Aimée de Jongh

Her international breakthrough came in 2021, with the release of the bestselling graphic novel Jours de Sable (Days of Sand) by the French publishing house Dargaud.

In 2022, Aimée collaborated with French author Ingrid Chabbert on Soixante Printemps en Hiver (Sixty Years in Winter) for the Aire Libre Collection by publisher Dupuis, which was nominated for an Eisner Award.

[6] Aimée's career in graphic journalism started with a project about the refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos in 2017, the 25-page comic Europe's Waiting Room for Dutch newspaper NRC.

In 2022 she created a comic for the sci-fi magazine Métal Hurlant and in 2023 she collaborated with the acclaimed Belgian scenarist Jean van Hamme on a short story which appeared in the album Miséricorde.

Her most ambitious animation project was Behind the Telescopes, a 71-minute long theatrical film, created in collaboration with harpist Lavinia Meijer and sound designer Arthur Antoine.