is the story of Marijke. She was one of the first inhabitants of Overvecht. She takes Eva to the places where she had lived and talks about the changes in the neighbourhood over the years. She likes to meet new people and is an active member of society. Translation by Tui Clark. - ['Komt goed, komt goed'](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/komt-goed-komt-goed/) - This is the story of Elie. He only just arrived in Overvecht, just like Femme herself, although his move from Syria was more drastic than her move within the city of Utrecht. He talks about his long journey to get to the Netherlands and about his plans, he is full of energy. Translation by Tui - [She Always Painted Poppies](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/always-painted-poppies/) - This is the story of Gerrit. He is the oldest person of this project, he is 94. He was connected to Suzan, who is the youngest of the artists, she is 22 and just graduated from the art school in Utrecht, HKU. Gerrit tells her about his wife, whom he loved dearly. Despite his age, he - [My Home is my Sanctuary](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/my-home-is-my-sanctuary/) - This is the story of Theo. Theo is a versatile man, full of stories. Nowadays he doesn't travel that much anymore, but in his mind he covers long distances. He lends Albert some of his spiritual books and Albert gets so inspired that he could make a whole book out of Theo's stories. Here you - [Days of Onion](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/days-of-onion/) - Here you can read a a preview from B.Carrot's new book Alle dagen ui (Days of Onion) in its English translation. The book tells the true story of Saied, a man who sought political asylum in the Netherlands. Immediately upon arrival Saied was imprisoned in a foreign detention facility at Schiphol airport, where he was kept for 14 months. - [This Is Your Brain On Politics](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/this-is-your-brain-on-politics/) - Advances in neuroscience show that differences in our brain structures correlate with differences in our political views. Understanding these differences can help us understand our political polarization. The cartoon was drawn for the Minnesota Star Tribune (USA), as a full-page section front. - [Positive Women](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/positive-women/) - This year, a woman in Tajikistan was sentenced to prison for infecting her child with HIV. Her conviction came from the revival of an old law that hadn’t been put into practice much. But with increased stigmatization and criminalization of HIV in Tajikistan, Article 125 has found its way into the courts again. In Tajikistan, - [New Horizons](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/new-horizons/) - Based on the “Law on the Restoration of Civil Service”, which was passed in 1933, the National Socialists were able to dismiss numerous Jews and dissidents from public service. Among them was Philipp Schwartz, an anatomist and pathologist teaching at Frankfurt University. Upon his dismissal, he was forced to move to Zurich where he founded - [Pink Donkeys](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/pink-donkeys/) - Heinz Skall, born into a Jewish family in Prague and raised in Vienna, managed to escape death in a concentration camp – unlike the rest of his family. When World War II broke out, Skall was living in Italy. In accordance with the Nuremberg Laws, which the National Socialist regime had passed as early as - [Palmyra, the Other Side](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/palmyra-the-other-side/) - By Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno This is the first comics reportage on Drawing the Times that isn't made with drawings but with photographs. Photography literary means drawing with light, so for once we thought that for once we can make an exception. This story is about the historical site Palmyra in Syria, that was - [All Roads Lead To Rome](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/roads-lead-rome/) - Eva Hilhorst made this story about the golden milestone in Rome, where all roads of the Roman Empire were considered to begin. She compared the saying: All roads lead to Rome to its meaning today. It was shown at the Nova Festival in Pančevo in the exhibition: European Cultural Heritage Through Comics, in October 2018. - [The Bridge](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-bridge/) - What if someone found out how small and vulnerable you are inside, no matter how strong and big you look? The following story is a story about the horrors of masculine panic. It’s based on Lasse Lindqvist’s story about a man with panic disorder. However, it is partly autobiographical. Is Something Wrong They Are Lurking in - [The Other Mother](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-other-mother/) - Counting to ten doesn’t always help. Many parents cannot control their anger and become rough or violent towards their own children. This episode is based on Elina’s experience as a mother who struggles with aggressive impulses towards her daughter. After one particularly moving experience she starts to take responsibility of her actions. But how can - [The Worst Hangover Ever](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-worst-hangover-ever/) - A hangover can be a small and innocent pounding in one’s head. Or it can be a dark void that gets harder to climb out of every time. This is a story about the most groundbreaking hangover in a guy’s life. The Worst Hangover Ever is an episode of Comic about Madness -webcomic . The - [A Lost Mind](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-lost-mind/) - In The Depression Trilogy , the main character Susu suffers from severe depressive episodes. She describes her inner world closely and poetically, representing vividly the feeling of loosing oneself within the illness. Her thoughts are based on the texts written by the storyteller during an extended stay at a mental facility and other stages of - [An Empty Mind](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/an-empty-mind/) - In The Depression Trilogy , the main character Susu suffers from severe depressive episodes. She describes her inner world closely and poetically, representing vividly the feeling of loosing oneself within the illness. Her thoughts are based on the texts written by the storyteller during an extended stay at a mental facility and other stages of - [Half-minded](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/half-minded/) - In The Depression Trilogy , the main character Susu suffers from severe depressive episodes. She describes her inner world closely and poetically, representing vividly the feeling of loosing oneself within the illness. Her thoughts are based on the texts written by the storyteller during an extended stay at a mental facility and other stages of - [A Special Kind of Mother](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/special-kind-mother/) - How does it feel to be a parent when you are mentally unstable? What kind of experience is it to witness that your parent is not well? This is Emilia’s story. It contains an important question that only a loving, responsible parent is brave enough to ask. A Special Kind of Mother is a part - [The Last One in the Queue](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-last-one-in-the-queue-2/) - Who is truly crazy: you, the institutions processing scattered fragments of information or the whole system? This is a tragicomic story of a man who gets stuck in the welfare society’s bureaucracy. In this tale you hear the voices of actual mental health service users in Kymenlaakso area, Finland. They were collected by Katja Lemberg, - [Lifelines](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/lifelines/) - In the wake of World War 2, German civilians fleeing Soviet reprisals triggered the largest refugee crisis in history. Katie Walter was among those who fled. This is an unusual refugee story from the other side of history. Authors Adam and Lisa Murphy are recent imports to Canada themselves, and are fascinated by the variety of ways - [Postcards from Ivanovo](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/postcards-from-ivanovo/) - About 20 km from the Serbian city of Pančevo, where the author Aleksandar Zograf lives, lies the tiny village of Ivanovo. It is the largest settlement of Roman Catholic Bulgarians, the Palćeni. The Palćeni is a small minority of less than 3000 people scattered in the Serbian Banat region. This story was originally published in the - [#8 Stories](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/8-stories/) - It was never safe to be an LGBTQ* person in Azerbaijan - if you were openly gay, you have no protection from violence or abuse, you can be an outcast from your community and your family. Although there are social services and organisations that work to protect the LGBTQ* communities, they cannot find official recognition - meaning - [What If... Your Self Is An Illusion](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-your-self-is-an-illusion-2/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence in particular, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervenience will be impossible. Here is the relationship with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, - [Renards sans pelage](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/renards-sans-pelage/) - Le 22 mai 2018 en France, 128 manifestants furent arrêtés. 102 d’entre eux pour avoir organisé une assemblée générale dans le lycée Arago contre la réforme Parcoursup de Macron. Parcoursup est une plateforme en ligne d’admission post bac. Cette nouvelle plateforme est plus élitiste, elle crée un système de sélection pour entrer dans les universités. Le - [Coatless Foxes](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/6431/) - On May 22nd 2018, 128 demonstrators were arrested in France, 102 of them for organizing a general meeting in a high school after the demonstration against Macron's new reform: Parcoursup. This online platform for admission to higher education is more elitist, it creates a selection at the entrance of the university. The 22nd of May was the day of - [What If...The Bio-Industry Never Changes?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/bio-industry-never-changes/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence in particular, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervenience will be impossible. Here is the relationship with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, - [What If... Bio Industry (Never) Changes?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-bio-industry-doesnt-changes/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence in particular, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervenience will be impossible. Here is the relationship with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, - [What if... Robots Are Indispensable?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-robots-are-indispensable/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervention will be impossible. The parallels with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein are distressing: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, that he - [What If... Robots Are Indisepensable?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-robots-become-more-important/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervention will be impossible. The parallels with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein are distressing: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, that he - [What If... We Could Look Into The Future?