Judith Vanistendael
BornJudith Irene Vanistendael Edit this on Wikidata
21 August 1974 Edit this on Wikidata
Leuven Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationIllustrator Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
Websitehttps://judithvanistendael.wordpress.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Judith Vanistendael (born 21 August 1974, Leuven) is a Dutch-speaking Belgian comics author, illustrator, and teacher in comics art. She also worked for a time as a children's book illustrator.

Early life and education

Judith Irene Vanistendael is the daughter of the Flemish poet-journalist Geert van Istendael.[1] After her secondary studies, she attended an art school in Ghent,[2] and spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.[3] Returning to Ghent, she resumed artistic studies for four years before continuing her studies in Seville, Spain.[2] She learned comics creation at the Institut des arts graphiques Sint-Lukas Bruxelles in 2000,[2] with teachers, Nix and Johan De Moor before publishing in journals such as Ink, Demo, Zone 53001, and Bruxxxel Noord.[2]

Career

Vanistendael's career began with the illustration of Flemish tales written by her father, Vlaamse Sprookjes (1995), then Het Koeienboek by Bibi Dumon Tak (2000).[2] She also worked for a time as a children's book illustrator.[2]

She wrote and drew La Jeune fille et le nègre, an autobiographical story in two volumes about the love between a young Togolese and a young Belgian.[1] The narration depicts "the absurdity of the regularization procedures for undocumented migrants in Belgium", which multiply the obstacles facing this political refugee.[1] The book, which mixes drama, humor, love, and lightness, according to Le Soir, immediately won several cultural prizes and was part of the selection for the Essentiels d'Angoulême in 2009,[1] and for the Prix Tournesol.[4] The storyline echoes a novel by Geert van Istendael, Bericht uit de burcht (News from the citadel), which expresses his dismay at his daughter's relationship with an undocumented man.[1]

In 2012, Vanistendael published Toen David zijn stem verloor (David, women and death), whose hero is suffering from cancer and undertakes to change his life,[5] without succeeding in protecting the women who are close to him from the effects of his agony:—"The disease is the tragedy of the patient, but also of those around him."[6] The work, which is inspired by the death of Vanistendael's father-in-law, took two years to complete.[6] Her preference was using watercolor.[7] The work was one of the five finalists for the critics' grand prize.[8] She has been nominated for the Eisner Award on three occasions.[9]

Based on a screenplay by Mark Bellido, Vanistendael drew and colored Salto - L'Histoire du marchand de bonbons qui disparut sous la pluie (Salto - The Story of the Candy Merchant Who Disappeared in the Rain) (2016), which features a candy seller turned bodyguard in Spain of the 1990s.[10] The main character, Miquel, is a failed writer who sells candy to support his family and agrees to become a bodyguard for a politician threatened by ETA, which ends up destroying his life.[11][12] Vanistendael uses several processes and formats, in particular the colored pencil.[12]

Vanistendael joined forces with Michael De Cock for a children's series, Rosie et Moussa, which appears in Dutch and as a serial in Brussel Deze Week before being the subject of four volumes.[13] The story tells of the great friendship between two children from Brussels.[13] The series was translated into many languages and received several awards.[13] Director Dorothée Van Den Berghe was inspired by it to create the film Rosie et Moussa, released in theaters in October 2018.[14]

In 2019, inspired by the character of Penelope in the Odyssey, Vanistendael delivers Les Deux Vies de Pénélope, where a doctor mother engages in humanitarian work and distances herself from her family, especially her daughter. Vanistendael opted for a treatment with "watercolor stains".[15] Vanistendael long wanted to describe the life of a woman who, due to an intense job, cannot invest herself with her daughter.[16] Having read the work of Homer, Vanistendael was struck by the role of Penelope, who limits herself to keeping the hearth, while her husband has increasing adventures.[16] Nevertheless, Vanistendael retains that Odysseus left his family because a higher interest required it.[15] In Vanistendael's album, Penelope's husband is responsible for watching over the home, while Penelope, haunted by her missions in countries at war, "refuses to let herself be reduced to her dimension as a mother" and returns to her humanitarian activities.[15] During the production of the work, Vanistendael went to a refugee camp and drew a graphic report: Moria, the hell of Lesbos.[17][18] For this work, she received the "Bulles d'Humanité" prize, awarded by the newspaper, L'Humanité.[19]

In 2021, at the Prix Atomium, Vanistendael won the Prix Willy-Vandersteen with Zidrou for La Baleine-bibliothèque (Le Lombard).[20]

Personal life

Vanistendael has a daughter.[15]

Selected works

  • La Jeune fille et le nègre (scriptwriter and designer), éd. Actes Sud - L'An 2
  1. Papa et Sophie, April 2008 ISBN 978-2-7427-7330-5
  2. Babette et Sophie, September 2009 ISBN 978-2-7427-7959-8
  • David les femmes et la mort (scriptwriter, designer, and colorist), trans. Hélène Robbe, Le Lombard, January 2012 ISBN 978-2-8036-3024-0
  • Salto - L'histoire du marchand de bonbons qui disparut sous la pluie (designer and colorist), scriptwriter by Mark Bellido, Le Lombard, June 2016 ISBN 978-2-8036-3384-5
  • Rosie et Moussa, Bayard Jeunesse
  1. La rencontre, January 2018
  2. Une lettre de Papa, May 2018

