Aimée de Jongh

Aimée de Jongh is an award-winning and Eisner-nominated comics author and animator from the Netherlands. 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. De Jongh also 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, de Jongh works in animation as a storyboarder and director. More on www.aimeedejongh.com