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-we-could-look-into-the-future-2/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervention will be impossible. The parallels with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein are distressing: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, that he - [What If...We Could Look Into The Future?](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-we-could-look-into-the-future/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervention will be impossible. The parallels with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein are distressing: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, that he - [We Are Here at Rapenburg 31-33](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/6347/) - On a sunny Saturday in February a house is squatted on a quiet street in the center of Amsterdam. The new neighbours are a part of We Are Here, a group of refugees fighting for their right to lead a normal life and to be seen by Dutch society. This story follows the group and their time at the - [What If... We Are No Longer Needed](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-we-are-no-longer-needed/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence in particular, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervenience will be impossible. Here is the relationship with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, - [What If... Your Self Is An Illusion](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/what-if-your-self-is-an-illusion/) - Developments in medical science, in technology and in artificial intelligence in particular, have come to a point where there is no turning back. Soon there will be technological singularity and human intervenience will be impossible. Here is the relationship with Mary Shelley’s novel The Monster of Frankenstein: man created a monster that doesn’t know love, - [Moria](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/moria/) - In October 2017, Judith Vanistendael went to Lesbos to visit the refugee camp Kara Tepe. Ten she took a peek in the other, bigger, refugee camp: Moria. She decided that her story had to be about this camp. The living conditions are inhuman. Now it is winter and people are still there.. - [Art of the Afterlife](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/me-too/) - What would Frida Kahlo and Camille Claudel discuss if they met in the afterlife? They might be dead now but the topic is still up-to-date.. - [Ruby's Rundown](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/rubys-rundown/) - Ruby’s Rundown is an informative review of the webcomic FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), originally published on the author’s website in 2017. The protagonist, Ruby Riveter, is eager to try online dating and finds herself engaging with the opposite sex in ways she did not foresee. Will her hard work lead to a match? Or - [The Internet of Hate and Loathing](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/internet-hate-loathing/) - The Internet of Hate and Loathing (Vihan ja inhon internet, Kosmos 2017) is a book of comics journalism about online misogyny, a phenomenon that threatens our democracy. Hate speech is often justified with freedom of speech, but in fact it is silencing the voices of women and minorities. We are in danger of losing these - [Sexual Harassment in India](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sexual-harassment-in-india/) - This four-page comic delves into the author's experience of growing up amidst rampant sexual harassment in India. - [The Amsterdamse Joffers](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-amsterdamse-joffers/) - The Amsterdamse Joffers was a group of women artists who worked from the end of the 19th century well in to the 20th century in Amsterdam. My documentary comic is a ‚herstory‘ investigating the world these women lived in and questions what the real legacy is they left behind. I draw parallels to the work we do - ['That's Rape Culture, Baby'](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/thats-rape-culture-baby/) - Rape culture is a social construct that suppresses and stifles women, but also men. It seems to exist through all countries and ages. Can we fight it? - [Don’t You EEEEVVERR Do That To My Daughter!](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/dont-eeeevverr-daughter/) - Don't You Eeeeevveerr Do That To My Daughter is a story based on an interview that Glwadys Aguegue and Hilde Baele did with young Amirath, who was forced into marriage by her father when she was fourteen years old. You can read the full story here In 2010 Glwadys Aguegue, Hermine Akponna and Hilde Baele - [Sexual Harrasment](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sexual-harrasment/) - Sexual harrasment isn't limited to hetero sexuals, it is everywhere. This story is about trans man Jiro's experiences. - [Editorial Sex & Gender](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sex-gender/) - We are collecting stories for this special on Sex & Gender issues. Please send your graphic journalistic works to info@drawingthetimes.com. We are looking for non-autobiographical works in the first place. - [One Day in Kara Tepe](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/one-day-kara-tepe/) - "One day in Kara Tepe" tells the story of a young Syrian refugee and her resolve to find a better life in Europe. The comic was based on interviews and observations in the refugee camp Kara Tepe on the Greek island Lesbos (October 2017). Refugees continue to arrive there daily on dangerous, illegal crossings from - [Stumbling Stones](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/stumbling-stones/) - As I turned the corner, they caught my eye. On the ground before a door in Viterbo, on a street I've walked for years, three brass squares shined in the light. They lay as replacements for the three original grey cobblestones. On each was engraved a name, some dates, and then “Deportato Auschwitz” and “Morto - [Europe's Waitingroom](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/europes-waitingroom/) - In October of 2017, three comic authors went to the Greek island Lesbos for a week, to visit the refugee camp Kara Tepe and to draw their experiences, Judith Vanistendael, Mei-Li Nieuwland and Aimée de Jongh. Camera's were not allowed inside the camp. This is the long reportage Aimée made. It was published in the Dutch - [Friday](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/friday/) - Friday tells the story of Liat, an pro-Palestinian Israeli activist who finds herself having to compromise between her principles and the everyday reality of Israeli society. As many of B. Carrot's pieces this one too lets the reader experience a complex political and social environment from a personal human perspective. It is an excerpt from B.Carrot's first full color book - [The point of Doel](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-point-of-doel/) - In 2013 Jeroen Janssen published his book 'Doel', about a Flemish ghost town that is threatened with complete demolition due to the planned enlargement of the port of Antwerp. After he completed his book Abadaringi about his experiences as an art teacher in Rwanda before the genocide, he went back to Doel. He is going there - [Drowned Identities](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drowned-identities/) - On April 18, 2015, an old fishing boat with more than 800 people on board sank not far from the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean. Only 28 of them survived the shipwreck . The Italian authorities wanted to take this tragedy out of anonymity by giving the victims their names back. Taina Tervonen and Jeff Pourquié show - [Drawing the Times went Dutch Design Week](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drawing-the-times-went-dutch-design-week/) - Dutch Design Week October 21 through 29, 2017. Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Sketches by Mart Veldhuis, Ike Schulte, Ronja Bosgraaf, Roza Sharon, Matej Zdársky, Sterre van der Tak, Olya Cherepakha, Melissa de Gier, Micky Dirkzwager, Ronja Driessen, Rayn, Sanne Bet, Kiki Visser, Hanneke Rozenmuller and Elise Verkoelen. - [We Are All Foreign](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/we-are-all-foreign/) - Karrie Fransman made this comic as a reaction to Brexit and growing nationalism in the United Kingdom. She made it for a project of the Goethe-Institut, Picture Politics that was published in 2017. - [Break on through](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/break-on-through/) - The second piece in the series exploring different aspects of the day to day reality in Palestine-Israel. This time B. Carrot is going to visit Ramallah. But before doing so she has to face her social environment as well as her own misconceptions and fears. We often read about the conflict in this region in the media. Here, B. Carrot - [Ventimiglia](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/ventimiglia/) - A report from the perspective of a volunteer at the French-Italian border, where the town of Ventimiglia hosts a fluctuating number of refugees attempting the rough mountain climb into Europe. As local government shows no interest in providing basic human facilities, independent volunteers have come to meet them in their journey to provide as many - [The Jessiah](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-jessiah/) - In 2017 it was time for government change in several European countries. Elections were organized in the Netherlands, France and Germany, in that order. People were holding their breath, expecting the populist parties to win. Then Jesse Klaver of the green party entered the political stage in the Netherlands, with a message of hope instead of - [Innovasion](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/innovatsion/) - Timon Vader, who is a resident of Eindhoven, tells the story of industrialization; automatization and the consequences this had for labour, comfort, and being human, taking the history of this city as a point of departure. Then, now, and soon. How does work give meaning to our lives, and how are we going to keep our - [Waiting For Family](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/waiting-for-family/) - Lazkin is a Syrian Kurd living in Germany who needs to wait two years until he can be re-united with his wife and son. This story was made for the workshop in comic journalism "Alphabet des Ankommens" by the German Comics Association that was held in Hamburg in March 2017. - [Foreign Body](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/foreign-body/) - Bayan is a Palestinian woman living in Germany who fights for her rights. This story was made for the workshop in comic journalism "Alphabet des Ankommens" by the German Comics Association that was held in Hamburg in March 2017. - [Across The Sahara And Onto The Metro](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/across-sahara-onto-metro/) - Merhawi is a refugee from Eritrea who is living in Hamburg. He travels to his German classes with public transportation, which teaches him a lot about German society. This story was made for the workshop in comic journalism "Alphabet des Ankommens" by the German Comics Association that was held in Hamburg in March 2017. - [B.I.R](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/b-i-r/) - In 2014 the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram extended their activities from Nigeria to neighboring countries, including Cameroon, to found a caliphate like Isis in Iraq and Syria. That's when an elite group of the Cameroonian army BIR took action, eliminated the jihadists and liberated the hostages on Nigerian territory. This story won the second prize - [Vandalism In Doel](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/vandalism/) - In 2013 Jeroen Janssen published his book 'Doel', about a Flemish ghost town that is threatened with complete demolition due to the planned enlargement of the port of Antwerp. After he completed his book Abadaringi about his experiences as an art teacher in Rwanda before the genocide, he went back to Doel. He is going there - [Let's Start a Political Party](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/lets-start-a-political-party/) - In 2013 Jeroen Janssen published his book 'Doel', about a Flemish ghost town that is threatened with complete demolition due to the planned enlargement of the port of Antwerp. After he completed his book Abadaringi about his experiences as an art teacher in Rwanda before the genocide, he went back to Doel. He is going there - [The Cries of Silence](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-cries-of-silence/) - Clément Keba is a young self taught artist from Congo. He uses his pen and paper to express his thoughts and feelings and those of the people around him. The jury of the contest Croque ton Histoire - Scribble Your Story was impressed with his artistic talent, and awarded him the third prize. - [Proud Of You Burundian Journalist](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/proud-of-you-burundian-journalist/) - Since the coup d’état of May 13 and 14 in 2015, Burundese journalists are targeted. Floribert Nisabwe has the courage – being a journalist himself – to address the situation. For this story Floribert received a special mention of the Jury in the Croque ton histoire contest. - [Proud of You... Maman Augustin 'Tarpon'](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/proud-maman-augustin-tarpon/) - Motivated by his own experience and of the people around him, Ajax Nzeyimana shows us how hard it is to be a journalist in Burundi these days. He uses a sober visual language in black and white, with a small dose of red. We see the events through the eyes of the mother of a colleague - [Doel is burning](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/doel-is-burning/) - In 2013 Jeroen Janssen published his book 'Doel', about a Flemish ghost town that is threatened with complete demolition due to the planned enlargement of the port of Antwerp. After he completed his book Abadaringi about his experiences as an art teacher in Rwanda before the genocide, he went back to Doel. He is going there - [Drawing Radical Muslims](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drawing-radical-muslims/) - Joost Pollmann wrote this article for the launch of Drawing the Times. He is reflecting on the attacks at Charlie Hebdo, on January 7 2015. How did cartoonists respond to those events? how do they view the complexities of criticizing Islam, and how do they present their opinions? - [Arab Winter, With a Hint of Spring](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/arab-winter-hint-spring/) - In 2012 Joost Pollmann organized the