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Couvreur, Daniel, "Judith et le nègre", Le Soir, 30 January 2009 (in French)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Judith Vanistendael". lambiek.net. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Judith, l'art et la mort", Le Soir, 18 January 2012 (in French)
  4. ↑ Giret, Haude, "Vert et visionnaire", Sud Ouest, 24 January 2009 (in French)
  5. ↑ "Livres : l'actualité littéraire, nos critiques et sélections". www.telerama.fr (in French). Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  6. 1 2 Châtellier, Thierry, "Judith Vanistendael, auteur du réel", Charente libre, 26 January 2012 (in French)
  7. ↑ Peras, Delphine, "David, les femmes et la mort, par Judith Vanistendael", L'Express, 11 January 2012 (in French)
  8. ↑ Deglise, Fabien, "L'ACBD dévoile les finalistes pour son Grand Prix de bande dessinée 2013", Le Devoir, 27 November 2012 (in French)
  9. ↑ "L’artiste de la fragilité de la vie", Le Soir, 14 September 2019 (in French)
  10. ↑ Libiot, Eric (19 June 2016). "BD: Salto, une partie de case-cache". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  11. ↑ Tallet, Richard, "Un héros très discret", Charente libre, 2 July 2016 (in French)
  12. 1 2 Potet, Frédéric, "Protection rapprochée.", M, le magazine du Monde, 2 July 2016 (in French)
  13. 1 2 3 B.Dx and C.M., "BD "Rosie et Moussa à la conquête de Bruxelles", Le Soir, 1 February 2018 (in French)
  14. ↑ Caneve, Nastasja, "Sur les toits de Bruxelles, la vue est belle. Écran libre à Cinergie", Le Soir, 24 October 2018 (in French)
  15. 1 2 3 4 Falier, Anna (25 July 2019). "BD. Judith Vanistendael, l'" Odyssée " revue et corrigée". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  16. 1 2 Bussy, Olivier le, "La femme qui n'était plus tout à fait là", La Libre Belgique, 2 October 2019 (in French)
  17. ↑ Belhache, Philippe, "L'autre Pénélope", Sud Ouest, 15 September 2019 (in French)
  18. ↑ "En Grèce, dans l'enfer du camp de réfugiés de Moria, en BD". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  19. ↑ "Bande dessinée. Judith Vanistendael, lauréate du prix Bulles d'humanité | L'Humanité". www.humanite.fr (in French). 13 September 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  20. ↑ Detournay, Charles-Louis (10 September 2021). "Les Prix Atomium 2021 récompensent la curiosité et la (...)". ActuaBD (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  21. ↑ Launois, Bernard (29 November 2019). "Actualité Bande Dessinée : L'ACBD a choisi les cinq finalistes du Grand Prix de la Critique". www.auracan.com (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  22. ↑ Belga (13 October 2007), "Gotlib récompensé à Bruxelles", LeSoir, (in French)

Bibliography

  • "Judith Vanistendael", Le Soir, 29 January 2013.
  • "Le crabe peut nous faire aimer la vie", Le Soir, 20 January 2012.
  • "Repéré pour vous. Être humanitaire et maman", 24 heures, 11 September 2019.
  • "Un choix que les autres n'acceptent pas", Metro, 4 September 2019.
  • Beauvallet, Laurent, "Faire face au cancer", Ouest-France, 5 August 2012.
  • Bessec, Alain, "Judith Vanistendael : La jeune fille et le nègre", Ouest-France, 8 June 2008.
  • Blehache, Philippe, "Un jeu avec la mort", Sud Ouest, 19 June 2016.
  • Boussin, O. "David les femmes et la mort", BD Gest' , 1 June 2012.
  • Brunner, Vincent "BD : 'Les Deux Vies de Pénélope', mère et médecin humanitaire", Les Inrockuptibles, 13 September 2019.
  • Couvreur, Daniel "La jeune fille et le nègre 2, Babette et Sophie", Le Soir, 25 September 2009.
  • Couvreur, Daniel & Vanistendael, Judith (interview), "L’Odyssée, terriblement humaine", Le Soir, 14 September 2019.
  • Dauphinais-Pelletier, Camille, "David, les femmes et la mort", La Nouvelle (Sherbrooke), 4 February 2015.
  • Jarno, Stéphane, "Les Deux Vies de Pénélope, Judith Vanistendael", Télérama, 5 October 2019.
  • Le Saux, Laurence, "BD : Judith Vanistendael tisse la toile d'une Pénélope moderne et aventureuse", Télérama, 10 September 2019.
  • Le Saux, Laurence, "Salto" de Judith Vanistendael ou la double face d'un vendeur de bonbons", Télérama, 26 June 2016.
  • Milette, J. "Salto", BD Gest' , 15 September 2016.
  • O.V.V., "Les Deux Vies de Pénélope", Le Vif, 12 September 2019.
  • P.V., "À bras-le-corps", Aujourd'hui en France, 30 June 2016.
  • S.T., "Les deux vies de Pénélope", Moustique, 18 September 2019.
  • Salin, S. "Les deux vies de Pénélope", BD Gest' , 5 September 2019.
  • Servin, Lucie, "Les Deux Vies de Pénélope : Ulysse au foyer", Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée, no. 9, October–December 2019, p. 163.
  • Van Vaerenbergh, Olivier "Derrière Pénélope: le journal de création de Judith Vanistendael", Le Vif, 17 September 2019.
  • Van Vaerenbergh, Olivier, "Derrière Pénélope", Le Vif, 12 September 2019.
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