Experience

KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering Science

• Belgium
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PHD Student

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium As a doctoral student in the computer science department, I am conducting research on creating comics with AI. My supervisors are Prof. Luc De Raedt and Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars.



Standaard Uitgeverij

• Belgium
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Comic Artist

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Comic series based on the television series 'De Buurtpolitie' by Zodiak Belgium and VTM



Editions Dargaud-Lombard

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Comic Artist

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Brussel en omgeving, België Publication of my comic series 'Kinky & Cosy' in french.



Editions Dupuis

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Comic Artist

  • Jan 2004 - Present

  Comics and illustrations for the weekly magazine Spirou Webtoon/comic book on match fixing in Russian soccer (juni-juli 2018)



Literatuur Vlaanderen

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Dec 2018 - Sep 2022

  Antwerp Area, Belgium Flanders Literature is an autonomous government institution that aims to facilitate a widely accessible literary landscape and to ensure better visibility for literature from Flanders at home and abroad.



Nix

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications

• Exhibition Designer

  • Jan 2015 - Sep 2019

  Holsbeek, Flemish Region, Belgium The Kinky & Cosy Experience is an interactive exhibition in a 45ft container. Absurd humour and sharp funny animations in a 20 minutes show. Up to now we counted 23.500 visitors. For all ages.



Provincie Vlaams-Brabant

• Belgium
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Art Director

  • Oct 2017 - May 2018

  Provinciedomein 'Het Vinne', Zoutleeuw The first edition of the new born comic festival 'Het Vinne Stript' was a success. 3400 visitors over the weekend (14-15 April 2018) enjoyed a wide variety of exhibitions, comic battles, concerts, meet & greet with the actors of De Buurtpolitie and many more.



Le Monde

• France
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Comic Artist

  • Nov 2015 - Dec 2016

  Weekly comic for the iPhone app La Matinale and Lemonde.fr



Media-Participations

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scriptwriter, Director, Co-producer

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2014

  Paris Creation of 500 episodes 2D animation with my characters Kinky & Cosy. Broadcasted at OCS, YLE and 6play. Coproduction Ellipsanime - Belvision - Marnix Verduyn



VRT

• Russian Federation
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scriptwriter, Flash Animator, Sound designer, Director

  • Sep 2008 - May 2010

  Brussel en omgeving, België Creation of a weekly 2D animation episode with my characters Kinky & Cosy. Broadcasted at the Belgian national television VRT at the end of a talkshow called 'Volt'.



LUCA School of Arts

• Belgium
• Textile Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Guest Lecturer

  • Sep 1998 - Jun 2008

  Brussel en omgeving, België Practical course in the curriculum of the comics section at the department Illustration of Luca School of Arts. The course aimed to give practical knowledge of comic drawing and visual storytelling from an international perspective. Guest Lecturers: Nix & Johan De Moor.



De Persgroep Publishing

• Belgium
• Newspaper Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Cartoonist at De Morgen

  • 1996 - 2002

  At the Belgian newspaper De Morgen I did several comic contributions: - Illustrations in the youth section De Mix. - Ief the Chief: a weekly one page comic about the editor in chief and his staff - Het Vergiet Van België : a weekly one page comic about Belgian politics. - Kinky & Cosy : first a weekly one page comic, later a daily comic strip.



Proximus

• Mauritius
• E-Learning Providers

• Electrical Engineer

  • Jan 1994 - May 1998

  Brussel en omgeving, België - Head of the department Local Network in Hasselt, responsible for extensions and maintenance of the copper telephone and glass fiber network in the province of Limburg. - Participant of the think thank coached by the American and Singaporean partners to rebuild the company organization from scratch. - Head of the implementation of the national network database for planning and follow-up of telecom network extensions.



De Standaard

• Belgium
• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Cartoonist

  • 1996 - 1998

  Brussel en omgeving, België I made a weekly comic strip 'Café De Commerce' in the business and finance section of the Belgian newspaper De Standaard + several occasional editorial cartoons.



CSC

• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 1993 - Dec 1993

  Brussel en omgeving, België Analysis and debugging of relational databases. Programming in SQL, Unix, C, C++.