exhibition with participating artists from nine Arab countries 'Chouf! Qra! - Comics & cartoons in the Arab world'. The comics and cartoons he showed at the Press Museum in Amsterdam contained many references to the so-called Arab Spring that started blossoming a year earlier. By now, as we all know, this spring never - [A Happy Kingdom](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-hard-one/) - The protagonist in C.M. Shergath's comic plays a novel videogame, 'the Happy Kingdom'. What starts out as an innocent enough fairy tale quest leads him through several stages of injustice, rebellion and persecution. Why is this game so frustrating? And is it even really a game? - [Jobless](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/jobless/) - This story was made for Correspondents, based on an article by Marima Doghrash. Personal website of Seif Eddin Nechi - [Cemetery](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/cemetery/) - This story was made for Correspondents and based on the article Living under a Black Cloud by Najeh Zaghdoudi. Personal website of Salim Zerrouki. - [Harrasment](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/harrasment/) - This story was made for Correspondents and based on an article by Asma Laabidi. Personal website of Seif Eddin Nechi. - [Scandals](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drive-down/) - This story was made for Correspondents and based on an article by Monia Al-Arfaoui. Personal website of Seif Eddin Nechi. - [Tahreeb](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/tahreeb/) - This story was made for Correspondents and based on an article by Moez Al-Jamai. Personal website of Seif Eddin Nechi. - [Catching Scorpions](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/scorpions/) - This story was made for Correspondents and was based on an article by Feten Khalifa. Personal website of Seif Eddin Nechi. - [Turtles Cemetery](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/turtles-cemetery/) - This story was made for Correspondents and based on an article by Moez Al Jamai. Personal website of Seif Eddin Nechi. - [Children and War](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/children-and-war/) - This story was made for Correspondents, based on an article by Muftah Al -Ammari. Personal website of Migo Rollz. - [Unsafe Abortion in Egypt](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/unsafe-abortion-in-egypt/) - Even though the Arab Spring brought new freedoms to Egypt, there's still a lot left to fight for. Women's rights, for example. Graphic journalist Merel Barends collaborated with Egyptian journalist Basma Mostafa on this harrowing story of illegal abortion. The story is the result of a comics journalism workshop in Tunis, initiated by MiCT and correspondents.org. - [Bahrain](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/bahrain-lines-in-ink-lines-in-the-sand/) - This comic by Josh Neufeld follows Mohammed and Sara, two young Bahraini editorial cartoonists who found themselves on opposite sides of Bahrain's short-lived Pearl Revolution. Neufeld met Mohammed and Sara at workshops he led while visiting the tiny Persian Gulf country on a U.S. State Department trip. Shortly after Josh became friends with both of - [Sociologia](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/sociologia-2/) - Barrack Rima made this series, Sociologia (Sociology) for the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar in 2014 and 2015. We publish the original pages in Arabic, with the translation on the right side. The story reads from right to left. We start with the heading which is the same in each episode. - [Stories from the Arab World](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/stories-arab-world/) - Last year we made a special about Human Rights, with a focus on refugees. It didn't get any better for refugees since then. People are still fleeing the horrible war in Syria. Many people in Europe and the U.S. don't see those refugees as victims of war but as potential terrorists, because they are muslims. - [Elections in the Netherlands](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/voting/) - The story of the ticket controller is based on one of the 64 interviews sociologist Koen Damhuis did with PVV voters. Eight of which can be read in his book Wegen naar Wilders (Roads to Wilders). At the moment he is interviewing Front National voters in France. - [Refugee](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/refugee/) - This is the story of Youssef. Syrian, refugee and asylum seeker. Dutch graphic journalist Jules Calis befriended Youssef and recorded his story. It’s a story of fear, hope and love. A story that needs to be told. In word and image. ‘Youssef is symbol for many many refugees’. This story reads best on a larger - [Teaching in Bulgaria](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/teaching-in-bulgaria/) - 'Teaching in Bulgaria’ is a story based on several conversations with teachers of different ages in Bulgaria who are fighting against a very conservative educational system on a daily basis. By working overtime, they’re trying to change the way students and parents perceive school and its purpose. - [A Trip to Tbilisi](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-trip-to-tbilisi/) - A Trip to Dagestan is the fourth in a series of graphic reportages that Russian graphic journalist and activist Victoria Lomasko is making of her visits to former Soviet republics and remote parts of Russia. The main topics of the series are gender problems, local activism and protest movements, the ways civil society is formed, the vicissitudes - [Violence and Misery Reign Supreme in the Divided City of Hebron](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/violence-misery-reign-supreme-divided-city-hebron/) - In July, graphic journalist Jules Calis and writing journalist David Oranje went to Hebron in Israël and spoke with family members of the thirteen-year-old girl that was stabbed to death in the settlement Kiryat Arba and also with family members of the 17-year-old perpetrator from Bani Naim, a village just outside of the city. You can read the - [Turkish Coffee](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/turkish-coffee/) - After the shooting at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris at the start of 2015, terrorist attacks have increased throughout the Middle East and the West. As a result, both western and middle eastern people experience more fear, anger and distrust towards each other. In between these different cultures, there are students from Turkish descent - [The Road From Damascus](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/3642/) - After seeing Ahmad talking passionately about his life ambitions on Dutch national television, I was fascinated and impressed by his energy and enthusiasm. I sent him a message to ask whether he wanted to share his story about trying to rebuild a life in The Netherlands. He agreed and told me it made him happy - [Women From Molenbeek](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/women-from-molenbeek/) - Judith Vanistendael lives in Molenbeek. She portrayed women in Molenbeek, to show its diversity and that normal people are living there, not exclusively ‘terroristmonsters’. These portraits where made in the 1st week of December 2015, after the attacks on Paris, but before the attacks on Brussels. You might not be able to read the handwritten - [Drawing Modern Feminism](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/drawing-modern-feminism/) - Men and women are equal, but in some parts of the world this is not taken for granted. And even in our modern, western society there is still a long way to go. - [Boys & Girls](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/boys-girls/) - What will you do when it’s tremendous important to have sons and your seventh daughter is born? Find the answer in this short comic about Afghanistan and the cultural practice of Bacha Posh. - [Operation XX/XY](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/operation-xxxy/) - The pharmaceutical industry appears to test their medicine mainly on white men. Merel Barends dug into this subject and tried to find out why. What are the consequences for women and people of color? - [A Beastly Burden](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/beastlyburden/) - When I was a teenager, my younger brother took his own life. I never saw it coming. Twenty years too late, I am figuring out how I could have helped him. - [Zika Virus](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/zika-virus/) - The outbreak of the current Zika virus began almost a year ago in Brazil and has spread to other countries in Latin America and the United States. The virus is linked to microcephaly. Gianluca Costantini explains what the virus does, and shows how Roman Catholic church is reacting to the fact that the virus brings damage - [Lesvos, November 2015](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/lesvos-november-2015/) - Many refugees arrive in Lesvos after a perilous journey at sea. What happens after they’ve set foot on land? This story is about the situation in the Moria Camp in November 2015. The situation hasn’t improved since, in fact the camp was once again turned into a closed detention center in March 2016. The comic is based on - [Postcards From Vidin](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/postcards-from-vidin/) - Aleksandar Zograf travelled to the Bulgarian town Vidin, where the famous painter Jules Pascin was born. This is the first publication in English. - [Editorial Human Rights](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/editorial-human-rights/) - This special is about Human Rights. The rights of millions of people are violated today. More than a million migrants and refugees, most of them Syrians, entered Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx, and creating division in the EU over how best to deal with resettling people. Winter has not - [A Perilous Journey](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-perilous-journey/) - 'A Perilous Journey' is a trilogy of 3 comics based on testimonies taken from Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Scandinavia in July 2015 that was produced by PositiveNegatives. The comics were serialised in The Guardian and Aftenposten (11-13 Nov 2015) and an exhibition launched at the Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo (12 Nov 2015). The project was generously - [Migrant's Stories](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/migrants-stories-3/) - The Serbian people suffered from war in the nineties of the last century in their own country, and now migrants from Africa and Asia pass through Serbia in search of a better life. This is the story of an 19 year old Afghan who speaks Serbian very well after 3 months. But he is dreaming - [Dunkirk Refugee Camp](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/duinkirk/) - In the northern French town of Grande-Synthe, a suburb of Dunkirk and a two-hour drive from the Dutch border, it is harrowing to see how the European asylum policy is failing. Plagued by infectious diseases, violent people smugglers and unwilling authorities, the 3000 inhabitants of the refugee camp there are desperately trying to survive the - [Migrants' Stories](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/migrants-stories/) - Aleksandar Zograf is a cartoonist from Serbia. The Serbian people suffered from war in the nineties of the last century in their own country, and now migrants from Africa and Asia pass through Serbia in search of a better life. This is the first story in a series of three migrants' stories. Ali is an - [A Trip to Dagestan](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-trip-to-dagestan/) - A Trip to Dagestan is the third in a series of graphic reportages that Russian graphic journalist and activist Victoria Lomasko is making of her visits to former Soviet republics and remote parts of Russia. The main topics of the series are gender problems, local activism and protest movements, the ways civil society is formed, the - [In Search of a Subject (final part)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-final-part/) - This is the final attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark - [In Search of a Subject (part 7)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-part-7/) - This is the sevneth attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [In Search of a Subject (part 6)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-part-6/) - This is the sixth attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [In Search of a Subject (part 5)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-part-5/) - This is the fifth attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [A Trip to Yerevan](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/a-trip-to-yerevan-2/) - A Trip to Yerevan is the second in a series of graphic reportages that Russian graphic journalist and activist Victoria Lomasko is making of her visits to former Soviet republics and remote parts of Russia. The main topics of the series are gender problems, local activism and protest movements, the ways civil society