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1. Aimée de Jongh

Days of Sand

Aimée de Jongh is an award-winning comics author and animator from the Netherlands. She studied Animation in Rotterdam, Ghent, and Paris. After graduating, she was asked to create a daily comic series for a Dutch national newspaper. This marked the start of a successful international career. The Return of the Honey Buzzard, her first graphic novel, won the Prix Saint-Michel for best Dutch graphic novel and was made into a film in 2017. Her following books, Blossoms in Autumn and Taxi!, were translated worldwide and won awards in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Japan. Aimée worked as a graphic journalist in the refugee camps in Greece. Her interest in travel, ecology, and journalism resulted in the historical graphic novel Days of Sand, her biggest project to date. When she’s not drawing comics, Aimée works in animation as a storyboarder and director.

Blossoms in Autumn

Aimée de Jongh is an award-winning animator, comics artist and illustrator from the Netherlands. She published her first comic at 17, before studying animation. She has since created work for children's books, TV shows, music videos, and art installations, as well as for numerous comic book series. Her animated film Aurora was screened widely in the Netherlands, and Janus, a video installation she created with the L.A.-based artist Miljohn Ruperto, was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The Return of the Honey Buzzard, her first graphic novel, won the Prix Saint-Michel.  Zidrou (Benoît Drousie) is a Belgian comics writer. A former teacher, he began writing comics in the early 1990s. He has been a regular contributor to the European comics magazine Spirou and is the author of numerous children’s books and adult graphic novels. Born in Brussels, he now lives in Spain.