Ivan Peter

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Jake Bilboa

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Karly Engracia

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Leroy Soesman

From a young age, cartoonist Leroy Soesman was fascinated by comics.
He enjoyed superhero comics and started drawing right away.
In 1994, as a teenager, he met screenwriter Sytse S. Algera,
who was already writing stories for comic magazines like Comic Watch and Stripschrift.
He was advised to practice hard and, above all, not give up.
In 2014, they reconnected, and Leroy, with several impressive pages
he had created, showed that he was ready to pursue his childhood dream.

The first result of their collaboration is the science fiction story Aqua Invicta, which will be published in June 2018.

Przemyslaw Klosin

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Poetzarelli

Poetzarelli (pseudonym of Poets Luc) earned his living at the SISA in Antwerp, studying publicity drawing. His
main job is “Art Director” at a communications agency in Antwerp.
Outside of my creative work, I enjoy the “9th Art.”
This medium has fascinated me since I was young. Belgian and French artists (Franco-Belgian)
have had a significant influence on my drawing style.
In the past, he published three albums of “Kabouter Pumpie” ( Gnome Pumpie)
, and his latest comic book hero, Caztar, appeared in “Paper” (Belgium) and “Le 9ème parallèle vol 2 & 3” (France).
Two more Caztar albums have since been published by Strip2000.

Patrick van Oppen (Genk, 1969)

Like many comic artists, he was smitten with the comics bug from a young age.
He then tries to create his own heroine, Agvall.

In the mid-1990s, his comics career began modestly, assisting Merho
with some Kiekeboe short stories and helping Christian Denayer with the first plates
of the last Gord story.

Meanwhile, he continued to develop the universe
of his heroine, Agvall, with screenwriter Ivan Claeys. This resulted in two short stories.
One won first prize at the Ganshoorn Festival in 1998.

At the end of 1998, his first comic book appeared: for the Walloon publisher Coccinelle,
he adapted the life of St. Jan Berchmans into a comic book called “Op weg met Jan Berchmans” (On the Road with Jan Berchmans).
Shortly after, for the same publisher, he created “Schattenjacht in het kleine stad ter wereld” (Treasure Hunt in the Smallest Town in the World), a book
that allows tourists to explore Durbuy in search of clues
to the location of several scratch-off tickets.

For the Bruges comic book store De Striep, he created “The Fifth Man,” based on a script by longtime friend Ivan Claeys.
This story takes place entirely in Bruges’ city center.

His experience drawing this city allowed him
to adapt Pieter Aspe’s novels and turn them into comics at Standaard Uitgeverij.
Two albums were published: “Het Vierkant van de Wraak” (The Square of Revenge) and “De Midasmoorden” (The Midas Murders).

Collaborating again with Ivan Claeys, he illustrates Tommeke, the fictional childhood of Tom Boonen.
Two albums were published: “Het Autovirus” (The Car Virus) and “De Zilveren Fietsen” (The Silver Bicycles).

Meanwhile, he’s helping out some colleagues. He’s contributing to several Kaamelott albums, Interpol 1, and
Steven Dupré’s Midgard, and he’s making the pencil sketches for the first 15 pages
of the third volume of “Disparitions” for Ersel.

From 2010 to 2016, he drew the thriller series “De Vries,” based on a script by Sytse S. Algera.
This series appeared in the comics magazine Eppo and ran for four albums.

Together with screenwriter Jean-Louis Fonteneau, he wrote “Une femme pressée” for a small French publisher. A
24-page story.

With good friend and screenwriter Ivan Claeys, he created Mr. Nobody. His adventures previously appeared
in the now-defunct Stripgilde magazine and now continue in the magazine P@per.
Hauwaert Uitgeverij is responsible for the album releases.

And his heroine, Agvall, you ask? She’s not forgotten…

Ruly Ackbar

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Sytse Algera

Writer, editor and police officer Sytse S. Algera always loved to read comics and jumped on the opportunity to write for a comics magazine in The Netherlands, when they learned that he was about to visit the USA during the nineties to bring American comic book creators over to Europe for a signing tour. That one article defined his life and shortly after his trip to the USA he was asked to help out with several Dutch comic companies to edit and translate several superheroes and fantasy comics.

He managed to write and edit for quite some time, and also made a career in the police force in the Netherlands. In 2009 the editor of Eppo magazine, a well-known Dutch comic magazine, asked him to help out with several projects and he met Belgian artist Patrick van Oppen. Together they created the De Vries series, a realistic comic series about a reporter who finds himself torn apart by his love for a scoop and his family in danger.

The second book, Vuurdoop , was nominated for the Dutch Stripschapspenning in 2012, the equivalent of the Eisner Award in the USA. Currently the third book is in production with a 2013 release scheduled.

Besides De Vries , he is also the creator of the three part Cell series in which a terrorist cell attacks the Amsterdam Airport in a spectacular way. Polish artist Przemyslaw Klosin’s is bringing his unique art as well as coloring skills to a story that rises above the regular comics by it’s theme as well as its realistic portrayal of Dutch politics. The main character, a young Moroccan boy, chased by the police, in a country, where a racist politician is using the nationalism of the Dutch people for his own agenda, is not the avarage hero type usually seen in comics.

With Indonesian artist Apriyadi Kusbiantoro, he did the short story Close Call and this collaboration opened the doors of many European publishers with their ongoing Untold Tales of Lemuria series. This sci-fi fantasy series which is set in the long lost continent of Lemuria, tells an action packed story and amazing painted art by Apriyadi which resembles the classic artists such as Frank Hampson and Don Lawrence.

In 2012 Sytse S. Algera received the golden opportunity to combine his love for comics with his work in the police. He was asked to create a comic story about every day police work in a very realistic way. Together with his artist on De Vries, the Belgian artist Patrick van Oppen, he created 24/7 , a series of two rookie police officers learning the job in the streets of the city of The Hague.

This comic is being published in the monthly national police magazine that is read by every police officer in the Netherlands. The comic is critically acclaimed by police officers, their management as well as other professionals in the safety community for its realistic as well as daring approach to the high number of challenges the local police is facing on a daily basis.

His stories are currently being published in Holland, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He lives in the Netherlands where he, when he’s not writing comics, currently works in an advisory position for the Minister of Safety and Justice and still patrols the streets with his fellow officers, several days a month. After all, real police stories are not found behind desks, they are up for grabs in people’s real life, usually in the streets in one of the cities of the Netherlands.

Sheila R. Putri

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Vincent Alcantara

Vincent Alcantara grew up in the Philippines, before becoming a full pledge artist and accepting commissioned projects, he works as a cake artist in Bahrain, allowing himself to explore different art forms from painting to sculpting but comic illustration was always his passion, some of his art influences are Olivier ledroit, Gerry alanguilan, jim lee to name a few, he also currently finishing his own graphic novel titled KANLUNGAN and aspire to publish in the future.

Wilma de Bock

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