is formed, the vicissitudes - [In Search of a Subject (part 4)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-part-4/) - This is the fourth attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [In Search of a Subject (part 1)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-2/) - The Lebanese artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj is referring to Proust's In Search of Lost Time when he is searching for a subject in this reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [In Search of a Subject (part 2)](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/in-search-of-a-subject-part-2/) - This is the second attempt of Mazen Kerbaj to find a subject for a reportage. It was published in the reportage-special of Strapazin. Translation: Tui Clark To be continued... - [Tamgout, Buchenwald, Paris](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/tamgout-buchenwald-paris/) - This story was published in kuš! komiksi anthology š! #23 ‘Redrawing Stories from the Past’, November 2015. All stories in the anthology deal with one of the darkest periods of European history, the Second World War. In the first chapter, Paula Bulling tells us about the lonesome death of the Algerian prisoner number F78893 in the - [Domiz Refugee Camp in Iraqi Kurdistan](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/domiz-refugee-camp-in-iraqi-kurdistan/) - Médecins Sans Frontières asked Olivier Kugler to create a series of drawings documenting the refugees circumstances in order to present them to a wider audience. Armed with a note pad, a digital recorder and a camera he spent two weeks, accompanied by a translator, walking through the camp and talking with the people he met. - [The Unlikely But True Story of the Rwandese Who Took Part in the African Expedition of Ché Guevara](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/the-unlikely-but-true-story-of-the-rwandese-who-took-part-in-the-african-expedition-of-che-guevara/) - Jeroen Janssen illustrated the story of the Rwandese Jérôme Sebasoni, who joined the expedition of Che Guevara in Africa. Hilde Baele wrote the text. This is the first publication of the story in English. Tui Clark translated it. - [Postcards from Stuttgart](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/postcards-from-stuttgart/) - When Aleksandar Zograf traveled to Stuttgart in September, he noticed that the city is coping quite well with newcomers. This is the first to publication of the story in English. - [Bed, Bath and Death](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/bed-bath-and-death/) - 'In my project Bed, Bad en Dood (Bed, Bath and Death) I accuse the Dutch government for their refugee policy. I believe that we need to approach the refugees with more empathy because they will always be here. If we want to call ourselves a society we must acknowledge that not everyone has the same - [A Plea for the Bee](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/plea-for-the-bees/) - Maartje Smits is a beekeeper in the city of Amsterdam. She shows what is happening to the bees, and what anyone can do to improve the circumstances. - [Le Palais de Balkis](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/le-palais-de-balkis/) - Judith Vanistendael lives in Molenbeek, the community of Brussels that became world news after the attacks in Paris on November 13. Some of the terrorists were born and raised there. Vanistendael shows us a side of Molenbeek we do not often hear about in the news. Translation: Tui Clark. - [Graphic Journalism](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/graphic-journalism/) - Eva Hilhorst made this comic as an introduction to the exhibition Strip-journalistiek in the persmuseum in Amsterdam in 2014 and 2015. It was translated into French and Portuguese for the magazine Courrier International. - [La Bolla of Ventimiglia](https://drawingthetimes.com/story/la-bolla-di-ventimiglia/) - Among the scams of the traffickers and the ‘ping-pong’ between Italy and France, a group of refugees and migrants claims the right to cross borders. This reportage was made for Graphic-News . ## Specials - [Last Night On Earth](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/last-night-on-earth/) - [Wie geht's dir? How are you?](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/wie-gehts-dir-how-are-you/) - [Ameliswaardig](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/ameliswaardig/) - [A Tata State of Mind](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/a-tata-state-of-mind/) - [Unheard Sounds](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/unheard-sounds/) - [Window Comics](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/window-comics/) - [The Meat Free City](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/the-meat-free-city/) - [VIRAL](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/viral/) - [Stories from Overvecht](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/connected-stories/) - [What If...](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/what-if/) - [Sex & Gender](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/sex-gender/) - [Croque ton histoire - Scribble Your Story](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/croque-ton-histoire-scribble-story/) - [Drawing the Times Labs](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/drawing-the-times-labs/) - [Stories From the Arab World](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/stories-arab-world/) - [Feminism](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/feminism/) - [Human Rights](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/refugees-and-the-war-in-syria/) - [Climate Change](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/climate-change/) - [Graphic Journalism](https://drawingthetimes.com/special/graphic-journalism/) ## Labs - [Drawn to Freedom Newsroom](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/drawn-to-freedom-newsroom/) - We live in uncertain times, that's for sure. For a long time, the news media were considered reliable sources of reporting on what was happening in the world. Quality newspapers and broadcasters make use of fact checkers to ensure that what's said in the news actually corresponds to the facts. With the rise of the - [Sint Joost Krant 2026](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/sint-joost-krant-2026/) - De tweedejaars studenten van de opleiding Illustrated and animated storytelling aan de academie Sint Joost in Den Bosch en Breda hebben gewerkt aan journalistieke beeldverhalen in een project rond visual journalism. Hier een selectie van verhalen die de diversiteit van maakmanieren laten zien: Juul Renes, Viktoriia Hutenmakher, Lara van den Berg, Owen Metselaar, Basil Steijvers, - [Politieke Prenten Sint Joost 2025](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/politieke-prenten-sint-joost-2025/) - How do you translate a political cartoon that was made years, or even a century ago to the present situation? First year students of Sint Joost Academy of the Arts, specialization Illustration and Animation, received a political cartoon from the Archive of Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum as an inspiration and starting point for a - [Sint Joost Krant 2025](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/sint-joost-krant-2025/) - Tijdens periode 6 van jaar 2 van de opleiding Illustrated and animated storytelling aan de academie Sint Joost in Den Bosch en Breda hebben studenten gewerkt aan journalistieke beeldverhalen die zij hebben gebundeld in een krant. Hier een selectie van verhalen die de diversiteit van maakmanieren laten zien: Michael Kleij, Rosalie de Jonge, Ebba Balhuizen, - [Politieke Prenten Sint Joost 2024](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/politieke-prenten-sint-joost-2024/) - How do you translate a political cartoon that was made years, or even a century ago to the present situation? First year students of Sint Joost Academy of the Arts, specialization Illustration and Animation, received a political cartoon from the Archive of Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum as an inspiration and starting point for a - [DISEASE X](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/disease-x/) - A virus that was unknown until recently has taken over the news and our lives. Merel Barends immersed herself into the subject : what are viruses and why are they so dangerous? - [DISEASE X](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/disease-x/) - A virus that was unknown until recently has taken over the news and our lives. Merel Barends immersed herself into the subject : what are viruses and why are they so dangerous? - [DISEASE X](https://drawingthetimes.com/lab/disease-x/) - A virus that was unknown until recently has taken over the news and our lives. Merel Barends immersed herself into the subject : what are viruses and why are they so dangerous? ## Authors - [Monique van Dongen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/monique-van-dongen/) - Monique van Dongen (1965) loves creating visual stories based on real events - from the present or the past - featuring real characters with desires, struggles, and emotions. She studied visual communication at art school and film and television studies at Utrecht University, and later moved into the field of communication. In the Visual Storytelling - [Menah Wellen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/menah-wellen/) - Menah Wellen is een illustrator en visual notes artist uit Amsterdam. Zij tekent live verslagen van uiteenlopende bijeenkomsten, van congressen en meetings tot podcast-opnames en filmsets. Ze won in 2011 de Fiep Westendorp Stimuleringsprijs, en is sinds 2013 naast haar freelance werk ook onderdeel van het tekenteam van Getekend Verslag. - [Erik van Tuijn](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/erik-van-tuijn/) - Erik van Tuijn (Eindhoven, 1977) is an illustrator, comic artist and creator of hard-to-categorize handmade books. He is based in Utrecht and often works under the name Blijstift. If you give him a blank slate, he draws odd (black) birds and dark-edged stories in cheerful colours. But he doesn't like to be pigeonholed, so he - [Nova de Hoo](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/nova-de-hoo/) - Nova de Hoo lives and works in Zwolle, draws the comic strip "Joy" for Tina every few weeks, and is currently working on a graphic novel about a fictional sex worker. For this latter project, she researched the lives of several sex workers in Johannesburg and their struggles with sex work laws in South Africa. - [Micky Dirkzwager](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/micky-dirkzwager/) - Micky Dirkzwager (born 1998) is an illustrator, violist, and a prolific worrier. After a year at the university to study psychology in Utrecht, she changed her career path and chose art school. She enjoys exploring diverse themes and draws at Buro Brand as a visual note-taker and graphic facilitator, illustrates children's books at Leopold Publishers, - [Melanie Kranenburg](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/melanie-kranenburg/) - Melanie Kranenburg (1997) is a comics artist, illustrator and colorist. She is the co-author of the graphic novel "Naasten," a graphic novel about palliative care. She also contributed to the graphic novel "Het Onvoorstelbare Verbeeld" (Picturing The Unimaginable) with her comic "Putten." She is a colorist for the newspaper comic S1NGLE. Melanie believes it's important - [Maaike Beuten](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/maaike-beuten/) - Maaike Beuten (*1986) is a graphic designer (garage64.be) — teaches at Erasmushogeschool in Brussels — wants ‘to open eyes’ just like Joseph Albers did — prefers asymmetry to symmetry — can make every word with here 3D letter collection — if she could choose, she would wake up in the 15th century — loves dirty - [Denis Glauden](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/denis-glauden/) - Denis Glauden (*1985) is an architect. After dedicating fifteen years to architectural competitions, he turned fully to drawing. His experience in urban planning led him to explore various territories, wandering through cities and countryside on unpredictable routes. He sketches in notebooks, which he later transforms into drawings, reportages, comics, and press illustrations, revealing the beauty - [Guido van Hengel](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/guido-van-hengel/) - Guido van Hengel is a historian and writer of non-fiction. Has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Groningen. In the field of comics, he co-initiated and coordinated a number of international artistic projects, including Strip it! (2009), Migrating Comics (2010), Comixiade (2010-2012), Front-Lines (2014), and Remix Comix (2022-2024). He is part of - [Ekaterine Togonidze and Luka Lashkhi](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ekaterine-togonidze-and-luka-lashkhi/) - Ekaterine Togonidze is a georgian journalist, author, lecturer and activist for the rights of people with disabilities, Ekaterine Togonidze, was born in Tbilisi in 1981. Ekaterine Togonidze made her literary debut in 2011 with her short story collection “Anesthesia” with which she introduced a new theme to Georgian literature: the discrimination against disabled people in society. - [Vira Kuryko and Sofia Pokorchak](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/vira-kuryko-and-sofia-pokorchak/) - Vira Kuryko is a Ukrainian journalist, reporter and writer. She has penned a collection of stories, including “The Street of Those Involved. The File on Lukianenko from Chernihiv”, a historical non-fiction for children “Mazepa. Rights to the Sabre”, and a non-fiction book titled “Healthy Person’s Reform”. She is a reporter and writer for Ukrainian media outlets - [Ani Asatryan and Astghik Harutyunyan](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ani-asatryan-and-astghik-harutyunyan/) - Ani Asatryan is a writer of the Generation Independence and a “text artist”. Her first untitled book “ ” was published in 2014 and is a conceptual-Dadaist collection of short stories and essays. It was a collection of avant-garde literature, which included works written at the age of 19-21 and included surreal short pieces and which was published - [Jonas Verstraete](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jonas-verstraete/) - Jonas Verstraete is a Belgian comic artist and data analyst. His work focuses on short non-fiction comics and graphic journalism. He enjoys exploring complex topics and turning them into clear and engaging visual stories. Whether it’s about scientific insights, technological processes, political or socio-economic dynamics, even abstract concepts or theoretical reflections - Jonas believes that, - [Dragana Radanović](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/dragana-radanovic/) - Dragana Radanović is a comics artist and researcher. She studied Graphic Storytelling at LUCA School of Arts and holds a PhD on the visual representation of childhood during wartime. Based in Belgium, she is a researcher at KU Leuven and teaching assistant in Brussels. Radanović is also a co-founder of Comic-Aunties (Stripotetke), a collective supporting - [Magdalena Kaszuba](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/magdalena-kaszuba/) - Magdalena Kaszuba, born in 1988 in Bielawa, Poland, and raised in Germany, lives and works in Hamburg. Magdalena studied illustration with Anke Feuchtenberger at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts and has drawn comics for RomaTrial e. V., the Goethe Institute, and the IZS Wolfsburg, among others. For her debut novel, "Das leere - [Aloys Oosterwijk](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/aloys-oosterwijk/) - Aloys Oosterwijk (1956) is a Dutch cartoonist. He is the winner of the 2007 Stripschapprijs. In 2025 he won the Stripschapsprijs for the book Marengo, that he made with Marieke de Witte. Since 1996 he publishes a weekly comic strip Willems Wereld in the Dutch magazine Panorama. Oosterwijk is also known as a courtroom sketch - [Mark Schalken](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/mark-schalken/?lang=nl) - Mark Schalken (1967) is een Amsterdamse kunstenaar en ontwerper, en daarnaast geregeld organisator en schrijver. Tekenen is voor hem het medium dat alles met alles verbindt. Samen met Albert Hennipman richtte hij Het Huis van Betekenis in Utrecht op, broedplaats voor illustratoren. Naast zelf-geïnitieerde projecten ontwerpt hij in opdracht voor gelijkgestemde mensen en organisaties: boeken, - [Mark Schalken](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/mark-schalken/) - Mark Schalken (1967) is een Amsterdamse kunstenaar en ontwerper, en daarnaast geregeld organisator en schrijver. Tekenen is voor hem het medium dat alles met alles verbindt. Naast zelf-geïnitieerde projecten ontwerpt hij in opdracht voor gelijkgestemde mensen en organisaties: boeken, affiches, jaarverslagen, websites, tekeningen en muurschilderingen. Hij ontwierp de oorspronkelijke versie van de website van Drawing - [Josh Neufeld](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/josh-neufeld/) - Josh Neufeld is a cartoonist known for his nonfiction narratives of political and social upheaval, told through the voices of witnesses. His books included A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge and The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media. His comics have been published by the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, The Journalist’s Resource, and The Nib, among many others. Neufeld has - [Julia Kleinbeck](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/julia-kleinbeck/) - Julia Kleinbeck has a PhD in art history and works as a freelance illustrator currently living in Karlsruhe (Germany). In her artistic work, she primarily pursues the stories between the lines in the format of graphic journalism and ’silent comics‘. Paying attention to unnoticed, fleeting things and making them visible is a major concern for - [Karolina Chyżewska](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/karolina-chyzewska/) - Karolina Chyżewska, born 1986 in Göttingen, lives and works in Berlin as a comic book artist and Illustrator. She takes part in the art collective „Die Goldene Discofaust“, with whom she participated in the exhibition „Vorbilder*innen – Feminismus in Comic und Illustration“ in the 2022 edition of the Comic Salon Erlangen. In 2021 she received - [Sofiia Runova](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/sofiia-runova/) - Sofiia Runova is an artist from Ukraine. She is interested in exploring the world in all its diversity and complexity. She is especially interested in psychology and history. Art is one of her favourite tools to explore and reflect on outer and inner worlds. Sofiia considers visual narrative as one of the best tools to raise awareness around - [Nathalie Frank](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/nathalie-frank/) - Nathalie Frank is one of the initiators of the project "Wie geht es dir?". She was born in France, studied political science in Paris and cultural journalism in Berlin, where she lives since 2011. She works as a comics author and cultural reporter for Arte. Together with Lilian Pithan she curated the exhibition "Zeich(n)en der - [Libereco](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/libereco/) - Founded in 2009, Libereco — Partnership for Human Rights advocates for the respect and maintenance of civil and political human rights in Belarus and Ukraine. The association is recognised as a non-profit and non-governmental organisation in Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Libereco contributes to the improvement of the human rights situation on various levels. It - [Floor de Goede](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/floor-de-goede/) - In 2004 Flo started his website Doyouknowflo.nl, with the main goal to make a daily comic. Autobiographical stories about his life, relationships and the world around him. The first 4 years are published in a collection of seven Flo-booklets (the first one was awarded with VPRO debut award in 2006). In 2013 Flo’s first long - [Ehud Neuhaus](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ehud-neuhaus/) - Ehud Neuhaus (1975) is an Israeli born artist living in Amsterdam. He finds a sense of wonder and beauty in the small and mundane, the unspectacular and awkward. Maybe most of all - everything human. Amongst other things, he worked as a web designer and developer, animator, graphic designer and VJ. These days he draws - [Sanna Hukkanen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/sanna-hukkanen/) - Sanna Hukkanen is a comics artist and illustrator living in Joensuu, Finnish Karelia. She loves magical stories, ancient trees and mythological forests. Besides comics she has made illustrations to books, magazines, guidebooks and posters and her art work has travelled around in many exhibitions. She believes that art is a powerful tool for hope and - [Inkeri Aula](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/inkeri-aula/) - Inkeri Aula (PhD) is an anthropologist who specializes in multi-site and multi-sensorial ethnography. She defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Eastern Finland on Afro-Brazilian wording in translocal fight-dance-art capoeira in 2020. Her versatile research topics include environmental relationships, relational ontologies, utopias, cultural imaginaries, forest myths, weedy landscapes, sensorial atmospheres, Afro-Brazilian culture, and multi-sensory - [Dan Archer](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/dan-archer/) - Dan Archer has been working as a graphic journalist for over a decade since graduating from the Center of Cartoon Studies in 2009 with an MFA in Cartooning. His work focuses on human rights-related topics and he uses illustrated reportage and comics to protect the anonymity of his interviewees. His graphic journalism has been featured - [Tyra van Mossevelde](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/tyra-van-mossevelde/) - Tyra van Mossevelde is an infographic designer. As a student of physical geography, Tyra found herself standing before the vast expanse of the Greenland ice cap, conducting research on its outward and inward movement. Now the ice is moving in only one direction. This worries her. Buying stuff has a big impact on our environment - [Axel Claes](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/axel-claes/) - ‘In every pencil lives a good spirit’, says Axel Claes. ‘And the same goes for pieces of charcoal, markers and fountain pens. You can draw lines with them, or fill large surfaces. With these tools you can spread opinions. And hat is how I got close to graphic journalism. A profession where writing is drawing, - [Jeff Pourquié and Taina Tervonen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jeff-pourquie/) - Besides being a cartoonist Jeff Pourquié is a sulptor, a painter and a jazz musician. He started creating comics for the magazine A Suivre. After that he published several comics in collaboration with scenarists. Pourquié combines his "direct colors" technique with graphic data processing and traditional graphism. Taina Tervonen is an independent journalist. She writes in - [Tânia Alexandra Cardoso](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/tania-alexandra-cardoso/) - Tânia was born in Lisbon in 1985. Currently, she is an illustrator, urbanist, and PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam that investigates the potential of illustration as a form of urban communication. She explores the poetics of everyday life connecting urban experience, place and imagination. Her illustration work has integrated several international collective exhibitions; - [Julia Nascimento](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/julia-nascimento/) - Julia Nascimento is a Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist passionate about autobiographical narratives and collaborative work. While living in Japan for almost a decade she launched her artistic career and co-founded ToCo – the Tokyo Collective, a project that promotes visual story anthologies about the Japanese metropolis. Currently based in the countryside of Sweden, she has her - [Seri/graph studio](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/seri-graph-studio/) - Studio Seri/graph brings together Anna Ivanenko and Jenya Polosina. They are illustrators and printmakers from Kyiv, Ukraine. Working together since 2015. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine they work on many volunteer projects, making pictures, comics to fundraise money and documenting the reality. - [Victoria Lomasko](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/victoria-lomasko/) - Victoria Lomasko graduated in 2003 from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, where she majored in graphic art and book design. She now works as a graphic artist, with a particular focus on graphic reportage and has lectured and written about graphic reportage. In her own graphic reportage work, Lomasko explores current Russian society, - [Anne Stalinski](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/anne-stalinski/) - Anne Stalinski is an illustrator, comic-artist and zine-maker. She draws inspiration from daily life, trips to the supermarket and overheard conversations on the bus. One day she will grow an extra pair of hands to draw some more. When not drawing, she likes hanging out with her sister and her sisters dog. The pencil smoking - [Ludwig Volbeda](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ludwig-volbeda/) - Ludwig Volbeda (1990), is a Dutch illustrator based in Amsterdam. During his study illustration, drawing comics was just an excuse to write. Nowadays, he enjoys the language of comics more and more. He is interested in themes such as love, loss and alienation and gets inspiration from science, landscapes, literature and daily life. He mostly - [Jan-Willem Spakman](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jan-willem-spakman-and-wesam/) - Jan-Willem Spakman is a Dutch comic and illustration artist from Groningen working for Dutch new sites and newspapers. Besides short humor comics called Wimpie Comics, he also makes comics on more social and political subjects. - [Hector Sonon](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/hector-sonon/) - Hector Sonon (Benin, 1970) is a versatile artist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics author. He started his career as a self-taught cartoonist. He published his first caricatures in La Gazette du Golfe. After that he studied at the Royal Art Academie des Beaux-Arts and at L’école Supérieure des Arts Visuels Saint-Luc in Brussels. He worked with people - [Leyla Ali](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/leyla-ali/) - Leyla Ali (1989) studied Graphic Design in Baku Azerbaijan. She is a studying illustration at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) and works as freelancer illustrator. - [Alice Socal](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/alice-socal/) - Alice Socal (IT) was born in Mestre-Venice in 1986. After her initial studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, she moved to Germany where she completed her studies in Illustration and Comic at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. She published her first comic book Luke with an italian publish house in 2011. Her next - [Tonke Koppelaar](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/tonke-koppelaar/) - As an animator and illustrator Tonke finds her way in moving and still image, looking for the untold and unknown. She tells and translates into image and gently guides you, the viewer, inside her world. In Tonkes work details and subtlety are forming a combination with playfulness and emotion. - [Christian Diaz Orejarena](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/christian-diaz-orejarena/) - Christian Diaz Orejarena studied conceptual and media art in Berlin and Vienna. He works on research-based and interdisciplinary projects that often arise in a collective context. In his artistic work, he tells self-deprecating and personal stories about his post-migrant biography and constructs a docufictional view of socio-political, economic and aesthetic connections between Colombia and Germany. - [Poorva Goel](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/poorva-goel/) - Poorva Goel (1997, India) is a cartoonist and multimedia storyteller who has been working on stories of social and ecological justice and is interested in documenting people, places and paradigms. - [Rachelle Meyer](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/rachelle-meyer/) - Rachelle is an American illustrator, artist, and writer living in the Netherlands. Her cartoons and comics have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Her artwork is distinctive in its expressive line, harmonious color palettes, sensitivity, and humor. Her multimedia art project, Faces on the Ferry, marked her return to the world of fine arts - [Mazen Kerbaj](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/mazen-kerbaj/) - Mazen Kerbaj is a illustrator, painter and a trompetist. Kerbaj was born in Beirut where he studied at the Franco-Lebanese high school. He began publishing his drawings in various Lebanese magazines, including L'Orient-Express led by Samir Kassir. He recounts his life in the Middle East, plagued by war, but never without humor Kerbaj is also - [Het Huis van Betekenis](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/het-huis-van-betekenis/) - Het Huis van Betekenis is a collective of creatives who draw in Utrecht. The collective works on projects that are based on co-creation and engagement. The place is both a studio where about 20 illustrators and other creatives rent a desk. - [Florence Debove](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/florence-debove/) - Florence Debove is a shepherd in the Pyrenees. She draws sketchbooks in situ : vast landscapes, herds of sheeps, isolated houses, the dance of clouds. The atmospheres are punctuated by writings, texts inspired by her life with animals and the mountains. She mixes techniques, marker, colored pencils, chalk, watercolor, gouache. In 2021, she published her - [Betje Ton](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/betje-ton/) - Betje Ton used to work solely as an illustrator until she stumbled upon some autobiographical comics while she lived in the United States. Inspired by cartoonists such as Erika Moen, Lucy Knisley, Roz Chast and Jeffrey Brown she started making comics about her own life. She now writes and draws for Dutch teen magazine Tina, reports - [Joris Bas Backer](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/joris-bas-backer/) - I am a comic artist and illustrator. Growing up, I lived in the Hague, Bucharest, New York and a small Dutch suburb town and early on became an attentive observer of people. As a child, to know how to behave, I studied other people. I now write stories to try to make sense of the - [Aleksandar Zograf](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/sasa-rakezic/) - Aleksandar Zograf (a pseudonym of Sasa Rakezic) is a Serbian cartoonist, the author of such works as Life Under Sanctions, Psychonaut, Dream Watcher and Bulletins from Serbia. Zograf has been active on the international scene since the early '90s when his work started to appear in U.S. comics anthologies such as Weirdo and Zero Zero - [Eva Hilhorst and Judith Vanistendael](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/eva-hilhorst-and-judith-vanistendael/) - Climate Change is huge and omnipresent and it is frustrating that as an individual we cannot stop or undo it. Eva Hilhorst and Judith Vanistendael are storytellers. They work on a project about fictional and non-fictional graphic storytelling on climate change. People's experiences are real, they make climate change tangible. They started with the Window - [Ariel Sophia Bardi](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ariel-sophia-bardi/) - Ariel Sophia Bardi is a multimedia journalist and academic focused on culture and conflict, particularly on disputed cultural heritage. She has reported from Armenia, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Uganda, and Mexico for outlets like Atlas Obscura, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Columbia Journalism Review, and many - [Nikhil Chaudhary](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/nikhil-chaudhary/) - Nikhil Chaudhary (born 1985) is an architect-urban planner and an independent comics artist based in Berlin. As his day job, Nikhil works as a Cities Advisor with EIT Climate-KIC, an EU-funded non-profit organisation supporting European municipalities as they implement their 2030 climate action initiatives. His personal project ‘Linear Expression’ seeks to impactfully communicate urban issues - [Britta Wagner](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/britta-wagner/) - Britta Wagner (born 1979) is a sociologist living near Nuremberg. Liking things put straight (and with a wink), she has always had a pen in her hand when she wanted to understand a phenomenon, to tidy up a wicked situation or to break down a demanding topic. What had accompanied her privately, in research and - [Valerii Momot](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/valerii-momot/) - He was born in Melitopol (UKRAINE) in 1972 In 1985 he moved to Dnepropetrovsk. He graduated from Pridneprovskaya State Academy of Construction and Architecture, specialty architecture. He worked as a cartoonist for newspapers and magazines. - [Kees de Groot van Embden](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/kees-de-groot-van-embden/) - Kees de Groot van Embden is painter, documentary maker and therapist. He was born in France and lived his youth there. He studied medicine in Leiden in The Netherlands. After having worked as a general practitioner for a short while in the small fishers town of Katwijk, he became a journalist and documentary maker for - [Maria Fraaije](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/maria-fraaije/) - Maria Fraaije likes to capture societal challenges in crayons and colors. She works as an illustrator under the name of Fraaijeboel and as a researcher at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions. - [Alex Mankiewicz](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/alex-mankiewicz/) - Alex Mankiewicz is an illustrator based between Byron Bay, Australia and Kyoto, Japan. A global nomad, born in NY and raised in London, Alex has worked in Europe, Asia and the US and spent years as a printmaker in Kyoto. Images and graphic narratives have been awarded internationally and appear in magazines, newspapers, editorial, and - [Kaisa Leka](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/kaisa-leka/) - Kaisa Leka is a Finnish comics artist and adventurer who, together with her faithful sherpa Christoffer Leka, publishes autobiographical books about the nature of being. Kaisa has been awarded the Finnish Comics Society’s prestigious Puupäähattu prize and several of the duo’s books have received design prizes such as Grafia’s Gold Award. - [Gianluca Costantini](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/gianluca-costantini/) - Gianluca Costantini (1971) is an artist/activist. His last book, realized along with Elettra Stamboulis, is Pertini (Becco Giallo, 2015). As a child Gianluca Costantini often drew images to detach himself from reality and create his own world. Without know it at the time, the famed Italian cartoonist and illustrator set himself off on a journey to bring - [Amy Guijt](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/amy-guijt/) - Amy Guijt (1992) is a freelance graphic designer with a focus on information design. She lives and works in Leiden, the Netherlands. She loves to take a dive into the water as well as into different kinds of environmental- and social issues. - [Yorgos Konstantinou](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/yorgos-konstantinou/) - Yorgos Konstantinou, (y0rgos) also known as ЁРГОС, is a Berlin-based visual communicator from Thessaloniki with a long presence in Catalonia. Comics and cartoon maker with a creative visual rhetoric background, he illustrates pictures in an original, poetical and intelligent way. He works as an illustrator, visual mediator, comic book designer and cartoonist for book, press, & explanation - [Bob Mollema](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/bob-mollema/) - Bob Mollema Graduated from the High School of Arts in Utrecht is a up and coming young talent. As a very involved artist he graduated with a story on refugees. - [Giorgia Marino](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/giorgia-marino/) - Gioria Marino is a freelance journalist based in Italy. She is the chief-editor of the international magazine on the circular economy "Materia Rinnovable/Renewable Matter" and writes for several magazines and newspapers including the Italian edition of The Huffington Post and the national newspaper La Stampa. She has reported from various parts of the world and - [Sarah Welling](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/sarah-welling/) - Sarah Welling (Eindhoven, 1981) Sarah Welling makes things, including art, comics, zines and merchandise. In some way or form these all tell stories about everyday life and her neighborhood in Amsterdam Oost. - [Illi Anna Heger](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/illi-anna-heger/) - Illi Anna Heger (1978) is a comic artist and author with a focus on nonfictional graphic storytelling. They are interested in history, grammar, queer and trans issues and natural science. They use comics as a medium to explain, to document and to communicate within and outside their intersecting communities. They have a university background in - [Ezgi Aksoy and Betül Yılmaz](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ezgi-aksoy-and-betul-yilmaz/) - Ezgi Aksoy Ezgi Aksoy was born in 1981 in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a writer, editor, movie critic and interpreter, and the author of three published books, “Deep Red” (detailed investigations on Latin American underground culture), “Popular Cult” (an anthology of writings on popular cinema and cults in movie culture) and “Like A Girl” (a - [Joshua Biseruka](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/joshua-biseruka/) - Joshua Biseruka was born in 1993, Rwanda. He is an Artist and a visual arts teacher in AGAHOZO Shalom, Rwamagana. He graduated in sculpture and Diploma in Illustration from Ecole d'Art de Nyundo and London College of Art respectively. He participated in several local and international art trainings, competitions and exhibitions and won different prizes - [Katja Fred](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/katja-fred/) - Katja Fred is an artist, born in 1989. She lives and works in Utrecht. She loves to put her art into socially engaged topics. Her drawing style is dreamy, detailed and open for interpretation, just like the complex and and abstract philosophical subjects that she loves to visualise. In 2018 she helped building a collective - [Lucie Lomová](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/lucie-lomova/) - The Czech illustrator and comic author from Prague. Starting as a theatre critic and journalist she eventually found her scope in creating comics; except of these her portfolio also comprises children’s books and magazines illustrations. In the Czech Republic she is famous thanks to the well-known mouse couple „Anča and Pepík“. Their stories were published - [Arezoo Moradi and Jeroen Janssen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jeroen-janssen-and-arezoo-moradi/) - Arezoo Moradi: Born in Tehran, Iran in 1984. Arezoo Moradi has a bachelor's degree in Journalism and a master's degree in Sociology and also a year in Digital Storytelling. After emigrating to Europe, she engages in journalism from a Middle Eastern perspective, mixed with literature and digital storytelling. Several of her short stories have been - [Wauter Mannaert](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/wauter-mannaert/) - Wauter Mannaert became a master of arts at the Sint-Lukas in Brussels and started working as a comics artists thereafter. He started making comics reportages in 2011 together with Eva Hilhorst for the weekly Brussels' newspaper BDW, now Bruzz. For this newspaper he makes a cartoon weekly. His graphic novel ‘El Mesías’ on the struggle - [Issy Manley](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/issy-manley/) - Issy Manley is a cartoonist, educator, and service industry worker, currently based in New Orleans. She mostly makes nonfiction and autobio comics about topics like student debt, gynecological pain and the healthcare system, working in the service industry, and climate crisis. She holds an MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, and her - [Ulli Lust](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ulli-lust-2/) - Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna. She is an Austrian cartoonist who lives and works in Berlin. Her graphic novel Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won an Ignatz Award for best graphic novel, the LA Times Book Award for Graphic Novels and was nominated for an Eisner Award for - [Claudio Marinaccio](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/claudio-marinaccio/) - Claudio Marinaccio was born in Turin in 1982. He writes and draws for the italian version of Rolling Stone and Huffington Post. "Trentatré raggi ionizzanti" (Feltrinelli, 2021) is his first comic. - [Nino Bulling](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/paula-bulling/) - Nino lives and works as an illustrator and comic artist and occasional translator in Berlin. They studied ceramics and illustration in Halle an der Saale. Their first graphic novel Im Land der Frühaufsteher was published in 2012. - [Hedy Tjin](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/hedy-tjin/) - BIO HEDY ENGLISH Hedy Tjin is an Amsterdam-based illustration designer. Since graduating from the Academy of Arts in Utrecht, her work has developed a trademark recognisability. Whether it's murals, textile prints, illustrated books or a newspaper cover, Hedy is known for diverse expressions where her signature form stays constant; powerful colours expressing topics of societal - [Gus Moystad](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/gus-moystad/) - Gus Moystad (b. 1992) is an artist, writer and live-storyteller based in Amsterdam. Through material research, interdisciplinary practice, and tender, psychedelic images and organic forms, he continues to expand a unique and strange secondary world in which his characters and images take place. His interest in fantasy, utopia, bodies, identity, history and politics means his - [Farhad Foroutanian (Rad)](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/farhad-foroutanian-rad/) - Born in Tehran 1957. I studied in theater at Anahita Theater Academy in Iran in 1973 -74 and also in fine arts at Tehran Academy of Fine Arts in 1975-78. My professional career as an actor has been started in 1974 and as a visual artist in 1977. I immigrated to The Netherlands in 1986 - [Chantal Wentink](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/chantal-wentink/) - Chantal Wentink (Amstelveen, 1969) lives in Hilversum, the Netherlands together with her partner and two dogs. Drawing makes her happy and she likes to draw from observation. Preferably she sketches on location together with her urban sketching buddies. Although she has an education in computer science, she prefers to sketch with analog materials in sketchbooks - [Typex](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/typex/) - Since the dawn of man Typex has been doing comics, illustration and much more. Using only the finest of last century's tools & crafts. Typex is known well for his pop music illustrations, besides that he also illustrates children books. He made a graphic novel about the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. In 2018 his - [Anna Denise Floor](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/anna-denise-floor/) - Anna Denise Floor (1984) is an illustrator from Utrecht, The Netherlands. She's kept an illustrated journal about her life since 2007 and loves creating zines, books, and stories for children. She's also a mom to two little boys, she's a painter, adores travel, and her perfect night in consists of eating sushi and painting while - [Femke van der Wijk](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/femke-van-der-wijk/) - Femke works from studio vander, her practice and laboratory for text and images. "I am forever amazed at the reflexive manner in which we read, see and interpret the world around us. By the way we understand one another, or think we do, without conscious thought. More specifically, by the role that our visual and written language - [Romain Van de Louw](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/romain-van-de-louw/) - Illustrator currently living in Lille, France, considers drawing as a wonderful way to explore the world around him, to get in touch with people, and to tell stories ! - [Emanuela Mae Agrini](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/emanuela-mae-agrini/) - Originally from Genoa, Italy and currently living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Emanuela Mae Agrini loves the contamination between drawn images and words, a communication method that can give voice to important stories and facts in a world increasingly deafened by noise. - [Jakob Fälling](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jakob-falling/) - Jakob Fälling (1972) is an independent writer and illustrator based in Roskilde, Denmark. He has published 10 books, primarily non fiction, at major danish publishing houses and teaches narrative journalistic writing. His ventures into drawn journalism are driven by a strong vision of experimenting with classic storytelling tools for new narrative forms. He publishes daily - [Heleen Croonen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/heleen-croonen/) - Heleen Croonen (1975) started her career as a pharmacist in a hospital in Purmerend. Before she was thirty she took a turn to journalism and worked at the Pharmaceutical Journal in Den Haag and next at the doctors journal Medisch Contact. At the moment she is the health editor of Plus Magazine. This is the - [Griet Menschaert](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/griet-menschaert/) - Griet Menschaert is artist and editor, and anything in between. She looks at her surroundings like an involved critical friend who doesn’t mind a touch of absurdism. In 2016, she founded KONT magazine, of which she is also Editor in Chief. She has shown her drawings nationally and internationally, has curated exhibitions, and did performances - [Christophe Schwartz and Inga Dreyer](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/christophe-schwartz-and-inga-dreyer/) - Christophe Schwartz is a comic artist who lives in Vienna (Austria). His comics are focused on historic and journalistic topics. As an urban sketcher he also pictures his hometown and the places he travels. To earn a living he works as an art teacher. Inga Dreyer is a journalist and lives in Berlin (Germany). Her - [Chris Lanier](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/chirs-lanier/) - Chris Lanier is a cartoonist, writer, critic and video artist based in Reno, NV. A constant in his work has been a fascination with visual communication – the way visual information constitutes a language of its own, one that can both clarify and distort reality. His animation has screened and won awards at several international festivals, - [Babette Wagenvoort](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/babette-wagenvoort/) - Babette Wagenvoort (MA RCA) works as fine artist, illustrator, curator and tutor, meandering between commissioned work and self-initiated projects, with contemporary drawing as a foundation of her practice. 'An Evening At The Women’s Association’ is a co-operation between Babette Wagenvoort (drawings) and writer/journalist Lokien de Bie (text). - [Nina Mathijsen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/nina-mathijsen/) - [Albert Hennipman](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/albert-hennipman/) - Designer, draftsman and teacher at the art academy in Utrecht (HKU) - loves people, buildings, birds, things and the connection between them. Co-founder of 'Het Huis van Betekenis' in Utrecht, a place where drawing and storytelling come together.. - [Femme ter Haar](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/femme-ter-haar/) - Femme ter Haar (1996) grew up in Groningen but relocated to Utrecht for her bachelor in illustration at HKU. After graduating in 2018, she took up a desk in het Huis van Betekenis, a community of illustrators and creatives. Ever since, Femme has been working as a freelance illustrator and animator, using illustration to make - [Munir de Vries](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/munir-de-vries/) - Munir is a artist/illustrator based in Utrecht (The Netherlands ), strongly motivated to find new places and hunt for new experiences and stories. Munir's graffiti background enables him to visualize new found perspectives, stories and ideas into the environment they are from. Creating huge murals as a podium for found perspectives/stories/ideas, to help them flourish. - [Suzan Hijink](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/suzan-hijink/) - Suzan Hijink (1997) is an illustrator from the city of Utrecht and makes editorial and free work. Trouw, Big Village and Zeeman are a few companies for which she has illustrated. From her digital brush flow fresh colors and structures, that you would prefer to touch on paper. Her illustrations are realistic with a surreal - [B. Carrot](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/b-carrot/) - B. Carrot (Jerusalem, 1985) moved to study visual art in Amsterdam in 2006 and ended up staying in the Netherlands. In 2019 she graduated Cum Laude from the Sint Lukas School of Arts in Brussels. Her master project was later published as her debut graphic novel titled 'Alle dagen ui'. Personal stories, politics and more often the merge of - [Jiro Ghianni](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jiro-ghlannl/) - Jiro Ghianni (b. 1975) once a multi-media visual artist, graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy, has been a prominent transgender person since the 90’s of last century. Jiro initiated the TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Filmfestival, worked on many LGBT-emancipation projects as a proper academic research-assistant but at the same time did naked performances in smokey queer squats. Jiro currently - [Julia Kluge](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/julia-kluge/) - Julia Kluge was born in 1989 in a small village between meadows and forests in Germany. From 2009 to 2014 she studied Communication Design and Illustration with Prof. Georg Barber/ATAK at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. In the summer of 2016 she successfully completed her master studies in the class for - [Viivi Rintanen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/viivi-rintanen/) - I am Viivi Rintanen, a 27 years old comics artist, mental health & illness awareness speaker, illustrator and art educator from Helsinki, Finland. I have three principles when it comes to making art: 1. My art is based on true life. In my art I depict the things I know first hand. This is why I often describe - [Adam & Lisa Murphy](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/adam-lisa-murphy/) - Adam & Lisa Murphy are the team behind the comics CorpseTalk, where the reanimated corpses of long-dead historical figures reveal their stories, and Lost Tales, beautiful re-tellings of unusual and lesser known folk-tales from around the globe. Both originally appeared in The Phoenix, a weekly kids' comics magazine in the UK, and have since been - [Emma Ringelding](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/emma-ringelding/) - Emma Ringelding (1991) studied Comic Design and Dutch Literature and works as comic artist and illustrator. Her work has been published in several papers, books and magazines. She is fascinated by the literary potential of visual storytelling. - [Jeroen Janssen](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jeroen-janssen-2/) - Jeroen Janssen (1963) is comic artist, illustrator and colorist. His first album Muzungu, published in 1997 in Belgium, has been created in Rwanda, when he was teacher at the Ecole d' Arts in Nyundo. Since then, he published Bakamé, De grote toveraar and other (African) stories. Most of his books are made in collaboration with - [Maia Matches](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/maia-matches/) - Hailing from East York, Toronto, Maia Matches is an avid contributor to the underground comic scene. Over the last decade, she has provided commentary on feminism, gentrification and the Amsterdam squat movement. Recently she started a webcomic called FOMO which is based on her experiences with online dating and, through the comic, hopes to inspire - [Emmi Nieminen & Johanna Vehkoo](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/emmi-nieminen-johanna-vehkoo/) - Emmi Nieminen (b. 1988) is a visual artist, illustrator and comics artist from Tampere, Finland. Since her debut in 2010 she has published 5 books and participated in several anthologies. She works with themes like miscommunication, cats, human interaction, food and imperfection of human life. Nieminen is currently working on a historical graphic novel together - [Eva Hilhorst](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/eva-hilhorst/) - Eva Hilhorst is the initiator of Drawing the Times. Hilhorst is been working as a graphic journalist for several years. Her work was published in the Dutch newspaper Trouw and on the online platforms De Correspondent and Symbolia Currently she is the editor in chief of Drawing the Times, Teacher at the Art Academy Utrecht and a - [Fred Lynch](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/fred-lynch/) - Fred is a professor of Illustration at (RISD) the Rhode Island School of Design (his alma mater) in Providence, Rhode Island. He was for a long time, a professor and department chair at Montserrat College of Art, and he continues to teach for their Summer Studies Program in Italy. When not teaching, he creates artwork - [Aimée de Jongh](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/aimee-de-jongh/) - Aimée de Jongh (1988) is an award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator from Rotterdam. After publishing her first comic book 'Aimée TV' at the age of 17, Aimée became one of the most promising talents in Dutch comics. She developed a large variety of styles and techniques, from children's books illustration to graphic novels and short - [Mei-Li Nieuwland](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/mei-li-nieuwland/) - Mei-Li Nieuwland (1988) is a cultural anthropologist, using comics and illustration to open up complex issues for understanding and debate. Her approach characteristically combines hands-on fieldwork with design thinking, and continues to explore the potential of images to tell stories that stick. Topics of special interest include computer science and technology, privacy, the environment, migration, - [Nik Heemskerk](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/nik-heemskerk/) - Nik Heemskerk (Rijnsburg, 1993) studies illustration at the HKU in Utrecht and is in his final year. In his work Nik likes to use stories. He uses stories to search for adventure and wants to arouse a feeling of discovering. He also covers a wide range of work from animations to sculptures. - [Mas Hab](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/mashab/) - Mas Hab was born in Amsterdam in 1991, and lives a scruffy life that involves hitchhiking and knocking over ink jars. She seeks to use her work to support socially engaged discourse and projects. She likes warm mud and city pigeons. - [Timon Vader](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/timon-vader/) - Timon Vader (22) is a Dutch illustrator and creative director, currently in the graduation year at the Utrecht Academy of the Arts. His work and interests cover a wide range of subjects and styles, from storytelling to illustrating a specific sociological problem, to simply drawings of bizarre figures and trippy animations. A selection of his work can - [Alphabet des Ankommens](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/alphabet-des-ankommens/) - Asma Al Abidi worked in Tunisia for correspondents.org and BBC Media Action. She is now pursuing an MA in international media studies at the University Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. Ilki Kocer received her MFA in Kassel in 2015. Since then she has been working as an illustrator and an author of comics. She is part of the art collective »Die - [Karrie Fransman](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/karrie-fransman/) - Karrie Fransman is a comic creator. She tells visual stories in books, newspapers, animations, sculptures, on Ipads and in virtual reality. She published the graphic novels The House That Groaned and Death of the Artist. - [Gunther Moss](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/gunther-moss/) - Gunther Moss is a self taught comic artist from Cameroon. He works as an illustrator and cartoonist for the magazine 100% jeune in Yaoundé. He is working on a series of comic books Laff lafrikain - [Clément Keba](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/clement-keba/) - Clément Keba is a young artist from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied at the art schools of Lumumbashi and Kinshasa. He would like to travel to get inspired for his stories and become a professional comics artist. He also likes to paint and make movies. - [Floribert Nisabwe](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/floribert-nisabwe/) - Floribert Nisabwe, pen name Alif, is a Burundian journalist and cartoonist. He was educated as a historian and is now working as a professional cartoonist. His drawings are published in the newspaper Iwacu (the only independent weekly of the country) and on the website Yaga- Burundi. His first click with the media was when he - [Ajax Nzeyimana](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/ajax-nzeyimana/) - Ajax Nzeyimana is a Burundian cartoonist. He made his debut with cartoons for the weekly Iwacu in 2011. He studied at the artschool of Gitega. Later, at the Lumière University in Bujumbura at the faculty of Communication Sciences: audiovisual options and concepts, he discovered comics and cartoons in the course Mass Media. Drawing has always been his - [Joost Pollmann](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/joost-pollmann/) - Joost Pollmann (1957) organized ten editions of the Dutch comics festival Stripdagen Haarlem, writes about comic art for the national newspaper De Volkskrant and recently published his book 'De Stripprofessor - Vijftig colleges over tekenkunst'. Pollmann lectured in several countries about comics journalism and is now working on the project 'The refugee crisis in comics, - [Marino Neri and Pietro Scarnera](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/marino-neri-pietro-scarneri/) - Marino Neri Born in Modena in 1979, he is the author of the graphic novels Il re dei fiumi (Kappa Edizioni, 2008) and La coda del lupo (Canicola, 2011). In 2012 he won the “Nuove strade” award as best new talent. His last work is Cosmo, published in Italy by Coconino Press-Fandango in 2016 and in France by Atrabile. Pietro Scarnera - [Aart Taminiau](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/aart-taminiau/) - Aart Taminiau (1982, The Netherlands) is an illustrator and animator who also makes the occasional short film. De Bezige Bij has just published his graphic novel Wool. Aart is self-taught and does most of his work with a dip pen and India ink. He was one of the artists of the journalistic graphic novel ‘De - [C.M. Shergath](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/c-m-shergath/) - Shergath was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, a visual artist and writer working generally on comics and 2D Videogames, Fine arts bachelor, he started his comic journey with the Skefkef Fanzine. His works are most of the time sarcastic and full of humour, but at the same time abord issues that makes a moroccan's - [Barrack Rima](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/barrack-rima/) - Born in 1972, in Tripoli, Lebanon, Barrack Rima is dividing his time between Brussels and Beirut. He is a comics artist and a film maker. And a member of Samandal comics association (Beirut). Some of his comics works : Cairo storyteller (in French, La Cafetière, 1998) ; De Brusselmansen (in Dutch, weekly in Brussel Deze Week newspaper, - [Emanuele Giacopetti](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/emanuele-giacopetti/) - Giacopetti was born in Genoa in 1982 , he has worked with numerous self-productions, including Lucha Libre , Bradiponauta and Rib . - [Studio Michel Marie](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/studio-michel-marie/) - Studio Michel Marie is the pseudonym of Michelle de Gruijl (1988), a Dutch illustrator living in Amsterdam. As a visual designer and cultural anthropologist specialized in conflict resolution, it is her goal and ambition to share her knowledge of social issues through visual journalism. In doing so, she’s inspired by stories behind faces, faces, unfamiliar - [Merel Barends](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/merel-barends/) - Merel Barends (1980) is an Amsterdam-based comic artist and illustrator. Her work has been published in books, newspapers, magazines and online platforms. When she's not at her drawing table, she's probably at the movies. - [Lindsay Pollock](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/lindsay-pollack/) - Lindsay Pollock is a cartoonist, illustrator & film-maker based in London. His work includes Meet the Somalis, commissioned by the Open Society Foundation and produced through PositiveNegatives. He has also co-directed two feature-documentaries which you can find out about here. He is working on a graphic novel co-produced with Benjamin Dix about the civil war in Sri Lanka. - [Jules Calis and David Oranje](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jules-calis-and-david-oranje/) - [Jeroen Janssen and Hilde Baele](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jeroen-janssen/) - Jeroen Janssen (1963) is comic artist, illustrator and colorist. His first album Muzungu, published in 1997 in Belgium, has been created in Rwanda, when he was teacher at the Ecole d' Arts in Nyundo. Since then, he published Bakamé, De grote toveraar and other (African) stories. Most of his books are made in collaboration with - [TRIK](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/trik/) - TRIK (1976) is a political cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher at the art academie in Zwolle (Netherlands). TRIK strips situations down to the bone in razorsharp graphical images and gives clear and humorous comments. A small square is all he needs to cut straight to the heart of the matter. TRIK is always looking - [Olivier Kugler](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/olivier-kugler/) - Olivier Kugler was born in 1970 in Stuttgart, Germany. He grew up in Simmozheim, a small village, in the Black Forest. Influenced by French/Belgian bande desinées and Otto Dix. After military service in the Navy Olivier studied graphic design in Pforzheim (Germany) and worked as a designer in Karlsruhe for a few years... got terribly - [Judith Vanistendael](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/judith-vanistendael/) - Judith Vanistendael creates comics 'that have to do with life as it really is'. Vanistendael studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin (Germany), earned an academic degree in art sciences from the Univeristy of Ghent (Belgium), did postgraduate studies on Latin America, and followed the comics master at the Sint Lukas art school in - [Jules Calis](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/jules-calis/) - Jules Calis (1985) is a Dutch comic artist and illustrator specialized in political engaged comics, and representing someone’s experiences. He studied history and Fine Arts and graduated at the Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, in 2012. Calis has illustrated stories for Dutch newspapers De Volkskrant, NRC.Next, De Correspondent and BN DeStem. Calis is currently finishing - [Andy Warner](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/andy-warner/) - Andy Warner's comics have been published by The United Nations Human Rights Council, Slate, Medium, American Public Media, Symbolia, KQED, The Center for Constitutional Rights, The United Nations Refugee & Works Agency, Generation Progress, and Buzzfeed. He makes comics in a garden shed in San Francisco, lives in Berkeley and comes from the sea. - [Bas van der Schot](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/bas-van-der-schot/) - Bas van der Schot works as a political cartoonist/illustrator for the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant. His cartoons are internationally distributed via Cartoonists en Writers Syndicate (USA) and Courrier International (Paris). Other clients in the Netherlands: Vrij Nederland, Intermediair, Filosofie-Magazine, Ad Valvas (VU), Mare (Leiden), Univers (Tilburg) en Erasmus-Magazine (Rotterdam). In 2003 he won the - [Maartje Smits](https://drawingthetimes.com/authors/maartje-smits/) - Maartje Smits (1986) is a bachelor art graduate from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie en Design and a master art graduate at the Sandberg Instituut. 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